Thirteen Nonprofits Receive $534K From SCF to Preserve St. Croix’s Cultural Heritage

Thirteen nonprofits and community organizations on St. Croix have been awarded a total of $534,000 through the St. Croix Foundation for Community Development’s 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place-Keeping Grant Program, the foundation announced in a press release.

The grants, made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place program, will support projects that celebrate, preserve, and uplift St. Croix’s cultural and historical heritage through the arts, storytelling, and community engagement, according to the press release.

Grant awards ranged from $10,000 to $75,000. Of the total amount, $301,184 was awarded in unrestricted operating support to nonprofits whose core mission is cultural place-keeping. An additional $232,816 supported projects focused on cultural sustainability, including heritage preservation, oral history, artistic expression, and traditional knowledge rooted in St. Croix’s identity, the press release stated.

The thirteen grant recipients are: