Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking Recipients
The Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking was established in 1985 to recognize a grantmaker who has demonstrated outstanding creativity. It honored grantmakers who, with a combination of vision, principle and personal commitment, made a critical difference in a creative way. The award was created as a memorial to the late Robert Winston Scrivner, former staff associate of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and first executive director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, by a number of his friends and colleagues.
In 2021, the award changed to recognize a single or group of grantmaking organizations for its innovative contribution to the greater good.
Past Recipients of the Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking
(Affiliation is at time of nomination.)
2024
Not Awarded
2023
The Chicago Community Trust
2022
Social Equity Collaborative Fund at Catalyst of San Diego and Imperial Counties
2021
General Service Foundation
2018
Brennan Gould, President & CEO, Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
2017
Noah Atencio, Vice President of Community Impact, Community First Foundation
2016
Helen Brunner, Advisor to the Quixote Foundation’s Media Reform Program and Founding Director of the Media Democracy Fund
2014
Shelley Trott, Director of Arts Strategy and Ventures, Kenneth Rainin Foundation
2013
Darren Sandow, Executive Director, Hagedorn Foundation
2012
Theophilus Gregory, Senior Vice President, El Pomar Foundation
2011
Not Awarded
2010
Kavita N. Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
2009
Geri Mannion, Director of the US Democracy Program, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Taryn Higashi, Executive Director, Unbound Philanthropy
2008
Linetta J. Gilbert, Ford Foundation
2007
John L. Damonti, Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation
2006
Mary L. Thomas, The Spartanburg County Foundation
2005
Nancy Latimer (deceased), The McKnight Foundation
2004
Chet Tchozewski, Global Greengrants Fund
2003
Aida Rodriguez, Ph.D., Nonprofit Management Program, Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy
Magui Rubalcava, Hispanics in Philanthropy
Barbara A. Taveras, Edward W. Hazen Foundation
Luz A. Vega-Marquis, Marguerite Casey Foundation
2002
Marie C. Wilson, Ms. Foundation for Women
2001
Craig E. McGarvey, The James Irvine Foundation
2000
Stanley S. Litow, IBM Corporation
1999
Ethel Ríos de Betancourt, Puerto Rico Community Foundation
1998
Tom Layton, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
1997
Rick Little, International Youth Foundation
1996
Rebecca Adamson, First Nations Development Institute
Anne Firth Murray, Global Fund for Women
1995
Robert Crane, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
1994
Jack Litzenberg, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
1993
Caroline Carpenter, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
1992
Mary Mountcastle, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
1991
Polly Nyberg, The St. Paul Companies
1990
Not Awarded
1989
Joyce Bove, The New York Community Trust
1988
Patricia Biggers, The Ford Foundation
1987
Sally Lilienthal, The Ploughshares Fund
1986
Edward Nathan, The Zellerbach Fund
1985
Margaret Gage, Peace Development Fund
