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 impact

Eligibility

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 items

What 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

IRS Form 990, 2025. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

nonprofitscommunity-servicesquality-of-life

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