Fund for Buhler Grant

The Fund for Buhler Grant, managed by the Buhler Community Foundation, aims to enhance community resilience through unrestricted grantmaking. Supporting organizations that promote health, arts, and environmental initiatives, it offers funding typically between $300 and $5,000, with an average of $2,500. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) organizations serving the Buhler area. This grant is designed to address diverse needs while fostering collaboration and innovation within the community.

Designed to strengthen Buhler’s resilience and capacity, the Fund for Buhler is the unrestricted grantmaking fund that allows Buhler Community Foundation to invest in our partner organizations to address the ever-changing and diverse needs and dreams of Buhler.
Among Buhler’s strongest assets are the community-based organizations and nonprofits that enhance the lives of the people they serve and our community’s quality of life. We believe that high-performing, adaptive, and collaborative organizations are essential to ensuring Buhler is a place where dreams are fulfilled through the power of philanthropy.
Each summer we select and fund programs ranging from health and human services to the arts to parks and nature. We also administer grants that focus on specific areas of interest.
Funding
Grant awards have typically ranged from $300 to $5,000 but have averaged around $2,500. Larger requests will be considered, particularly for collaborations, innovations, and efforts around systems and environment change. The BCF Grants Committee may choose to partially fund an applicant’s requested budget.

Eligibility

Who Can Apply?Proposals must come from organizations that are exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) and serve Buhler, which for grant purposes extends beyond the city limits to include the USD 313 boundaries. Special purpose units of government may apply for support of innovative projects.Community groups who do not have a 501(c)(3) status may apply for grant awards if another tax-exempt organization acts as a fiscal sponsor.Applicants must conduct business without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, creed or ethnicity.

Ineligibility

Grant proposals from individuals or non-qualifying organizations will not be considered.Ineligible projects include: religious indoctrination or other proselytization activities deficit financing lobbyingelectioneering and activities of a political nature sponsorships for special events endowment-building direct fundraising ongoing programmatic supportreimbursement of pre-award costs