There is in all things a hidden wholeness.
Thomas Merton
The Imago Dei Fund provides grants and support to a broad range of organizations. Motivated by our Christian faith, we are attracted to programs with a holistic emphasis that serve and empower the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. We seek to partner with organizations led by inspired people with a higher awareness of how their unique calling fits into the larger picture of what God is doing in the world.
Areas of concentration fall into the following broad categories:
Existing grantees: access your account via our grant management system.
Prospective grantees: learn the process for submitting a letter of inquiry.
Funding partners: IDF is committed to collaborating with other grantmakers with the goal of giving more and giving strategically (password required).
Imago Dei
“Imago Dei,” Latin for “the image of God,” has its roots in Genesis 1:27 where "God created humanity in God's own image” to co-create and work God’s purposes in the world.
The “divine image” can be sensed but not seen on both a personal and a cosmic level. It is the divine spark, the glory of God, that animates each soul and interconnects all of creation in a hidden wholeness: “And God created the heavens and the earth” as a living, organic whole, all things, seen and unseen, in God.
We live in a broken world. All is not well. Yet reflections of God’s image continue to shine through the darkness, in the harmony and beauty of our natural world, and in the passion and goodness of the human heart seeking to light a candle in the darkest of places.
In every generation, God is at work creating and redeeming all things. Each of us has our part to play, each soul finding its higher purpose and place in the larger whole. Each person bringing out into the world the unique reflection of God hidden within his or her heart.
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
We are a private foundation that exists to come alongside organizations working to restore wholeness and peace in our world.
