The Fairfield County’s Community Foundation is offering grants to close the opportunity gap in Fairfield County by eliminating disparities in income, education, employment, housing and health.
Donor Name: Fairfield County’s Community Foundation
State: Connecticut
County: Fairfield County (CT)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/15/2022
Details:
Three types of competitive grants to Fairfield County nonprofits:
- Program Support Grants: These grants are awarded for specific programs and services that contribute to one of their key result areas, and their corresponding strategies. The Community Foundation prioritizes requests from organizations that are results oriented and have capacity to measure/evaluate the impact of their work. Performance measures for program support requests focus on the impact of that program on the clients/customers served by the program.
- Capacity Building Support Grants: Primarily for nonprofits previously funded by Fairfield County’s Community Foundation whose work aligns with their key result areas. These grants are awarded to support specific projects intended to strengthen high-impact and/or high-potential Fairfield County nonprofits so they can achieve their goals more effectively and sustainability.
- General Operating Support Grants: General operating support grants are by invitation only. They are reserved for highly effective organizations that are critical to the achievement of one or more of their key result areas. Only nonprofits that have been previously funded by Fairfield County’s Community Foundation and have a proven track record of effectiveness and impact will be considered for this type of support.
Eligibility Criteria
Prospective grantees must meet the following additional eligibility criteria:
- The Foundation will not consider requests from an organization that has an open competitive grant with the Foundation (meaning you have not submitted a final report).
- Fairfield County’s Community Foundation will not consider requests to support religious or political causes, or to organizations organized for religious or political purposes.
- They will consider requests from charitable organizations that are tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) organization and public charities under IRS Section 509 (a). Organizations operating under a fiscal sponsor with tax exempt status under IRS Section 501(c)(3) may also be considered.
- They will only consider requests from organizations located within Fairfield County or that directly benefit residents of Fairfield County.
- They do not consider requests for capital campaigns or capital projects.
- They will not consider requests for any of the following:
- deficit financing
- annual appeal
- fundraising event
- open space purchase
- or-profit, parochial, charter, private, or individual public schools
- or nonprofit endowment
- They will not consider requests for a specific individual.
For more information, visit Community Foundation.
