Sully County Community Foundation Grant

South Dakota Community Foundation
As a statewide community foundation, we work with donors, nonprofits and community leaders to strengthen philanthropy in South Dakota every day.
Grants
The South Dakota Community Foundation offers an array of grants to help state nonprofits realize their dreams and continue investing in their communities.
Even though we are an agent of the South Dakota Community Foundation, we are able to accept and administer charitable gifts, give good grants to our local nonprofit groups and organizations, and also give scholarships to hopeful young people from our region.
The Sully County Community Foundation was formed in 2017 with a community challenge to raise $200,000 in 5 years. With Sully County native Robert “Bob” Pierce, Jr’s generosity, local nonprofits will benefit for years to come. Grants are offered on a bi-annual basis to ensure opportunity to all organizations. Typically, applicants must be non-profit, government, school, or church related and repeat proposals from one organization within a 12- month period are discouraged.
VOLUNTEERISM: Projects that involve significant and continuous volunteer support will be considered more favorably over projects with paid staff.
INNOVATION: Our goal is to fund a mix of ongoing and established projects, as well as innovative projects that address existing community needs.
MINIMUM AWARDS: Grant requests of $500 or more will be considered.
MULTI-CYCLE FUNDING: Some projects seeking funding may be ongoing, while others begin and end in the same calendar year. Projects for multi-year funding are encouraged, but there will be no promise of funds made available in the future.
PUBLIC/PRIVATE: The Board will concentrate on funding public non-profit corporations, but not to the exclusion of organizations that meet grant deadlines.

Eligibility

Any 501c3 nonprofit organization, church, government, or school organization is eligible to applyIf your organization does not have a 501c3 tax status, we suggest you work with a fiscal sponsor to apply or speak with board members to evaluate your eligibility status.If you are planning to begin or continue a community project.

Ineligibility

Grants not available for budget/expenditure uses.