Youth Philanthropy

The Youth Phil­an­thropy fund­ing pool ranges from $25,000 to $37,500 each year. Appli­cants may request up to $3,000. Pro­pos­als may be par­tial­ly funded.

Youth Phil­an­thropy sup­ports a range of non­prof­it work reflect­ing the diverse needs and inter­ests of our com­mu­ni­ty. Pro­gram/pro­ject-based requests from eli­gi­ble orga­ni­za­tions serv­ing Teton Coun­ty, Wyoming are invit­ed. Gen­er­al oper­at­ing requests are not con­sid­ered for this grants pro­gram. Also not con­sid­ered are requests that have been sub­mit­ted with­in the past 12-months.

For sev­er­al years, the cen­tral com­po­nent of the Youth Phil­an­thropy appli­ca­tion has been a Video Nar­ra­tive. Appli­cants are asked to cre­ate a video of 5‑minutes or less detail­ing their pro­pos­al. It must include the following:

• Name of appli­cant organization
• Title of proposal
• Amount requested
• The com­mu­ni­ty need being addressed – the why of your pro­posed work
• Program/​project details – the who, what, when, where, and how of implementation
• Program/​project partners
• The impact of your pro­posed work on the stake­hold­ers you serve and the broad­er community
• Eval­u­a­tion plans and metrics
• What will hap­pen if fund­ing isn’t granted

Video Nar­ra­tives don’t need cin­e­mat­ic bells and whis­tles to be suc­cess­ful. All types of videos have gar­nered Youth Phil­an­thropy fund­ing in the past. Judges are direct­ed to focus on con­tent, not aesthetics.

In addi­tion to the Video Nar­ra­tive, appli­cants are asked to pro­vide a 60-word writ­ten nar­ra­tive and project budget.

Email programservices@​cfjacksonhole.​org with any ques­tions about a pro­pos­al you are con­sid­er­ing submitting.

• Appli­ca­tion peri­od: Octo­ber 25 – Decem­ber 15, 2023
• Review peri­od: Jan­u­ary 15 – March 20, 2024
• Response peri­od: March 21 – 22, 2024
• Grant checks dis­trib­uted at Youth Phil­an­thropy Awards Par­ty in mid-April 2024 (date/​time/​location TBD)

In fall 2022, the Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion tran­si­tioned its grants pro­grams to a new online appli­ca­tion plat­form designed to make appli­cants’ expe­ri­ence user-friend­ly and stream­lined. Please review Sur­vey­Mon­key Apply Tech Guide (YP) for instruc­tions on nav­i­gat­ing to/​through the Youth Phil­an­thropy appli­ca­tion. If you have applied for a Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion grant since fall 2022, use the Sur­vey­Mon­key Apply account you cre­at­ed for that to access the Youth Phil­an­thropy appli­ca­tion start­ing on Octo­ber 25, 2023.

Ques­tions? Email programservices@​cfjacksonhole.​org

Grant reports are not required for Youth Phil­an­thropy. The Foun­da­tion requests that grant funds be used with­in 12 months, and that grantees share any photos/​videos of their work with programservices@​cfjacksonhole.​org.

Grantees must adhere to the Foundation’s Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Guide­lines For Grant Recip­i­ents.

Ques­tions? Email programservices@​cfjacksonhole.​org

Youth Phil­an­thropy grants are fund­ed by Old Bill’s CoChal­lengers, indi­vid­ual donors, and endowed funds held at the Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion of Jack­son Hole.

Infor­ma­tion from your pro­pos­al may be shared with oth­er poten­tial fun­ders or used in Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion of Jack­son Hole mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als or in grant writ­ing work­shops. The Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion reserves the right to ver­i­fy any infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed in your pro­pos­al. This includes but is not lim­it­ed to ref­er­ences to data sources, col­lab­o­ra­tive part­ners, and finan­cial information.

Ques­tions? Email programservices@​cfjacksonhole.​org

Youth Phil­an­thropy 2023 Press Release: $37,500 grant­ed to 21 local nonprofits

• Ani­mal Adop­tion Cen­ter | Canine Behav­ior Man­ag­er | $500
• Art Asso­ci­a­tion of Jack­son Hole | Avery Math­ieu Schol­ar­ship Fund | $2,500
• Asto­ria Park Con­ser­van­cy | Launch­ing Place-Based Edu­ca­tion at Asto­ria to Inspire Nat­ur­al Com­mu­ni­ty Con­nec­tions | $1,000
• Bound­less | Oppor­tu­ni­ties for Chil­dren | $1,500
• Cam­i­na Con­mi­go | Library Gear | $1,000
• Cen­ter for the Arts | HAC­ER | $1,000
• Climb Wyoming | Dress for Suc­cess | $3,000
• Coombs Out­doors | Back­coun­try Ski Club | $1,800
• Ener­gy Con­ser­va­tion Works | Com­mu­ni­ty Mobi­liz­er Fund | $1,500
• First in Fam­i­ly Jack­son Hole Schol­ar­ships | Books for Local First Gen­er­a­tion Schol­ars | $3,000
• Girls Active­ly Par­tic­i­pat­ing (GAP) | Munger Ele­men­tary Lead­er­ship Pro­gram | $500
• Good Samar­i­tan Mis­sion | Totes of Hope Food Pro­gram | $3,000
• Jack­son Hole Con­ser­va­tion Alliance | Con­ser­va­tion Lead­er­ship Insti­tute Speak­er Equi­ty Fund | $1,500
• Jack­son Hole Pub­lic Art | Art Mak­ing Mate­ri­als for Com­mu­ni­ty Art | $1,000
• Jack­son Hole Writ­ers | Almost Authors Kids Free Writ­ing Work­shops | $1,950
• Off Square The­atre Com­pa­ny | Off Square Play­ers | $1,500
• Pro­tect Our Water Jack­son Hole | Teton Coun­ty E. Coli Mon­i­tor­ing | $3,000
• Teton Coun­ty Search and Res­cue Foun­da­tion | Get­ting You Home Ani­mat­ed Video | $1,000
• Teton Rap­tor Cen­ter| Recov­er­ing from High­ly Path­o­gen­ic Avian Influen­za | $3,000
• Vista 360° Inc. | Schol­ar­ships for Hands-On Work­shops in Cow­boy Craft Tra­di­tions | $2,250
• Voic­es Jack­son Hole | Lat­inx Pro­fes­sion­als Empow­er­ment Series | $2,000