Funeral Service Foundation, Inc.

The Foundation leverages its growing financial assets and trusted partnerships to invest resources in:
• Significant academic and profession-wide continuing education scholarships to fuel the careers of funeral service professionals
• Innovation around memorialization and grief support, and
• Promotion of the profession that attracts the next generation of funeral service professionals and professional leaders.

Fuel the careers of funeral service professionals through scholarships, professional development, outreach, and tools and resources.

Fund and promote initiatives and outreach that make a measurable impact on funeral service.

Expand and diversify partnerships and grantmaking to organizations that support grieving communities.

The Foundation engages and advances the profession, and is known for building collaborative relationships and respected for thought leadership along the end-of-life continuum and beyond.

The Foundation is a focused, efficient organization with the leadership, staffing and financial means to respond to changing needs of the funeral service community and those it serves.

In 2020, the Funeral Service Foundation responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with compassion and urgency, raising a record $1.36 million and supporting funeral service through:
- Grants to more than 30 organizations throughout the US and Canada providing support to grieving communities
- Purchase and distribution of 50,000 N-95 masks to funeral professionals serving families
- Offset costs for volunteer funeral directors serving in COVID-19 hotspots
- Created and distributed 75,000 community-facing grief guide and a funeral service professional-focused self-care handbook - now in the hands of thousands of communities and funeral homes
- Awarded a record 493 scholarships to students and professionals, whose education pursuits continued even in the face of a global pandemic
- Collaborated with a related foundation to launch "Journey to Serve," an initiative aimed at recruiting military veterans to careers in funeral service.


In 2019, the Foundation impacted the careers of 377 funeral service professional with academic and professional development scholarships and opportunities, providing tools and resources to all who serve grieving families, and awarded grants to seven mission-aligned organizations including the Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition, National Alliance for Grieving Children, Hospice Foundation of America, TAPS, Samaritans and Alliance of Hope.

Our Youth & Funerals initiative has reached thousands of families across the globe, and continues to grow.