Deadline: 20-Jan-22
The Community Foundation of Shelby County is pleased to launch Community Grants Program for not-for-profit organizations.
People who through their wills or during their lifetimes create charitable funds usually determine the scope of charitable causes that may be supported by the fund. Sometimes the Foundation board is given discretion to award grants.
These ‘community granting’ funds may have few or no granting. Applicants do not need to address their requests to a specific fund. The Distribution committee will decide which fund can appropriately support a request.
Priorities
Many types of projects may be considered for Community Grants. The Foundation typically looks for several of the following key elements in applications:
- Serves a large number of Shelby County residents
- If ongoing, the project can be sustained after the grant is exhausted
- An unduplicated program/project
- Diversity in those who are served
- Prevention of illnesses or societal problems
Funding Information
- Grants may be in any amount up to $15,000.
- Requests in excess of $5,000 are considered Impact Grants and will be additionally evaluated as follows:
- The request must be specific
- An innovative, new concept or process
- Meets a need not fully met by existing programs
- Affects an underserved population
- Impacts a growing need in the community
- Is not replacement of existing capital equipment
- Has sufficient data or statistics to verify the request
- Impact Grant requests may require a site visit or presentation to the committee.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community Grants are awarded to not-for-profit organizations through the Community Impact Fund, as well as the Roscoe Beanblossom Fund (youth), the F.I.S.H. Fund (food, clothing, housing, utilities, life-sustaining medications), John Douglas Long Blind Fund (blindness or serious vision impairment),
- The Memory Fund (children, seniors or veterans), Prime the Pump Fund in loving memory of Alma Wilson Allinger and Robert Lochard Allinger (community service organizations and Foundation initiatives), and the Shelby County Medical Services Fund (medical).
- Tax-exempt organizations § 501(c)(3) of the IRS tax code, as well as government agencies, are eligible to apply for grants.
- Organizations that are not public charities may apply through a fiscal sponsor or, if incorporated as an Ohio nonprofit entity, by satisfying steps in their expenditure responsibility process.
- Organizations must serve residents of Shelby County, Ohio and surrounding areas.
For more information, visit https://commfoun.com/grants-scholarships/grants/apply-for-a-grant/#