Grant Guidelines, Community Grantmaking Fund

The Community Grantmaking Fund awards grants to support many types of charitable programs and projects. If your organization is not a public charity please contact us to verify your eligibility to receive a grant. The Community Grantmaking Fund awards grants to religious organizations for charitable purposes but does not award grants for religious purposes.

We give priority to grant proposals for programs/projects that:

• Will be completed within one year of receiving a grant.
• Strengthen the grant seeking organization. 
• Directly relate to the grant seeker’s mission.
• Project a high degree of community impact.
• Benefit many local people.
• Are proactive rather than reactive

Charitable organizations that submit grant proposals are more likely to receive a grant when they:

• Articulate a specific need.
• Demonstrate past success with the program/project.
• Exhibit adequate qualifications to conduct the program or accomplish the project.
• Balance the amount of their grant request with the potential benefit of the program/project.
• Seek funding from several sources.

Grants are less likely to be awarded for:

• Repeat funding for a program/project that has received a Community Grantmaking Fund grant within the last two years.
• Funding debt.

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