The Turnout is Galesburg Community Foundation’s annual grant process that engages and empowers donors, community stakeholders, and nonprofits.
Donor Name: Galesburg Community Foundation
State: Illinois
County: Henderson County (IL), Knox County (IL), Warren County (IL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Through The Turnout, funders have the opportunity to learn about the work of local nonprofits and support the causes they care about, elevating the culture of philanthropy in the region.
Grant Types
The difference between capacity, general operating, and programmatic grants.
- Capacity grants
- Capacity grants are used to develop competencies, strategies, systems, and structures to improve your organizational effectiveness. These grants strengthen your organization to grow its impact and accomplish its mission and goals. Examples of how capacity grants can be used include:
- Equipment: Includes IT capacity through upgrades to hardware and software, networking, websites, and staff training to optimize use of technology (no vehicle purchases or bricks and mortar projects)
- Professional development: training, or travel for staff and board, fundraising training, speakers, etc.
- Strategic planning: planning, facilitation, etc. of your organization’s mission, vision, and goals
- Endowment development: creation/establishment of fundraising goals related to endowment building
- Leadership development: supporting a leadership training experience for two or more members of the organization’s leadership/management team
- Planning activities: including organizational assessments, strategic planning, fund development, communications/marketing, or business planning
- Board development: may include activities such as leadership training, executive coaching, defining the role of the board, and strengthening governance
- Internal operations: improvements to financial management, human resources, or volunteer management
- Capacity grants are used to develop competencies, strategies, systems, and structures to improve your organizational effectiveness. These grants strengthen your organization to grow its impact and accomplish its mission and goals. Examples of how capacity grants can be used include:
- General operating grants
- General Operating Grants are used to support the general (administrative or core) expenses of operating an organization. Some of the expenses covered under a general operating grant include:
- Rent
- Salaries
- Utilities
- Infrastructure
- Daily Expenses
- General Operating Grants are used to support the general (administrative or core) expenses of operating an organization. Some of the expenses covered under a general operating grant include:
- Programmatic grants
- Program grants are given to support activities aligned with The Turnout’s Mission Areas and related to the mission of the organization receiving funding. Program grants are restricted grants and must be used solely for the proposed program. Program grants must be used to cover costs directly related to running a program such as educational outreach, program materials, and/or personnel (only as it relates to supporting a particular program or project). The grant may not be used for general administration of the organization.
Turnout Funds
- Education & Workforce Development: Programs and missions that attract, retain, train, educate, and sustain residents to revive economic climate in the communities.
- Health & Human Service: Programs and missions that align, expand, collaborate, and maximize resources for positive sustainable community, individual, and family health and social services that improve the quality of life for all residents.
- Community Enhancement & Art and Culture: Programs and missions that improve access, amenity, and quality of life and welcome and encourage population growth and economic stimulus.
- Nonprofit Capacity, Mission Sustainability, and Reinvention: Programs and missions that inspire and encourage the untapped potential of the nonprofit sector.
Grant Period
Grants can be used for activities occurring from when the grant is awarded in early July through June of the following year.
Eligibility Criteria
The Turnout is open to 501(c)(3) nonprofit or public charities, schools, churches, and government agencies serving residents of Knox, Warren, and Henderson Counties. Organizations that receive grants will be fully funded.
For more information, visit Galesburg Community Foundation.
