Faqs
We expect to make 20-24 grants from $15,000 - $25,000 each.
In general, PCT only makes one grant per year to an organization. We prefer to make general operating grants in most cases, but you are welcome to use general operating support toward collaborative projects.
Yes (this is one of the rare exceptions to our one-grant-a-year rule).
It depends. In some circumstances, we will consider a proposal from an organization that has a fiscal sponsor. Please attend office hours or email mstewart@princetrusts.org about your specific circumstance to learn more.
We will consider proposals from community-based organizations with a strong environmental justice program or project that corresponds to one of PCT’s strategies.
ALAANA is an acronym for African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American, however, like Grantmakers in the Arts, we do not ask anyone to self-identify with or use any term other than ones they prefer in their proposals to us. We define ALAANA-led as organizations with a predominantly ALAANA board and executive leadership, staff leadership, and constituents.
We looked at many definitions of environmental justice and borrowed directly from Wikipedia and Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice in landing on our definition. We are also grateful to the Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative for informing our perspective. For Prince Charitable Trusts: environmental justice addresses the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms associated with resource extraction, hazardous waste, and land and water use resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations and/or government laws, regulations, and policies.
https://detroitenvironmentaljustice.org/what-is-environmental-justice/ (Viewed April, 20, 2022)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_justice (Viewed April 20, 2022)
https://www.chicagofrontlines.org (Viewed April 20, 2022)
We prefer to make general operating grants in most cases. However, you may highlight whatever aspect of your work you think best align with our strategies and priorities in your proposal. If you receive general operating support, your organization may use it however you wish.
Grants from PCT should be acknowledged as funding from Prince Charitable Trusts. Grant checks will be issued from one of the three trusts that form the Prince Charitable Trusts—the Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust, the Frederick Henry Prince Trust 7/9/47, or the Abbie Norman Prince Trust—but acknowledgement should be to Prince Charitable Trusts.
There are two exceptions: If your grant was awarded through the MacArthur Fund in Chicago, the acknowledgement is “funding from the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince”. If your grant was awarded through the MARPAT Fund in Washington, DC, then the acknowledgement should read: “Funding made available through the MARPAT Fund at Prince.”
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Contact the grants manager for the geographic region in which you are applying and they can send you login and password.
It is best not to set up a new account. Contact the grants manager for the geographic region in which you are applying. They can find out if your organization has applied in the past and if so, give you the information you need to login.
No. Due to limited resources, PCT has decided to focus exclusively on organizations who have SBYD as their primary focus, and part of their mission.
PCT means that the organization serves the same people for an entire program cycle (generally, at least a semester, often the full school year or over several years). PCT recognizes there may be some attrition or that there may be a good reason to add youth during a program cycle, but the organization’s purpose should be to work intensively with a consistent group over time rather than, for instance, run a drop-in program where the group of youth in attendance may vary significantly from day to day or week to week. If your organization meets all other requirements and has a unique reason why the population of youth you serve is not consistent, please contact a program officer to discuss.
If the organization is devoted to SBYD and it meets all the other requirements, please make an appointment to speak with us by phone about its specific situation. PCT may consider a proposal where, if funding is approved, the grant would be used to expand the program to meet the requirements.
The organization as a whole must meet the requirements. If 75% or more of youth the organization serves have family incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level or come from schools where 75% or more of children are eligible for free and reduced price school lunch, then the organization may apply for a grant.
Although PCT recognizes the value of recess supports, its SBYD funding is not intended to support organizations whose sole or primary focus is recess support. However, if the organization meets all the other criteria and devotes only a portion of its programming to recess support, please contact a program officer to discuss before considering an application.
While PCT appreciates all that you do on behalf of youth, it does not have the resources to support multiple chapters of larger organizations. In addition, grants focus on locally based SBYD organizations that exist primarily to serve disadvantaged youth. If your team or local league meets all other criteria for PCT's funding of SBYD organizations and you have additional questions contact our program officer to set up an appointment for a phone conversation.
No. PCT supports organizations that offer continuity over time, not one-time events.
Typically, SBYD grants range from $10,000 – $30,000.
