John T. Vucurevich Foundation Grant

We help our low-income neighbors meet their needs one family at a time through grantmaking and community collaboration, aiming to create a community where working families and thriving children reach their full potential. Our values include being collaborative, strategic, transparent, and engaged.

Type of Support

Overview

The grant program focuses on building family wellbeing by meeting the needs of both children and adults in low-income families. It supports initiatives in affordable housing, early learning, economic mobility, and basic needs such as food access, health, safety, social belonging, culture, and transportation. Ideal applicants should benefit low-income individuals or families, address a clear community need within the grant's priority areas, cultivate trusting community relationships, and have additional funding sources beyond those provided by the grant.

Eligibility

Organization's Location
USA
Program Location
Preferred locations: SD (Custer County, Lawrence County, Meade County, Pennington County), All eligible locations: SD (Bennett County, Butte County, Corson County, Custer County, Dewey County, Fall River County, Gregory County, Haakon County, Harding County, Jackson County, Jones County, Lawrence County, Lyman County, Meade County, Mellette County, Oglala Lakota County, Pennington County, Perkins County, Stanley County, Todd County, Tripp County, Ziebach County)
Organization Type
Public charities with IRS 501(c)(3) status and not a private foundation under Section 509(a)
US governmental agencies
Schools
Other
  • Geographical focus is Western South Dakota, specifically the Black Hills region
  • Organizations are limited to 1 unsolicited grant request per 12 months period
  • For current grantees, the Foundation may consider future requests after required reports have been submitted and approved

Ineligibility

Individuals
School affiliated trips
Museums
Animal-related projects
International requests
Requests from form letters
Endowments
Benefit events
Event sponsorship
Sports activities
Publications
Video and film production
Direct religious activities
Political campaign activities
Camp development and infrastructure
Lead gift for Capital Campaign
Organizations in existence for less than five years
not specified

Submission

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