Deadline: 14-Mar-25
The Roundhouse Foundation is inviting applications for its grant program.
Focus Areas
- Arts & Culture
- Arts and culture bring people together, expand hearts and minds and build vibrant communities. They cultivate, enhance and sustain a sense of community by helping people understand and respect who they are, who their neighbors are and the unique place they call home. Arts and culture also support the creative economy, providing important economic impact in rural communities.
- They look for opportunities that harness the power and potential of arts and culture to build better rural citizens, communities and economies. They want to hear and amplify the voices of the rural communities, which they know can often be best heard and shared through art.
- Education
- Education opens doors, changes lives and strengthens the rural communities.
- They support innovative educational programming, including programs for the children who are not best served in traditional educational settings and in career-technical areas that build skills of the builders, mechanics, craftspeople, plumbers and others they depend on to keep the rural communities working. They also support strategies that create equitable rural access to higher education, as well as youth literacy, libraries, and civic education.
- Environmental Stewardship
- The future of rural Oregon’s people and places are tightly intertwined. They depend on the environment to provide the water and food, nurture the spirits and offer recreation. The wise, steady and innovative stewardship, always paramount, holds increasing importance for the quality of life as the climate changes.
- From watershed and ocean health to sustainable agriculture, fisheries and food systems to accessible outdoor experiences, they invest in opportunities that build collective responsibility for and/or improve the health of the life-sustaining environment.
- Social Services
- Rural Oregonians know that they depend on one another and how they take care of each other matters deeply. They understand that people cannot reach their full potential, contribute their best or be creative when they are in pain, hungry or don’t have a safe, stable home.
- They fund efforts that support rural Oregonians in meeting their basic needs so that they are better positioned to pursue their passions, creativity and life dreams.
Funding Information
- The Open Call process considers grant requests between $2,500-$30,000. The average grant is between $10,000-25,000 and the maximum is rarely awarded.
- Proposed project activities should take place 12 to 18 months following the award decisions.
Eligibility Criteria
- At the time of the application deadline, all applicant organizations must:
- Be active IRS-designated 501(c)3 non-profits, a government entity (including special districts, such as school or library districts), or a Tribal government.
- Provide services that take place in rural Oregon.
- Have no other open grants with Roundhouse Foundation.
What they don’t Fund?
- Applications from the following organization types are ineligible:
- Organizations outside of the U.S.
- Charter schools
- 501(c)s that are not 501(c)3s
- Faith-based organizations, including YMCAs and Habitat for Humanity chapters
- Institutions, that — in policy or practice — unlawfully discriminate against persons for their race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, ability, socioeconomic status, age, or other individual identities
- Organizations with a history of (or currently experiencing) intense public scrutiny, public litigation, or other activity that would jeopardize/conflict with the Mission or Values of the Roundhouse Foundation Individuals unauthorized to act on behalf of qualified tax-exempt organizations.
- Individuals for their personal benefit, including scholarships or tuition assistance for college, university
- Applications to support the following project types are ineligible through this grant process:
- Individuals
- Endowments
- Legislative or policy work
- Fundraisers or event sponsorships
- Acquisition of land or property
- Loan, debt, or previous project expenses
- Sports or athletic fields
For more information, visit Roundhouse Foundation.