Horizon Foundation: Maine

Overview

_NOTE: Horizon Foundation has shifted to an invite-only application process. While we are no longer accepting formal letters of inquiry, we are always interested in learning about new organizations that fit our mission and geographic areas of interest. If you have never applied for grant funding from Horizon Foundation and you would like to acquaint us with the work of your  501(c)3 organization, you may send a brief letter of introduction via email. If your organization has applied previously you will continue to be considered for future funding
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About Us

Since its founding in 1997, Horizon Foundation has funded non-profit organizations that meet the mission goals in places where our trustees live and work. Grant funding concentrates on building organizational and community-wide effectiveness, developing opportunities, raising aspirations, and generally making a positive and lasting difference.

Our Mission

Horizon Foundation supports non-profit organizations that aspire to create and maintain sustainable, vibrant and resilient communities by:

* Enabling children and adults to lead their communities in creative, healthy and thoughtful ways;
* Educating citizens to be good stewards of the environment;
* Conserving land and water resources;
* Encouraging service to others;
* Promoting visual arts and music, and;
* Teaching appreciation of and preserving historic assets.

Maine Grant

In Maine, in addition to our climate and conservation work, we will continue to support organizations that serve children, provide arts, enrichment, educational, and leadership development opportunities, and those that aim to assure food security and assistance for those most vulnerable.

Our conservation funding in Maine will continue to support organizations and programs that implement the strategies of Maine Won’t Wait – A Four Year Plan for Climate Action.

Grant Size

Horizon generally will make grants in the $5,000 to $20,000 range, with an average grant size of about $12,500. While many grants will be for onetime projects, multi-year support will be considered. The Foundation will consider proposals for both challenge or matching grants, and encourages collaborative efforts with other grant makers.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* The Foundation can only consider requests from non-profit, 501(c)(3) organizations or projects that have a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor.
* Our giving is aligned with the geographic as well as programatic interest areas of our trustees.
* Organizations must be based in or primarily serve one or more of the following communities:

* Maine - Cumberland, Lincoln, Franklin, or York County

* Past grantees must wait at least two years before reapplying.

Ineligibility

* Horizon Foundation does not fund and will not consider applications from the following:
* Annual, building, capital, or endowment fund drives;
* Colleges and universities;
* Emergency requests;
* Health/mental health programs;
* Individuals;
* International or foreign programs;
* Public and private schools;
* Religious projects; and/or
* State agencies.