2025 Grant Funding Guidelines
The Judith Ann Mogan Foundation (JAMF) awards grants to qualified organizations in Oregon with programs and projects that benefit communities in the following Service Areas:
- Coastal Douglas County
- Coos County
- Curry County
Below are the organizational requirements and priority areas that guide our funding. These do not represent a complete picture of our requirements and processes. If you need more information, please do not hesitate to contact our office at 541-267-4113 or submit an inquiry to office@jamoganfoundation.org.
For the 2025 Grant Cycle, JAMF is offering two (2) grant programs: a Small Grant Program (Request of $25,000 or less) and a Large Grant Program (Request of more than $25,000). Both grant programs have many questions in common and similar requirements. For the Large Grant Program, the applicant will go through a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) stage (the LOI is a form the applicant needs to fill out on the online portal) with its own evaluation process, before possibly being invited to proceed to the Grant Application stage. Large grant awards are usually disbursed in October or November of the grant cycle year. The Small Grant Program omits the LOI stage and awards are usually disbursed in July or August of the grant cycle year. A guide to our 2025 Grant Cycle Timeline is found HERE.
To access the online request forms: After logging on to the online portal, applicants will click APPLY and you will see available grant opportunities. If you wish to view the form without starting a grant request, click PREVIEW. Click APPLY for a grant opportunity once you are ready to start a request.
We accept not more than two (2) grant applications from an organization. An organization may submit to either or both grant programs, but awards are not guaranteed and if awarded, may be less than requested.
Previous years’ grant recipients with ongoing JAMF awarded projects, may go through the 2025 application process. However, to be considered in the 2025 selection, you must submit progress reports by August 20, 2025 on the status of project(s) previously funded.
- Oregon-based
- 501(c)(3) charitable organizations
- Publicly supported organizations
- Governmental units (City, County, Tribal)
- Schools
- Hospitals
- Organizations with qualified fiscal sponsor
- Arts & Culture
- Children & Youth
- Community Health
- Convening & Gathering Places
- Economic Development
- Environment & Natural Resources
- Poverty Alleviation
For more information about our priority areas, please visit this LINK.
We do not support requests related to:
- Endowments
- Individual Requests
- Scholarships
- Political Campaigns
- Legislative Activities
- Promotion of any Religious Doctrine
- Financing / Lending
* Applications are accepted via our online application portal found HERE. We do not accept paper or emailed applications.
* Grants are generally for a one-year period. Occasionally, and at the Board’s discretion, multi-year grants may be considered.
* The evaluation process – what we usually look for:
- Organizations that have a clear vision and mission, have a history of effective service to the community, have strong leadership, an engaged board of directors, and proof of sound financial management. Organizations less than three years old or pilot projects will be required to submit documents to prove sound planning and sustainability.
- Projects that serve and benefit communities in our identified service and priority areas, have a clear plan for implementation, and have the staff/volunteers and/or partnerships to ensure success. Projects must have S.M.A.R.T. outputs: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-bound.
- Additional information may be requested at any time in the grant process.
* Site Visits: If we need more information, we will contact you to schedule a site visit or a ZOOM call.
* Awards: The Judith Ann Mogan Foundation Board of Directors has the sole authority to approve large grant requests. Note that the Foundation rarely funds the whole amount requested. We encourage applicants to source funding from other organizations and we expect to see that the organization itself contributes to funding a project (donations collected, fundraising efforts, budgeted resources, etc.)
* All grantees are required to provide updates, a final report, and share project impact and/or challenges and learnings. We encourage all interested parties to download, print, and add the 2025 Grant Cycle timeline (found HERE) to your calendar. Missed deadlines will disqualify an application.
To assist with your grant request and facilitate effective review, we are providing you a checklist of information to include in the financial section of the application. We encourage you to review the list and make sure that you have included all the necessary data as it applies to your project.
Project Budget
Project budget should include the following information, as applicable to your situation:
A. Income Sources
- Committed Outside Funding Sources and Amounts
- e.g. Grants, Cost-Share Funding, Pass Throughs, Business and/or Individual Donations
- Committed Organizational Funding and Amount
- Other Pending Funding Sources and Amounts (do not include JAMF request in this section)
- e.g. Grants, Cost-Share Funding, Pass Through, Business and/or Individual Donations
- Amount Requested from JAMF
- In-Kind Donations (Description and Value)
B. Project Expenses
- Direct Project Expenses
- e.g. Personnel
- Equipment
- Supplies and Other Operating Expenses
- Indirect Expense
- Allocated Admin Fee
In addition, we are offering you sample budget templates that will help organize the information checklist we are requesting. These free templates are available for your use if you find one that is applicable for the type of project you are applying for. Depending on your project, we encourage you to review the different templates at the bottom of the page to determine which best suit your project. For example, if you are requesting funding for a $5000 project to pay for rent, you might want to consider using the Consolidated One Column Budget Template. However, if your project will be implemented in Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties, a more appropriate template will be Budget by County. Also available templates are Multi-Year Budget Template and Budget by Grant Sources.
The sample templates are not substitutes for financial reports that your organization already generates but we recommend that you include the specific information we are requesting above.
Annual Budget
You may consider using any of the project budget templates or use your organization’s budget. If you are submitting your internally prepared budget, verify that it has similar elements to the project budget checklist.
Note that if your organization is on a calendar year, please upload your 2025 Annual Budget. For those on fiscal year cycle, please upload 2025-2026 Annual Budget.
If your organization has multiple departments with separate budgets, only upload the annual budget of the department that will implement the project.
Multi Year Grant or New Organization or Pilot Project Request
To present a more complete picture of your project’s sustainability plan, we request that you submit a 3-year budget forecast or a budget for each year the project will be implemented. You may use the multi-year budget template as a starting point, if your organization does not already have one completed, to ensure completeness of information we are requiring. Please identify other revenue sources you plan to rely on going forward.
Specific to new organizations and pilot projects, we are also requiring Business plan or Pilot Project plan as well as detailed description of short-term and long-term plan of activities.
Sample Templates
Your application requires submitting both budget information and financial statement information. These templates and instructions specifically address budget information. Please follow the application instructions carefully to ensure the correct financial statements for the correct period of time are also attached.
Grantseekers are invited to review the following resources related to creating S.M.A.R.T. goals:
- https://learning.candid.org/training/introduction-to-measuring-your-impact/Presented by Candid.org, this 54-minute video’s objective is to help you to draft SMART objectives. For more learning resources, please visit the Candid Learning page at Candid Learning | Trainings in nonprofit fundraising, proposal writing, grants
- FREE Printable SMART Goals Template PDF or Word (101planners.com) 101Planners has free SMART goals templates and worksheets that can help you refine achievable goals.
- The SMART approach to writing your grant proposal | Grant funding (youtube.com) Here is a very brief 2+minute video. Enjoy!
