All applicants must submit a grant proposal to the Foundation outlining their request for funding. Supplemental materials (videos, photographs, etc.) are welcome, but they will not be returned. We encourage a simple, readable format that contains all the requested information at the time of submission.
Grant Proposal Content
Your proposal must address each of the four categories of
information listed below to be considered for review:
I. Your Organization (please limit to one page)
- Full legal name and mailing address of your organization
- Contact person, title, telephone number, fax number and email address
- Executive director name, telephone number, fax number and email address (if not the contact person)
- Brief background on your organization, including mission and objectives, when it was founded, target group(s) and type(s) of program(s) offered
- Number of staff
II. Project Description (please limit to no more than 5 pages)
- Title of the proposed project
- Need for the project and how the need was determined
- How the project addresses our interest in minority academic achievement
- Expected outcomes and proposed means for evaluating the project's results
- Project duration
- Timetables for implementation, including start date and staffing requirements
- Funding amount requested (if more than one year, identify by period)
- Expected expenditures and revenues for the project period
III. Financial Information
- Your organization's actual or projected expenditures and
revenues for the past, current and upcoming fiscal years
- Fiscal year for your organization
- The most recent financial statements
- If available, the independent auditor’s report or opinion
- Plans for sustaining the project's funding upon the expiration
of the grant from the Fordham Street Foundation
- A list of other funding sources applied to for support of the project
IV. Legal Information
- A copy of your IRS determination letter concerning
Section 501(c)(3)
- Organization’s employer identification number (EIN)
- Names and professional affiliations of the applicant organization’s board of directors (chairperson, president, secretary, treasurer)
- If your organization’s most recent IRS form 990 is not available on Guidestar, please contact us to discuss
Submission of Proposal
Please have your grant proposal dated and signed by your
organization’s chief administrator or executive director
and by the board president or chair. Mail your grant proposal
package to:
Grant Administrator
Fordham Street Foundation
c/o Judy Bigelow, K & L Gates
599 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Application Timetable
Fordham Street Foundation awards grants once each year.
| Applications due to FSF | January 15th |
| Initial acknowledgement | Upon receipt |
| Requests for additional information | By February 1st |
| FSF review complete | April 15th |
| Board of Advisors Meeting | April or early May |
| Grantee notification | May 15th |