Osprey Community Foundation

Osprey Grant

Community Grants

The 2023 Community Grants are now closed. Check back in Winter 2024 for opening dates.

Is your organization planning an exciting project within the next year that would really benefit the community if only you were able to access some funding? Is yours a charitable organization, or can you enlist the support of a charity willing to sponsor your project? If so, we invite you to submit an application for a grant from the Osprey Community Foundation. While much of the funds generated within the Foundation are already targeted by donors for specific charitable purposes, we also have several funds that generate income we can use more generally for community granting.

2023 SUBMISSIONS

For 2023, approximately $45,000 is available for general community granting. In 2022, grant amounts ranged from $700 – $5000.
Deadline for applications is midnight, April 14th, 2023. Grants will be awarded by the end of May. Grant recipients will normally have 12 months to complete their projects.
To apply complete the online form on our website. If you are not able to submit an electronic application please email admin@ospreycommunityfoundation.ca to request a paper application.
Note that you are not permitted to apply for a further grant until any previously-funded projects are completed and Osprey has received the final report. Exceptions may apply.
For further information, please contact:
Tina Choi, Executive Director, 250 352-3643, ed@ospreycommunityfoundation.ca

Key Considerations in Preparing Your Application

• Under federal law, Osprey can provide grants only to registered charities or other qualified donees (see Important Note at the end)
• Projects that qualify for Osprey grants serve residents of the City of Nelson and RDCK Areas E and F. (Applicants from the North Kootenay Lake, Salmo Valley and Slocan Valley areas may wish to contact our affiliates.)
• In the budget section under revenues, include all donors to whom you have applied to for funding or from whom you have already received funding for this project. Osprey may share summary information about your grant application with other local granting bodies.

• Areas of Interest
  Osprey considers all eligible funding requests that address genuine need in the community. However, we particularly welcome applications for projects that include some of the following elements:
• they help build long-term community capacity and resilience,
• they involve partnerships and collaboration with other organizations,
• they take innovative or creative approaches to addressing gaps or needs, and
• they are designed to leverage further funding which will increase community impact and benefit.

Eligible projects may include but are not limited to the following fields of interest:

Arts, Culture and Heritage	Child, Youth and Family
Environment	Health and Education
Recreation and Sports	Seniors
Social and Community Services	Community Amenities

Low Priority Activities:
We do not want organizations to become dependent on Osprey for their operational sustainability. However we will consider grants for strategic projects that will boost an organization’s operational capacity, or for the launch of new organizations providing programs in emerging and high priority service areas of specific interest to the Foundation, if there is evidence these programs can be sustained.

Activities of religious organizations that primarily serve their membership and/or their direct religious purposes, unless the community at large will benefit significantly.

Other low priority activities:

Retroactive funding	Deficit reduction
Exclusively travel focused activities	Fund-raising campaigns
Scholarships	Academic and scientific research

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IMPORTANT NOTE:
Under federal law, the Osprey Community Foundation can only accept applications from qualified donees as defined by Revenue Canada. Qualified donees include:

• registered charities (including registered national arts service organizations);
• registered Canadian amateur athletic associations;
• listed housing corporations resident in Canada constituted exclusively to provide low-cost housing for the aged;
• listed Canadian municipalities;
• listed municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada.

Such organizations will have a Revenue Canada Charitable Registration Number. Applicants must either have their own number or be sponsored by another group/organization with one. Feel free to call the Osprey Community Foundation if you would like more information on how to do that.

ONLINE
Applications are accepted on our online application system. First time visitors will need to register. Click here to preview the 2023 application.

MANUAL APPLICATIONS
While online grant applications are preferred and will ensure that all the information we require is received and processed accurately, Osprey still accepts manual applications. Contact us at admin@ospreycommunityfoundation.ca for an application.