The Johnson County Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Unrestricted Community Needs Grant.
Donor Name: Johnson County Community Foundation
State: Indiana
County: Johnson County (IN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Johnson County Community Foundation is a tax-exempt public charity governed by a volunteer Board of Directors broadly representative of the Johnson County community. The Mission of the Community Foundation is to enhance the quality of life for all citizens of Johnson County, now and for generations to come, by building community endowment, addressing needs through now grantmaking including scholarships, and providing leadership on key community issues.
Guidelines
Preference will be given to proposals that:
- Address priority community concerns Are change-oriented and problem-solving in nature
- Will have the greatest benefit per dollar granted
- Have the potential of leveraging additional grants from other sources such as government and other foundations
- Assist grant recipients to achieve certain objectives.
Criteria
- Grants will be made only to nonprofit charitable organizations.
- Grants will be made only to organizations that provide for a responsible nonprofit fiscal agent and adequate accounting procedures
- Grants will be made only for projects/programs that are certified in writing by the chair of the organization’s government body.
- Grantees must submit final grant evaluations reports in a timely manner. If reports are delinquent from previous grant current applications will not be considered.
Ineligibility
- Individuals (scholarship programs are announced and administered separately)
- Routine or on-going operating expenses, including conferences
- Existing obligations or deficit funding
- Annual appeals or membership contributions
- Tours and trips for individuals or groups
- Support of public or private educational institutions as required by law, except in special situations where support is essential to projects/programs that meet critical community needs
- Sectarian purposes that promote religious doctrine or require religious participation; this does not preclude considerations for nonsectarian educational, health and human services programs undertaken by religiously affiliated organizations
- Programs and services that are typically the funding responsibility of a federal, state, or local government
- Capital requests for planning, construction, renovations, or acquisition of land, unless there is strong evidence that the program is a community priority and JCCF funding is pivotal to its success or ability to leverage other resources
- Medical research
- Political purposes
- Endowment building
- Athletic leagues, teams, clubs, or other similar groups
- Repeat funding of programs supported through prior unrestricted cycle grants.
For more information, visit JCCF.
