Organizations that apply to Impact100 Newport County must meet ALL the following eligibility requirements to be considered for funding. See The list below to ensure you qualify.
Please note: Collaborating Organizations must also satisfy our Grant Eligibility Guidelines and provide requested Financial Statements. The organization identified as the primary organization must be the lead fiscal agent through which all Impact100 Newport County grants are conducted.
1) Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation: Cultivate, develop and preserve the artistic, cultural, and historic character of our community.
2) Environment, Recreation and Animal Welfare: Conserve, restore, or improve the natural environment, provide enhanced recreational opportunities, or promote the welfare of animals.
3) Health and Wellness: Improve the physical and/or mental health and wellness of the people in our community.
4) Education: Improve educational opportunities for the children and/or adults, especially those that address lingering educational disparities affecting our community.
5) Family: Strengthen and enhance the lives of children and families, including seniors.
All grant applications must propose a project or program that will make a difference in at least one of these five focus areas.
We will fund grant projects in one or more of these categories: programming, capital expenditures, and technical assistance/training. Examples of projects could include implementing new technologies or utilizing innovative techniques, methods, and/or procedures in the introduction of new services, programs, and/or products.
Transformational and Sustainable
Impact100 Newport County grants are designed to be both transformational and sustainable, ensuring that each investment is not only powerful in the moment but also continues to deliver value far into the future.
A transformational grant has the power to make a significant difference – elevating an organization’s capacity, expanding its reach, or addressing a critical community need in a way that creates a new trajectory. Transformation may come through a bold new program, a dramatic expansion of service, or an innovative solution that shifts how an issue is addressed. It is not about incremental change, it is about creating a clear, “before and after” impact that can be seen and felt across the community.
A sustainable grant ensures that the impact of the funding continues well beyond the life of the grant itself. Sustainability can take many forms: building organizational strength, developing long-term partnerships, creating infrastructure that supports ongoing work, or establishing revenue streams that keep programs thriving. A sustainable project continues to benefit the community year after year.
Projects eligible for the Impact100 Newport County grant must:
- Serve residents of, and expend funds fully in, the Newport County area.
- Be a transformational project for the organization in fulfilling its mission and providing its services.
- Be a capital project, new program, expansion of an existing program, or a new or expanded collaborative effort of multiple nonprofit organizations.
- Have a total project budget for the full Impact100 grant amount.
- Expend funds within 24-36 months of the award date.
- Benefits of the project or program must be available to any person, regardless of religious beliefs or practices.
Impact100 Newport County will not provide grants for:
- General operating expenses or overhead (Items of an operating or overhead nature may be requested if applicable to the new initiative or project to be funded by Impact100 Newport County.)
- Debt reduction or operational deficits.
- Grants to individuals.
- Endowment funding.
- Interim or bridge funding.
- Partisan, legislative, lobbying or political activity.
- Capital improvements or renovations to property for the grant project where the organization does not own or have at least a five-year lease or written agreement.
- Projects of individual churches, religious organizations or bodies of worship that are intended to benefit only their specific denominations or congregations, or are exclusive with respect to others of differing beliefs.
- Faith-based projects/programs which require participation in activities of a particular faith, denomination or religion in order to benefit from the project or program.
- Benefits of the project or program must not be dependent on any person being required to participate in any religious activity, ceremony or service.
As we continue to grow and evolve, Impact100 Newport County reserves the right to change its eligibility criteria without notice at any time.
Grant Application Requirements
- Applicants may only submit one application per grant cycle.
- Applicants may pair with another nonprofit organization to submit a grant application. Determine which organization will be the primary non-profit submitting the grant application and receive the funding if selected by our members. (Both organizations must meet the eligibility requirements.)
- All applicants must submit the information requested in the Impact100 Newport County application template. (An online template is pending.) All parts of the application must be submitted for your application to be considered.
- Follow all directions on the application template to ensure all required information, narratives, and attachments are submitted.
- Application must specify if you are requesting a one or two-year project period, how your project / program creates transformational change, and your narrative, budgets, and supporting materials must align with and justify the project period length you indicate.
- You will clearly state what you will do, how it impacts the community, how you will spend the grant funding, and why funding is requested.
- You have approval from your Agency Head and Board President to pursue this.
- You have not, and will not, seek or receive technical support or advice for your application from an Impact100 Newport County Board or Committee Member, beyond verifying publicly available information.
- You will not contact any Impact100 Newport County Board Member or Impact100 Newport County members regarding your application in an effort to garner support, favor, or otherwise lobby for your application or organization. You will make sure that all staff, board members, and others associated with your organization are aware of this prohibition.
