Fisher Service Awards (formerly the Newman's Own Award)
Fisher House Foundation (with Military Times Foundation)
An annual competition recognising innovative nonprofit programmes that improve quality of life for active duty, Reserve, National Guard members, veterans and their families. Winners must file 6-month and 1-year evaluation reports.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)The programme awards $400,000 annually divided among the top applying nonprofits; the per-winner amount is not published. Each winner also receives a Military Times advertising package valued at $50,000. Since 1999 more than $3.8M has gone to 215 nonprofit programmes.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · MarNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The 2026 cycle closed 5 March 2026 and submissions were under review as of the site's current text, with applicants to be contacted by mid-August. The 2027 cycle dates are not yet published.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Section 501(c) nonprofit in good financial standing, in existence at least two years; the programme must be executable within twelve months of the cycle closing, and any programme operating on a DoD installation must document installation commander approval.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- military quality of life · programme innovation · nonprofit evaluation
- Apply at
- https://fisherhouse.org/programs/newmans-own-award/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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