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We are not affiliated with the Bill Pulte of the Federal Housing Financing Agency, Pulte Capital Partners, the Bill Pulte Foundation, and Twitter Philanthropy. Bill Pulte (@Pulte) is not a sanctioned representative of the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation.
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As an integral part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, the Pulte Institute of Global Development at the University of Notre Dame addresses global poverty and inequality through policy, practice, and partnership. It designs, implements, monitors, and evaluates projects and programs that promote human dignity, empowering the world’s poorest and vulnerable populations to flourish.
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The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation is wholly independent of Pulte Homes and PulteGroup, Inc. and was established through the personal generosity of William J. Pulte (1932-2018), Master Builder.
We support humanitarian initiatives in the United States and globally led by nonprofit organizations and educational institutions that align with our Four Areas of Giving: Care for Others | Education | Hunger & Thirst | Shelter.
The Foundation does not fund individuals, lobbying, political efforts, medical research, for-profit entities, or other grantmaking organizations.
In accordance with the Founder’s Judeo-Christian religious and moral beliefs, The Foundation will not grant monies to organizations that directly or indirectly, through their subsidiaries, support research, programming and services that disregard the inherent dignity of all persons, from which follows the right to life from conception to natural death.
No. The Foundation supports nonprofit organizations and educational institutions.
We do not directly fund individuals. The Foundation does grant scholarships to individuals, which are allocated directly through our educational institution partners including trade schools and universities.
Resources for Individuals: If you are an individual in need of support, please visit www.211.org to access resources in your community.
Fraud Alert: The Foundation will never ask individuals to send money or provide financial information. If you’ve encountered a fraudulent request for funds or a have concerns regarding a scam, The Federal Trade Commission, a division of the United States Government, offers resources and consumer advice at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-you-were-scammed
Due to the immense interest in our grant programs, the Foundation is no longer accepting grant requests from new organizations. Grant requests are only accepted from invited organizations.
You can learn more about our grantees in our Annual Reports.
