City of Redmond Small Business Resiliency Grant – Washington - fundsforNGOs

The City of Redmond has partnered with OneRedmond to create a $500,000 grant fund to help support small businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19.

Donor Name: City of Redmond

State: Washington

City: Redmond

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 11/13/2023

Size of the Grant: $5,000

Details:

This program will provide a $5,000 grant to 100 small businesses with physical locations in the City of Redmond and no more than 10 employees. These resiliency grants will be awarded though a lottery system performed by an external organization.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, businesses:

Be a for-profit organization.
Applicant is an active/current small business in the City of Redmond with the zip code 98052 and does not intend to close by the end of 2023.
Business was established/founded prior to March 3, 2021 and has had an active status during the ARPA impact period and plans to remain open through December 31, 2024.
Business maintains an active Washington State and City of Redmond business license, including a nine-digit Unique Business Identifier (UBI) number, and is not in violation of any codes or regulations.
Business has ten (10) or fewer full-time employees (FTE) or equivalent.
(For example, 2 part time employees working a total of 40 hours a week would count as 1 full time employee).
Business made at least $12,000 in gross revenues from the sale of goods and services in 2019, 2020, or 2021.
Business made less than $4 million in annual gross revenues from the sale of goods and services in 2019, or in 2020 for a business that opened in 2020 or 2021.
Business generates at least 51% of its revenue in Washington state (i.e., be an “in state” business).
Business is a for-profit, independently owned and operated (not part of a chain).
Business has been negatively impacted by the pandemic due to decreased revenue or gross receipts, increased costs, financial hardship, challenges covering payroll, rent or mortgage.
Business is not seeking a grant as a contractor of a shared-ride company (like Uber/Lyft), third-party delivery driver (like Amazon or DoorDash) or host/operator of a vacation or short-term rental unit (like Airbnb or VRBO).