Your organization must be classified as tax-exempt under the IRS Code Section 501(c)(3). We will also consider applications from government entities, including schools.

Organizations are limited to 1 unsolicited grant request per 12 months period.

Your grant idea must fall within our priority areas: affordable housing, economic mobility, early learning, or access to basic needs (such as food, physical and behavioral health, safety, social belonging and culture, and transportation).

Your grant idea should serve the Rapid City Area. We believe that our efforts to support low-income families are most effective when they operate in a limited number of geographic locations in full partnership with communities. We concentrate the majority of our funding in the Rapid City Area but do fund some work in neighboring communities where we have a longstanding history of grantmaking and strong partnerships.

We do NOT fund individuals, school affiliated trips, museums, animal-related projects, political campaign activities, direct religious activities, international requests, benefit events, event sponsorships, sports activities, publications, video, and film production, camp development and infrastructure and requests from form letters.

We do NOT normally fund endowments or organizations that are less than 5 years old.