Other Grant Opportunities

We realize that achieving your mission will require multiple resources. To help you navigate some of the other grant opportunities in the community, we offer this community funders resource.

Augusta Bar Foundation

The Augusta Bar Foundation, Inc. was organized and founded for the primary purpose of improving and promoting the administration of justice. Consistent with this purpose, the Board of Directors has adopted a policy of using the Foundation’s resources to provide funding and support for programs and organizations designed to enhance the lives of and improve opportunities for at-risk, disadvantaged, and underserved youth within the Augusta Judicial Circuit. The goal of this effort will be to give these youth alternatives to crime, violence, substance abuse, and illiteracy with a corresponding reduction in the burden on our courts and system of justice.

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Application Opens: June 1

Application Closes: July 14 at 4:00 p.m.

Checks Distributed: December

Grant Cap: $5,000

Request Restrictions: If funded for two years in a row you must take a year off

Counties That May Apply: Burke, Columbia and Richmond

Grant Usage: Requests must address a community need, and emerging community need, and/or provide a new, creative approach to a community need that positively affects at-risk, disadvantaged, and underserved youth.

Priority areas: Education, Mentoring, Health and safety, Self-sufficiency, and Family issues

Grant Guidelines

Questions: Contact Rebecca Wallace


The Border Bash Foundation

Border Bash has become an annual tradition occurring the Friday before the Georgia – South Carolina football game. Supported by numerous local sponsors, the evening event brings together over 10,000 UGA – USC fans of all ages for some pre-game family fun and rivalry to raise money for the children’s charities in the CSRA.

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Application Opens: August 15th

Application Closes: September 30th

Checks Distributed: January

Grant Cap: 5,000. The average grant is around $2,500

Counties That May Apply: Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, and Richmond in Georgia and Aiken Edgefield in South Carolina

Grant Usage: Programs that will benefit children in need. We typically do not fund camps or other programs where low-income children are not the clear majority of participants. Other requests that will not be considered are in line with the Community Foundations Community Grants exclusions.

Application: There is no formal application for Border Bash. Requests should be no more than two or three pages and should tell the story of your program. Your description should include: a brief history of your organization, your mission statement, how it will benefit children in need, when and where the program will be held, and the impact you expect it to have. You may also include pictures and other attachments that you feel help to tell your story. In your application packet, please include the name, phone number, and email address of the contact person regarding your grant request.

Submit applications to:
Rebecca Wallace at rebeccawallace@cfcsra.org, or via mail to:
Community Foundation for the CSRA
Attn: Rebecca Wallace
PO Box 31358
Augusta, Georgia 30903

Questions: Contact Rebecca Wallace


Greater Augusta Arts Council City Arts Grant

The mission of the Greater Augusta Arts Council is to enrich the quality of life for citizens and visitors in Augusta’s River Region by advancing vibrant cultural arts.

Each year, the City of Augusta allocates funding to the Greater Augusta Arts Council to distribute to the non-profit arts community. City leaders recognize the importance of public financial support to sustain a wide variety of artistic disciplines and expressions.

For fiscal year 2024, funds will be re-allocated in increments to support general operating expenses or special projects — up to $7,000 for General Operating expenses, and up to $5,000 for Art Projects.

Funding through the FY24 Annual City Arts Grant Program enables arts organizations to:

  • provide programming and educational opportunities throughout Augusta-Richmond County,
  • promote Metro Augusta as a cultural destination,
  • build the capacity and stability of Augusta’s arts and cultural organizations, and
  • enhance the economic development of the city through the arts.

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Application Opens: May 19

Application Closes: July 26 at 5:00 PM

Checks Distributed: Mid-October

Grant Cap: Project Request – Maximum $5,000 award. General Operating Request – Maximum $7,000 award.

Counties That May Apply: Richmond

Grant Guidelines: Applicants must meet all requirements listed in the guidelines as provided by the Greater Augusta Arts Council.

Questions: Pax Bobrow at grants@augustaarts.com.


JB White Fund

The Community Foundation for the CSRA understands that capacity building is critical when developing and sustaining a strong nonprofit organization. With this in mind, we are working with the J.B. White Fund to allow nonprofits in our six-county service area to apply for small capacity-building grants. Successful applications will help tell the story of how having a J.B. White Fund grant will help them strengthen or expand their mission in the community.

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Application Opens: April 1

Application Closes: May 12 at 4:00 PM

Checks Distributed: Mid-June

Grant Cap: $2,500 – It is anticipated that the average grant awards will be around $2,000

Counties That May Apply: Aiken and Edgefield in South Carolina; Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, and Richmond in Georgia

Grant Usage: These are capacity-building grants and may be used for one or more of the following:

  • Advertising/Marketing
  • Consulting Services Around Organizational Planning
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
  • Staff Development/Training
  • Web or IT Enhancements or Updates

Questions: Contact Rebecca Wallace


Mary Warren Foundation

As in the early days of the Mary Warren Home for widowers and indigent women, the mission of the Mary Warren fund is still to support women, children, and the elderly who are in need of assistance in our community.

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Application Opens: November 15th

Application Closes: January 15th

Checks Distributed: Mid-March

Grant Cap: $7,500 – It is anticipated that the average grant awards will be between $5,000 and $7,500

Counties That May Apply: Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, and Richmond

Grant Usage: Educational programs that benefit women, children, and the elderly. The Marry Warren Fund has had the same grant funding exclusions as the Community Foundation’s Community Grants process.

Questions: Contact Rebecca Wallace


The Porter Fleming Foundation

In 1963 Berry Fleming, a noted Augusta author and artist, who had also served as a Trustee of the Academy of Richmond County, created the Porter Fleming Foundation in honor of his father. The Foundation directs the Trustees of the Academy to contribute annually to the educational, literary, artistic, scientific, historical, musical, and cultural enrichment of the lives of the residents of the Greater Augusta area. Grants are given on an annual basis to 501(c)3 organizations.

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Individuals

The Porter Fleming Foundation will not be awarding grants to individual artists in the 2023 grant cycle.

Organizations

The grant will be made, preferably, to organizations supported by dues or voluntary contributions; tax-supported organizations, while not excluded from consideration, will be expected to outline a more specific program for using the award, and even in the case of non-tax-supported organizations preference will be given to those organizations planning to use the award in a specific way. It is not the intent of the Foundation that the grant should be used for normal operating expenses, but for a distinct purpose not otherwise provided. Other than to carry out the program for which the grant has been made, the organization will not be obligated in any way, except to submit a brief report to the Trustees at the end of the program, and to make an appropriate acknowledgment of the assistance of the Foundation.

Application Opens: November 1

Application Closes: February 1st

Checks Distributed: March or April

Grant Cap: No Cap

Request Restrictions:

  • Organizational operating expenses, to include ongoing programming costs that are not directly tied to the project request
  • Projects that are geared to entry-level education
  • Projects/artistic work that have already taken place
  • Deficit financing and debt retirement
  • Endowments
  • Political organization or campaigns
  • Lobbying legislators or influencing elections
  • Special fundraising events/celebration functions
  • Marketing endeavors unless the marketing is directly connected to the program in your grant application
  • Core operating expenses for public and private elementary and secondary schools and public and private colleges and universities
  • Projects that are typically the funding responsibility of federal, state or local governments
  • Educational scholarships

Counties That May Apply: Aiken, Burke, Columbia, Edgefield, Jefferson, Richmond

Grant Usage: Grants are given to programs that are working in the following priority areas: Educational, Literary, Artistic, Scientific, Historical, Musical, and Cultural Enrichment

Grant Guidelines: Applications may be submitted starting on November 1 of each year but none will be considered that are received after February 1 of each year. Decisions of the Trustees will be based solely on what they believe to be the merits of the projects as outlined to them by the applicants, with considerations of quality and excellence taking precedence over all others.

It is not the intent of the Foundation to provide organizational scholarship assistance for graduate or undergraduate academic courses, but rather to assist an organization in carrying out a specific project or line of work that may benefit the community at large.

Examples could include: A seed grant for a new innovative Arts or research project, a project that brings a subject expert or performer to the community, or a community art project.

Questions: Direct any questions by e-mail to Billy Badger at bbadger@howardlumber.com


Sand Hills Garden Club

Sand Hills Garden Club is a gardening and community organization dedicated to the beautification and betterment of Augusta, Georgia. Sand Hills Garden Club provides grants to organizations in Columbia and Richmond counties in Georgia.

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Application Opens: March 1st

Application Closes: March 31st

Checks Distributed: End of April/Early May

Grant Cap: $2,250. The average grant award will be between $500 and $1,000.

Counties That May Apply: Columbia and Richmond

Grant Usage: Any project considered must be compatible with the interests of Sand Hills Garden Club in at least one of the following ways:

  • Stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening.
  • Restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment.
  • Support existing land and native specimens whenever possible.

Priority Areas: Ecology, Horticulture, Conservation, or Education

Questions: Erin Starnes


The St. Joseph Foundation

The St. Joseph Foundation is comprised of gifts made by individuals, companies, foundations, and charitable organizations. These gifts are used to provide resources to nonprofits who are making a positive impact on the health outcomes of the greater CSRA. Unrestricted gifts from donors are distributed through the annual competitive grants process designed to help nonprofit organizations meet changing needs in the CSRA Region.

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Application Opens: November 1st

Application Closes: December 31st

Checks Distributed: Mid-March

Grant Cap: $15,000

Request Restrictions: Applicants must have an existing relationship with and be in good standing with the Community Foundation

Counties That May Apply: All Counties in the CSRA

Grant Usage: Fund nonprofit organizations that are meeting the changing healthcare needs of individuals living in the CSRA. Our motto is “would the nuns have rolled up their sleeves and done this work.”

Priority Areas: Health Service Education, Medical Uninsured, Hospice and Homeless Around Health Care

Questions: Contact Rebecca Wallace


United Way of the CSRA

Under the Leading Families Forward Initiative, UWCSRA seeks to fund coordinated services specifically to families struggling to overcome barriers to success. Working in collaborative partnerships, agencies seeking funding should support a multi-generational service model that provides education to parents, encourages parental involvement in the education of their children, and invests in children becoming more productive adults in the future. Agencies should demonstrate how they work collectively on issues most strongly affecting under-resourced children and families, target specific issues in a holistic approach, and convene volunteers, community leaders, and key stakeholders in an effort to raise awareness and advocate for more economic mobility opportunities across the region. Our goal is to provide families living in poverty with the resources and services that allow them to move from poverty into self-sufficiency, crossing that poverty threshold for a more successful life.

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Letters of Intent (LOI) for the Community Grant for the Program Year 2024-2025

Our funded partners will align with a set of strategic community outcomes, demonstrating an array of services designed to measure indicators that are specific to this set of common outcomes. And while not all programs will select all of the outcomes, they will be asked to specify which outcomes are being impacted by their services. They will also be encouraged to work collaboratively with other partners in order to provide a more holistic set of services to families.

LOI Deadline: Monday, November 6, 2023, at 5 p.m. EST

Grant Request: No program funding request can be for an amount greater than 45% of the agency’s total budget. This refers to the agency’s overall budget, not the budget specific to the program.

Priority Areas: Agencies must provide services that contribute to the health and welfare of individuals and families residing within at least one of the twelve (12) counties that are a part of United Way of the CSRA’s service area. Those counties include: in Georgia, Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes; and in South Carolina, Aiken and Edgefield.

For additional criteria and guidelines, visit https://www.uwcsra.org/letter-of-intent-process

 

Letters of Intent (LOI) for $5,000 Micro Capacity Grants for the Program Year 2024-2025

Agencies receiving this funding will measure the impact of these funds on the capacity to serve our community.

LOI Deadline: Monday, November 6, 2023, at 5 p.m. EST

Grant Request: The Micro Grants are for a maximum of $5,000. The number of awards will vary based on the Campaign outcomes.

Priority Areas: Agencies must provide services that contribute to the health and welfare of individuals and families residing within at least one of the twelve (12) counties that are a part of United Way of the CSRA’s service area. Those counties include: in Georgia, Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes; and in South Carolina, Aiken and Edgefield.

For additional criteria and guidelines, visit https://www.uwcsra.org/copy-of-letter-of-intent-micro-capacity-grant

 

NOTE: No agency will be awarded both a Community Grant and a Micro Grant

Questions: Contact Angela Collins at acollins@uwcsra.org


The Vinea Foundation

The Vinea Foundation was created by Vinea Capital in 2022 as a way to get more involved and hands-on by helping new non-profit organizations get started, existing non-profits execute projects, and overall help the people within the community who have so generously supported their various businesses over the years.  In addition to providing yearly anchor funding of $150,000, The Vinea Foundation will be awarding $100,000 in new grants each year to various non-profits and charities around the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA.)  Their three key areas of focus are: individuals with special needs, ending generational poverty, and underserved youth.”

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Grant Application Windows: The Vinea Foundation will host two application windows. Organizations may apply once per window. For 2023, the windows are:

January 1 – March 31, Announced April 14

August 1 – October 31, Announced November 14

Grant Request: It is anticipated that the average grant awards will range from $1,000 – $10,000.

Request Restrictions: If funded in one window, a nonprofit must take the next window off.

Grant Usage: Applicants may apply for general operating or program-specific costs

Counties That May Apply: All Counties in the CSRA

Priority Areas: Nonprofits who work with underserved children, adults with developmental disabilities, and those with initiatives to end generational poverty

Questions: Contact Olivia Wamack at olivia.wamack@vineacapital.com


Women in Philanthropy

Women in Philanthropy is a charitable organization of over 200 women in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia and South Carolina who are committed to a philanthropic effort focused on the unique needs of women and children within the local communities.

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Application Opens: September 6

Application Closes: October 27 at noon

Checks Distributed: Mid-March

Grant Cap: No cap

Request Restrictions: Grant Seekers are REQUIRED to review guidelines and listen to the audio file in order to be eligible to receive a grant. If your organization was funded in the last granting cycle, you must take a year off.

Counties That May Apply: Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, and Richmond in Georgia and Aiken and Edgefield in South Carolina

Grant Usage: Projects that have the potential for high impact, resulting in significant positive change in the lives of women and children. WIP follows the same funding restrictions as the Community Foundation’s Community Grants Process.

Focus Areas: Arts, Education, Health, and Social-Well Being

Questions: Contact Erin Starnes


Other Funding Opportunities

There are many other opportunities held outside of the Community Foundation. Please click below to learn more.

Augusta Richmond County Housing and Community Development

Contact: Jean Callaway

Convention and Visitors Bureau – Augusta Tourism Grant

Contact: Lindsay Fruchtl

Greater Augusta Arts Council

Contact: Pax Bobrow

Knox Foundation

Contact: Kelley Hopkins

Knox Foundation
3133 Washington Road
Thomson, Ga 30824
(706) 595-1907

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We welcome your questions and comments. Please contact Rebecca Wallace, Vice President of Programs here or 706-724-1314.

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