Building A Bridge to a Brighter Future

Financial Support for Nonprofits

Assisting Underserved Students

Providing Educational Grants for Deserving Students in Need

Aspirations
The founders of the Peters Pharis Foundation believe that the future of any community is brighter when its young people have an opportunity to realize their potential. Fundamental to this belief is that education is the best tool for realizing nascent potential, and therefore, for creating meaningful, positive change in the youths’ personal and communal life.

The mission driving the foundation is to serve the underserved and provide financial aid to the economically disadvantaged.

Priorities

The foundation is a grant-making organization which works with other nonprofit entities to assist high-performing students from low-income families to realize their full potential through higher education.

Who We Are

The Peters Pharis Foundation is an independent private foundation established in 2018 by Bruce and Aulana Peters. Informed and motivated by their own life experience, the Peters firmly believe that while earning a college degree is not the only route to personal development and achievement, it is one that has been proven over time and generations to be a path toward meaningful change in the social and economic circumstances of the poor. The Peters both come from modest circumstances and were the first in their immediate family to attend college. They both earned bachelor’s degrees from their respective colleges and went on to earn graduate degrees—he in medicine and she in law.

After decades of financial support for their respective alma maters and contributions to numerous charities over time, the Peters decided to focus their charitable giving on endowing scholarship in the honor of Mrs. Peters’ mother and on establishing a foundation.

The Eula Mae Pharis Endowed Fellowship was established in 2017 at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, Mrs. Peters home town. The creation of the Peters Pharis Foundation followed in 2018.

Our Grantees

2019

Mount St. Mary's University
New Village Girls Academy
SCS-Noonan Scholars
UCLA Riordan Scholars

2020

Fulfillment Fund
Gyrl Wonder
Horatio Alger
Mount St. Mary's Bright Futures Fund
New Village Girls Academy
Ron Brown Scholars
SCS-Noonan Scholars
UCLA Riordan Scholars

2021

Horatio Alger Association
Mount St. Mary's Bright Futures Fund
New Village Girls Academy
Ron Brown Scholars
The Vineyard Team - J. Nevarez Scholarship
Thrive Scholars
UCLA Riordan Scholars

2022

College Match
Fulfillment Fund
New Village Girls Academy
Ron Brown Scholars
Thrive Scholars
UCLA Riordan Scholars

2023

CGCS Bernard Harris
College Match
Fulfillment Fund
New Village
Ron Brown Scholars
Thrive
UCLA Riordan Scholars

Words of Appreciation

Your support will strengthen our operations and ensure we are able to continue serving all students. We are thankful for the trust you have placed in our ability to help our students create a positive like trajectory.

- New Village Girls Academy

We are truly appreciative of the support from Peters Pharis Foundation - you have helped us build an incredible network impacting the lives of thousands of talented young African American leaders who continue to amaze with their dedication to leadership and service.

– Ron Brown Scholars

Your gifts helped to sustain and advance our College Access and College Success Programs, empowering more than 3,200 deserving students from underserved communities and under resources schools across Los Angeles to pursue and persist in college last year.

– Fulfillment Fund

Your gift offers transformative benefits to college bound youth and will be important in educating and empowering countless high school students with new and live- changing learning opportunities.

– UCLA Riordan Programs

The Foundation Is a Charitable Trust

Established as a tax-exempt organization in accord with US IRC 501(c) (3) and California R&TC 23701d. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The foundation receives its income from an endowed fund set up by the Peters. The foundation is governed by a board of trustees and makes grants nationwide on an annual basis.