Welcome to the Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation Website.

The Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation is a small private foundation founded by Margaret Ramsey in 1999 and dedicated to the support of projects in arts education and general education.

ATTENTION POTENTIAL GRANTEES! The next deadline for Grant Applications will be October 1, 2019. We will continue to use the ZoomGrants online application submission. The online portal should be active by August 15, 2019. Applicants who created a login and filled in organizational information previously will not need to re-enter that information. The link to the online application portal is now live on the GRANT INFORMATION page of our website. Please read the page Grant Info page and the Applying For Grants page before going to the online portal.

News & Announcements:

New for the 2019-2020 Grant Cycle: The Trilogy Grants program has been changed in the following ways 1) Organizations must have received at least three (previously only two years were required) single year grants before applying for a Trilogy Grant; and 2)The total amount of a Trilogy Grant award has increased from $22,500 to $25,000. The award will be distributed as $10,000 in Year One, $7500 in Year Two and $7500 in Year Three.

The Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation is pleased to announce the grant recipients for the most recent Single-Year grant cycle (October 2018 - January 2019).  Please visit Recent Grants for details about some of these grantees.

The 2018-2019 Grant Cycle by the Numbers: 50 applications were received for Single Year Grants and 5 for Scholarship Fund grants. Sixteen Single Year Arts Education Grants were awarded. Five Single Year General Education grants were awarded. Nine Grantees are located in the City of Boston and Twelve grantees are located in cities/towns outside of Boston. Three Scholarship Fund grants were awarded.