Deadline: 14-Oct-20
The Alaska Community Foundation is seeking applications for Coronavirus Nonprofit Relief Fund.
The State of Alaska has set aside $35 million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into a Coronavirus Nonprofit Relief Fund.
Funding Information
- Organization’s grant awards through this program will range from $25,000 to $1,000,000.
- The total grant making allocation for this program is $35,000,000 for all three rounds of funding, with estimates of $20,000,000 available in the first round, $10,000,000 available in the second round, and the balance available in the third round.
Key Considerations
The CARES Act provides that payments from the CNRF may only be used to cover costs that:
- Are necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19)
- Were not accounted for in the State of Alaska’s budget as approved on March 27, 2020
- Were incurred during the period that begins on March 1, 2020 and ends on December 30, 2020.
Eligibility Criteria
Your organization is one of the following:
- 501(c)3 public charitable organization with 509(a)1, 509(a)2, or 509(a)3 public charitable status as designated in your IRS Determination letter
- 501(c)4 and 501(c)6 charitable organizations, but these funds cannot be utilized for lobbying or advocacy activities.
- 501(c)19 public charitable organization
- Faith-based organization providing social services to the broader community
- Tribal organization including housing authorities
- Local government
And have experienced one or both of the following:
- Your organization experienced a loss of income caused by required closures and/or cancellations of services/programs associated with the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Your organization has incurred or will incur expenses in direct response to the Coronavirus public health emergency in one or more of the following six categories:
- Medical
- Public health expenses
- Payroll expenses
- Expenses of actions to facilitate compliance
- Expenses associated with the provision of economic support
- Other expenses reasonably necessary
Restrictions/Limitations
The following are not eligible for grant funding:
- Individuals
- State or federal government agencies
- For profit organizations or businesses
- Private nonprofit organizations (those not identified in their IRS determination letter as 509(a)1, 509(a)2, or 509(a)3)
- Requests for support that do not fall within the funding guidelines outlined above
- Activities that improperly discriminate as to race, gender, marital status, sexual preference, age, disability, creed or ethnicity, or grants for religious indoctrination or other religious activities
- Activities outside the State of Alaska
Please Note
- The requirement that expenditures be incurred “due to” the public health emergency means that expenditures must be used for actions taken to respond to the public health emergency. These may include expenditures incurred to allow the State, territorial, local, or Tribal government to respond directly to the emergency, such as by addressing medical or public health needs, as well as expenditures incurred to respond to second-order effects of the emergency, such as by providing economic support to those suffering from employment or business interruptions due to COVID-19-related business closures. Funds may not be used to fill shortfalls in government revenue to cover expenditures that would not otherwise qualify under the statute. Although a broad range of uses is allowed, revenue replacement is not a permissible use of Fund payments. Funds may, however, be used for purchasing assets that will be used in the short term for public health purposes, even though they may outlast the crisis – for example, a house used for temporarily quarantining people seeking lodging at a shelter.
- Organizations can receive CARES Act funding from multiple sources, but the funding cannot be duplicative. Requests for funding from this Coronavirus Nonprofit Relief Fund grant opportunity cannot include funding received through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Economic Injury Disaster Loan emergency advance program (EIDL), AK CARES small business loans or other CARES Act-sourced funding.
- Any expenditures that are not determined to fit within the six categories described above will require repayment from the grantee. Grant reporting will require submission of receipts for all expenses to confirm eligibility.
- Recipient organizations must sign all state and federal assurances, as described on page 7 of these guidelines.
For more information, visit https://alaskacf.org/cnrf/