The Cinnabar Foundation is seeking applications for its Special Project Grants to provide funding that enables an organization to carry out specific projects, programs, and campaigns.
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:
Priority for Special Project Grants will be given to projects that align with the Cinnabar Foundation’s priorities and advance the Foundation’s strategic vision and conservation goals.
Funding Priorities
The Cinnabar Foundation supports a wide variety of organizations and special projects within the following Conservation Program Areas:
- Community Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture
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- 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 Special Project support are advised that grant amounts will not exceed 50% of the total project budget, or $15,000, whichever is less.
Eligibility Criteria
- applicants must be established, well managed 501(c)(3) organizations — or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal agent. If the latter, a letter from the fiscal agent confirming sponsorship of the project and 501(c)(3) status must accompany the application.
- Applicants must operate effective programs that serve Montana or the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
- Organizations that are offered a Special Project Grant must provide a 1:1 challenge match. This requires the organization 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.
- An applicant organization that received a grant in 2021 must submit a brief written report (two pages maximum) describing the progress made toward achieving the purposes outlined in the applicant’s 2021 grant application and detailing expenditures made from the granted funds.
For more information, visit Special Project Grants.
