Grant Application Procedure
The Trustees meet several times a year, and the Contributionship accepts and processes applications for grants throughout the year.
We are moving to a new Grantee and Applicant Experience starting on 6/30/2025! The new portal will make the application process much easier. You will now have a single account to manage all funders using Blackbaud Grantmaking in one consolidated portal. If you already use a Blackbaud product, such as Raiser Edge, you won’t need to create a secondary login. You will be required to securely sign in with a new Blackbaud ID, or use an existing Blackbaud ID if you use other Blackbaud products.
Please bookmark https://bbgm-apply.yourcausegrants.com/apply/applications to access and return to your applications and requirement forms and add noreply@yourcause.com to your safe senders list. We are encouraging grantees to add all additional applicants that should have access to the application and subsequent forms to enable sharing. Be advised that your application history will be starting over in the new portal. You may want to download any previous applications and reports prior to August 25th, 2025.
Questions? Reach out to Sandra McLean.
All applications and progress reports must be submitted online. Please follow the link below to start the process:
To access an application you have already started. Please follow the link below to resume the process:
Applications will be carefully reviewed by the Trustees. If, in their judgment, the project falls within the framework of current priorities, more detailed information may be requested as well as a meeting or an on-site visit.
The Contributionship does not fund the costs or expenses of existing staff allocated to a project it is asked to support.
The Trustees do not consider unsolicited operating proposals or operating seed money requests.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, age, sexual orientation, or national origin. Applicants most hold similar standards. Grant applications from an organization known to have discriminatory policies will not be considered. Grant applications should include demographic information regarding their clients with their proposals.
In addition, we ask that those organization who have received a grant, rest for a calendar year (a year without a grant payment), before submitting a new proposal. This means for example if you got a grant payment in June 2024 your organization would rest for 2025, and then they could come back with another capital request for our June 2026 meeting. Those organizations who have had a proposal declined need to wait a calendar year before submitting another proposal. For example if you were declined March 2024, your organization would wait, and then come back with another capital request in March 2025.
PROPOSAL DEADLINES:
For timely consideration, applications must be received no later than eight weeks before the next meeting of the Board of Trustees:
January 13, 2025 [for the March 10, 2025 meeting]
April 7, 2025 [ for the June 2, 2025 meeting]
July 14, 2025 [ for the September 8, 2025 meeting
October 13, 2025 [for the December 1, 2025 meeting}
GRANTEE REPORTING:
The recipient of a grant is expected to make periodic status reports as well as a detailed accounting of all disbursements at the conclusion of the project. Please follow the link below to submit your progress report online: