Community Benefit Capital Grants – US

Deadline: 01-Aug-21

Applications are now open for the River Bend Hospital’s Community Benefit Capital Grants that aim to support organizations that demonstrate sound financial management, efficient operations, and the organizational capacity to sustain successful projects with significant potential for positive impact on the community.

NCHS encourages collaboration among organizations that use resources efficiently and provide programs and services that are not duplicative. NCHS approved over 80% of all eligible grant requests in 2018.

Priorities

NCHS prefers to fund capital grants that include some or all of the following criteria:

Enhance health outcomes and develop healthy communities
Create opportunities for sustainable and significant long-term impacts
Have broad community support and sponsorship
Encourage creativity and collaboration among organizations
Efficiently utilize limited resources
Leverage funding opportunities
Build capacity, improve, or expand existing programs that address demonstrated unmet community needs

Funding Information

Over $250,000 – May 1 to August 1
$100,000 – $250,000 – Ongoing
Less than $100,000 – Ongoing

Eligibility Criteria

Capital grant proposals are accepted from tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations, as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, that serve one or more of the following counties in Indiana: Benton, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren, or White.

Ineligible

Requests for the following generally fall outside NCHS capital grantmaking guidelines and priorities:
- Grant administration expenses, overhead, or other indirect costs
- Operational expenses
- Debt reduction or retirement
- Improvement of properties not owned by the eligible applicant organization
- Repair or replacement of predictably obsolescent capital items
- Annual appeals, membership, or fundraising drives
- Special events such as parades, dinners, festivals, or sporting events
NCHS generally does not award capital grants to:
- Organizations that are not tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charities
- Organizations without two years of financial history and financial statements
- Individuals
- Foundations or endowments
- Religious organizations
- Public or private educational institutions
- Municipalities or organizations with taxing authority