Guidelines
Foundation Mission
Our mission is to provide time, talent, and treasure to children in need within the communities CFO Selections serves.
To that end, we make grants in broad program areas of education, health and human services, community building, and intervention. While we fund programs in many different areas, it is our desire to focus our grants to facilitate direct impact on children, rather than long-term planning or overhead/organizational support.
Foundation Priorities
The Foundation is most likely to recommend grants for programs or projects which:
- Assist children whose needs are not being met adequately by existing community resources
- Directly impact the lives of individual children
- Address new and emerging needs or approach existing needs more effectively
- Focus on the root of a problem
- Leverage additional private and public resources, both financial and volunteer
- Have a minimum of five years of continuous operations, and permanent paid staff
- Have tools in place to measure success
- Have multi-year plans and needs
The Foundation is is most likely to recommend grants to organizations with an annual budget under $1 million.
Grants to educational institutions and neighborhood organizations will be made only for those projects which further the Mission of the Foundation, address emerging community needs and focus on preventing, rather than curing problems
What We Don't Fund
- Organizations located outside Washington or Arizona, unless they are directly performing services for children residing in those states
- Endowments
- Individuals
- Fundraising events such as walk-a-thons, tournaments, auctions, and general fundraising solicitations
- Production of books, films, or videos
- Conferences or seminars
- Operating expenses for public or private elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities
- Organizations that discriminate on the basis of age, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or religious belief
- Religious purposes. Organizations with religious affiliations will be considered for grants only if their activities address the needs of children directly and without regard to religious beliefs; programs may not contain content or activities where the primary aim is to proselytize participants, or the activities are experienced as such, even when participation in such programming or activities is voluntary.
