Open Competitive Grants- Community Grant Cycle

Our Process

TTCF utilizes a simplified and streamlined granting process. Nonprofits need only apply once to a consolidated grant cycle offering at least $300,000 in available grant funds. Grant committee members from Open Competitive, Nature Fund, Queen of Hearts Women’s Fund, and Tahoe Donner Giving Fund will then jointly review proposals and direct them to aligned funding sources for further consideration.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are here to serve our entire community and to co-create a place of home.

Areas of Interest.

The Foundation is broad based in its funding interests and applicants must show community benefit in their mission and programs.

• Animal Welfare
• Arts and Culture
• Community Improvement
• Education
• Environment, Conservation, Recreation
• Health and Human Services
• Youth Development

Program/Project

Awarded for hard costs or staffing costs to support, launch, expand, or advance the measurable impact of specific projects or programs.

Nature

Environmental program/project grants are subject to additional eligibility requirements. Please see the specific criteria for these Nature grants below.

Capacity Building

Funding for strategic planning, board development and governance, marketing and communication, fundraising, financial reporting, evaluation and more.

Mission-Driven Grants

Unrestricted, trust-based grant funding awarded to further a nonprofit mission.

See additional guidelines here.

Eligibility

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

• Grants are awarded to organizations located in or directly serving the geographic areas of Truckee, Donner Summit, Olympic Valley, and the west and north shores of Lake Tahoe (generally mirroring TTUSD boundaries), sometimes including Incline Village when appropriate.
  • While we may fund organizations out of this area, we primarily look for services utilized by the residents of our region.

Ineligibility

• TTCF does not make grants from its unrestricted funds for the following:
• Direct religious activities.
• Political activism, lobbying, legislative activities, or legal action.
• Organizations that discriminate based on race, color, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin
• Usually, TTCF does not fund:
• Participation in activities by parental choice
• Field trips
• Capital campaigns
• Activities that have already occurred
• School-based activities, unless they impact students district-wide or impact the broader community
• Indirect costs/administration costs/fiscal sponsorship fees of more than 5-10% of a total grant award to be paid to out-of-region organizations/fiscal sponsors unless otherwise negotiated