Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Compass Society Grant.
Donor Name: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville
State: Alabama
County: Jackson County (AL), Limestone County (AL), Madison County (AL), Marshall County (AL), Morgan County (AL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/30/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Compass Society brings the community’s spirit of innovation to generosity to serve as a catalyst for Greater Huntsville’s future. Through the power of generosity, the Compass Society implements collaborative, visionary projects that have a significant and sustainable impact across many areas of the community’s quality of life. Visionary doesn’t just mean something new, but rather it is the future-focused opportunity to create a community you want for your children and your grandchildren. These proposals require organizations in the community to work together to achieve something greater than any one organization could achieve alone, no matter how great the work they are doing. What are your bold dreams for the community’s future?
Focus Areas
The work of the Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville stretches across eight areas in the Quality of Life Framework, which are defined below.
- Arts & Culture: Enriches the community through arts, culture, and lifestyle experiences
- Basic Needs: Provides food, clothing, shelter, and other basic necessities
- Economic Opportunity: Equips individuals and organizations through training, creating employment opportunities, and promoting growth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Education: Invests in early childhood development, K-12 students, college and career readiness, post-secondary education, and lifelong learning
- Environment: Stewards the community’s natural resources
- Health & Wellness: Addresses physical and mental health and wellness
- Neighborhoods & Communities: Strengthens entire neighborhoods or communities through a holistic approach
- Recreation: Engages in experiences that refresh the mind, body and spirit.
Funding Priorities
Priority will be given to projects that meet the following criteria:
- Visionary: Create innovative, future-focused projects or programs
- Collaborative: Involve three or more partners that may or may not all be nonprofits. The organization applying must meet the Eligible Recipient qualifications below.
- Span the focus areas in the Quality of Life Framework: Impact three or more of the focus areas listed above
- High-impact: Affect a large number of people through scalable, ripple-effect transformation.
Funding Information
$50,000.
Eligible Expenses
- Program costs for new and/or existing programs
- Reasonable staff and/or volunteer time and training associated with the implementation of the program/project.
Eligibility Criteria
All grants from this Fund must be made for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes to an organization that is described in IRS code as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Qualified organizations also include schools, religious institutions, or government agencies (when the funds are used for a public purpose) located in the Greater Huntsville area.
For more information, visit CFGH.
