The Morton Community Foundation is pleased to continue its tradition of grantmaking with the Spring 2024 Community Grants cycle.
Donor Name: Morton Community Foundation
State: Illinois
Village: Morton
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/08/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The mission of the Morton Community Foundation is to improve the quality of life for Morton area residents now and for generations to come.
Objectives
The Morton Community Foundation’s purpose is to support charitable causes…and to advance one or more of these objectives:
- Address and help resolve Morton’s important existing or emerging community issues.
- Support projects and organizations offering the greatest opportunity for positive and sustainable impact for Morton area residents.
- Promote cooperation and collaboration among organizations.
- Improve the quality or scope of charitable work in the community.
What Foundation Supports?
Foundation prioritizes projects that are:
- HIGH IMPACT: Provides services or will benefit a large number of Morton area residents, or a large number of Morton area residents within a particular group (example: individuals with disabilities, seniors, etc.)
- SUSTAINABLE: Creates a lasting impact.
- COLLABORATIVE: Leverages other funding sources and builds partnerships.
- IDENTIFIABLE: Items to which a plaque, sticker, or identifying stickers can be applied, or in the case of digital media, recognition can be given that the MCF provided funding for the project.
- MEASURABLE: Effectiveness of the project can be measured with reliable data.
Generally, the MCF does not make grants for the following:
- Grants to non-profit organizations located outside Morton, IL, that cannot show a clear impact on Morton area residents.
- Grants to individuals (scholarships), or grants to cover camp fees, training sessions
- Administrative/Operating expenses of a project or of a non-profit organization.
- Charitable activities that promote a “”religion“. However, grants may be made to faith-based organizations for non-religious purposes (example: We could fund a back-to-school backpack program made available to all Morton area students by a local church.)
- Lobbying or any other activity of a political nature.
- Endowment or to retire indebtedness of a non-profit organization.
- Private foundations and other grant making organizations.
- Consumable items (example: T-shirts, water bottles, food for food pantries, office supplies, marketing items, etc.)
- Projects that have already been completed.
For more information, visit MCF.
