The Herington Community Legacy Fund is designed to assist nonprofits in the Herington area.
Donor Name: Community Foundation of Dickinson County
State: Kansas
City: Herington
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/05/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Areas of Funding
- Arts and Culture
- Civic improvements/affairs
- Community development
- Education
- The environment, health, and human services.
Funding Priorities
The Community Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in Dickinson County, Kansas. Funding priorities include projects that:
- Develop or test new solutions to community problems
- Address prevention as well as remediation
- Provide assistance to underserved community resources
- Provide leverage for generating other fund and community resources, both financial and volunteer
- Provide a sustained and transforming effect for a substantial number of residents
- Build organizational capacity and improve the effectiveness or efficiency of nonprofit groups
- Provide a favorable ratio between the amount of money requested and the number of people served
- Facilitate cooperation and collaboration among organizations without duplicating services
- Encourage volunteerism, civic engagement, and development
- Community development is preferred to economic development.
Eligibility Criteria
An organization may apply for a grant if it is one of the following:
- Exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3)
- In existence for at least two years
- Sponsored by a 501(c)(3) who will serve as the fiscal agent (must complete fiscal sponsor form)
- A special-purpose unit of government
- Must exist within the Herington City Limits and/or be located within a 3-mile radius of the Herington City Limits. This determined area, though outside of the 3-mile radius, includes the Herington Regional Airport and complex.
Funding Limitations
In general, this grant does not support:
- General operating expenses (salaries, supplies, administrative overhead)
- Capital campaigns (support of construction or renovation of a facility; also known as bricks and mortar)
- Endowment campaigns; annual campaigns; fundraising events (including, but not limited to, the purchase of tables at dinners, ads in program booklets, and raffle tickets)
- Travel grants (fees for field trips or other travel-related expenditures)
- Sponsorship of sports teams
- Previously incurred debt or retroactive funding for current projects
- Other grant-making organizations
- Individuals (except designated scholarship funds) & independent scholarly research projects
- Religious or sectarian programs, political parties, or campaigns
- Organizations operating for fewer than two years
- Organizations that have delinquent reports from previous Community Foundation grants
- Projects that provide traditional medical care; carry on propaganda or otherwise attempt to influence legislation within the meaning of Internal Revenue Code section 495(e); attempt to influence the outcome of any specific public education, or carry on directly or indirectly any voter registration drive
- The Herington Community Legacy Grant Fund will not support the purchase of fireworks.
For more information, visit CFDC.
