Micro Grants is sponsored by Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. Micro Grants are designed as a timely funding mechanism for requests that address community needs. Preferred requests are project or program-based and have meaningful community benefit.

Operations-related requests may be considered in the case of unanticipated, one-time expenses.

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A com­pre­hen­sive look into Teton Coun­ty, WY orga­ni­za­tions that help our com­mu­ni­ty run Time­ly fund­ing for project-based requests Micro Grants are designed as a time­ly fund­ing mech­a­nism for requests that address com­mu­ni­ty needs. Pre­ferred requests are project or pro­gram-based and have mean­ing­ful com­mu­ni­ty benefit. Local non­prof­its are invit­ed to apply for Micro Grants the first half of each month.

Lim­it one appli­ca­tion per orga­ni­za­tion per cal­en­dar year. Ques­tions? Email grants@​cfjacksonhole.

​org Eligibilty & Requirements Appli­cant must be a 501 (c)( 3 ) non­prof­it, gov­ern­ment enti­ty, or oth­er IRS-rec­og­nized char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion serv­ing Teton Coun­ty, Wyoming OR be fis­cal­ly-spon­sored by an enti­ty that meets these require­ments. (No for-prof­it appli­cants, even with a qual­i­fied fis­cal sponsor.) Grant funds must be used exclu­sive­ly in Teton Coun­ty, Wyoming.

Funds may not be used for debt retire­ment or reli­gious or polit­i­cal activities. Applicant’s work must not be pri­mar­i­ly focused on influ­enc­ing legislation. Grant funds may not be used for a project or train­ing that has already been completed.

Appli­cants may request up to $ 2 , 000 once per cal­en­dar year. Pro­pos­als may be par­tial­ly fund­ed. Fund­ing for Micro Grants is lim­it­ed and may be exhaust­ed before the end of the year.

Micro Grants are designed as a time­ly fund­ing mech­a­nism for requests that address com­mu­ni­ty needs. Pre­ferred requests are project or pro­gram-based and have mean­ing­ful com­mu­ni­ty ben­e­fit. Oper­a­tions-relat­ed requests may be con­sid­ered in the case of unan­tic­i­pat­ed, one-time expenses.

This pro­gram typ­i­cal­ly does not sup­port recur­ring oper­at­ing expens­es, marketing/​communications, trav­el, strate­gic plan­ning, youth schol­ar­ships ( click here for schol­ar­ships fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty), or requests that have been sub­mit­ted to and/​or fund­ed by the Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion with­in the past 12 months. Staff train­ing requests are not con­sid­ered in Micro Grants.

The Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion sup­ports such needs through our Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment Grants pro­gram. Orga­ni­za­tions may also con­sid­er apply­ing a Wyoming Depart­ment of Work­force Ser­vices Busi­ness Train­ing Grant . Email grants@​cfjacksonhole.

​org with any ques­tions about a pro­pos­al you are con­sid­er­ing submitting.

Appli­ca­tion peri­od: 1 st - 15 th of each month Response peri­od: by the 14 th of the fol­low­ing month Grant checks mailed for fund­ed pro­pos­als: by the end of the fol­low­ing month The Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion uses the online appli­ca­tion plat­form Sur­vey­Mon­key Apply, which is designed to make appli­cants’ expe­ri­ence user-friend­ly and stream­lined.

Please review our Sur­vey­Mon­key Apply Tech Guide ( MG ) for instruc­tions on nav­i­gat­ing to/​through the Micro Grants application. Grant reports are not required for Micro Grants. The Foun­da­tion requests that grant funds be used with­in 12 months, and that grantees share any photos/​videos of their work with grants@​cfjacksonhole.

​org . Grantees must adhere to the Foundation’s Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Require­ments For Grant Recip­i­ents . Micro Grants are fund­ed by Old Bill’s CoChal­lengers and indi­vid­ual donors.

Infor­ma­tion from your pro­pos­al may be used in Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion of Jack­son Hole mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als or in grant writ­ing work­shops. The Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion reserves the right to ver­i­fy any infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed in your pro­pos­al. This includes but is not lim­it­ed to ref­er­ences to data sources, col­lab­o­ra­tive part­ners, and finan­cial information.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us. Our staff is always available to assist you. Community Foundation of Jackson Hole |