The Community Foundation of Dickinson County is seeking applications for its Community Grant Program.
Donor Name: Community Foundation of Dickinson County
State: Kansas
County: Dickinson County (KS)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/07/2023
Details:
Areas of Funding
- Arts and Culture
- Civic improvements/affairs
- Community development
- Education
- The environment
- Health and human services
- Youth services in Dickinson County, Kansas, that address the health and well-being of children.
Funding Priorities
The Community Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in Dickinson County, Kansas. Funding priorities include projects that:
- Develop or test new solutions to community problems
- Address prevention as well as remediation
- Provide assistance to underserved community resources
- Provide leverage for generating other fund and community resources, both financial and volunteer
- Provide a sustained and transforming effect for a substantial number of residents
- Build organizational capacity and improve the effectiveness or efficiency of non-profit groups
- Provide a favorable ratio between the amount of money requested and the number of people served
- Facilitate cooperation and collaboration among organizations without duplicating services
- Encourage volunteerism and civic engagement, and development
- Community development is preferred to economic development.
Eligibility Criteria
An organization may apply for a grant if it is one of the following:
- Exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3)
- Sponsored by a 501(c)(3) who will serve as the fiscal agent (must complete fiscal sponsor form)
- A special-purpose unit of government.
Funding Limitations
In general, the Community Foundation does not support the following:
- General operating expenses (salaries, supplies, administrative overhead)
- Capital campaigns (support of construction or renovation of a facility; also known as bricks and mortar)
- Endowment campaigns; annual campaigns; fundraising events (including, but not limited to, the purchase of tables at dinners, ads in program booklets, and raffle tickets)
- Travel grants (fees for field trips or other travel-related expenditures)
- Sponsorship of sports teams
- Previously incurred debt or retroactive funding for current projects
- Other grant-making organizations
- Individuals (except designated scholarship funds) & independent scholarly research projects
- Religious or sectarian programs, political parties, or campaigns
- Organizations operating for fewer than two years
- Organizations that have delinquent reports from previous Community Foundation grants
- Projects that provide traditional medical care; carry on propaganda or otherwise attempt to influence legislation within the meaning of Internal Revenue Code section 495(e); attempt to influence the outcome of any specific public education; or carry on directly or indirectly any voter registration drive.
For more information, visit Community Foundation of Dickinson County.
