Eligibility Requirements and Exclusions
Please review our eligibility requirements, grant guidelines, funding priorities and exclusions before submitting a Letter of Inquiry, to ensure that your project aligns with our goals, priorities and criteria.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Consideration of grant requests is by invitation only. Therefore, no unsolicited Letters of Inquiry or Proposals will be considered.*
- Only applicants that qualify as 501(c)3 tax-exempt public charities under the Internal Revenue Code will be considered and each must include a copy of its IRS determination letter when submitting a Letter of Inquiry.
- Applicants must be headquartered in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
- In an effort to target the foundation’s support to small, developing organizations, only applicants with annual operating budgets of less than $3 million will be considered.
- Letters of Inquiry and Grant Proposals must be signed by the organization’s Executive Director and Board Chair.
* Please Note: Although we do not expect this requirement to change in the near future, if you would like to be notified, should this restriction be eliminated, please send us an email and let us know how to contact you.
Exclusions:
The Cedarmere Foundation does not fund:
- Direct grants, scholarships or loans for the benefit of individuals
- Religious organizations for sectarian purposes
- Loans, operating deficits, investments or debt retirement
- Team sponsorships or individual athletic endeavors
- Political candidates, organizations or activities
- Organizations that discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, gender, race religion, marital status or sexual orientation
- Foundations that are themselves grant making bodies
- General operating funds or annual fund drives
- Emergency funding