Glide Foundation 2024 Cycle: Regular and Major Grants for the US

Deadline: 15-Aug-2024

The Thornton S. Glide, Jr. and Katrina D. Glide Foundation are currently accepting applications for their Grant Program.

Grants will be made only in support of the following service purposes in order of priority:

• to animal protection organizations such as the Humane Society, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and rescue organizations.
• to other land and wildlife conservancy groups.
• to organizations committed to agricultural purposes.
• to the preservation of land in its natural state, including wetlands.
• to opera, symphony, art, and other similar civic organizations.

Grant Categories

• Regular Grants
  • Regular Grants are normally limited to $20,000.00.
• Major Grants
  • The Foundation’s Major Grants program has been established to provide a mechanism for consideration of agency capital needs which are of such magnitude and nature that they cannot be met within limitations of one or a succession of Regular Grants.
  • Major Grants are limited to a maximum of $50,000.00.
  • Purpose
    • To make a significant contribution towards a tangible and enduring capital need (a useful life of at least five years with reasonable care), to support a new service, a sustainable expansion of an existing service, or replacement or renovation of a deteriorated capital asset.

Eligibility Criteria

• Regular Grants
  • The Foundation welcomes grant applications from qualified organizations. Proposals meeting the following criteria will be considered for grants from discretionary funds:
    • Grants may be made only to tax-exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) or 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). None shall be made to Private Foundations under Section 509(a) of the Code.
    • Normally an organization must have been in existence for at least two years prior to application for the grant and have achieved a record of effective service.
    • Grants will be made for the acquisition of capital asset items.
• Major Grants
  • At least 50% of the organization’s services must be in support of purposes set forth in A.4 of the Foundation Guidelines for Regular Grants.
  • Except under special circumstances in the sole discretion of the Trustees, the organization may not have received a Major Grant from the Foundation with in the past three years.

Ineligible

• Regular Grants
  • The Foundation generally will not make grants from discretionary funds for:
  • Programs or organizations focused primarily on a sport.
  • Direct aid to individuals or for scholarships.
  • Support of operational costs; such as administrative costs, general overhead, taxes, or interest payments, for retirement of debt, or for costs of capital items already acquired or implemented.
  • Expenses incurred in performance of program services.
  • Influencing legislation or elections.
  • General educational institutions or sectarian religious organizations at any level. This does not, however, preclude consideration of requests from educational institutions and sectarian religious.

For more information, visit Glide Foundation.