The Fredericksburg Savings Charitable Foundation Fund Grant

The Fredericksburg Savings Charitable Foundation Fund, established in 1998, supports nonprofit programs and projects in the Rappahannock River Region. With a strong commitment to community development, education, and health, the fund has donated over $691,000 to local nonprofits. It prioritizes proposals that align with its values of stewardship, inspiration, collaboration, vision, and accountability, ensuring impactful philanthropy for the Counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford.

For more than 25 years, our donors have made a significant positive impact by establishing over 200 funds that collectively give over $2,300,000 each year to local nonprofits, churches and schools.
Foundation Values
The Community Foundation’s stated organizational values reflect qualities that are found in the most promising grant proposals. These qualities are not used as the sole deciding factors, but proposals that demonstrate these qualities will be considered most competitive.
Stewardship:Projects that evidence the careful and responsible management of capital and human resources. These projects show sustainability, fiscal prudence and integrity.Inspiration:Projects that creatively inspire collective effort and positive action. Such projects might include plans to disseminate information or challenge others to act.Collaboration:Projects that foster and create productive partnerships and reduce redundancies. Signed letters of commitment among partners are one example of a best practice in collaborative work.Vision:Projects that demonstrate visionary leadership. Such projects show commitment to responsibly accomplishing set goals and to achieving remarkable outcomes.Accountability:Projects that measure and share with community stakeholders the impact that their efforts create in our communities. These proposals have a clear statement about what will constitute success for the project and how progress toward the stated goals will be measured.
Established in 1998, the private Fredericksburg Savings Charitable Foundation donated generously to many community organizations over the years. In 2020, the fund contributed $691,000 to nearly 80 local nonprofits. In January 2021, this private foundation transferred its over $13 million in assets to The Community Foundation as an unrestricted fund.
The Fredericksburg Savings Charitable Foundation Fund shall be used to support not-for-profit programs and projects including community development, housing assistance, scholarships, local education, medical facilities, community groups, cultural organizations and other similar types of organizations and civic-minded projects that contribute to the quality of life in the Counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania and Stafford and the City of Fredericksburg.
Funding
Requests from this fund are determined by your organization’s operational budget:
Budget Size: >$2M Grant Request Limit: $50,000Budget Size: $1M - $2MGrant Request Limit: $25,000Budget Size: $200K - $1MGrant Request Limit: $10,000Budget Size: <$200KGrant Request Limit:

• $5,000

Eligibility

To qualify for a grant from the Fredericksburg Savings Charitable Foundation Fund, applicants must be formally recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization or have a fiscal agent.All grants will be made for organizational support.Grantees, however, may target services to a particular population when the targeted groups require specialized programs to meet specific needs not shared by the general population.

Ineligibility

The Community Foundation will not award grant support to organizations that, in their constitution, bylaws or practices, discriminate against a person or group because of age, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, different ability, sexual orientation or religious belief.