Mission
Since 1996, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) has made grants to nonprofit organizations and projects around the world, working with an incredible community of partners to create transformative change whose benefits multiply and are shared widely.
Our mission, encompassing program areas of Arts & Culture, Education, Health & Sports, and Social Welfare, is broad by design. At its core are a fundamentally collaborative approach based on the expertise of partners on the ground, a commitment to public-private partnership, and a belief that everyone should have access to art, education, health care, and life’s other essentials.
This approach to empowering humanity has guided over 5,500 grants to nonprofit organizations in 134 countries.
5,500+
grants total
$3.8B+
in grants
134
countries
Facing up to the challenges and the opportunities that the new year inevitably brings will require fighting for democratic values in every sector of society, of which the most fundamental—and the most overlooked—is preserving our own humanity.
Andreas C. Dracopoulos
SNF Co-President
A primary ongoing focus for SNF is our multifaceted Global Health Initiative (GHI), which aims to improve access to quality health care through a range of projects including building three new hospitals in Greece, offering new medical training programs, providing state-of-the-art equipment, leveraging international expertise to strengthen health infrastructure, and more.
We created SNF Nostos as a celebration of big ideas on timely topics and wholesome summer fun experienced together—from a joyful race for a good cause to electrifying performances from big-name artists. At its heart have been the SNF Conference and an SNF Dialogues discussion, one installment in a traveling series of open, public conversations on timely topics. SNF Nostos will return in 2026 from June 21-28, marking the 30th anniversary of SNF’s grantmaking.
SNF Nostos has been held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, created through SNF’s largest single grant to date and given to the people of Greece in 2017, which welcomes visitors around the world to a vibrant public space and park, to the Greek National Opera, and to the National Library of Greece.
SNF Nostos has been held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, created through SNF’s largest single grant to date and given to the people of Greece in 2017, which welcomes visitors around the world to a vibrant public space and park, to the Greek National Opera, and to the National Library of Greece.
