The Wyomissing Foundation's grant making considers support for well managed non-profit organizations who address significant critical community issues.
- Organizations must be non-profit and classified 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt by the Internal Revenue Service
- As a general rule the Foundation does not fund operating support on a sustained basis.
- The Wyomissing Foundation is pro-active in its grant making and looks to provide financial and leadership support to those critical community issues where the Foundation can make a difference
- Grant requests must fall within our general fields of interest, i.e. Arts and Culture, Conservation, Education and Human Services.
- The requesting organization must provide evidence of the criticality of the issue and measurable indicators of how the grant will address the community issue.
- Most grants are given for one-year, multi-year grants are given on an occasional basis
- Normally, only one grant is made to an organization in a 12-month period
- The Wyomissing Foundation should not be the only funding source for an organization or project
Proposals that are not generally considered include:
- Requests for endowments
- Operating funds on a sustaining basis
- We do not fund individuals, social, fraternal organizations or profit making enterprises
- Purchase of tickets, tables, advertisements or sponsorships
- Parties, conferences, fairs or festivals
- Animal rights programs
- Religious activities, lobbying efforts, political action committees or any politically sensitive causes
We encourage all grant seekers to take time to review our funding priorities as discussed here before submitting a request. For additional guidelines please refer to our Grant Format. All grants are screened to determine if they relate to the Foundations funding priorities. During the grant review process we may contact the organization to clarify the request.
We remind grant seekers that the Wyomissing Foundation is able to fund only a small percentage of the requests we receive. We, therefore, encourage grant seekers to carefully review our guidelines before applying for funding. We are unable fund many proposals because they do not fall as high within our priorities as other requests that are submitted to us.
Organizations seeking grants from the Wyomissing Foundation are encouraged to contact the Foundation Executive Director at (610)376-7494 prior to submitting the request.
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