Rays announce application details for 2025 Jackie Robinson Grant Program
The Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund have announced application details for the annual Jackie Robinson Grant Program.
The Jackie Robinson Grant Program will accept applications through Friday, February 28. Organizations that choose to apply should reflect Jackie Robinson’s nine core values: courage, determination, teamwork, persistence, integrity, citizenship, justice, commitment and excellence.
The goals of this program are to invest in organizations that continue to break barriers in the areas of housing, workforce development, health equity, criminal justice reform, education and youth development.
The Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund is committed to upholding Jackie Robinson’s legacy and will award $100,000 annually. Grant recipients will be recognized as part of the Rays Jackie Robinson Day celebration on April 15.
Former Jackie Robinson Grant Recipients include:
- Abe Brown Ministries
- Arts Conservatory for Teens
- Bethune-Cookman University Center for Law & Social Justice
- Brain Expansions Scholastic Training
- Carter G. Woodson Museum
- CDC of Tampa
- Equal Justice Initiative Remembrance Project
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services
- The Helen Gordon Davis Centre for Women
- James B. Sanderlin Neighborhood Family Center
- League of Women Voters of the St. Petersburg Area
- NAACP Hillsborough County Branch
- Pace Center for Girls Hillsborough County
- People Empowering & Restoring Communities
- Pinellas County Urban League
- Police Athletic League of St. Petersburg
- Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation
- Sing Out and Read
- Petersburg College Foundation Inc.
- The Skills Center
- University Area Community Development Corporation Inc.
- United Negro College Fund
- University of South Florida Center for Justice Research & Policy
- United Way Suncoast (Campbell Park Resource Center)
- Where Love Grows
For more information about the Jackie Robinson Grant Program or to apply, please visit RaysBaseball.com/JackieRobinsonGrant.