Application Procedures

Fresno Regional Foundation is pleased to provide guidelines and application materials for all our competitive grants. Please ensure that your organization is eligible for the competitive grants then follow the steps below in applying for grants.

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The steps to applying for our grants

1. Review the Grantmaking Guidelines
2. Confirm eligibility
3. First Time user: Create an account
4. Returning Users: Log in to Start an application

Eligibility

• Nonprofit status or:
  • Government Agency, or
  • Community Group w/ fiscal agent, or
  • Public Agency, or
  • Educational Institution
• Services/programs provided in one or more of the geographic areas of Fresno, Madera, Tulare, Merced, Mariposa and Kings Counties.
• Financial Health measured by:
  
  • IRS 990, and
  • Internal audits for budgets less than 300K, and
  • External audits for budgets more than $300K, and
  • Operational budget for organization
  • Board composition should reflect diverse composition of experiences and backgrounds.
  • Minimum of five board members.

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Restrictions

Fresno Regional Foundation will not consider grant requests for the following:

• Previously incurred expenses
• Fundraising by one agency on behalf of another
• Endowments
• Institutions limiting their services to persons of a single religious sect or denomination
• Individuals

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Important Considerations

Application deadlines are strictly enforced. To avoid any Internet-related problems that might disqualify your application, please contact the Fresno Regional Foundation if you have any questions or encounter a problem while completing your organization's profile or grant application.

Follow-up and reporting requirements

Please review the final report form requirements carefully when applying. Organizations must be prepared to comply with all reporting requirements at the end of the grant period. Additionally, you will be asked to provide electronic copies of press releases and/or media contacts resulting from the grant award. Failure to submit the final report may disqualify the grantee from future funding requests.

Grantee site visits may be conducted by the program officer and/or a board member of the Foundation during the term of the grant.

If you have any further questions please, contact Sandra Flores or Geri Yang.

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Grantmaking Key Dates

Arts and Culture
Closed

Youth
Closed

Human Services

Bidder's Meeting - June 18, 2010, 1:00 PM
944 E Perin Ave
Fresno, CA 93720
559.433.3135

Organization Profile due July 01, 2010, 5:00 PM
Grant Application due July 08, 2010, 5:00 PM

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