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If our current grant period is open, you can complete the June & Julian Foss Foundation online Eligibility Quiz and know immediately whether you qualify to apply for a grant. To do this, follow the Eligibility Quiz link and complete the one-page form. If you qualify, you will be able to proceed to our online LOI. There is a link on that page that will allow you to print a copy of it so you can research the answers offline.

Please do not send us paper documents related to your Grant Inquiry. In order to increase efficiency and save money on application processing (and therefore have more money to give away in grants) we have dispensed with all paper documents, so LOIs and Grant Applications may only be submitted online.

Grant Cycle Dates and Process

Each year our grant cycle begins on November 1, at which time we start accepting LOIs for the coming year. We stop accepting new LOIs the second Friday in January.
  • We then spend the next 2 months evaluating the new LOIs, and around the middle of March we will send an email request for a full Grant Application to each agency whose LOI passed our initial review.
  • We need those Grant Applications to be completed by the middle of April
  • Between April 15th and June 15th, full Grant Applications are reviewed by Board members to determine whether they fit our criteria. Once Foundation members have indicated their ability to do site visits, all Grant Applicants will be notified either that they will receive a site visit or that they are no longer eligible for this Grant Cycle. A member of the Foundation will contact each eligible organization to arrange for a site visit.
  • We then meet during July or August to decide on final grant awards. We notify all applicants in September of the results.
  • Checks are sent out before the end of October.
If you receive a grant from us you should receive an email request for a grant follow-up report sometime in August of the following year. You will have a link that enables you to complete your report online. Please complete this report in a timely fashion. Completion of this report is required for you to be considered for future grants.
For information about who we are, click Here.
For information about our guidelines for grants, click Here.
For a list of agencies to which we have previously granted, click Here.

Contact:
Administrator
FossFoundation.org

We strongly prefer electronic methods of contact.
LOIs will only be accepted via our online application form.