Community Foundation of Johnson County

Grants Procedures:
Donors to advised funds communicate with us regularly to recommend grants to their favorite nonprofit organizations. Others prefer that the Foundation, through an unrestricted fund or a field-of-interest fund, make that grants based on community needs.

The Community Foundation of Johnson County is guided by these principles of grant-making, shared by other community foundations across the country:

• A community foundation operates a broad grants program to multiple grantees that is limited neither by a single focus or cause nor exclusively to the interests of a particular constituency.

• A community foundation awards some grants from its discretionary resources through open, competitive processes that address the changing needs of the community.

• A community foundation widely disseminates grant guidelines to ensure the fullest possible participation from the community it serves.

• A community foundation performs due diligence to ensure that grants will be used for charitable purposes. All grant recipients must accept the Terms of Grant Agreement providing program intent and program expenditures as well as complete and return the Grant Report which is a summation of the outcome(s) of the original grant. In addition, as part of the Foundation’s due diligence process, site visits from Grant Committee members are to be expected. Any organization that does not comply with the due diligence process will not be considered for additional grants until compliance has been completed.

Nonprofit organizations are invited to apply for Community Foundation grants in October. Grants can be submitted in either of 2 ways:

Download the Grant Application pdf form, print it out, and submit it by mail to the Community Foundation of Johnson County. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free plug-in, available at www.adobe.com) to access this pdf document.
Access our new Grant Application online form, and submit it electronically, using the "Submit Form" button.

Grant recipients may download a grant reporting form here [Downloadable Grant Report].