Quest for the Best- Financial Grant

Quest for the Best® is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in Pennsylvania by providing project-based grants to 501(c)(3) organizations. The grant aims to support initiatives that focus on long-term sustainability, secured co-funding, and specific programs. Priorities include police and nurse training, education for underserved communities, and humanitarian efforts such as clean water access. The funder emphasizes local impact and requires matching contributions for grant requests.

Grantmaking Criteria
We consider requests for funding that meet the overall mission and goals of Quest for the Best.
We focus on the following areas: police and nurse training, education for underserved communities, funding for wildlife and environmental conservation, and humanitarianism, specifically clean water, homelessness, hunger, and support for those suffering through the opioid epidemic.

Eligibility

Quest for the Best provides funds for project-based grants. A “project-based” grant request is an application for funding for a specific project, program or purchase. Examples of previously approved project-based grant requests include a request to purchase furniture for a Shelter’s family room, a request to purchase computers for a museum, funds to support an after-school program’s trip to tour multiple colleges and funds to support a specific program at a zoo. Our grants are subject to a matching requirement. Only newly received gifts of cash or securities, in hand, valued at the time of transfer, and designated for our supported project, qualify as matching contributions. Pledges do not qualify. If we award a matching grant we may pay matching funds in installment amounts specified in our award letter.We primarily provide grants to organizations in the United States that have been determined by the IRS to be 501(c) (3) charities. While not our exclusive focus, we do give priority to nonprofit organizations operating on the local level (or an affiliate/chapter of a larger organization that operates locally) providing direct benefits to the Pennsylvania region.

Ineligibility

We do not provide support to individuals.We also do not fund religious organizations and institutions when the resulting impact of the project is primarily denominational. We do not fund election campaigns or political activities.Generally, we do not offer operating support, meaning we do not provide funds for expense items such as salaries, overhead, training or general administrative expenses.We may limit funding to the same project or organization when multiple funding requests are made less than one year apart.