Emergency Preparedness Relief Challenge Grant

The Edwardsville Community Foundation is offering the Emergency Preparedness Relief Challenge Grant Application for Nonprofits through its Relief Fund. The funding opportunity is intended for nonprofit organizations seeking to make improvements connected to emergency and disaster preparedness, disaster response needs, and organizational viability following disasters or emergencies. The source identifies the Edwardsville Community Foundation as the funder and describes the Relief Fund as the funding vehicle for this grant cycle. The application is specifically presented as a challenge grant for nonprofit organizations. Funding may support three identified areas. The first is capital improvements related to emergency and disaster preparedness. The second is environmental improvements related to emergency and disaster preparedness. Within the environmental improvement area, training of personnel may also be supported when that training is directly related to emergency or disaster preparedness. The third area is disaster and emergency support needs for long-term viability. The source does not provide award minimums, award maximums, total available program funding, an expected number of awards, a performance period, or additional spending restrictions beyond the stated purposes. The program has a mandatory matching component because it is structured as a Challenge Grant. All grant recipients are required to raise 10% of the amount of the project cost. The required 10% is to go toward completion of the grant project described in the application. The source does not state a dollar value for the match, identify particular permitted sources of matching funds, or provide additional information about how or when the required 10% must be documented. Eligibility is expressly stated for nonprofit organizations. The supplied information does not further define the nonprofit status required, such as whether an applicant must hold a particular federal tax-exempt classification. It also does not state fiscal sponsorship rules, eligibility for governmental entities, educational institutions, individuals, businesses, or other organization types. No explicit geographic eligibility restriction or nationwide eligibility statement is included in the supplied source. Applicants should therefore rely on the application and any instructions provided by the Edwardsville Community Foundation for eligibility requirements not stated in the supplied material. The application is available from August 15, 2026 through September 30, 2026. An APPLY NOW link directs applicants to a Google Forms application. The source does not identify a separate letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement. Supporting documentation for the application may be emailed to contact@edwardsvillecommunityfoundation.org. The email subject line for supporting documentation should be the applicant organization's name, described in the instructions as "YOUR ORG-NAME." The source does not enumerate the individual application questions or specify a mandatory list of supporting documents. The supplied material does not state formal evaluation criteria, scoring weights, an award notification date, an award start date, or a grant performance period. However, the stated scope establishes that proposed improvements should relate to capital emergency and disaster preparedness, environmental emergency and disaster preparedness, qualifying personnel training directly related to emergency or disaster preparedness, or disaster and emergency support needs for long-term viability. The application closes September 30, 2026, and no language states that the opportunity recurs annually, biennially, quarterly, or on another recurring schedule. Questions may be directed to contact@edwardsvillecommunityfoundation.org or by telephone at 855-464-3223.

Align the proposed project directly with capital improvements for emergency and disaster preparedness, environmental improvements for emergency and disaster preparedness, or disaster and emergency support needs for long-term viability; personnel training should be directly related to emergency or disaster preparedness; plan to raise the required 10% of project cost.