Grant Request

Important Update About Our Grants
At This Time, the Pelino Charitable Foundation Is Not Accepting Applications As We Are Currently Reviewing Our Strategic Focus. Please Check Back Later to See if Your Organization Aligns With Our New Areas of Interest. Thank You for Your Interest in the Pelino Charitable Foundation. We Wish You and Your Organization All the Best.

Application Process

For new organizations that have not received funding from the Pelino Charitable Foundation in the prior year:

1. Please complete and submit a Letter of Interest (LOI) between December 1 - March 1 to
2. Please use the following file naming convention when submitting your LOI file: name of your organization LOI year. Ex: pelinofoundationLOI2021
3. If your LOI is approved, we will notify you by June 1 that you may submit a full Grant Application.
4. Grant applications must be received by email on August 1. Please email one complete copy to .
5. Please use the following file naming convention when submitting your grant file: name of organization grant year. Ex: pelinofoundationgrant2021
6. Please send one hard copy of only the grant proposal, not your attachments, to:
   
   Pelino Charitable Foundation
   2206 N. Main St., #310
   Wheaton, IL 60187


7. You will receive notification of the status of your application by November 30.

For returning organizations who received funding from the Pelino Charitable Foundation:

1. You do not need to submit a Letter of Interest (LOI).
2. You will need to submit a full Grant Application by email on August 1.
3. Please email one complete copy to using the following naming convention for your grant file name: name of organization grant year. Ex: pelinofoundationgrant2021
4. Please send one hard copy of only the grant proposal, not your attachments, to:
   
   Pelino Charitable Foundation
   2206 N. Main St., #310
   Wheaton, IL 60187


5. You will receive notification of the status of your application by November 30.

Guidelines

• The Foundation will make some multi-year grants. However, an organization may not receive a grant for more than three consecutive years.
• We prefer to fund programs in the range of $5,000-$40,000
• Upon completion of any project or program which has been funded, the Foundation requires that a copy of your organization’s annual report be submitted to the Foundation by email by December 1 of the following year (i.e. if a grant is awarded in November 2020, a report is due December 1, 2021). If you are applying for a grant from the Foundation the following year, in lieu of submitting an annual report, you must provide an update on the current grant, including progress made towards the goals of the grant.

Eligibility

Must be a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt non-profit designated organization by the Internal Revenue Service.
Organizations must be located in or directly serving the greater Chicago area.

We do not fund requests for:

• Political lobbying or legislative activities
• Requests from individuals
• Medical and scientific research
• Films, program advertising, conferences, seminars, benefits and fundraising costs
• Start-up organizations, emergency funds, and deficit financing
• Endowment funds and conduit organizations