The Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) is now accepting applications for its Fund-a-Farmer Grants.
Donor Name: Food Animal Concerns Trust
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
FACT awards competitive grants of up to $3,000 to working, independent farmers located in the 50 United States and five major U.S. territories who raise beef cattle, bison, broiler chickens, dairy cows, ducks, geese, goats, laying hens, pigs, sheep and/or turkeys.
Funding Information
The maximum award per farm is $3,000. Eligible expense categories include: materials, supplies, equipment, shipping/delivery costs, consultant/professional fees, travel, training, and hired labor costs.
Grant Period
All proposed projects must begin and be completed within the time frame of March 2024 through June 2025. Projects that are completed before March 2024 are not eligible for funding.
Eligible Projects
Examples of eligible projects include but are not limited to:
- On-farm infrastructure or investments (e.g. on-farm improvements to maintain certification and/or increase the scale and efficiency of the operation, purchase of capital investments such as certified breeding stock and refrigeration units, value added product development);
- Supply chain infrastructure or investments (e.g. transporting products to market, coordinating pick-up, aggregation and distribution of food items from multiple sources);
- Institutional or wholesale investments (e.g. investments to meet institutional/wholesale parameters or sourcing needs, such as increased production, product packaging, value added processing or administrative prerequisites);
- Education or marketing efforts (e.g. educating local distributors to value welfare certifications, creating a cooperative, developing educational materials);
- Joint sales efforts to buyers (e.g. outreach on behalf of multiple farms to local institutions, restaurants or markets to secure contracts that pull from multiple farms).
Eligibility Requirements
- Location: Farms must be located in the 50 United States or five major U.S. territories and be working, independent farms, or operated by a federally-recognized tribal entity. These are farms on which a family, individual or tribe owns the animals, is engaged in the day-to-day management of the farm and its animals, derives a share of livelihood from the farm, and produces a livestock product for sale.
- Tax documentation: If you are selected to receive a grant you will be required to furnish a valid Schedule F or Schedule C form or comparable form from a recent tax return; this document is not required at time of application. If you file a different form to report income/loss from your farm business, or are not required to file taxes for your farm business because you farm in a U.S. territory or on tribal land, please note this in your application.
- Eligible animals: Proposed on-farm projects must impact at least one of these species: beef cattle, bison, broiler chickens, dairy cows, ducks, geese, goats, laying hens, pigs, sheep and/or turkeys. Farms must already raise animals (i.e. produce-only farms are not eligible). Projects involving a new species of animal on an existing livestock/poultry operation will be considered.
For more information, visit FACT.
