Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation Grant

The Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation Grant provides vital support to enhance the quality of life in Marshalltown, Iowa, by funding educational, artistic, cultural, and human service projects. The foundation prioritizes initiatives that foster community engagement, pride, and identity. Grants typically range from $10,000 to $250,000, focusing on capacity-building efforts for local organizations. Eligible applicants must meet specific criteria, ensuring that funding is directed towards impactful community-driven programs.

The mission of the Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation is to perpetuate the generosity and giving philosophy of Martha-Ellen Tye by providing support for and working with programs, projects, and organizations that are striving to make a better life for the people of Marshalltown, Iowa, and San Antonio, Texas and their surrounding areas.
The Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation particularly seeks to address the educational, artistic, cultural, youth, human services, and community needs in these geographic areas, and prefers to support initiatives that enable recipient organizations to build their own capacities to produce significant, measurable, change.
Strategic Giving Focus & Priorities
The board of directors has identified the following focus:

• The Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation, in collaboration with Marshalltown leaders and organizations, will focus its resources to:

Support for areas of need that do not readily fall into this specific focus may also be considered.
Types of Support
The Foundation awards two types of grants:

• Outright GrantsChallenge Grants**requiring that matching funds be raised
• Funding

Grant awards differ significantly. Many are in the $10,000 to $20,000 range. Multi-year grants, which are normally awarded for capital projects, range in size from $50,000 to $250,000.

Eligibility

The geographic focus for grantmaking is Marshalltown, Iowa.

Ineligibility

The Foundation does not consider support for:
Ongoing operating needs unless they are an essential part of a specific new or expanded program proposed for funding.Annual campaigns.Requests for less than $1,000.Individuals.Faith-based programming or purposes.Organizations without IRS determined status as 501(c)(3), except for units of government (i.e. schools, city and county governments).Organizations that discriminate directly or indirectly against individuals or groups based on religious beliefs, race, gender, ethnic or national origin, or sexual orientation.Proposals from outside Marshalltown and surrounding Marshall County will not be considered for funding.