St. Croix Foundation’s 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place-Keeping Grant Program is a partnership between St. Croix Foundation and the Mellon Foundation that seeks to restore, amplify, and mobilize the humanities as a vehicle for healing and social transformation in St. Croix. Designed to empower arts and cultural initiatives that celebrate St. Croix’s rich heritage and foster cultural education, the program supports project-based grants, as well as general operating grants for organizations whose mission and programming explicitly center arts, culture, and heritage.

Program Overview & Objectives

St. Croix Foundation’s 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place-Keeping Grant Program began accepting applications on March 21, 2025, with all submissions due by April 25, 2025.  St. Croix Foundation awarded a total of $534,000 through this grant program to 13 eligible nonprofit organizations serving in the St. Croix community. For more information on the awardees, click here. For additional details, review our press release.

The Aston Wayne Harty Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to honor the life, legacy, and values of Aston Wayne Harty by investing in the future of healthcare in the Virgin Islands.

This scholarship will provide financial assistance to students pursuing degrees in nursing, medicine, or other healthcare-related fields who demonstrate a commitment to serving the St. Croix community. As our island continues to face challenges related to limited healthcare resources and workforce shortages, this fund seeks to support individuals who are passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of others.

The scholarship is intended for students who not only strive for academic excellence but also embody a spirit of service, compassion, and dedication to improving the health and well-being of our community. Preference may be given to applicants who express a desire to return to St. Croix and contribute their skills and knowledge to strengthening local healthcare services.

Through this scholarship, Aston Wayne Harty’s legacy will live on by empowering future healthcare professionals and helping to build a healthier, stronger St. Croix for generations to come. To support this special fund, click here: https://stxfoundation.info/GiveAstonWayneHartyFund.

If you have any questions, please call 340-773-9898.

The Lang-Wise STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Scholarship Fund was established in the fall of 2022 at St. Croix Foundation by St. Croix Native and engineer Raydiance Wise to pay forward the support she received from multiple organizations when she was pursuing a STEM degree. Recognizing that scholarships help cover significant costs associated with higher education, this award is designed to encourage students to pursue STEM-related fields of study by offsetting expenses related to travel, clothing, textbooks, and other expenses that become burdensome. In just three years, the Lang-Wise STEM Scholarship Fund has awarded $51,900 in grants and scholarships.

Application Cycle: The 2026 application cycle for this Fund is now closed and will reopen in early 2027.

Application Guidelines: You can review 2026 application guidelines here. St. Croix Foundation reserves the right to update or modify eligibility criteria and application requirements each year to better align student needs with the Fund’s purpose.

If you have any questions, please call 340-773-9898.

The Patrick and Amelia Williams Opportunity Fund was established in the spring of 2018 by Junior Gaspard (native son of St. Croix) in honor of his grandparents, who, despite great odds, maintained a work ethic and standard of excellence that has gone on to impact future generations. Originally launched as a competitive scholarship program, in 2022, the Foundation’s Grants Review Committee and advisors to the Fund assessed through surveys and interviews of past candidates that sustained support for awardees is critical as federal aid decreases and coursework intensifies. As such, the Foundation’s Grants Review Committee invited past awardees to apply for this special scholarship, following them through their senior year at university.

The Fund prioritizes graduates from public high schools on the island of St. Croix. Since its inception, the Fund has granted $131,000 in scholarships, ranging from $1000 to $5000, to 25 St. Croix students pursuing degrees in nursing, the culinary arts, engineering, biology, music education, business, meteorology, and physical therapy, to name just a few. Students are now attending colleges across the nation in Florida, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and more.

Application Cycle: The 2026 application cycle for this Fund is now closed and will reopen in early 2027.

Application Guidelines: You can review 2026 application guidelines here. St. Croix Foundation reserves the right to update or modify eligibility criteria and application requirements each year to better align student needs with the Fund’s purpose.

If you have any questions, please call 340-773-9898.

Established in 2005, this Fund promotes continuing adult education for residents of St. Croix and provides summer enrichment scholarships to young people, emphasizing culture, academic skill-building, and youth development. This Fund has awarded $66,000 in grants and scholarships since its inception.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year. Limited funds are available.
Eligibility: Individuals and organizations