The Porter Fleming Foundation Grant

The Porter Fleming Foundation, established in 1963, aims to enrich the Greater Augusta community through educational, artistic, and cultural initiatives. With no maximum requesting amount, the foundation supports local 501(c)(3) organizations that advance learning and cultural life in the region. While grants are available for innovative projects, they are not intended for usual operating expenses or expenses covered by governmental funding. The foundation encourages community engagement and philanthropy to enhance quality of life.

In 1963 Berry Fleming, a noted Augusta author and artist, who had also served as a Trustee of the Academy of Richmond County, created the Porter Fleming Foundation in honor of his father. Grants are given on an annual basis to 501(c)3 organizations.

Eligibility

Grants are given to programs that are working in the following priority areas: Educational, Literary, Artistic, Scientific, Historical, Musical, Cultural Enrichment.
Organizations:Qualified organizations include local organizations whose purpose is the advancement of learning or the enhancement of the cultural life of the Augusta area (Richmond, Burke, Jefferson, Columbia, Aiken and Edgefield counties) within any of fields mentioned above. Grants will not be given for any expense covered by an organization’s usual operating expenses, but solely for the purpose of advancing projects that would not normally be undertaken out of its ordinary funds.

Ineligibility

Request Restrictions:Organizational operating expenses, to include ongoing programming costs that are not directly tied to the project
Special fundraising events/celebration functions
Marketing endeavors unless the marketing is directly connected to the program in your grant application
Core operating expenses for public and private elementary and secondary schools and public and private colleges and universities
Projects that are typically the funding responsibility of federal, state or local governments
Educational scholarshipsIt is not the intent of the Foundation to provide organizational scholarship assistance for graduate or undergraduate academic courses, but rather to assist an organization in carrying out a specific project or line of work that may benefit the community at large.
Examples could include: A seed grant for a new innovative arts or research project, a project that brings a subject expert or performer to the community, or a community art project.