Pinellas Community Foundation’s Operating Grants is designed to meet nonprofits where they are—providing flexible funding that supports what organizations know they need most.
Donor Name: Pinellas Community Foundation
State: Florida
County: Pinellas County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/11/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
These unrestricted grants help cover the core operating costs that keep programs running and communities supported—from staffing and rent to supplies, outreach, and infrastructure.
Funding Priorities
The PCF Board of Governors has identified four core areas as priorities in its discretionary grantmaking:
- Improving Health
- Access to healthcare
- Access to behavioral health
- Enhancing Quality of Life
- Aging
- Access to affordable housing
- Financial assistance programming
- Food security
- Homelessness
- Access to justice
- Access to resources
- Trauma
- Advancing Education
- Promoting Arts and Culture
- Improve cultural awareness
- Enhance public access to arts.
Funding Information
Operating Grants funding request amounts will be based upon organizational operating budget size which serves Pinellas County and is not inclusive of major one-time or non-routine capital expenditures.
- Budget Amount: < $500,000
- Organizations with budgets of less than $500,000 may seek up to $15,000, per year.
- Budget Between: $5 K – $2.5 M
- Organizations with budgets between $500,000 to $2,500,000 may seek up to $20,000, per year.
- Budget Between: $2.5 M – $25 M
- Organizations with budgets greater than $2,500,000 may seek up to $25,000, per year.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to apply for an operating grant if your organization:
- Has 501(c)(3) public charity status under the code of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and has had such status for one calendar year at the time of application
- Has a physical presence in Pinellas County
- Will only spend funds within Pinellas County
- Fits within the focus areas identified by the PCF Board of Governors
- Is a direct service provider or arts and culture organization
- Has been operational AND providing direct services/programs in Pinellas County for at least 1 year prior to application.
Ineligible Organizations
The following organization types are not eligible for these awards:
- Hospitals
- Schools and school-affiliated groups (including colleges, universities, and booster clubs)
- Vocal and musical ensembles
- Animal welfare and environmental organizations
- Houses of worship
- Governments
- Continuing care retirement communities
- Private foundations and grantmaking foundations (if your organization files a Form 990-PF, it is ineligible to apply).
For more information, visit PCF.
