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All applications to be submitted online with uploaded documents. A confirmation email will be sent to you after the application is received. Please check your spam folder if you do not receive it within 10 minutes of submitting your application.

Our Grant Committee will inform you via email of your acceptance or denial as a 2025 beneficiary on or before August 1, 2025.

A follow up grant report will be due Monday, June 1, 2026 for organizations who receive this grant. Failure to comply will disqualify you for future grants.

Grant Application

Grant amount you are seeking (awards up to $20,000)*
Your Information
Organization Legal Name*
Applicant Name*
First Last
Applicant Email*
Applicant Phone*
Organization History, and Mission of the Organization:
1. What is the overall purpose of your organization? Please be specific and include how you are serving your participants. Please let us know how your organization addresses Emergency Food Assistance, and if applicable, Homelessness. (750 characters max)*
2. Please tell us about your mission and how it is carried out into the community. Please include your full mission statement. (750 characters max)*
Program Specifics including Participants:
1. Describe the program/project to be funded as it relates to Emergency Food Assistance and or Homelessness. (750 characters max)*
2. How will you specifically use the grant funds that are being requested? (750 characters max)*
Population Served:
1. What percent of the population served by your organization are DuPage residents? (750 characters max)*
2. What percent of the population served by this specific program/project are DuPage residents? (750 characters max)*
3. What specific community or communities will benefit from this program/project? (750 characters max)*
4. How many individuals will be served by this program/project? (750 characters max)*
New Program or Established Program:
1. Is this a new, continuing or one-time program/project?*
2. What are your plans for fully funding and sustaining this program/project, and meeting the needs of Emergency Food Assistance, and or Homelessness? (750 characters max)*
3. Specify other funding sources or steps you have already taken to get additional funding to support it. (750 characters max)*
Collaboration:
1. What other agencies, if any, are you working with on this program/project? Describe collaborations and activities. If none, explain. (750 characters max)*
Board Giving and Participation:
1.What percentage of your board of directors supported the organization with a personal financial gift this past fiscal year? If not 100%, please explain. (750 characters max)*
2.Do any of your board members have personal experiences related to the services you provide or are past clients of your organization? If so, please describe. (750 characters max)*
Volunteerism:
1. Please describe how volunteers (including board and committee members) actively contribute to the overall work of your organization. (750 characters max)*
Stories
Please share two stories of individuals who have benefited from the program you are seeking funding for. (750 characters max)*
Relevant Information:
Please include any relevant information as it relates to your application you feel we should know (750 characters max).*
Along with the application, the following items must be included and submitted by the due date:
- Organization budget
- Program budget (showing how grant funds will be used)
- Organization W-9
- IRS 501c3 determination letter
- Board members – employer/position, if retired, former profession
- Demographics – Impact (Families served, Individuals served, Intake criteria, Length of time client served, Geographic area served (Do you refer clients out of your basic serving area to a pantry closer to their home?)
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Required: Each organization applying for this grant must provide volunteers for our Annual Thanksgiving Day 5k Fun Run:
- Volunteers are needed the Saturday and Sunday prior to Thanksgiving for our registration and packet pick-up site – the Knights of Columbus, Elmhurst, as well as Thanksgiving morning at Elmhurst University.
- Volunteer criteria – 18 years or above. Minors are welcome if with parent/adult.
- If your organization is selected as a beneficiary, your Volunteer Coordinator will work with our staff to fill time slots, generally these time slots are 3 hours in length.
- If your organization is unable to provide volunteers, you will not be eligible to apply for these grant funds.
- If your organizations volunteers do not show up for their scheduled volunteer shift, this may disqualify you from receiving these funds.
How many volunteers will your organization provide? (750 characters max)*

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Grant Application

Grant Application

Your Information

Organization History, and Mission of the Organization:

Program Specifics including Participants:

Population Served:

New Program or Established Program:

Collaboration:

Board Giving and Participation:

Volunteerism:

Stories

Relevant Information:

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