Does your foundation award many grants at low dollar amounts or few at larger dollar amounts?
Does your foundation award many grants at low dollar amounts or few at larger dollar amounts? Our foundation tends to award few grants at larger dollar amounts to maximize impact in the community among strong nonprofits.
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Great question Tracy! We do both, and it depends on the fund and grantmaking process. With our competitive field-of-interest funds, we are doing our best to encourage grant panels to consider the impact of larger $ amounts to fewer organizations as opposed to wanting/trying to fund every applicant for less dollars (it is hard to decline so many worthy, impactful orgs!) Now, with our non-competitive grants which largely come from our county-affiliate funds, they tend to do smaller grants in large part because of their fund sizes, though a lot of our affiliate advisory boards are aware of and looking into potentially moving away from more grants/less dollars to fewer grants/more dollars.
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Thanks Ashley! We tend to provide larger grants with our competitive field-of-interest funds as well. We provide smaller grants with our non-competitive funds mainly due to lack of funding, which carries over into fewer overall non-competitive grants.
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