Grants
The Community Foundation seeks to be a responsive and proactive community partner and, through its grantmaking program, works strategically to address existing and emerging issues. To accommodate the needs and diversity of local nonprofit organizations, the Community Foundation has two levels of responsive grantmaking.
Community Impact Fund
Core Mission Grants and Impact Grants are funded from the Foundation's Community Impact Fund. The Community Impact Fund is a permanently endowed fund that allows the Community Foundation the flexibility to respond to unmet needs in the community, as they arise and vary from year to year. Grants from this fund may be awarded to nonprofit organizations residing in the Foundation's service area (excluding Iowa Counties that receive County Endowment funds - Cedar, Louisa, Jackson, Johnson, North Lee, Van Buren).
Qualified organization's may be recognized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, a government entity, or a charitable program. Organizations working in the field(s) of health and human services, education, the arts, the environment, youth services, social services and any other charitable field are eligible to receive grants from the Community Impact Fund.
The corpus of this fund is invested in accordance with the Community Foundation's investment policy. The earnings generated from this fund provide grants generation after generation. In that respect, the Community Impact Fund is the social capital for the future of the nonprofit organizations in our community.
Please follow the links below to learn more about our grant programs and for links to grant applications:
Core Mission Grants --Spring and fall grants up to $15,000 each
Impact Grants --Maximum $2500 grants, applications reviewed and awarded monthly on a competitive basis
Quad Cities Parenting Supports Project -- provides a mini grant and a community initiative to identify, align, and support existing parenting support services
Additional Grant Opportunities
Independent Physicians of the Quad Cities
Isabel Bloom Art Education Fund
Who Makes Decisions on Grants From the Community Impact Fund?
The Community Grants Panel, made up of local residents who live and work in the region, reviews grant proposals for funding from the Community Impact Fund. The Committee then makes grant recommendations to the Community Foundation's Board of Directors based upon the region's greatest needs.