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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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J.B. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

Destination Augusta – Augusta Tourism Grant
Contact: Karen Lee Davis

Greater Augusta Arts Council
Contact: Denise Tucker

Knox Foundation, 3133 Washington Road Thomson, Ga 30824
Contact: Kelley Hopkins
(706) 595-1907

Questions?

We welcome your questions and comments. Please contact Lasima Turmon, Director of Programs, here or 706-724-1314.

Application Opens: June 1

Application Closes: July 11 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

Questions: Contact Erin Starnes

GRANT GUIDELINES

Application Opens: April 1

Application Closes: April 30

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 Lasima Turmon

GRANT GUIDELINES

Application Opens: November 15th

Application Closes: December 31st

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 Erin Cooper

Application Opens: November 1

Application Closes: February 1st

Checks Distributed: April

Grant Cap: No Cap

Restrictions:

  • Organizational operating expenses, to include ongoing programming costs that are not directly tied to the project
  • Projects that are geared to secondary or higher education
  • Projects/artistic work already in process
  • Deficit financing and debt retirement
  • Endowments
  • Political organizations 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: View Guidelines

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

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

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 Erin Starnes

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

January 1 – March 31, Announced in the spring

August 1 – October 31, Announced in the fall

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

Application Opens: August 25

Application Closes: October 3

Checks Distributed: Mid-March

Grant Cap: No cap

Request Restrictions: Grant Seekers may find this optional audio recording helpful: Women in Philanthropy Grant Information. 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

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