Guidelines

  • Residents and organizations of the following counties are eligible: Aiken, Burke, Columbia, Edgefield, Jefferson, Richmond

  • Funding may be granted to programs that target: Educational, Literary, Artistic, Scientific Historical, Musical, and Cultural Enrichment.

  • Applications will be accepted: November 1 to February 1. Decisions of the Trustees will be based solely on what they believe to be the merits of the projects as provided to them by the applicants with considerations of quality and excellence taking precedence over all others.

It 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.

Application Opens: November 1

Application Closes: February 1st

Checks Distributed: April

Grant Cap: No Cap

Not eligible for funding:

  • Organizational operating expenses, to include ongoing programming costs that are not directly tied to the project request

  • Projects that are geared to secondary or higher education

  • Projects/artistic work already in process

  • Deficit financing and debt retirement

  • Endowments

  • Political organizations or campaigns

  • 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 Scholarships