The Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation is currently accepting applications from eligible organizations and institutions that seek funding to address community needs.
Donor Name: Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation
State: Iowa
City: Marshalltown
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000
Details:
The Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation provides support for and working with programs, projects and organizations that are striving to make a better life for the people of Marshalltown, Iowa and San Antonio, Texas and their surrounding areas.
The Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation particularly seeks to address the educational, artistic, cultural, youth and human service needs of communities in these geographic areas and prefers to support initiatives that enable recipient organizations to build their own capacities to produce significant, measurable change.
Types of Support
The Foundation considers support for:
- Program needs, including provision of direct services
- Startup or expansion of organizations and programs
- Construction and renovation projects
- Support of specific programs
- Equipment and materials.
Types of Grants Awarded
The Foundation awards two types of grants:
- Outright grants
- Challenge grants, requiring that matching funds be raised.
An organization may apply for either type of grant. If funding is approved, the Foundation will determine which type of grant may offer the greater long-term benefit to the organization and the community it serves based on a review of factors including an organization’s potential funding base, board involvement, community support and the nature of the project.
For challenge grants, the time period for securing matching funds generally ranges between six months and one year. Challenge grants usually require private sector contributions only and do not generally provide for gifts-in-kind counting toward fulfillment of the challenge. Depending upon the total amount of funding needed and the size of the grant awarded, an organization may be asked to raise from one to three times the amount of the challenge grant.
Strategic giving focus & Priorities
- The board of directors has identified the following focus:
- The Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation, in collaboration with Marshalltown leaders and organizations, will focus its resources to:
- Attract, develop and retain people who will cultivate a civic-minded, healthy, caring community and strengthen their collective sense of pride
- Build upon the unique community identity by expanding vibrant amenities.
- The Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation, in collaboration with Marshalltown leaders and organizations, will focus its resources to:
Support for areas of need that do not readily fall into this specific focus may also be considered.
- The following list of community plans have been funded, fully or in part, by the Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation. Priority will be given to requests that support or implement the following:
- Marshalltown Parks and Recreation 10-year Plan
- Highway 14 Redevlopment Plan
- Iowa River’s Edge Trail Master Plan
- Downtown Marshalltown Master Plan
- Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center Plan
- Arts + Culture Master Plan
- Grant Application Information
- Linn Creek District Plan
Geographical Focus
The geographic focus for grant making is Marshalltown, Iowa. Proposals from outside Marshalltown will not be considered for funding.
Funding Information
Requests for less than $1,000.
Limitations
The Foundation does not consider support for:
- Ongoing operating needs unless they are an essential part of a specific new or expanded program proposed for funding
- Annual campaigns
- Individuals
- Faith-based programming or purposes
- Organizations without IRS determined status as 501(c)(3), except for units of government (i.e. schools, city and county governments)
- Organizations that discriminate directly or indirectly against individuals or groups based on religious beliefs, race, gender, ethnic or national origin, or sexual orientation.
For more information, visit METF.
