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What We Fund
What We Fund
** Please Note: We are only able to fund Organizations operating in North Carolina **
Select a category
| Organizations | Target Populations |
| Funding Opportunities | Applications |
| Types of Grants | Grant Length |
| Grant Amounts | Line Items for Trust Funding |
Organizations
Only Organizations operating in North Carolina
| - Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations |
| - Government entities |
| Individuals |
| Pass through to an ineligible organization |
| Faith-based organizations without a 501(c)(3) |
| Type III supporting organizations |
Target Populations
| Financially Needy | |
| Common definitions include: those living at or below 200% of the federal poverty level; the uninsured; and those eligible for Medicaid and/or the free/reduced school lunch program | |
| Forsyth County Residents | |
| Poor and Needy Division | |
| North Carolina Residents | |
| Health Care Division | |
Funding Opportunities
| Responsive | |
| grants made in response to applications through the regular application cycles | |
| Proactive | |
| initiatives developed by the Trust often funded through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process |
Applications
| Operating Programs | |
| generally for new programs, expansion, or short-term "bridge funding" | |
| Capital Projects | |
| construction/renovation or equipment |
Types of Grants
| Direct Services |
| Grassroots changes and systemic improvements |
| Capacity building |
| efforts to increase organizational and community effectiveness |
| Technical assistance |
| efforts to improve the capacity of grantees to achieve specific grant results |
| Program planning |
| development of specific operating programs |
| General operating expenses |
| Projects ordinarily supported by government funds |
| Community assessments |
| Processes for organizational accreditation |
| Support for grantee staff to pursue a degree or other intensive education or training |
| Medical research |
Grant Length
| One, two, or three years |
| Up to five years for PND grants in the program area of "Increasing Self-Reliance" |
| Up to seven years for HCD grants in the program area of "Supporting Prevention" |
Grant Amounts
| Operating programs |
| no prescribed maximum |
| Capital construction projects |
| maximum of $150,000 for HCD and $350,000 for PND |
| Capital equipment projects |
| maximum of $100,000 |
| Grant maximum based upon proportion of financially needy individuals who will benefit |
| Multi-year grants are usually in decreasing annual amounts |
Line Items for Trust Funding
| Overhead/indirect costs |
| most operating grants receive an additional 10% award for this purpose |
| Existing positions |
| to the extent they are a direct expense for the grant request |
| Grant evaluation and assessment |
| Overhead/indirect costs |
| as a part of the regular grant |
| Lobbying |