Deadline: 5-Jan-22
The Innovia Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Grant Program to make funding decisions that accommodate changing needs and capitalize on timely and compelling opportunities in their 20-county region.
Program Areas
- Health and Wellbeing: Meeting basic human needs, including food, shelter and access to health care.
- Education and Youth Development: Ensuring access to remote learning, safe social spaces and quality childcare.
- Economic Opportunity: Reducing barriers to economic opportunity, security, and/or mobility for low-income individuals and families, and supporting community economic development activities.
- Quality of Life: Increasing access to opportunities for safe public gathering spaces, social-emotional supports, and connection to animals and to nature.
- Arts and Culture: support the arts as economic drivers, educational assets, civic catalysts and bridges between cultures.
Guiding Principles
- Respond compassionately to meet basic human needs
- Bring people together to build inclusive communities
- Expand opportunity and reduce inequity
Funding Information
The maximum award amount is $20,000, with most grants in the range of $2,500 – $15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, applicants must be a public charity with tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; a federally recognized tribe; or a public entity such as a school district, municipality, or unincorporated group or association. In certain cases, grants can be awarded to non-501(c)(3) organizations for charitable purposes.
- In all cases, the applicant organization/program must have a clear charitable purpose.
- Applicants cannot have any delinquent reports for previous grants awarded through all Innovia Foundation’s grant programs.
- Some grant programs have specific restrictions. Be sure to read grant guidelines carefully to see if any restrictions apply.
- Innovia Foundation competitive grants are awarded to organizations providing services within the 20-county region served by the Foundation. (Eastern Washington Counties: Ferry, Stevens, Pend Oreille, Lincoln, Spokane, Adams, Whitman, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin. North Idaho Counties: Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, Latah, Nez Perce, Lewis, Clearwater, Shoshone and Idaho.)
- Please note that Innovia Foundation has multiple grant programs. Applying to/receiving grant funding from one Innovia Foundation grant program does not preclude your organization from to applying to any other Innovia Foundation grant program.
For more information, visit https://innovia.org/nonprofits/apply-for-a-grant/
