Our Grant Cycles

2024 Resilient Communities - Spring Grant Cycle

Application Deadline: April 10, 2024 by 5pm

Grant request range: $500 to $10,000

This cycle will provide flexible unrestricted support to organizations meeting community needs. The Spring Grant Cycle makes grants from the Community Foundation’s Tompkins, Today, and Tomorrow Fund as well as varied donor-advised and field-of-interest funds.

Eligible applicants include 501 (c)(3) organizations, school districts, municipalities, and faith communities (only for programs available to all). Prospective applicants not in these organizational forms may secure a fiscal sponsorship relationship from an entity in these categories to become eligible. Eligibility is limited to those organizations serving the greater Tompkins County, NY communities.

Each grant cycle application is reviewed by a community-represented review team that will provide feedback for the applicant. All grant cycle grants will require a written report at the end of the grant period.

GRANT APPLICATION IS NOW OPEN. ACCESS THE APPLICATION HERE.

 

GRANT SUPPORT RESOURCES

Grant Guidelines
Q & A/Info Session
Grant Writing Workshop / Grant Writing Workshop Slides

Application Questions in Word
Application Questions in PDF 
One-on-one Appointment with Staff

Drop in Grant Support Hours on Tuesdays, March 12- April 9, 12:30-1:30 at Dunkin, 205 S. Meadow St.

Questions about your grant application? Questions about eligibility, capacity, or other opportunities? Make an appointment with Gloria to connect and collaborate! YOUR PARTICIPATION IS VOLUNTARY. ONLY SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT IF YOU TRULY NEED SUPPORT WITH THE GRANT PROCESS. YOUR PARTICIPATION HAS NO IMPACT ON ANY FUNDING DECISIONS. Schedule your appointment HERE!

Please contact Chief Equity, Community Engagement, & Grants Officer Gloria Coicou, at gcoicou@cftompkins.org if you have questions related to this grant cycle. Technical Support questions should be directed to Administrative Manager, Madeline Rosas at mrosas@cftompkins.org

 

Prior Year (2023) Resilient Communities Spring Grant Cycle Grantees

2023 Community Foundation Report was Due: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 5pm.

Thank you to our 2023 Resilient Communities Spring Grant Cycle grantees for their good work in service to our Tompkins County communities!

GUIDELINES

2024 Resilient Communities - Fall Grant Cycle

Application Deadline: is September 18, 2024 by 5pm.

INFORMATION LISTED BELOW WILL BE UPDATED IN JULY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!

Eligible applicants include 501 (c)(3) organizations, school districts, municipalities, and faith communities (only for programs available to all). Prospective applicants not in these organizational forms may secure a fiscal sponsorship relationship from an entity in these categories to become eligible. Eligibility is limited to those organizations serving the greater Tompkins County, NY communities.

Each grant cycle application is reviewed by a community-represented review team that will provide feedback for the applicant. All grant cycle grants will require a written report at the end of the grant period.

Grant Range: $500-$10,000, depending on number of applications received

GRANT CYCLE GUIDELINES

APPLICATION QUESTIONS

FALL ’23 GRANT CYCLE Q&A

HELP WITH GRANTWRITING’ WORKSHOP

Questions about your grant application? Questions about eligibility, capacity, or other opportunities? Make an appointment with Gloria to connect and collaborate! YOUR PARTICIPATION IS VOLUNTARY. ONLY SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT IF YOU TRULY NEED SUPPORT WITH THE GRANT PROCESS. YOUR PARTICIPATION HAS NO IMPACT ON ANY FUNDING DECISIONS. Schedule your appointment HERE!

2023 Fall Community Information Session below.

2023 Q&A PowerPoint Presentation

This cycle will provide flexible unrestricted support to organizations meeting community needs, some longstanding, some new, or revealed in the aftermath of the pandemic. This Grant Cycle makes grants from the Community Foundation’s Tompkins, Today, and Tomorrow Fund as well as varied donor advised and field of interest funds.

Please contact Chief Inclusion & Community Engagement Officer Gloria Coicou, at gcoicou@cftompkins.org if you have questions related to this grant cycle. Technical Support questions should be directed to Administrative Manager, Madeline Rosas at admin@cftompkins.org

OFF-CYCLE REQUESTS MADE DURING ACTIVE GRANT CYCLES WILL BE DIRECTED TO APPLY TO THE CURRENT CYCLE. 

Prior Year (2022) Resilient Communities Fall Grant Cycle

2023 Grant Report Due: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 5pm.

GUIDELINES

2024 Library Grant Cycle

Application Deadline: is now closed. All eligible applications are currently being reviewed. Decisions are anticipated by early April.

Grant Range: $200-$16,000

Library Grant Cycle applicants can register and access applications and reports through GLM, our new online grant management platform.

*Alert* If you have already started your report form, you will need to scroll down to the bottom of the form and click ‘Abandon Request’. At the top of your screen, click ‘Apply’ to get to the new report form.

Click button below for guidelines. 

This grant cycle was inspired by the Bernard Carl and Shirley Rosen Library Fund which seeks to promote genuine intellectual curiosity and a lifelong love of reading and learning, by promoting greater and easier access by youth to local libraries. Eligible applicants are the 33 public libraries in Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga and Tompkins counties, the 5 counties of the Finger Lakes Library System.

GUIDELINES
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