Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Franklin Square House Foundation’s 2022 Emergency Capital Grants Program is now open to fund capital projects that support women and their families.
Funding Information
The maximum program grant is $50,000.
The Foundation does not Fund
- Operating costs
- Landscaping
- Project design, management, or overhead
- Relocation
- Vehicles
- Computers
- Manipulatives and teaching materials
- Requests to reduce mortgage debt
- Requests to fund already completed work
Eligibility Criteria
- All prospective grant applicants are required to contact the Executive Director of the Foundation prior to submitting application materials. Grant applications will not be considered without explicit consent of the Executive Director of the Foundation.
- Grants requests are only for “emergency” capital improvements. Other types of requests will not be considered.
- Requests must meet a strict definition of an emergency. Emergencies include (but are not limited to) improvements and repairs and/or replacements of building components that, without intervention paid for by this grant, would put the health, safety, or wellbeing of the women and families you serve in immediately jeopardy.
- All applicants must be in good standing with the Foundation. For existing grantees, this entails that all previous grant reporting has been completed in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Grant applicants are only permitted one Emergency COVID-19 capital grant award per calendar year.
- This emergency program exists independent of all other funding programs of the Foundation and does not impact a grantee’s ability to apply for a scheduled funding round. Emergency grants will not have an impact on a grantee’s ability to apply for regularly scheduled grant rounds.
Application Requirements
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Following a conversation with the Executive Director of the Foundation a potential COVID-19 emergency grant applicant must submit a letter of request to the Foundation. The letter should include the following information:
- The address of the facility you are seeking funding for
- What that facility does and the clients serve, (childcare, shelter, homeless families, homeless individuals, victims of domestic violence, women in recovery, etc.)
- A description of the work that needs to be done
- A contractor’s bid for the proposed work to be done (estimated amounts will not be accepted)
- An explanation of why this work qualifies as an emergency
- If the full project exceeds the program limit of $50,000, a budget will be required showing the total cost of the work and how you will pay for any work that exceeds the program limit.
- Grantees must own the facility they are proposing to improve, or have a minimum of 10 years left on the lease. In the case of a lease, it is required to provide a copy of the lease.
For more information, visit Franklin Square House Foundation.
For more information, visit https://www.franklinsquarehousefoundation.org/emergency-grants-guidelines