Deadline: 26-Jun-2024
The Ontario Trillium Foundation is inviting applications to help your organization build resilience and capacity to deliver programs and services.
Seed grants help organizations build resilience and enhance their ability to deliver programs and services that directly benefit community members. Applicants can apply for funding to support organizational planning, pilot a new program, and build their capacity to plan for future programs and services.
Project Objectives
- As you plan your application, choose the main objective for your project:
- Create or adapt organizational strategy to build resilience and capacity to deliver programs and services.
- Prepare for the future by developing or adapting digital technology to deliver programs and services.
- Enhance staff and/or volunteer skills to deliver programs and services.
- Design and/or pilot an innovative program or service to address a community need.
- When selecting your objective, think about what you want to achieve with your project and how it will directly impact your community.
Funding Priorities
- OTF invests in projects that help build healthy and vibrant communities. OTF’s funding priorities focus on areas that identify the types of change OTF invests in. Select the funding priority that best meets the goal of your project:
- Foster physically active lifestyles
- Help people build stronger connections and a deeper sense of belonging in their community
- Enrich lives through arts, culture and heritage
- Support youth to develop stronger social, emotional and leadership skills
- Support participation in the conservation and restoration of the environment
- Enable economically vulnerable people to meet their basic needs and/or strengthen their financial stability
Funding Information
- Your project budget needs to be a minimum of $10,000 and cannot exceed $100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- OTF grants support the work of eligible non-profit organizations to help them deliver direct community-based programs and services in Ontario.
- Interested applicants must:
- deliver programs and services in one of four sectors: sports and recreation, arts and culture, environment, and human and social services.
- have a primary purpose, presence, and reputation for delivering community-based programs and services with direct community benefit in one of OTF’s 16 geographic catchment areas in Ontario.
- demonstrate the financial and organizational capacity to manage OTF funds, and deliver and complete the proposed project as per OTF’s Financial Need and Health of Applicants policy.
- demonstrate that it is the appropriate organization or community to carry out the proposed project.
- In addition to these requirements, applicants must be one of the following:
- Non-profit organizations
- The following types of organizations may be eligible for funding. They are required to have at least one full year of registration and/or incorporation and operating.
- A charitable organization registered with the Canada Revenue Agency
- An organization incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation without share capital in a Canadian jurisdiction
- The following types of organizations may be eligible for funding. They are required to have at least one full year of registration and/or incorporation and operating.
- Indigenous communities
- The following Indigenous communities may be eligible for funding:
- A First Nation
- First Nations seeking funding for their libraries must apply on behalf of the library.
- A Chartered Community Council, operating under the Métis Nation of Ontario
- An Inuit community
- A First Nation
- The following Indigenous communities may be eligible for funding:
- Municipalities, libraries and local services boards
- A municipality with a population of 20,000 or less, county library boards and local services boards serving populations of 20,000 or less are only eligible to apply for funding in two of OTF’s Funding Priorities:
- Foster physically active lifestyles; or
- Enriching lives through arts, culture and heritage
- A municipality with a population of 20,000 or less must apply on behalf of its cultural or recreation agencies, including municipal libraries and museums.
- Municipalities with a population of over 20,000 are not eligible for funding.
- A municipality with a population of 20,000 or less, county library boards and local services boards serving populations of 20,000 or less are only eligible to apply for funding in two of OTF’s Funding Priorities:
- Collaboratives
- A collaboration of two or more organizations may be eligible if the lead organization in the collaborative meet the requirements of OTF’s Eligibility Policy. The lead organization will be required to accept responsibility for the application and administration of the grant, including financial and reporting accountability.
- Collaboratives are required to include a formal, signed collaborative agreement with their grant application.
- Religious entities
- An organization that is a religious entity or a faith-based group and is a registered charity or not-for-profit corporation may be eligible for funding. The organization needs to provide direct programs and services to the community at large which are not religious activities and do not include a requirement to participate in any dimensions of faith.
- Non-profit organizations
For more information, visit OTF.