CommUnity Grants
2025 CommUnity Micro Grant Applications
2025 Timeline:
Applications open: April 1, 2025
Application Deadline: May 12, 2025
Determine Grant Awards in May
Distribution of Grants in June
Report due from Grant Recipients: November 1, 2025
Preference will be given to projects that:
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Improve existing programs within your organization
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Create a new initiative to enhance your organization
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Engage multiple partners
Selection will be determined based on:
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Impact to the organization and community
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Demonstrated need
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Alignment with the mission of the Faribault Foundation
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CLICK HERE to Download the Application form.
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These grants are funded by the Community Opportunity Fund at the Foundation. You are invited to consider a donation of one dollar a day ($365.00) to support CommUnity Grants. Opportunity Fund Donations may be made to the Faribault Foundation in any amount to support these grants and to build the Foundation’s ability to fund projects and programs that are beneficial to our community both now and in the future.
Click here to donate to the fund.
Past CommUnity Grant Awards
2024 CommUnity Grant Awards
Soccer Club
International Festival
Ruth’s House
Safety Camp
Jefferson Playground
Waano
Jummah
Paradise Center for the Arts
Youth Empowerment
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2023 CommUnity Grant Awards​
Beau Chant
WAANO​
Johnston Hall Memorial
Congo Safe Zone
​2022 CommUnity Grant Awards
Community Action Center
Ruth’s House
Paradise Center for the Arts
Big Brothers and Big Sisters
Aquatic Center
River Bend Nature Center
Waano
IRIS
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2021 CommUnity Grant Awards
Faribault Aquatic Center for life jackets
Blue Collar BBQ for Family Stage Activities
Concerts in the Park
Paradise Center for the Arts for a Modern Opera
Faribault Rotary for their Warm Our Community project
Ruth's House for Transportation Vouchers
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In 2021 the Faribault Foundation Board also provided support for these three worthy projects.
$10,000. to the Virginia Piper Cancer Institute project in Faribault
$2,500 to the Food Access Community Action Council in Faribault and
$2,500 to the Paradise Center for the Arts mortgage payoff effort.​
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2020 CommUnity Grant Awards
Music in the Park
Iris
Paradise Center for the Arts
The Cathedral Cafe
2019 CommUnity Grant Awards
Music in the Park
Ruth's House
Faribault Deaf Club
LGBTQ Support Group
Oak Ridge Cemetery
2018 CommUnity Grant Awards
Music in the Park
S.A.F.E.
Heritage Days Celebration
Pollinator Garden at Buckham Memorial Library
Cannon River Watershed
2017 CommUnity Grant Awards
Senior Technology
1855 Faribault Productions
Virtues Project
Supply Our Children
2016 CommUnity Grant Awards
EID Celebration
The Cathedral Cafe
Connecting with Kids and the Faribault Police Department
Women/Girls Swim Nights
Buddy Bench
2015 CommUnity Grant Awards
Tilt-A-Whirl Car Restoration
2nd Street Garden
River Bend Nature Center
Poetry Coalition
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