The Ireton Community Foundation provides grants to fulfill community needs, impact future growth and development of Ireton and enhance the quality of life by providing leadership, creating opportunities, and challenging the community to share time, talent and resources.
Donor Name: Ireton Community Foundation
State: Iowa
City: Ireton
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/15/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Ireton Community Foundation strives to enhance the quality of life in the Ireton area by seeking charitable gifts to build permanent endowments as charitable capital for the community, providing a flexible vehicle to receive and distribute gifts of any size, making grants in response to community needs, and providing services that will help shape the well-being of Ireton.
The purpose of the ICF grant program is to respond to present and emerging needs within Ireton by making grants in the following areas:
- Arts & Culture: Provide or increase access to theatre, music, arts, dance, museums, historical events.
- Civic: Community betterment/beautification, city government, emergency services, parks and recreation.
- Education: Early childhood development/daycare, primary, secondary, and continuing education; libraries.
- Environment: Pollution control, natural resource conservation, protecting wildlife, botanic/horticultural activities.
- Health: Promotion and maintenance of physical, dental and mental health; rehabilitative services, crisis intervention.
- Human Services: Housing/shelter, public safety, services for the elderly, youth, families, handicapped, economically disadvantaged, minorities or other special groups.
Eligibility Criteria
Grants will be made for charitable purposes to nonprofit organizations and units of local government that:
- Serve the 51027 zip code area.
- Are tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Evaluation Criteria
Priority consideration will be given to projects and programs that:
- Enhance the quality of life in Ireton.
- Address present and emerging needs.
- Leverage other funds and/or community resources.
- Result in the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
- Create opportunities for future growth and development of Ireton.
- Are developed in collaboration with other organizations.
- Encourage volunteerism.
For more information, visit SCF.
