GBCF: Spring Community Building Grant
Funding Amount
Up to US $3,000
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
foundation
Can we apply?
Check your organization against each line. Taken from the listing; confirm with the funder's guidelines.
Eligible organizations
- This includes Native American tribal governments.
Geography
- Located in Barton, Pawnee, Rush, & Stafford County, Kansas
Required status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
Other requirements
- Grants may also be made to units of government for public purposes.
- In exceptional circumstances, grants may be made to other types of nonprofit organization and to businesses.
- Using expenditure responsibility as a guideline, the Foundation will carefully supervise any such grants to document the use of its funds solely for charitable purposes.
- The program or project you are requesting funding for must be charitable.
Not eligible / not funded
- Not eligible: The Foundation will not normally make grants to private non-operating foundations.
- Not eligible: The following: Grants to individuals
- Not eligible: Operating expenses
- Not eligible: Religious activities for religious purposes
- Not eligible: Lobbying or any other activity of a political nature
- Not eligible: Endowment or to retire indebtedness
- Not eligible: Private foundations and other grant-making organizations
- Not eligible: T-shirts, water bottles, and similar items
Overview
GBCF: Spring Community Building Grant
Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Golden Belt Community Foundation
Amount: Up to US $3,000
Last Updated: January 02, 2026
Summary
The Golden Belt Community Foundation's Spring Community Building Grant supports diverse projects aimed at enhancing quality of life in Barton, Pawnee, Rush, and Stafford Counties. This grant encourages collaborative, measurable, and sustainable initiatives that positively impact the community. Eligible applicants include public charities, government units, and occasionally other nonprofits and businesses, provided the projects are charitable in nature. Favorable projects are those that leverage matching funds to maximize community benefits.Overview
The Golden Belt Spring Community Building Grant supports a wide-variety of needs and Barton, Pawnee, Rush, and Stafford Counties and serve the community at large including but not limited to: quality of life improvement; arts and culture; enhancing community destinations points; charitable economic opportunity; planning and development. We support projects that are: Collaborative: leverages resources and builds partnerships Measurable: research driven with reliable data Sustainable: creates a lasting impactEligibility
You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Grants may be made to public charities; that is organizations described in section 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1), (a)(2), or (a)(3); and to private operating foundations. Grants may also be made to units of government for public purposes. This includes Native American tribal governments. In exceptional circumstances, grants may be made to other types of nonprofit organization and to businesses. Using expenditure responsibility as a guideline, the Foundation will carefully supervise any such grants to document the use of its funds solely for charitable purposes. Grant funding for programs or projects located in Barton, Pawnee, Rush, & Stafford County, Kansas The program or project you are requesting funding for must be charitable.Ineligibility
The Foundation will not normally make grants to private non-operating foundations. Generally, the foundation does not make grants for the following: Grants to individuals Operating expenses Religious activities for religious purposes Lobbying or any other activity of a political nature Endowment or to retire indebtedness Private foundations and other grant-making organizations T-shirts, water bottles, and similar itemsWhat Golden Belt Community Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 54
- Total given
- $1.7M
- Median grant
- $14K
- Range
- $5,049–$297K
- By dollars: Kansas 88%, California 8%, Massachusetts 2%. Top recipient cities: Great Bend, KS; Larned, KS; Hoisington, KS.
- 35% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 30% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Great Bend Recreation Commission Foundation · Great Bend, KS
Operating Support
$297K
University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy · Los Angeles, CA
Operating Support
$130K
Great Bend Alive Inc · Great Bend, KS
Community Devel
$127K
Barton Community College · Great Bend, KS
Educational
$114K
Golden Belt Humane & Animal Welfare Society Inc · Great Bend, KS
Animal-Related
$102K
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