Grant FAQs
Welcome to the FAQs page for the Spring 2025 Grant Cycle. As you embark on your grant application journey, we are committed to providing you with the essential information and support needed to maximize your impact. Our goal is to empower you with the knowledge to navigate the process confidently and successfully.
Frequently Asked Questions About Grant Cycles
Regional Grant Funds (Spring Grant Cycle) are grants made through our affiliates which are made up of their own advisory committees of local community members, ensuring decisions are made by those who understand the unique needs of their area.
Area of Interest Grants (Spring & Fall Grant Cycles) allow organizations to make a significant impact in specific fields, such as nurturing creativity through the arts, enhancing quality of life through human services, or promoting animal wellness. These grants are designed to empower projects that drive meaningful change within specified focus areas.
Community Opportunity Fund Grants (Fall Grant Cycle) are designed to support transformative, collaborative projects leveraging resources for upstream successes, building strong communities, and ensuring everyone thrives. Grants focus on Opportunity, Resilience, Belonging and Transformation.
Click here to login or create an account in our grants portal.
We recommend bookmarking this page so that it’s easy to find as you work on your grant application.
Foundant Technologies is the software platform we use for our grant application process. It provides a user-friendly online portal for applicants to submit and manage their grant applications, track progress, and communicate with our Community Impact Team.
Tutorials and resources, including the grant applicant tutorial and the collaborator tutorial, are available on our Apply for Grants webpage under the Resources section.
Yes, our grants portal supports collaboration. Refer to the collaborator tutorial for instructions.
Transformation Grants will not be offered in this grant round. Stay tuned for more information on future grant cycles.
- Application Period: January 3, 2024 – March 3, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.
- Project Start Date: June 1, 2025, or later
- Project End Date: No more than 12 months from the project start date
- Notification Date: By May 21, 2025
- Funding Issued: May 30, 2025
Projects must start on or after June 1, 2025, and must be completed within 12 months of the start date.
With the exception of Community Opportunity Fund – Transformation grants which fund projects for up to 5 years.
Detailed guidelines for each fund can be found by clicking on the respective fund names on the Apply for Grants webpage.
We administer a broad range of unrestricted, area-of-interest and donor-advised funds and make grants for a variety of purposes and projects.
Each grant fund lists guidelines, eligibility and grant range in it’s description that can be found on the Our Grants webpage.
The largest fund, the Community Opportunity Fund, is for projects that meet the changing community needs in the following areas: Opportunity, Resilience, Belonging and Transformation. The Board of Trustees may, from time to time, emphasize one interest area over another when emerging needs or opportunities require special attention. In addition, we make grants from area-of-interest funds designed to address a range of specific community needs.
Yes, you can apply for more than one grant per grant cycle.
Due to the increasing number of grant applications and limited capacity of our small but mighty Community Impact Team, we cannot guarantee you will be able to speak one-on-one with a team member regarding your specific application.
However, if you have specific technical questions please reach out to our Senior Community Impact Associate, Kursula Harris at [email protected]
There are many great resources to learn how to write grant proposals. Our team recommends the ones listed below as a good starting point:
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