For every dollar raised by local donors, the Hansen Foundation will provide a 100% match, up to a maximum of $50,000 per county for the community foundation’s endowed countywide unrestricted grant fund.

In addition to matching the donor gifts at 100% for the grant fund, the Hansen Foundation will also award the local community foundation an additional 50% match – up to $20,000 for a permanent operating endowment and up to $5,000 for immediate administrative needs.

That means community foundations that raise the full $50,000 for the grant fund will receive a 150% match.  

All matching grants are prorated for community foundations that do not raise the full amount

Beginning in May 2022,  the Hansen Foundation will increase the additional match – up to $45,000 for a permanent operating endowment and up to $5,000 for immediate administrative needs. That means that community foundations that raise the full $50,000 for the permanent grant fund will receive a 200% match!

The participating community foundation must submit an application to the Dane G. Hansen Foundation outlining the strategy for its matching “event.” Applications are available online through the Foundation’s website.

Each community foundation will select the time frame for the matching program. Any month on the calendar is available. Participating Foundations can host a one-day event, a month-long campaign, or something in between.

Once the application is approved, the Hansen Foundation will award a $1,500 grant to the applying community foundation to help with campaign costs.

Each county will select one month to host its event. Participating Foundations can host a one-day event, a month-long campaign, or something in between.

A grant report will be due at the end of the month following the matching event. The matching grant will be disbursed following receipt of the report.

The cycle for the matching grants each year is from May1 through April 30.

No. ALL funds received through the match campaign, both those contributed by donors and the matching funds from the Hansen Foundation are to be deposited and kept in an endowed, unrestricted, countywide grant fund held in either Greater Salina Community Foundation or Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation for the benefit of your county.

Donations received through the campaign are not to be used for any  purpose other than building an unrestricted, endowment grant fund in your countrywide community foundation. If your community foundation wishes to engage in fundraising for other purposes during the matching campaign month, please be sure to clearly specify that any other fundraising campaigns are not associated with the Dane G. Hansen Foundation Match Campaign. To avoid any possible confusion to donors, it is recommended that any such unrelated fundraising would be done by means of a separate, dedicated campaign conducted for that other cause or purpose.

Each participating community foundation will receive a $1,500 grant to be used to promote the matching program to donors and the community.

Participating community foundations, together with the host foundations, will be responsible for communicating the opportunity to donors, collecting contributions and reporting back to the Dane G. Hansen Foundation.

A final report will be due by the last day of the month following the community foundation’s matching month. Once the report is received, the matching grant will be processed.

The matching initiative will sunset on April 30, 2026

The match opportunity was first introduced in May 2016. The Hansen Foundation will have invested nearly $17 million in the matching initiative at the end of the 10-year program.

Not immediately. The pass-through funding is currently promised to countywide community foundations through September of 2025.  However, the amount of those funds will reduce from $100,000 per county, per year, to $50,000 per county, per year, beginning in April of 2022.

Since 2014, the Hansen Foundation has provided funding through local community foundations to re-grant in each of the 26 counties of Northwest Kansas. By September of 2025, the foundation will have granted nearly $21 million for this re-granting program.

The Matching Grant Initiative was created as an opportunity for the local community foundations to create an independent source of grant funding– in essence– to create a multitude of “mini-Hansen Foundations” across Northwest Kansas. At the end of the 10-year matching initiative, community foundations should have both a grant fund and operational fund to help support its own operations.

Read all of the criteria before applying.

The button below will take you to the grant application page. Select Community Foundation Matching Grant. This is an invitation only application requiring a password to access.

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