Guitar Center Charitable Outreach

Deadline: None

Amount: Not specified

Description: For music educators, community focused

Required:
1) Organization name
2) Address
3) Contact person’s name, position, address, email address and phone number
4) Contribution request (cash amount and/or specific musical instruments or equipment)
5) Date required
6) Federal Tax ID
7) Organization web address
8) Describe your mission statement and your organization, who you serve and a brief
history.
9) Describe the program or project for this request.
10) How does this request support music education?
11) How many students will benefit from this request?
12) What objectives do you hope to accomplish and what outcomes do you expect?

Link: https://www.guitarcenter.com/pages/corporate-giving
 Presser Foundation

Deadline: October 15

Amount: $5,000–$100,000

Description: Special Projects Committee, one-time grant for special project. Grant cannot exceed
50% of project’s budget.

Required:
1) Set up account on Presser Foundation website
2) the strengths and accomplishments of the applicant organization(s);
3) the relationship of the project to the applicant’s capabilities and to the needs of the
community;
4) the long term impact of the project on the applicant and the community; and
5) the value and feasibility of the project.

Link: http://www.presserfoundation.org/?page_id=132
 Alabama Humanities Foundation

Deadline: Feb 15th, but proposal must be submitted one month prior

Amount: Major– up to $7,500

Minor– up to $1,500

Description: Active public participation, involvement of humanities scholars, and strong

humanities content are the three essential ingredients of AHF-funded projects.
*Project events must take place no more than 3 months after deadline

Required:
Preliminary–
1) a Project Narrative (two page max) detailing project goals, humanities content and
scholarship, intended audience, key project personnel, and publicity and
marketing strategy
2) a Budget Narrative detailing proposed grant funds and proposed applicant cost-
share, which may include in-kind
3) Email Word doc/PDF to grants director tbryant@alabamahumanities.org one
month prior to Feb 15th
4) Review application form/guidelines (must create an account to do so)

Formal–
1) Must be made through AHF Online Grant Management System
2) After reading the initial proposal, the grants director will notify if the project
should be submitted for formal application

Link: http://www.alabamahumanities.org/grants/
 J & M Foundation

Deadline: 2018 applications closed, will reopen in 2019

Amount: Not specified

Description: Focused on education, arts, science, and literature. No formal application process,
applicants submit short letter of inquiry. Applicants of interest will be invited to submit a full-
scale proposal.

Requirements:
Letter of Inquiry–
1) Description of organization and its history
2) Mission statement
3) Proposed project with approximate budget and how to accomplish it

Formal Application–
1) Introduction
o Need for project
o Plan for execution of project
o Reasons for expectation of success/how it will be measured
o Duration of project

2) Budget
o Dollar amount requested/total cost of the project in detail
o Funding received to date/list of grantmakers being solicited
o Estimated future costs/funding schedule anticipated over multiyear period
3) Support materials
o 501 (c)(3) documentation
o Names of governing board members with biographical background
o Complete copy of form 990-PF for most recent year available

Link: http://www.jmfound.org/
 Palm Beach Community Trust Fund

Deadline: June 15th

Amount: $5,000– $30,000

Description: To provide support, maintenance and upkeep of institutions and organizations

carrying on charitable, religious, and educational work for promoting education and scientific
research, for care of the sick, aged or helpless, and for improving living conditions and the relief
of individual needs.

Requirements: No official website, apply through Wells Fargo website

Link: https://www.wellsfargo.com/private-foundations/palm-beach-community-trust-fund
 REA Charitable Trust

Deadline: Jan 1st – Feb 15th

Amount: $25,000– $75,000

Description: The Rea Charitable Trust awards grants exclusively for religious, charitable,
scientific, literary, or educational purposes. There are no program or geographic limitations;
however, the Trust gives preference to organizations that promote the arts.

Requirements: Be an organization that supports the arts. Can apply via Wells Fargo Website or
official website.

Link: https://www.wellsfargo.com/private-foundations/rea-charitable-trust
http://reacharitabletrust.org/grantseekers.html
 Robert F. Schumann Foundation

Deadline: Feb 28th

Amount: Not specified

Description: The Robert F. Schumann Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life of
both humans and animals by supporting environmental, educational, arts and cultural
organizations and agencies.

Requirements: No official application on website, apply through Well Fargo website

Link: https://www.wellsfargo.com/private-foundations/schumann-foundation