Community Grant Requests
The Community Grants Committee of the Bellevue Rotary Club has begun accepting grant applications for the 2023/24 fiscal year which ends on June 30, 2024. Please submit your grant requests as outlined below prior to May 1, 2024. A member of the committee will then contact you to learn more about your request and start the evaluation process. The committee will meet monthly throughout the fiscal year to review and evaluate grant requests that have been received. Committee recommendations are then reviewed by the Bellevue Rotary Board of Directors for final approval. This process will continue until the funds allocated for the year have been granted.
Overall criteria for grant requests include the following:
- The project or operations must be community service oriented and beneficial primarily to the residents of the City of Bellevue and the neighboring Eastside cities.
- The project or services may be programmatic in nature (i.e., capital projects not required). However, funding cannot be used for on-going overhead expenses such as rent, utilities, salaries, etc.
- We ask that grant requests specify a funding option that does not exceed $5,000. Requests for larger amounts may be submitted and the committee may consider larger requests should funds be available. (Click here for a representative list of recent grant awards.)
- We will give priority to requests from organizations that have not received funding from the Bellevue Rotary Club for the past two consecutive years.
- We will give priority to projects and services that can be completed or delivered within a year from funding.
Please include the following information with your grant requests:
- Organization information (name of organization, contact person, address, telephone number, email address, and EIN number).
- Brief overview of the organization (what it does, who it serves in the community (including demographics, if available), size of the organization, how long the organization has been in the community, and representative projects or services).
- Details of the specific project or service for which the grant is being requested, including timing and other required resources.
- Total estimated budget of the proposed project or service. (This is so that we understand our portion of the overall initiative and how much it is dependent on other funding sources.)
- Describe how the grant from Bellevue Rotary will benefit the local (Bellevue) community and/or the greater Eastside in general.
- Please clarify when the funds will be needed and any other important timing considerations.
- Please provide the organization’s most recent Form 990.
- If available, please describe your organization’s plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI plan).
- Send the grant request via email to: grants@bellevuerotary.net , or via US mail to:
Bellevue Rotary
Attn: Community Grants
P.O. Box 523
Bellevue, WA 98009
Also, while not part of the grant evaluation criteria, please also describe how members of Bellevue Rotary can volunteer for your organization, either individually or as a larger group. This can either be on an on-going basis or as part of special events or activities that occur periodically.
If you have questions, please contact the Bellevue Rotary Community Grants Committee at grants@bellevuerotary.net.