You may, regardless of whether you were awarded a grant or not. We do, however, limit organizations to one application per calendar year. In other words, if you apply in February you must wait until the following February to be eligible to apply again. If you apply in June you may apply for the subsequent deadline in February, as it falls into a different calendar year. This restriction does not apply to Rapid Response Fund grants. See next question if you have an active multi-year grant.

Organizations with multi-year grants are asked to wait to reapply until the year in which their current grant will be completed. For example, an organization that received a 2-year grant in March 2023, with a term ending in March 2025, may apply for a new grant in 2025. Please refer to the grant end date on your grant agreement. This restriction does not apply to Rapid Response Fund grants.

Please do not. We are unable to review additional materials. You may, however, point us to such materials in your response to one of the narrative questions of the application if you so choose. Depending on a variety of factors including availability of time and need for further information these resources may or may not be reviewed.

You may. One of the partners will need to serve as the fiscal sponsor for the proposal.

Yes. Please complete the Fiscal Sponsor Information sections of the application if you are working with a fiscal sponsor and attach a fiscal sponsorship agreement signed by both parties. We require a copy of the agreement between your group and the fiscal sponsor to help ensure that all parties understand this relationship. Please feel free to use this Sample Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement in your planning (adapted from the Maine Community Foundation's Form). There are legal and organizational implications of a fiscal sponsorship that all parties need to be aware of. Any awards made by the Foundation will be to the fiscal sponsor and the sponsor is responsible for seeing that the work is carried out, funds used appropriately, and reporting is completed. In effect, the sponsor becomes the grantee and is held to all requirements and responsibilities thereof. The book Fiscal Sponsorship – 6 Ways to Do it Right, by Gregory L. Colvin is also recommended.

In most circumstances, you may. Please feel free to contact the Foundation to discuss your options.

The Sewall Foundation has funded 501(C)(4) organizations in the past for specific nonpartisan and charitable work, however it requires additional considerations and expenditure responsibility. We ask that any 501(c)(4) organization contact program staff to explore potential grant support.  Organizations with 501(C)(4) status should not start or submit a grant application before speaking with program staff.

The Foundation does not provide grant funding to private for-profit enterprises, cooperatives, or individuals. Such entities might explore potential partnership through our Impact Investing. Nonprofits with 501 (C)(3) status may apply for funding that includes paying for-profits, cooperatives, or individuals/contractors for services, but the nonprofit organization needs to be the entity that applies for, receives, and reports on funding. It should also be noted that funds received by for-profits, cooperatives, and individuals/contractors through a grant or contract services with a nonprofit may have income tax consequences for the entity or individual.

We recommend each organization establish its own account. These accounts allow an organization to track its history with the Foundation and provide access to reports as well. For consultants and volunteers, we suggest you work with the organization to establish an account for the organization that you can access.

Often it is best to establish the account under an “info@” type email address rather than a staff specific address. This allows for continued monitoring of the email despite staff changes. Each proposal provides the opportunity to identify project and organization contacts which will be used by the Foundation for proposal specific communications.

This can happen when your computer saves passwords or cookies. It automatically redirects you to the account you last accessed. First be sure you have the correct email address and password for the account you wish to access. Depending on your browser and settings you may need to delete your browsing history, close out of your browser, then open it up and try again.

The system can accept files up to 20mb. First check to make sure you are not submitting your IRS Form 990. We prefer audited financial statements and in their absence a balance sheet and profit and loss statement. In the event these documents are too large, you can attach a word document with a brief statement of the problem and email the financials to Laura Dover.