Grant Details

The mission of the Community Foundation of North Florida is to enhance the quality of life in the North Florida community through the promotion and support of charitable giving. 

The Community Foundation of North Florida is a non-profit, tax-exempt public charity that promotes and facilitates long-term charitable giving. The Foundation:

• Helps people with their charitable giving.
• Helps local non-profit organizations both as a source of grants and as a vehicle for building endowments for their future.
• Serves as a resource for professional advisors to assist their clients with charitable giving.

As the fastest growing form of philanthropy, community foundations now number over 700 throughout in the U.S. Community foundations provide a simple, powerful and highly personal approach to giving.

Three special features of the Community Foundation

• One: Personalized Service

• The Foundation makes giving easy, flexible and effective, accepting a wide variety of gifts and providing donors the greatest flexibility.

• Two: Local expertise

• Created by the community to benefit the community. The Foundation is governed by a volunteer board of leading local citizens, whose expertise and knowledge of the community support and direct the Foundation's activities. The Foundation also collects and shares information about local nonprofit organizations and their needs.

• Three: Community Leadership

• The Foundation provides leadership and education about charitable giving and endowment building.

The Community Foundation is here to:

• Help People

• Individuals, families and businesses can establish a charitable fund at the Foundation and in essence create something similar to a private foundation. The charitable fund may be created with amounts both large and small. The fund carries the family or business name and functions much like a private foundation but without the expense, administrative burdens and restrictions of a private foundation. The Foundation manages the fund including all investment, reporting, accounting and administrative complexities. That leaves the fun and rewarding part to the family or business: helping their favorite charities for generations. To learn more, click here.

• Help Local Charities
  • The Foundation is a source of grants and a vehicle for endowment building for local non-profit organizations. Establishing an endowment fund at the Community Foundation provides the non-profit organization with investment expertise, economies of scale, relief from administrative burdens, and greater recognition among a wide range of donors. To learn more about endowment funds for nonprofit organizations, click here. To learn more about applying for a grant, click here.

• Help Professional Advisors
  • The Community Foundation is a single, simple, and highly personalized vehicle for donors to support all the causes they care about most. We are here to help professional advisors assist their clients in accomplishing their charitable goals. To learn more, click here.