The WCA Foundation, a Signature Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, is pleased to announce its Fall 2022 grant round.
Donor Name: Minneapolis Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 11/03/2022
Grant Size: $10,000 to $30,000
Details:
The WCA Foundation values its relationships with grant applicants and views them as partners in changing the lives of women. This philosophy guides the WCA Foundation’s grantmaking and the relationships it strives to develop.
Funding Information
Grants currently range from $10,000 to $30,000.
Funding Focus
Services provided must meet the fundamental needs of the clients, with priority given to education, economic stability, shelter, safety, and health.
The WCA Foundation supports organizations and projects meeting the following criteria:
- Seven-County Metro
- Organization or project has a physical location in the Twin Cities seven-county metropolitan area (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington) and serves clients primarily from that area.
- Age of Women
- Organization or project provides direct services to women 18 years and older.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are limited to nonprofit organizations and projects that have a 501(c)(3) tax determination in their own name. Grant applicants must maintain direct responsibility for the work for which they are requesting funds.
- The WCA Foundation may make both general operating and project grants for services provided to women.
- General Operations are defined as support of a nonprofit organization’s mission rather than a specific project or program. In this case, the organization’s mission must meet the criteria.
- Project Support is defined as support of a specific project, that lives within an organization providing broader services,
The WCA Foundation does NOT make grants:
- to individuals
- to private foundations
- to fiscal agents or fiscal sponsors
- to political organizations
- for lobbying purposes
- to religious organizations for religious purposes or for projects having religious overtones or for projects wherein religion is a component of the project
- for medical research projects or to national health organizations; projects which benefit a population afflicted with a medical ailment may be considered
- for deficits already incurred
- to cover the cost of litigation
- to organizations requesting funds for either pro-life or pro-choice projects
- to organizations or projects which require their employees to raise some or all of their own salaries through their individual fundraising efforts
For more information, visit Minneapolis Foundation.