The Grants Committee of the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund will consider requests for needs and opportunities for organizations:

• Located in or providing services to the general Lakewood Ranch geographic area (including, but not limited to, Lakewood Ranch and Eastern Sarasota and Manatee counties).
• Impacting the citizens of the general Lakewood Ranch geographic area in the areas of arts & humanities, community development, education, animals & environment, or health & human services.
• With a current 501(c)(3) exemption as a charitable organization
• With a current profile in The Giving Partner (www.thegivingpartner.org).
• Submit a completed application by the deadline: Wednesday, October 31, 2023.

Note: Please review all the application questions below and required documents that need to be included. For longer answers, you may want to copy and paste text from another document into this form. Please try to limit responses to no more than 300 words.

Documents you will need to attach with your submission may include the following:

BUDGET – a line-item budget sheet for the project for which you are applying. If your program/project will cost more than you are requesting, indicate how you will fund the balance. Show any in-kind support, other grants applied for, and/or funds already received on your program/project budget (required).

If your organization received a grant from the Fund in a prior year, describe how the funds were used including, but not limited to, a detailed breakdown of the uses of the funds, description of the people/communities impacted and documentation demonstrating that the funds impacted the lives of the residents of the Lakewood Ranch geographic area (there is a question included in the application addressing this, but additional documents may need to be attached). If you need any assistance with this online application or have any questions, please contact Adrienne Bookhamer at 941-208-6799 or email at adrienne@lwrcf.org