The Cinnabar Foundation is seeking applications for its General Operating Grants Program.
Donor Name: Cinnabar Foundation
State: Montana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/31/2022
Size of the Grant: $15,000
Details:
General Operating Grants are unrestricted funds that enable an organization to carry out its mission. Funding awards are intended to underwrite an organization’s administrative and infrastructure costs, assist with strategic financial and organizational capacity, and/or help maintain core programs and essential staff.
Funding Priorities
The Cinnabar Foundation supports a wide variety of organizations and special projects within the following Conservation Program Areas:
- Community Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture
- Promote community-based natural resource collaboration
- Enhance sustainable agriculture and ranching practices that preserve open space, wildlife habitat, and corridors
- Conservation Education & Research
- Expand environmental awareness
- Grow the next generations ecological knowledge
- Support citizen science, fieldwork, and wilderness stewardship
- Environmental Advocacy
- Build awareness and take action on local, state, and regional issues
- Prevent or mitigate irresponsible natural resource extraction
- Build a constituency that supports a clean and healthy environment
- Private Land Conservation
- Protect wildlife habitat and migration corridors
- Preserve strategic open space and agricultural lands
- Public Lands (access, advocacy, stewardship, wildlife habitat
- Preserve, steward, protect and advocate on behalf of public lands
- Protect wildlife habitat and migration corridors
- Preserve and maintain public access
- Water Quality and Fisheries
- Preserve, protect, restore and advocate on behalf of clean water and fisheries
- Preserve and maintain public access.
Funding Information
Applicants seeking General Operating support are advised that grant amounts will not exceed 10% of an organization’s annual operating budget, or $15,000, whichever is less.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be established, well-managed 501(c)(3) organizations that operate effective conservation programs serving Montana or the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
- Applicants must receive an invitation from the Foundation to apply for a General Operating Grant.
- Organizations must provide a 1:1 challenge match. An organization that is offered a General Operating Grant will be required to raise an equal amount of funding from other sources in order to claim its Cinnabar award. This must be a cash match — “in-kind” services will not qualify as meeting the match.
For more information, visit General Operating Grants.
