Deadline: 1-Aug-21
The Children’s Home Foundation Fund, a fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC) to provide aid to economically disadvantaged children in Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry counties.
Funding Priorities
In accordance with this mission, funding priority will be given in the following areas:
- Human services, especially programs that address needs for food, clothing, and shelter;
- Education;
- Cultural enrichment and the arts.
Funding Information
- Grant awards are generally between $1,500 – $6,000.
- Multi-year funding requests will be considered but may be granted conditioned upon investment return, confirmation of matching funds identified by the Grantee, and/or the availability of foundation funds (in the years following the initial year of funding).
The Foundation does not Fund
- Advertising;
- Capital campaigns;
- Direct lobbying to influence legislation or funding appropriations;
- Individuals;
- National and statewide umbrella organizations that cannot demonstrate a local presence;
- New staff positions without a substantial plan for sustainability;
- Religious organizations for religious purposes;
- Retroactive projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Children’s Home Foundation Fund will make grants that serve to provide aid to economically disadvantaged children in Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry counties.
- This opportunity is available to nonprofit organizations federally determined as 501(c)(3) entities.
- Applicants without 501(c)(3) status may engage a fiscal sponsor to administer their grant funds.
- In order to be considered eligible for future funding, grantees must provide a final grant use report to the Children’s Home Foundation Fund when all funds have been expended but no later than sixty (60) days following completion of the project.
- Unexpended grant funds must be returned to the Children’s Home Foundation Fund when all funds have been expended but no later than sixty (60) days following completion of the project.
For more information, visit https://www.tfec.org/grants/the-childrens-home-foundation-fund-grant-guidelines/