Our Purpose

The Charles A. Micale Foundation provides support for projects within the specific areas of: education; health and medical research; and humanitarian efforts. The Foundation only considers grants to organizations defined as public charity and tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Areas of Focus

Educational Scholarships and Endowments

Funds may be used for scholarships or may be channeled through currently established scholarship funds and endowments at an institution of higher learning.
Funds may be made available to individuals unable to afford an adequate education on their own, but who have potential to use the education to better themselves and their family and to make a contribution to society.
Funds may be used to help individuals who, even though they may not have the highest educational standards in high school, but whose extracurricular activities, Christian values, and spiritual beliefs that reflect an acceptance of God in their lives, their accomplishments, their non-academic accomplishments, and the accomplishments of their family, depict an individual capable of succeeding.
Funds may be contributed to a university to establish or to fund established programs to develop academic skills. This may be accomplished through research into effective teaching methods and other ways to instill in students a desire to and a willingness to expend the effort to learn.

Health and Medical Research

Funds may be used to promote the health of the American people, as well as, other people around the world.
Funds may be used to help fund research in certain diseases that affect a broad section of the American people or people around the world, or those that affect predominantly children.

Humanitarian Efforts

Funds may be used to support humanitarian efforts helping individuals and families become self-reliant by promoting health and disease prevention where health care resources and education are lacking.
Funds may be used in helping with employment and job training, by responding to the urgent needs brought on by natural disasters, war, drought and other disasters. Efforts can include sending food, clothing, medical supplies, and other emergency relief assistance to help victims with urgent needs. This also can include providing potable water sources, training medical staff, help for homeless children and public education.
Funds may also be used to combat malnutrition by supporting organizations that feed homeless individuals, families and children world wide and provide service, care and management of men, women and children who have been battered, rejected or left destitute.

Anyone considering applying for a grant should read our Guidelines for Grantseekers