The Elmina B. Sewall Foundation is seeking applications for its 2025 Rural Partnerships Grants.
Donor Name: Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
State: Maine
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/13/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Sewall Foundation works with the partners to create a thriving, healthy, and resilient rural Maine where communities envision and guide their future. They support collaborative backbone infrastructure and partnerships that co-create solutions to structural problems with the communities closest to the issues at hand and achieve outcomes beyond what any single organization could achieve on their own.
Funding Information
- 2025 Available Funding: $2,885,000
- Generally, grant funding levels in this program area are:
- Individual organizations: $10,000 to $60,000 per year
- Increased funding amounts may be available to organizations that are acting as a hub for federal grants or that have special capital, operating, or project needs.
- Collaborative efforts involving multiple organizations/groups: up to $200,000 per year
- Occasionally, organizations may apply for both organizational and collaborative funds
- Transformational opportunities: variable funding levels
- These efforts address critical community and regional priorities and create sustainable, systemic changes. Generally, funding is limited to one to two years.
- Individual organizations: $10,000 to $60,000 per year
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be eligible to receive tax-deductible donations as outlined in Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. This includes: 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt organizations; public schools; public agencies working for the State of Maine; Indian tribal governments (and their political subdivisions) recognized by the Department of the Interior
- The Sewall Foundation accepts applications from organizations and groups who work through a fiscal sponsor. A fiscally sponsored organization does not need to be a legal entity, but it must have a signed fiscal sponsorship agreement with a 501c3 nonprofit organization. If you are an organization that is fiscally sponsored, please answer the application questions as they pertain to the applicant organization or collaborative, not the fiscal sponsor.
- The Sewall Foundation has funded 501(C)(4) organizations in the past for specific nonpartisan and charitable work, however it requires additional considerations and expenditure responsibility. They ask that any 501(c)(4) organization contact program staff to explore potential grant support. Organizations with 501(C)(4) status should not start or submit a grant application before speaking with program staff.
- The Sewall Foundation does not provide grant funding to private for-profit enterprises, cooperatives, or individuals.
- Eligible organizations may apply regardless of their funding history with Sewall Foundation.
For more information, visit EBSF.
