Avery Dennison FoundationGrant

$50,000 to $100,000 Avery Dennison Grants

Rolling

Opportunity type

Grant

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

Global

Deadline

Rolling

About this opportunity

The Avery Dennison Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the materials science company Avery Dennison, and it funds nonprofits and non-governmental organisations anywhere in the world. It backs work in three areas: education access, environmental sustainability and secure livelihoods. Requests are accepted year-round and decided quarterly, and nearly 90 percent of the projects it supports are based outside the United States.

What you get:

A grant that typically falls between $50,000 and $100,000
Funding from a foundation that gave over $6.1 million across more than 165 grants in 45 countries in 2025
A trust-based funding relationship, which the Foundation describes as open communication and deep relationships with its grant recipients
A reply to every submission, whatever the decision

What you'll do:

Deliver work in one of three impact areas: education access, environmental sustainability or secure livelihoods
Education access covers reducing barriers and increasing enrolment of underserved people, in particular women and girls, in primary, secondary, post-secondary and vocational programmes
Environmental sustainability covers climate resilience, mitigation and adaptation, community environmental education, and direct support for forest, water and air projects
Secure livelihoods covers workforce development, entrepreneurship programmes, vocational training and job readiness for marginalised populations

Key dates:

Grant requests are accepted year-round, with no closing date
Funding decisions are made on a quarterly basis

More information:

Full impact area criteria, guiding principles and the list of what the Foundation does not sponsor are on the Foundation's grantmaking page
Applying starts with creating a profile and completing an Eligibility Form in the Foundation's online portal
Recent grant awards are described in the Foundation's annual CSR report at averydennison.com

Who can apply

Open to nonprofit and non-governmental organisations globally. Individuals cannot apply
Your work must align with one of three impact areas: education access, environmental sustainability or secure livelihoods
The Foundation prioritises communities facing the greatest disparities and geographies of highest need, referencing the UNDP Human Development Index, and organisations that demonstrate trust and belonging with the communities they serve
Applying starts with creating a profile and completing an Eligibility Form in the online system. A full proposal is opened to you only if Foundation staff confirm strategic alignment
Not funded: conferences, fundraisers and special events
Not funded: individual scholarships, stipends, fellowships and travel grants
Not funded: for-profit organisations or ventures
Not funded: religious groups for religious purposes
Not funded: political organisations, candidates, ballot measures or other political activity
Not funded: institutional endowments
Not funded: organisations that discriminate on the basis of age, political affiliation, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs

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Good to know

+Typically $50,000 to $100,000, with no deadline: requests are accepted year round and decided quarterly.
+Free to apply, and any organisation can create an account and submit the first eligibility form without being invited.
+The Foundation replies to every submission whatever the outcome.
+The guidance is unusually specific: three impact areas with sub criteria, a numbered five step process and a full list of what they will not fund.
+Nearly ninety percent of the projects they support are outside the United States, so this is genuinely open beyond the US.
+In 2025 they made 165 grants totalling over $6.1 million across 45 countries.

Worth checking yourself

!Organisations only. They explicitly do not fund individual scholarships, stipends, fellowships or travel grants, so a young person can only reach this through an organisation.
!There are two stages and only the first is open to everyone. A full proposal is unlocked only if Foundation staff judge you a strategic fit.
!The $50,000 to $100,000 figure is a typical range, not a guarantee and not a stated ceiling.
!No quarterly cut off dates are published, so you cannot tell which review round you will land in.
!They publish no rule about what country you must be registered in or what tax status you need. That is settled inside the application portal.

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