The Catholic Community Foundation Giving Circle Grant Program awards grants to qualifying organizations and nonprofits. Twenty-five qualifying organizations and nonprofits who meet the criteria of the pre-application will receive the opportunity to “pitch” their granting needs directly to the Catholic Community Foundation Giving Circle Members. After all grant pitching is completed Giving Circle donor members will vote and decide which organizations will receive funding and how much funding will be granted.
The pre-application for the 2024 Giving Circle Grants opens on July 1, 2023 and will close on November 30, 2023.
Interested in applying for the grant? Download the Giving Circle Toolkit to learn more about the application process, requirements, deadlines, and more!
2024 Giving Circle Grant Application
The link to the grant application is now open! Click on the button below to start your 2024 application.
Remember to download the 2024 Giving Circle Toolkit for rules, requirements, deadlines, and more.
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Each member of the Circle invests their own philanthropic dollars into the program to collectively magnify the impact of their giving in our community. It is the ONLY Catholic granting giving circle in Arizona!
The Community Forever Fund grant category supports organizations wanting to make capital improvements to their infrastructure or programs that enrich educational opportunities, leadership, promotion of Christian virtue, and academic enhancement. Supports organizations wanting to make capital improvements to their infrastructure or programs that enriched educational opportunities, leadership, promotion of Christian virtue, and academic enhancement. Organizations looking to make improvements to their music ministry also have granting opportunities available through the Community Forever Fund.
MUSIC GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Granting opportunities are also available through the Community Forever Fund for organizations looking to make improvements to their music ministry. The Music subcategory is specific to music related improvements or programs only.
Funding opportunities for ministries and nonprofit organizations dedicated to the protection of human life - from conception to natural death. Funding through the Life Forever Fund is also available to those organizations that help with mental health and those that help overcome addiction so individuals can live the quality of life that God wants them to have.
The Care Forever Fund supports those organizations that focus on the Corporal Works of Mercy. These include solutions to the issues of poverty, feeding, clothing, housing, lack of basic medical care, or provides for outreach and direct care for the poor. The Care Forever Fund also has opportunities to award to organizations serving vulnerable populations and addressing any of the following needs: food insecurity and/or access to healthy foods, preventative health and wellness, health education, access to health resources, and recreation and physical activity.
The Giving Circle seeks to fund project proposals that:
Organizations applying for a grant through the Catholic Community Foundation's Giving Circle must meet all the following eligibility criteria:
The grant process consists of two phases:
For complete details on the application, eligibility, and more, download the Download the 2024 Giving Circle Toolkit to learn more about the application process, requirements, deadlines, and more!
“The symbol of the Catholic Community Foundation bringing out that big check (which we still have sitting in our Parish Hall) is a reminder that this is a bigger project and it is not just the people here and people outside this community who care and want to help and that gives people a lot of hope."