The Orange County Community Foundation Youth Council is now accepting applications for grants of up to $1,000 to support local projects!
Donor Name: Orange County Community Foundation
State: Indiana
County: Orange County (IN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/14/2026
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
These unrestricted grants are available to nonprofits, community programs, and organizations serving Orange County, Indiana. Funded through the OCCF Youth Council endowment and the generosity of donors, this is a great opportunity to bring meaningful ideas to life in the community.
Grants will be targeted for projects that improve the quality of life of the citizens of Orange County, Indiana and fall into the following categories:
- Arts and Cultural
- Civic and Historical
- Community Development
- Education
- Health and Human Services
- Recreation
- Youth
Grants that fund the following are Higher Priority
- Higher percentage of population reached
- Services Orange County as a whole
- Prevents rather than remediates
- Increases individual access to community resources
- Promotes independence
- Examines and addresses the underlying causes of local problems and issues
- Attracts volunteer resources and support
- Strengthens the non-profit sector
- Encourages collaboration among organizations
- Builds the capacity of the organization
- Offers services not already available in the community
- Creates new job(s)
Grants that fund the following are lower priority
- New or routine maintenance or construction projects (except renovations of existing facilities that enable the organization to provide a better quality of service to Orange County)
- Annual giving or capital campaigns
- Normal operating expenses (except start-up expenses)
- Computer hardware equipment purchase
- Provided multi-year funding to organizations that have received an OCCF grant in the previous year (however, the grants committee reserves the right to fund a program more than once within a year if committee members determine that the program is sufficiently beneficial to Orange County)
- Organizations having an existing tax-base of support
Restrictions
The following are absolutely not fund
- Advocacy or political purposes
- Promotion of the teachings of a particular church, denomination, or religion
- General group or individual travel expenses
- Debt, new or existing
- Individuals, except in conformance with the purposes of the Foundation as set forth in the Articles of Incorporatio
- Re-granting (funds earmarked to grant to another organization).
For more information, visit OCCF.
