RSF Seed Fund: Providing Small Grants to Organizations Offering Innovative Solutions

Deadline: 15 March 2017

Rudolf Steiner Foundation (RSF) is currently inviting applicants for its Seed Fund to provide small grants (between $500 and $3,500) to organizations offering innovative solutions to further the field of social finance, or addressing issues in the areas of food & agriculture, education & the arts, or ecological stewardship.

The RSF Seed Fund is a modest-sized fund and supported annually by unrestricted gifts to RSF rather than from an endowment.

RSF’s mission is to create financial relationships that are direct, transparent, and personal and focused on long-term social, economic and ecological benefit.

Funding Information

Seed Fund to provide small grants (between $500 and $3,500)

Eligibility Criteria

Alignment with RSF’s mission and focus areas.
Non-profit status: The RSF Seed Fund accepts proposals from organizations that are any of the following:
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt per the IRS
- Fiscally sponsored with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status per the IRS
- Schools or universities
- Non-governmental entities, Indian tribes or tribal non-profit organizations, and territorial, tribal, or unit of local government entities
New initiatives, defined for the purposes of this Fund as:
- Organizations in the first two years of operation
- New projects or programs, less than one year old, from organizations with an operating history greater than two years
The RSF Seed Fund will not award grants for:
- Multi-year operating needs
- Ongoing capital or capital projects and campaigns
- Projects expanding in geographic scope only
- Scholarships
- Travel, or attending conferences and workshops
- International work