Application Requirements

Pre-Application Submission

We strongly recommend that as a first step to applying for a grant you provide us with the basic information requested on our cover form, preferably before December 1st.  The purpose is two-fold. If we deem the project ineligible, we will let you know as quickly as possible and save you trouble of a full application. The second benefit is that it gives us an early glimpse of what the Foundation can expect in new requests and helps our planning.  The form at the end of this page can be downloaded and e-mailed back to the Foundation Administrator, but as long, as you provide the information, the form itself is not required. This information allows us to check out your organization on the CRA Charities Website which we do.

That an organization has been declared eligible to apply is no guarantee that a grant will be made.  Not submitting pre-application information does not stop you from making a full application at any point up until the granting period is declared closed. A full application would include the information required on the pre-application, although the information need not be repeated if submitted in a pre-application.

Materials and Information Suggested for a Full Application

There is no set full application form. If your eligibility is a CRA charitable business number, we have access to your organizations records there, but information can be almost two years old and we will need to know current status. If your eligibility is a municipality or otherwise issued receipt, you will need to provide more complete basic information.  The following are areas that should be covered in your application:

  • a brief description of the organization’s history and objectives, although this can be minimized for organizations known to us;
  • a brief accounting of any previous grants received from us;
  • the purpose of the grant and the aims of the project;
  • a financial budget for the project showing expected sources of funds, including that requested from GFI, and also the major items of expense;
  • a copy of the organization’s most recent financial statements audited where possible.
  • the membership of the current Board of Directors and a list of officers.

Most convenient for us are electronic submissions with files attached to your e-mail and sent to Elizabeth Abbott, the Foundation Administrator, at the following address: good_foundation@rogers.com  (note that the space between good and foundation is an underscore.)

In fact, technically we accept only electronic submissions and only rarely respond through regular mail. We appreciate pdf files wherever possible since that is how our members share material, but we can convert other files to that format if necessary:

GRANT PROPOSAL COVER PAGE

Application Form Available Only to Solicited Organizations.