The Mary Redman Foundation
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
Thomas Moore
The The Mary Redman Foundation was organized in 2002 and commenced operations in 2004. The principal activities of the Foundation are the making of grants to organizations that are described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are public charities.
The Foundation has made grants to a wide variety of organizations in the past four years and, though we have no specific area of emphasis, many of our grants have gone towards the construction of or for the ongoing operations of community gardens.
In addition to our grant making program, The Mary Redman Foundation created the Mercury Award in 2005 as a means of honouring the specific work of an individual whose work, in some unique way, delivers to us the message of the gods. The Mercury Award is in the amount of $20,000 and is given out once each year.
*The Mercury Award has been suspended as of December 2008.
The Foundation does not accept unsolicited grant proposals.
Links to lists of grants:
Grant Report for 2004
Grant Report for 2005
Grant Report for 2006
Grant Report for 2007
