Stavros Niarchos Foundation

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) was established in 1996 to honor Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos (1909–1996). Niarchos was one of the world's largest transporters of oil and owned the largest supertanker fleet of his time.^[2]

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Founded	1996; 29 years ago (1996)
Founder	Stavros Niarchos[1]
Type	Charitable
Focus	Arts and culture, education, health and medicine, and social welfare
Location	Athens, Greece Monte Carlo, Monaco New York City
Area served	Global
Method	Grants, funding
Website	www.snf.org

History

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation was established in 1996 following the death of Stavros Niarchos, who fully endowed the foundation.^[3][4] The foundation's leadership is led by Andreas Dracopoulos, great-nephew of founder Stavros Niarchos, and his two cousins Spyros and Philip Niarchos who serve as co-presidents.^[4][5]

The foundation has staff in Athens, Greece; Monte Carlo, Monaco; and New York City.

Since 1996, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has provided more than 4,700 grants totaling more than $3 billion to non-profit agencies.^[6]

In 2012, in response to the socio-economic crisis in Greece, SNF announced a grant initiative of additional $130 million (€100 million) over three years to help ease the adverse effects of the deepening crisis. A new initiative, Recharging the Youth, was announced in 2013 to help create new opportunities for Greece's younger generations and committed an additional $130 million (€100 million).^[7] Upon the completion of the first phase of the program against the Greek Crisis, a second phase was introduced in June 2015, announcing the allocation of another $112 million (€100 million), intensifying the efforts against the ongoing crisis in Greece and providing immediate support to the most vulnerable groups of society.^[8]

SNF announced a $100 million global initiative to help alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020.^[9]

SNF's grants include:^[10]

• Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Children's Soccer Training
• Columbia University, New York City^[11]
• Consorzio Farsi Prossimo
• Cultural Heritage without Borders
• MIT Enterprise Forum via the Greek Technology Enterprise Forum, Athens, Greece
• Cutty Sark Trust, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
• ECOWEEK
• Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, Kastoria, Greece
• Fulbright Program in Greece
• Global Fund for Women, San Francisco
• Hellenic Fire Service, Greece^[12]
• Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City
• Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN)
• Megali Sholi
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City
• Marie Curie (charity), London
• National Center for Emergency Care (EKAV), Greece
• Natural History Museum of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
• Pro-Natura International, Paris
• Queens Public Library, New York City
• Rockefeller University, New York City^[11]
• Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• SNF Agora Institute Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Faliro bay, Athens, Greece
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, New York Public Library, New York City^[13]
• Wikimedia Foundation^[14]
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States