1. Whom does the Haynes Foundation fund?
The Foundation supports innovative and comprehensive academic social science research into public policy for the Los Angeles Region.
2. What is the Los Angeles Region?
The Los Angeles Region consists of the counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura and Orange.
3. How many grants are awarded each year?
The Foundation distributes a total of about $3M annually for new and existing grants and new fellowships.
4. In what program areas does the Foundation award grants?
The program areas listed on our web site are: Business and Economics, Education, Demographics, Elections, Local Government, Natural Resources, Public Personal Services, Public Safety, Transportation, and Archival/Public Information.
5. Is there a quota for grants in specific areas of funding?
No. Successful grants are assigned to a program area only after the proposal has been reviewed and approved.
6. Is it desirable to include technical jargon in the proposal?
No. All accepted proposals are personally reviewed by the Trustees. All proposals should be written for the educated layperson, who is informed but is not necessarily familiar with terms of art used only within fields of academia. Technical jargon should be avoided.
7. Are guidelines available for grants and fellowships?
The Foundation website, www.haynesfoundation.org, contains information about its grants and fellowships and how to apply. The web site also contains the latest annual report and newsletter.
8. How often are proposals considered?
The Foundation’s Board considers major research grant proposals four times a year, and archival grant and fellowship proposals once a year.
9. Are there areas in which the Foundation does not make grants?
Funding is not provided for: fundraising events, dinners and mass mailings; direct aid to individuals; scholarships; conferences, seminars, workshops, etc; sectarian, religious or fraternal purposes; federated fundraising appeals; support of candidates for political office or to influence legislation.
10. Does the Foundation fund overhead costs?
The Foundation will reimburse the institution annually for overhead at the rate of 15% of the grant and fellowship payments made to the institutions during the Foundation’s fiscal year.
11. Does the Foundation seek to fund projects relating to the Arts, such as film, music or dance projects?
No. The field of interest of the Haynes Foundation is innovative and original social science research related to the Los Angeles region. However, other Foundations have chosen art as their principal field of interest. A useful reference on US foundations and their fields of interest is the Foundation Directory, published by the Foundation Center. It is available in many public libraries.
12. What types of expenses does the Foundation generally fund and not fund?
The Foundation does not fund expenses for general operations, infrastructure, capital, training, travel, dissemination (conferences, films, book publishing). However, the Foundation will periodically consider supporting the dissemination of results of completed studies that were funded by the Foundation.
13. My organization is interested in obtaining funds from the Haynes Foundation; my organization will in turn award their funds to deserving organizations and individuals. Does the Haynes Foundation support this approach
No. With only a few pre-existing, special exceptions, the Foundation’s Board prefers to review individual proposals and make awards directly to the principal investigators and their organizations.
14. When and how will I know if my proposal has been accepted or rejected?
All proposals are acknowledged upon receipt. Proposals submitted to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees typically take two months for consideration from the applicable proposal deadline and all proposers will be promptly notified in writing of the result.
15. For accepted grants and fellowships, what payment arrangements does the Foundation use?
For grants, the Foundation’s payments are made periodically during the proposed duration of the effort. Payments are made at six-month intervals. The last payment, which constitutes at least 20% of the total grant, will be made after the receipt of an acceptable final report. For fellowships, the specified payment will be made to the institution, up-front in a lump sum; an acceptable final report is due to the Foundation by August 1st of the year following the award.
16. To whom should proposals or questions be addressed?
The John and Dora Haynes Foundation
888 West Sixth Street, Suite 1150
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Telephone: 213-623-9151
info@haynesfoundation.org
17. Can you help us write the grant proposal?
No. Applicants should follow our guidelines in preparing a proposal and call if they have a question.
18. Do you require a notice of intent before submitting a proposal?
Yes. We also request that an electronic Proposal Information Form be submitted at about the same time as the proposal.
19. Do you also require that an electronic Proposal Information Form (PIF) be submitted at about the same time as the proposal?
Yes. While the PIF is not a part of the proposal package, the PIF ensures that the Foundation has the basic data it needs to process the proposal.
20. In the section titled “Organization Information,” the PIF asks for the name of a contact. What type of contact is this?
The contact we seek is a person at your institution who would have fiscal and/or administrative responsibilities with regard to the award of a grant or fellowship.
21. Should we wait to hear from you before applying to others?
No. It is a good idea to submit applications to multiple sources of funding.
22. Our proposal was declined. Can you tell us why?
Competition for grant funds is intense and a number of factors determine if a proposal is declined. Most frequently, it is because we are unable to fund every request we receive. The staff and Board of Directors look for exemplary programs and projects that best meet the Foundation’s areas of interest.
23. Should we send letters of support with our letter of intent or with a proposal?
Specific letters are required in support of Fellowship applications. See our “How To Apply” section on-line. As for Grant proposals, while they are not necessary, a well-written, focused and authoritative letter can in fact strengthen a request.
24. As part of the fellowship procedures, applicants are asked to include a “written indication of institutional support.” What information is needed in this letter?
The Foundation makes payments to qualifying organizations, never to individuals. The Foundation uses this letter to confirm in advance the name of the specific institution, the institution’s acceptance of administrative and fiscal responsibilities resulting from an award, and the name of a point of contact.
25. Where can we find a list of representative grants the Foundation has recently made?
Summary data is available on-line at “Search Archive.”
26. Does the Haynes Foundation ever make research grants to professors in other states who are investigating policy issues of LA?
The Haynes Foundation does accept proposals for major research grants and archival grants from qualified non-profit institutions anywhere in the US, as long as the focus of the research is the Los Angeles Region. However, please note that the Foundation’s faculty and doctoral dissertation fellowship programs are specifically targeted to faculty and Ph.D. candidates at certain schools in the Los Angeles Region.
27. I am considering submitting an archival grant proposal; what issues should I address in my proposal?
Please review the “Program” and “How To” information regarding the archival grants program which is found on-line at the Foundation’s web site. In your proposal, it is useful to touch on the social science significance of the archive, the number of items in the archive, whether the archive is still collecting materials or whether it is closed, and whether other private or public sources of funding have been considered and what was the result of that consideration.
28. Can you send me an application?
There is no application. See our “How To Apply” section on-line.
29. Does the Foundation have specific formal requirements for proposals?
Yes. The requirements differ for each type of grant and fellowship, so consult the “How To Apply” section of the website, as well as any supporting Guidelines that are provided. Among the requirements, please note that: all types of proposals should be printed double-sided; fellowship proposals have specific page limitations and must be double-spaced in 12 point type face; and grant proposals do not have specific page or spacing requirements, but must be printed on three-hole punched paper, with 12 point type face preferred but not required.
30. Can we meet with someone to discuss a possible proposal?
No. Due to limited staff resources, the Foundation does not meet with applicants prior to the submission of written materials.
31. Do you give grants to individuals?
No. Grants are awarded only to qualified non-profit institutions.
32. We recently submitted a proposal and were declined. May we re-submit?
An immediate resubmission of essentially the same proposal is unlikely to result in a grant.
33. Will the Haynes Foundation consider loans?
No. Loans, or program related investments, are not considered.
34. Does the Haynes Foundation grant money to commercial businesses?
No. The Foundation does not fund for-profit organizations or businesses.
35. Are proposals accepted by fax or e-mail?
No. The Foundation does not accept electronically submitted inquiries or requests.
36. May a single institution submit multiple proposals for a single deadline?
Yes. There is no institutional quota on proposals or grants.
37. Are there limits to: a) the length of a grant proposal? b) the duration or the amount of a grant? c) the amount of a grant?
Regarding Grants, a) the proposal should be as long as it needs to be to describe the proposed project, but no longer, b) the duration of a grant depends on the complexity of the proposed project; the duration of most grants is one to two years, and c) the amount of the grant should closely track the proposed statement of work should be described in the proposed budget. The principal item of expenses should typically be the direct costs of the researcher(s).
38. Are there limits to: a) the length of a fellowship proposal b) the duration or the amount of a fellowship c) the amount of a fellowship?
Regarding fellowships, a) the proposal for a faculty fellowship should be two pages and for a doctoral dissertation six pages, b) they are typically awarded early in a calendar year (year 1) and a final report is due by August 1 of the next year (year 2), and c) the faculty fellowship award is $12,000 and the doctoral dissertation fellowship award is $20,000. See the guidelines for more details regarding Fellowships.
39. Do applicants for grants or fellowships require to possess any specific academic credentials?
An applicant for a Faculty Fellowship must be a full-time faculty member at a four-year college or university located in the Los Angeles Region. An applicant for a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship must be accepted as a candidate for a Ph.D. at one of the seven universities in the Los Angeles Region that grant a Ph.D. in the social sciences. An applicant for a Major Research Grant or an Archival Grant is not required to possess a particular academic degree. However, the Foundation considers the applicant’s academic achievements as one factor in its review of the applicant’s proposal.
40. Would you accept electronic submission of the proposals?
No. All proposals must be in hard copy in addition to an electronic copy.
41. I am planning to deliver the 15 required proposal packets by hand. Is this acceptable?
Yes. The address is: 888 West Sixth Street, Suite 1150, Los Angeles, California 90017-2737. All proposals are due at our office by 3 pm on or before the applicable deadline date.
42. How can I get a copy of the Foundation’s latest Annual Report or latest Newsletter?
Copies of these documents are available on-line in the “News” sections.
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