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2024 - 2025 Grant Guidelines
Apply For A Grant
Grant funding must serve residents of the former South Lake County tax district, including the following cities:
- Clermont
- Groveland
- Mascotte
- Minneola
- Montverde
- It also includes unincorporated areas of South Lake County. If your organization is based outside of the South Lake County area, you will need to indicate what percentage of the agency or program benefits residents of the South Lake County tax district and how long you have been serving the South Lake County community.
Minimum of three years of financial and program data. Audited financial statements or 990 must be provided for the previous fiscal year.
Applicants must be able to adhere to funding requirements in a timely manner; this includes but is not limited to capacity and capability to collect and report programmatic data, track funding utilization and report impact of funding.
Eligibility Requirements:
A nonprofit organization with evidence that it:
- Be recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization or be fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) organization
- Has an Employer Identification Number (EIN)
- Have 3 years of financial and program data available
- Have an annual operating budget of $3,000,000 or less
- Serve residents of South Lake County (organization does not need to be in South Lake County)
Area of focus for Friends of South Lake Grant:
To provide water safety and swim lessons to adults and children who reside in South Lake County. Particularly those who otherwise would have limited access.
Areas of focus for Impact Grant:
- Basic Needs
- Education
- Health & Wellness
Women's Giving Alliance (WGA) Grant:
Nonprofits that have a program serving women and children are encouraged to apply.
Programs should demonstrate the following:
- A systemic change to improve how women and children are served in our community.
- Implement creative and innovative solutions to critical needs.
A measurable impact in South Lake County
CFSLC Does Not Fund the Following:
- Endowments
- Private Foundations (File 990-PF)
- Fundraising expenses, sponsorships, or thrift stores
- Infrastructure improvements (including but not limited to land/building that is not owned by the applicant)
- Activities that relate to lobbying or advocacy or litigation related expenses
- Individuals
- Foreign based organizations
- Political or trade associations
- Support for religious organizations for religious purposes
- Medical or scientific research
- Organizations that discriminate or exclude participants the basis of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability or marital status
Grant Information Sessions for the Community Foundation of South Lake and the Women's Giving Alliance Grants will be held at the Community Foundation of South Lake County on April 16, 2025 at 2 PM
2024 - 2025 Grant Timeline
Timeline
• Impact Grant Application is Open: April 24, 2025 to June 9, 2025.
• Friends of South Lake Grant Application is Open: April 15, 2025 to August 15, 2025
Past Competitive
Grant Recepient History
• Stuckey Community Improvement Group, Inc. – $25,000, Housing & Homelessness: Home Preservation and Weatherization Initiative
• New Vision for Independence – $15,000, Health & Wellness: Blind Services of South Lake County
• The Neighborhood Center of South Lake – $25,000, General Operating
• Family Matters of Central Florida – $20,000, Education: One on One Tutoring for South Lake Youth
• Total Grants Awarded – $80,000
• Anointed Community Services International – $20,000 Transportation for children for after school care, field trips, and deliveries of Meals on Wheels.
• Education Foundation of Lake County $20,750 – Construction Academy Program.
• Episcopal Children’s Services – $5,700 Hatch Technology to accelerate learning gains in their Head Start program.
• Give a Day Foundation – $10,000 Youth Empowerment Program with mentorship, volunteerism, and education.
• Habitat for Humanity – $17,700 Preservation and Repair Program.
• Hands of Hope America Inc –$25,000 Emergency food assistance, education, and social services. Case manager and programing support.
• Lake Community Action Agency Inc – $25,000 Temporary Rental Assistance and Comprehensive Solutions Program. noncompliant.
• The Neighborhood Center of South Lake – $15,000 Summer Feeding Program support for case manager $2000 share day.
• New Beginnings – $25,000 Transitional housing for 6-18 months and financial budgeting classes.
• New Vision for Independence – $5,000 Overhead and operational expenses noncompliant.
• South Lake Community Ministries – $25,000 Partial salary of a full-time case manager.
• Thrive Clermont – $25,000 Increasing their Adulting program from 200 to 500 students.
• LovExtension – $5,000, Operational Support
• Building Block Ministries – $25,000, Operational support
• Florida’s Vision Quest – $25,000, Vision screenings and glasses for indigent youth.
• Family Matters of Central Florida, Inc. – $20,000, Tutoring services for youth.
• Early Learning Coalition of Lake County – $19,172, LENA grow educational program.
• Lake Community Action Agency – $25,000, Rent & utility assistance for South Lake residents.
• Word Keepers of Clermont (Well of Hope) – $20,000, Operational Grant
• Real Life Church for The Central Florida Hope Center – $11,688, Operational Grant
• Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter – $20,000, Preservation and Repair Program in South Lake
• Family Matters of Central Florida, Inc. – $15,000, Tutoring for students.
• Educational Foundation of Lake County – $3,200, Support of Take Stock Program
• FAITH Neighborhood Center – $16,280, Food pantry and intervention services.
• Living Message Church (Find, Feed & Restore) – $15,110, Rapid Rehousing and case management.
• United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties – $10,000, Rental Assistance for South Lake residents.
• Family Matters of Central Florida, Inc. – $5,000, Tutoring services for students.
• Educational Foundation of Lake County – $20,000, Programming to increase graduation rates.
• New Beginnings of Central Florida – $15,110, Residential Program