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The Veteran Benefits Guide Foundation will provide grants, once annually, to qualified and selected organizations. The application process and related dates guiding the process are as follows:
Organizations that align with the VBG Foundation’s focus areas are invited to learn more about the Foundation’s process for accepting grant applications.
Details on funding criteria and application requirements are available in the FAQs below.
The VBG Foundation only accepts applications from non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations that are running their own programs and do not accept fiscal sponsor requests for support.
All grants are currently one year in duration.
The grantee will be required to spend the grant funds as specified in the grant award letter and corresponding application, which includes a proposed budget of expenditures. A progress report will be required of each grantee specifying how the proposed grant funds were spent and an explanation of any variances.
No. Please focus your application on support for one focus area.
If this is your first time applying, we recommend submitting a request for no more than $xxx.
Interested applicants may contact us at VBGFoundation@VBGF.com
Your organization is eligible to apply for and receive one grant per year.
Please contact our foundation administrator at Foundation Source (1-800-839-1754), who will send you a new link to make any edits you may need.
No, you may save the application as you go along and click on the link sent to you to access the draft of the application.
Yes, you may get a PDF copy emailed to you by entering your email address and checking the box when you hit the “submit your application” button.
Please be concise in your responses. The application does not provide an opportunity for added information either in the data fields or uploaded materials.
Eligible applicant organizations must align with all the following criteria:
• Address at least one of the Foundation’s funding focus areas.
• Recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under section 501(c)(3) (including foundations that serve as fundraising arms of institutions of higher education).
• Indirect administrative overhead costs must not exceed 25% of the grant, and at least 75% of the grant funds must be used directly to further the goal or the project.
• Funding must not exceed 33% of the organizational budget.
Preference is given to programs or projects that:
• TBD
• Organizations outside of the U.S.
• 501(c)(4) organizations
• Annual appeals
• Candidates for political office
• Capital requests or campaigns
• Endowments
• Fundraising activities/events (golf tournaments, road races, etc.)
• Individuals
• Operating deficits
• Payment on bank loans
• Political Action Committees (PACs) or other partisan political organizations
• Political, labor, civic or fraternal organizations
(fire departments, police departments, etc.)
• Private foundations or trusts
• Private schools and prep K–12 schools
• Public school districts and their individual schools
• Religious activities and organizations, unless supporting non-sectarian, broad-based community issues
• Scholarship programs
• Team sponsorships
• Trips and tours
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