Community Grants

Illinois Prairie Community Foundation offers grant opportunities to area nonprofit organizations providing community services in a wide variety of areas including education, health and wellness, youth, Jewish education and life, civic engagement, arts and culture, music education, environment, and women and girls.

Starting with the 2027 grant year, IPCF is restructuring its grant cycles. There will be eight categories in two grant cycles - Spring and Fall.

Click the button below to log in to the grants portal to apply for a grant or to access follow-up documents (grant agreements and final reports) for those who have been awarded grants.

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Spring

  • General Grants - Focus on education and health & wellness
  • Sol Shulman Grants - Focus on Jewish education and life
  • Youth Engaged in Philanthropy Grants - Focus on youth (next application period in February 2027)
  • Redbird Impact Philanthropy Leaders (RIPL) Grant - Focus on civic engagement; a collaboration with Illinois State University's Center for Civic Engagement

Fall

  • Environment & Nature Grants - Focus on environment and nature
  • Women to Women Giving Circle Grants - Focus on women and girls
  • Mirza/Arts & Culture Grants - Focus on arts and culture (next application period in September 2027)
  • David and Kay Williams Music Education Grants - Focus on providing creative music experiences (next application period in September 2027)

IPCF's competitive grants are made possible by gifts from donors to the Community Foundation’s Annual Campaign, the Jerome Mirza Arts and Culture Fund, the Women to Women Giving Circle, the Youth Engaged in Philanthropy Fund, the Environment & Nature Fund, and distributions from the following endowed funds:

  • IPCF Arts & Culture Endowed Fund
  • IPCF Communityworks Fund
  • IPCF Green Fund
  • Ruth Carey Endowed Education Fund
  • Dean and Avis Hilfinger Fund for the Performing Arts
  • Ives Family Foundation Youth Endowment Fund
  • Sol Shulman Jewish Education and Life Fund
  • Laura Sullivan Arts and Culture Endowed Fund
  • Laura Sullivan Health and Wellness Endowed Fund
  • David and Kay Williams Music Education Endowment

Illinois Prairie Community Foundation grants are open to all organizations within the IPCF geographic  area (McLean, Livingston, Logan and  DeWitt counties, and closely adjacent areas in Tazewell, Woodford, LaSalle, Ford and Piatt counties) that meet the general criteria.

View criteria common to all grant types.