Grant Application Guidelines
When applying for a grant or donation, please include a Foundation Grant Application along with the following:
Lists of contributions received during each of the preceding three years, and the current year, from
other foundations or sources, including from individual, business and government sources; include the names
of the sources with the amounts received from each for memberships of contributions of $100.00 or
more. (Name all sources).
Significance of the grant; that is
(b) How the project or operations will be financed after funds from this Foundation are expended.
An explanation of why the organization cannot assume the budget or costs of the project with its
own resources and fundraising.
If applicable, please furnish as attachments:
(b) A copy of the form or letter from the Internal Revenue Service classifying the applicant as "not a
private foundation" under Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. If this is not available, an
explanation should be submitted as to the status of the applicant. Recent exemption letters include (a) and (b) in
one letter.
(c) A statement signed by you that your organization's tax exemption under IRC Section 501(c)(3) and
your status under Section 509(a) has not been revoked or modified.
(d) If the applicant is a unit of government, evidence of this relationship shall be submitted, and the
legal title of the organization provided. Foundation Policies
Grant requests, when received, will be distributed to the officers of the Abby's Legendary Pizza
Foundation for processing and will not be returned to the applicants.
When a grant request has been acted on by the Board of Directors, such action is final upon the request
as presented. It normally will not be carried over for future consideration at later Board meetings
unless specifically designated for further investigation or deferred by the Board of Directors. The applicant is
not, however, precluded by denial of a request from making other new grant requests in the future unless
the field of a denied request is one which our Board of Directors has limited by a policy determination.
Grant applicants should know that action by the Board of Directors of the Foundation ordinarily will
not come in less than one month from the time the original complete grant request is filed. In many
instances, the time for consideration, staff or consultant investigation, decision by the Grants Committee and by
the Board of Directors of the Foundation may be considerably longer than one month because of the nature
of the grant request, lack of available funds, the amount sought, or the time elapsing until the next
scheduled Board of Directors' meeting. Since grant requests are taken up in order filed, an early filing of your
request as against any deadline, is strongly encouraged.
Dated: April 8, 2002
(a) What the grant is expected to accomplish; and
(a) A copy of its most recent letter of exemption from the Internal Revenue Service demonstrating that it is an organization exempt from Federal Income Tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.