The Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants (YSCG) program supports activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that provide direct services to young people ages 5 to 25.
Donor Name: William T. Grant Foundation
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/20/2023
Size of the Grant: $60,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The long-term goal of the YSCG program is to help build stronger, more stable youth-serving organizations that tackle inequality in youth outcomes. These grants provide general operating support so that small nonprofits (operating budgets between $250,000 and $1 million) can determine the best way to address capacity-building needs that have been identified through a formal or informal assessment. Capacity-building needs may include:
- Financial management
- Board recruitment and development
- Human resource management
- Staff training
- Fundraising
- Strategic planning
- Information technology
- Leadership development
- Communications
- Evaluation systems
They welcome other compelling needs beyond this list. Strong proposals will make the case that addressing the capacity-building need will result in a strengthened organization that can yield stronger services for youth.
Funding Information
- Awards are $60,000 each and provide general operating support to allow grantees the flexibility to allocate the funds for organizational capacity-building needs over a 3-year term that begins on March 1, 2024
- The award provides $30,000 in the first year to get the work off the ground, $20,000 in the second year, and $10,000 in the third year. In the third year, the grantee is required to obtain new matching funding of $10,000. They invite organizations to leverage the Foundation’s award to obtain new funding partners
- The Foundation aims to award three new Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants annually.
Eligibility Criteria
The YSCG program awards grants only to youth-serving community-based nonprofit organizations in any of the five boroughs of New York City whose staff have direct programmatic contact with youth at the point of service. To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be a youth serving community-based nonprofit organization in any of New York City’s five boroughs
- Have direct contact with youth at the point of service
- Meet at least one of the reducing inequality criteria
- Meet all organizational criteria.
- Organizations previously funded under either of the Foundation’s Youth Service Grant programs cannot apply again for at least 18 months after the end of their award
Organizational Criteria
- Applicants must meet all of the following criteria:
- Serve youth ages 5 to 25
- At least 80 percent of youth participating in services must be in this age range. If the organization also serves adults, at least 80 percent of the service recipients must be youth ages 5-25. The applicant’s staff must have direct contact with youth at the point of service
- Have their own 501(c)(3) tax-exemption or utilize a fiscal sponsor that is a registered 501(c)(3)
- If an applying organization is separately incorporated but tax-exempt through a group ruling (religious institutions), the applicant should supply the 501(c)(3) letter of the parent organization and documentation that it is part of the group
- Have an operating budget between $250,000 and $1 million.
- If the applying organization serves youth and other populations, its operating budget must be less than $20 million and its youth services budget must be between $250,000 and $1 million.
- Have most recent financial statements reviewed by an auditor, per New York State law requirement. If the organization’s annual budget is under $750,000, then certified public accountant’s reviewed financial statements are required
- Have filed IRS Form 990.
- Serve youth ages 5 to 25
For more information, visit WTGF.
