The Plainfield Foundation's mission is to provide support for charitable organizations within the City of Plainfield, Borough of North Plainfield, and surrounding areas, focusing on enhancing the community's well-being through direct financial assistance to local non-profits.
The grant program from the Plainfield Foundation focuses on funding projects and programs that fulfill several key criteria: support for year-round programming, direct service provision to individuals that reflect the organization's social mission, addressing community needs with demonstrated demand, generating broad impact particularly for underserved populations, achieving measurable outcomes with documented results and sustainability, demonstrating financial accountability through diversified income, encouraging collaboration with other entities, ensuring the complementarity and non-duplication of efforts among non-profits, and requiring applicant organizations to have at least 3 years of operational experience along with a proven track record of impact.