Kids Fund Grant

The Kids Fund Grant is a charitable initiative dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children and youth in Dane County. As a tax-exempt organization, it provides grants up to $5,000 to public charitable organizations that aim to promote positive development, address challenges like substance abuse, and assist children with disabilities. The fund seeks to enhance community services and foster recreational activities, ensuring a brighter future for local families and children.

What is the Kids Fund?
The Kids Fund is a non-profit, tax-exempt, public grant-making charitable organization. Our grants focus on assisting disadvantaged children and youth in Dane County.
With the help of The Capital Times, The Kids Fund serves to pool individual contributions from hundreds of Dane County residents, and then carefully evaluate grant requests from non-profit organizations, distributing those gifts to serve the needs of kids and their families in Dane County.
Grant-Making
The Kids Fund directs its grant-making to four general areas:
To encourage and strengthen positive development of children and families through constructive learning and recreational activities. To assist children and families dealing with challenges such as alcohol or drug abuse and mental illness.
To help families meet the needs of children with disabilities.To support families, children, and youth by bringing services and activities to local neighborhoods and communities.
Kids Fund grants go up to $5,000.

Eligibility

You must be a tax-exempt public charitable organization.The services you intend to provide must primarily benefit children and youth who reside in Dane County who face special challenges that may be economic, developmental, physical and/or social. Grants may be made for enhancing the effectiveness of existing programs, to make start up efforts possible, and to support pilot projects.

Ineligibility

The Kids Fund does not make grants to organizations classified as private foundations by the IRS.The Kids Fund does not make multi-year commitments in its standard grant cycle.
The Kids Fund does not fund individuals, schools, endowments or debt retirement. The fund does not provide grants to religious organizations unless the services are non-doctrinal and are in the specified areas of interest.