GRANTS – REQUIRED INFORMATION
If your program goals fit into one of our focus themes, you are geographically near a Corning business location and you have been invited to apply for a grant, you may want to get your grant application process started. Typically, an organization can request funding once in a 12-month period. Grant applications are accepted on a rolling basis and do not need to be summited the same month each year. The Foundation encourages invited organizations to apply early in the grant cycle.
Grant Cycle Dates
- Corning, NY area locations: February 15, 2022 – October 15, 2022
- Corning Business Locations: February 15, 2022 – September 15, 2022
- Selected budgeted organizations will be required to turn applications by an internal May 30, 2022 deadline
Be sure and have this information ready, as it’s all required with your application:
- Federal Tax Identification Number provided by the Internal Revenue Service or if a school district the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) number
- Organization’s mission statement
- Name and contact information of senior administrative officer of the organization and primary contact for the project (if different individuals)
- A project description with the following:
- Objectives and specific activities to accomplish these goals
- Criteria for evaluating the program
- An explanation of how the request meets Corning Incorporated Foundation program interests
- Demonstration of how the project or program promotes cooperation among existing organizations in the field
- The long-range plan for generating other funding and attaining increased self-sufficiency
- An itemized project budget showing sources of committed and proposed income and expenses
- Organization’s current budget with two year history of actuals listing sources of income and expenses
- A staff organization chart and a list of board officers and directors
- A synopsis of the previous year’s grant with the outcomes of the funding (if applicable)
- Organization’s latest audited financial statements
