The Legacy Foundation is seeking applications for its Transform Lake County Grant Program.
Donor Name: Legacy Foundation
State: Indiana
County: Lake County (IN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Requests
- Programmatic Funding Requests: Award Amount: $2,000 – $35,000
- For programmatic grantmaking during Legacy Foundation’s Transform Lake County grant cycles, grant requests will be considered which fall into the following general categories
- Basic Needs: Education, Food Access, Housing, Mental and Physical Health, Transportation
- Economic Mobility: Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Workforce Development
- Community Enrichment: Animal Welfare, Art, Culture, Placemaking
- Safety and Inclusive Justice: Disability Service/Advocacy, Criminal Justice, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Public Safety
- Capacity Building Funding Requests: Up to $10,000
- Transform Lake County Capacity Building Grants focus on improving organizations’ operating capacity so that they can continue to provide their essential services to the community.
- Capacity building grants focus not on the outward-facing, mission-based work of a nonprofit but on the inner workings of the organization. Ultimately, these grants are intended to help build organizational effectiveness and further the success of the organization’s mission. Through these grants, Legacy Foundation seeks to strengthen the efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of organizations serving Lake County.
Eligible Projects
Funds are to be used to strengthen an organization’s infrastructure, management, and governance. Funding is for specific activities or projects designed to strengthen an organization’s governance, leadership, technology, programmatic evaluation, and administrative capacity. Examples of such activities include, but are not limited to:
- Communications & Marketing
- External communication strategy planning
- Evaluation
- Assessment of management and governance systems
- Evaluation of program and/or service effectiveness
- Planning
- Strategic planning
- Succession planning
- Fund development planning
- Technology
- Upgrades to organizational Technology
- Establish or upgrade a management system
- Training
- Board and/or staff development.
Eligibility Criteria
TLC Grants are open to 501(c)3 organizations serving Lake County, Indiana. In selected cases, projects undertaken by organizations that normally fall outside Legacy Foundation’s guidelines may be able to receive funding. Examples include faith-based organizations whose proposal impacts the broader community, and units of government whose proposal extends beyond the traditional governmental functions that impact the broader community such as libraries or parks. Grants support programmatic or capacity building activities.
For more information, visit Legacy Foundation.
