Funding Process
For New Applicants:
We appreciate your patience with us as we shift processes and navigate this crisis together. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Howard Gilman Foundation will be accepting Letters of Inquiry from new applicants for 2021 support during Cycle 2 and Cycle 3 regardless of your organization’s fiscal year-end date. The first step is to register an account in the application portal. For a step-by-step guide to completing registration, click here. Please click here for a PDF of the 2021 New Applicant Letter of Inquiry.
If you have questions about whether your organization might fit within the Foundation’s priorities and general eligibility, please contact Conrhonda Baker at cbaker@howardgilmanfoundation.org.
New Applicants are organizations that are one or more of the following:
- have NOT been awarded a Foundation Cycle 1, 2, or 3 grant in the last calendar year,
- have never applied before,
- were declined after submitting an LOI or an application, or
- received one-time discretionary or initiative funding, such as Mosaic, or regranting funds from an HGF-funded regranting partner.
For Current Grantees:
In acknowledgment of the crisis surrounding COVID-19 and to simplify the process for 2021, we have removed the step of submitting an Intent to Apply for all current grantees and will instead just accept applications on a rolling basis. The first step is to register an account in the application portal. For a step-by-step guide to completing registration, click here. Please click here for a PDF of the 2021 Current Grantees Application.
All current grantees have received an email invitation to register accounts in the new grants management system, Fluxx. If you are a designated Cycle 2 or 3 current grantee and have general questions about the process, please contact Conrhonda Baker via email at cbaker@howardgilmanfoundation.org.
We appreciate your patience with us as we shift processes and navigate this crisis together. Please be in touch if there are ways in which we can support you during this challenging time.
When to Apply
The Foundation conducts three funding cycles per calendar year. To begin the application process, you should first determine which cycle is the best fit for both your organization and your proposal, then register an account in the application portal. For a step-by-step guide to completing registration, click here.
Note: 2021 Letters of Inquiry from new applicants are accepted only during Cycle 2 and Cycle 3 regardless of your organization’s fiscal year-end date.
Cycle 1
Current Grantee Applications accepted on a rolling basis beginning
Jan 15 & ending Feb 12
Apply if: your organization
is applying for general operating support and has a fiscal year-end date of 12/31
Award Notification:
Rolling from
Feb – Mar 2021
Cycle 2
New Applicant Letters of Inquiry accepted on a rolling basis beginning
Mar 1 & ending Mar 19
Current Grantee Applications accepted on a rolling basis beginning
Apr 2 & ending May 14
Apply if: your organization
is applying for general operating support and has a fiscal year-end date of 6/30
Award Notification:
Rolling from
Apr – Jun 2021
Cycle 3
New Applicant Letters of Inquiry accepted on a rolling basis beginning Aug 9 & ending Sept 1
Current Grantee Applications accepted on a rolling basis beginning Sept 17 & ending Oct 15
Apply if: your organization
is applying for general operating support and has a fiscal year-end date that falls between 6/30 and 11/30
Award Notification:
Rolling from
Sept – Nov 2021
Project Support Requests
Choose a cycle that would deliver funding prior to the start date of the proposed project. Projects are not funded retroactively.
