Applications are now open for the Charles and Elizabeth Wetmore Fund.

Funding Priorities

• Patient Care and Support: The Wetmore Fund provides for the care of indigent native sufferers of tubercular consumption (tuberculosis) and other respiratory illnesses and disorders.
• Medical Research: It also funds medical research to obtain a cure or improved treatment for respiratory diseases or disorders that affect indigent native sufferers* in and about the City of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Funding Information

The average grant size is between $10,000 and $75,000.

Geographic Focus

All grants made support organizations in New Orleans–Metairie-Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area or the Greater New Orleans Region. This area includes Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. Tammany Parishes.

Types of Support

• Program Support
• General Operating

Eligibility Requirements

The Trustee and Distribution Committee will consider all qualified applications received from organizations that are exempt from taxation under the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). If you are a 509 (a)(3) Supporting Organization, please be prepared to provide additional information. Grants are not made to support individuals or for-profit institutions.

For more information, visit Sun Trust.