The Wichita Foundation is seeking applications for its Wichita Wagonmasters Fund to benefit the quality of life for Wichitans.
Donor Name: Wichita Foundation
State: Kansas
City: Wichita
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/29/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000
Details:
The fund serves a wide range of projects enabling more people to enjoy the good life and to promote Wichita as a great place to live, work and play.
The Wichita Foundation is to promote and sell the good life in Wichita. The civic and social activities of the founders, and now of the total membership, are as wide and varied as the personalities of the members themselves.
Funding Priorities
The Good Life Grants invest in programs that:
- Serve Wichita, Kansas
- Avoid duplication of existing services
- Collaborate with or facilitate collaboration among nonprofit organizations
- Suggest creative & practical approaches to community problems
- Exhibit measurable results
- Address prevention as well as remediation
The Fund also selects organizations that:
- Demonstrate present & future sustainability
- Are fiscally sound
- Leverage other funding sources when available
- Capital equipment, improvements and construction
Funding Information
The Wichita Wagonmasters Fund at WF will consider requests beginning at $250, with a maximum of $1,000.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply for the grants listed below, your organization must be:
- In good standing with the Kansas Secretary of State’s office
- A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and classified as an organization to which contributions are deductible under 170(c)(2), normally a public charity under 509(a)
- An emerging nonprofit certified by the Internal Revenue Service through a form 1023EZ or working with a qualified Kansas nonprofit as their fiscal agent
- All grants are awarded at the discretion of the advisors to each fund, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of the Wichita Foundation.
Ineligibility
Requests not accepted:
- General support of operating budgets, reduction of organizational debt
- Direct lobbying or influencing of elections
- Tax-supported government functions, funding individuals
- Unnecessary duplication of existing services
- Fundraising campaigns and expenses
- Endowments
- Fellowships
- Beauty or talent contests
- Support of religious organizations of religious purposes
- Courtesy advertising.
For more information, visit Wichita Foundation.
