Ackley Community Foundation Grants

The Ackley Community Foundation Grants, an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa, aims to enhance the quality of life for residents of Ackley, Iowa. By providing financial support for various projects in arts, education, health, and community betterment, the foundation fosters a vibrant community. With a focus on sustainability, the foundation prioritizes initiatives that demonstrate broad community support and effective collaboration among local organizations, ensuring impactful and lasting improvements.

We connect inspired people to causes they care about most, make grants to strengthen effective nonprofits, and provide leadership on key community issues to make Iowa communities better places.
Waterville Grants
The Ackley Community Foundation is an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa, created by and for the people of Ackley for the purpose of generating both endowed and unrestricted funds to support charitable capital projects, activities, services, programs, and organizations that will improve the quality of life for the residents of Ackley, Iowa.
What We Support
The Ackley Community Foundation will provide grants to improve life in Ackley, Iowa. The Foundation wants to help develop a community where people want to live, work, play and stay.
Areas of Foundation giving are:

• Arts & CultureCommunity Betterment Education & Youth DevelopmentEnvironment & Animal WelfareHealthHuman Service
• Funding Priorities
• The ACF Committee places high priority on funding projects that:

Address a community-based need, demonstrate broad community support, and benefits the community as a whole.Show the organization’s ability to leverage funding and support from other sources, with budgets clearly showing all matching funds for the project.Maximize community resources through cooperation and collaboration with other organizations in the community and avoid replication of services, programs, or projects.Reflect organization and staff’s capacity to achieve the desired results of the project.Show sustainability without additional long-term financial commitments from ACF.

Eligibility

Organizations must provide benefits to the people of the Waterville and must meet the following criteria in order to apply for a grant:Be classified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or be a government entity. Tax-exempt organizations classified as other than 501(c)(3) are also eligible if and only if the project is deemed charitable; please contact our office to discuss the project’s eligibility prior to submitting a proposal.Be current with all state and federal reporting requirements, such as filing of 990 forms.For groups, projects, or initiatives that do not meet the above eligibility requirements, the Community Foundation will consider your requests if submitted through a fiscal sponsor. Fiscal sponsors must be classified as a 501(c)(3) or a government entity. The Foundation prefers that the fiscal sponsor’s mission closely align with the sponsored project.Fiscal Sponsors will be legally and financially responsible for any grant funds that are awarded by the Ackley Community Foundation.One application per organization.Exceptions: Government Entities and Fiscal SponsorsGovernment and school departments must submit applications through the main account for their city/school.Only one application per city/school department may be submitted.

Ineligibility

Must not have any past due grant reports for previous Ackley Community Foundation grants.Restrictions:Inherently religious activities such as religious worship, instruction, or proselytization or activities that promote specific religious doctrine are not eligible.Applications for fireworks or related projects are not eligible.Requests for funds that are to be re-granted or re-distributed by the applicant will not be supported.Requests for political/lobbying activities or for debt repayment/reduction are not eligible.