How to apply to RFF for a grant:

Please provide us with an “Initial Request” as described below. If RFF is interested in funding your program, we will contact you to request more detailed information.

Initial Request (please include the following):

  • Your organization’s name, contact information, website address, 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status Letter from the IRS, Federal Tax ID#; if this is for a scholarship we’ll need your name, email address and phone number.

  • A brief (250 word maximum) summary of your organization’s mission and history, or plans for use of scholarship;

  • The organization’s summary financial statements. Include a brief statement as to your primary funding sources if appropriate;

  • The amount of your grant request;

  • Description of the project (no more than 1000 words).

Please send your Initial Request via email to: Kent@RasmussenFamilyFund.org

Rasmussen Family Fund will not fund:

  • Purchases of capital equipment

  • Creation or acquisition of works of art or literature

  • Activities of for-profit entities

  • Non-secular (religious) programs

  • Teaching of any specific political “brand”

  • Programs whose work is focused outside the United States