The Dayton Foundation is inviting applications for its grant program to help launch new projects not addressed by existing organizations or to support special efforts of already-established not-for-profit organizations in the Dayton Region.
Donor Name: The Dayton Foundation
State: Ohio
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $75,000
Details:
The Foundation awards grants to a full spectrum of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organizations – from social service to the arts to health and the environment – based upon worthy community efforts and the greatest community need. The programs they consider for discretionary support are located primarily in Montgomery, Miami, Greene, Darke, Preble and Warren (north) counties.
What TDF Generally funds
- Capacity-Building Grants
- To provide for more efficient use of community resources, promote coordination, cooperation and sharing among organizations and reduce the duplication of services in community.
- To strengthen not-for-profit agencies and institutions by reducing operating costs, increasing public financial support and/or improving internal management.
- To help build organizational capacity so that the charity can work more efficiently and effectively and raise more dollars.
- Capital Campaign or Capital Improvement Grants
- To help an organization expand services and capacity.
- Special Projects or Program Expansion Grants
- To fund new projects or initiatives, provide seed funding for strategic growth or an expansion of an existing project or initiative to help an organization test or demonstrate new approaches and techniques for solving important community problems.
- To help established organizations launch new projects for special purposes, representing a unique and unduplicated opportunity and meeting a significant community need.
- To promote volunteer participation and citizen involvement in community affairs.
Funding Priorities
The Foundation gives priority to projects that meet one or more of the following criteria:
- provide for more efficient use of community resources, promote coordination, cooperation and sharing among organizations and reduce the duplication of services in community
- test or demonstrate new approaches and techniques for solving important community problems
- promote volunteer participation and citizen involvement in community affairs
- strengthen not-for-profit agencies and institutions by reducing operating costs, increasing public financial support and/or improving internal management.
Funding Information
Discretionary grant requests range from $7,500 to $75,000. Typically, the Grants Committee awards grants for no more than 25 percent of a total project budget, not to exceed $75,000; however, it reserves the right to increase or decrease the amount awarded if circumstances warrant.
Eligibility Criteria
- be recognized as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization, according to the Internal Revenue Code (established for at least two years and have a track record of sustainability) or have a fiscal agent with such status
- benefit citizens in the Dayton Region
- address needs that are not met fully by existing organizational or community resources
- demonstrate systemic collaboration
- demonstrate commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in organizational strategic plans, policies or other
- documents such as an equity statement.
Ineligibility Criteria
- general organizational operations and ongoing programs
- projects that are narrowly focused in geography, impact and number of participants
- individuals
- scientific, medical or academic research projects
- operational deficits or reduced or lost funding
- sectarian activities of religious organizations
- scholarships and travel grants
- annual fundraising drives, ceremonies, conferences, workshops, special or one-time events
- public or private schools
- endowment funds
- art exhibits
- cultural arts productions, with the exception of funding costs associated with creating original works
- economic development projects
- hospitals and universities for internal programs
- matching grants (unless local dollars are needed to fulfill a condition for a state or federal grant)
- multi-year or large-dollar requests (unless they are Grants Committee and Governing Board initiatives)
- publications, including books, reports, research papers .
For more information, visit The Dayton Foundation.
