The Community Foundation for Brevard uses a competitive grant process to award grants from its Field of Interest and Unrestricted Funds.
Donor Name: Community Foundation for Brevard
State: Florida
County: Brevard County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/20/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Grantmaking Impact Areas
The Community Foundation welcomes and encourages grant applications that address one or more of the following broad categories:
- Animals: They value healthy bio-diverse life and ecosystems, and address the ethical treatment of animals, threatened species, habitat conservation and connectivity, invasive species management, among other programs
- Arts & Culture: Art, music, and everything that makes lives more vibrant and rich. They support symphonies, exhibitions, theater, human connection and appreciation of diverse cultures and art forms, and deepen community-based arts education for children and adults
- Community Capacity: The social good sector keeps community healthy and whole. They help nonprofits with strategic planning, board development, financial management, outcome evaluation, fundraising, marketing, and organizational restructuring and mergers/, purchase of office equipment and software programs so they can thrive
- Education: Promote social, emotional and cognitive development of young children, including programs that support and educate parents and efforts that engage volunteers, expand academic support; mentoring and recreational programs for children and youth, particularly to close the achievement gap; broaden workplace, career and postsecondary experiences and opportunities for youth; improve adult literacy, skill development, education and workforce training
- Environment: Support stewardship, appreciation, and protection of outdoor spaces and wildlife – on land and in water
- Opportunity & Empowerment:
- Meeting basic human needs, including food, shelter and access to health care. Improve residents’ ability to meet local affordability challenges by helping them secure affordable, stable housing, recover from financial crisis, and/or increase earning potential
- Programs reaching vulnerable communities
- Activities that maximize the functioning of special needs populations in mainstream society; that protect the public (crime and delinquency prevention, legal administration, legal services); firefighting and police activities, and programs of community centers
- Health & Wellness: Improve community-based health and wellness; activities that improve and promote health outcomes; general and rehabilitative health services; mental health; crisis intervention; associations or services associated with specific diseases, disorders, and medical disciplines.
Funding Information
Grant requests must be a minimum of $1,000 and a recommended maximum of $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations
- Nonprofit organizations serving Brevard County, legally chartered and registered in the State of Florida and in possession of a determination letter from the IRS declaring the organization a public charity, exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3)
- Organization must have a minimum two-years operating history after the date of receipt of its 501(c)(3) classification
- Organizations based outside of Brevard County must have at least two (2) years of operational/programmatic history serving Brevard
- Organizations must be in compliance with or exempt from registration requirements of Chapter 496, Florida Statutes, the Solicitation of Contributions Act
- Ineligible Organizations
- Nonprofit organizations that do not directly benefit Brevard County residents
- Nonprofit organizations that have been operating as a recognized 501(c)(3) for less than two (2) years from the date of grant application
- Private non-operating foundations
- Re-granting organizations.
For more information, visit CFB.
