Fiscal Sponsorship (fees and minimums)
Community Initiatives acts as the legal and financial home for projects that are not their own nonprofit, handling grants management, payroll, HR, insurance, and tax compliance so a project team can hold research or evaluation funding.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)Not a grant. Community Initiatives charges 10% of gross receipts for general sponsorship and 15% of gross receipts on government funds, citing the heavier reporting burden. A $50,000 minimum annual fundraising requirement applies.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Rolling. Prospective projects start through the Get Started intake; no application deadlines are published. A fiscal sponsorship calculator on the site estimates costs before applying.
- Who can apply
- Practitioner, Community organisation, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Open to projects of varying size, but every sponsored project must meet a $50,000 minimum annual fundraising requirement. A project that cannot raise that much per year will not be taken on. Full eligibility criteria beyond the minimum are handled in the intake conversation, not published.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- fiscal sponsorship · nonprofit back office · grants management · government contract administration
- Apply at
- https://communityinitiatives.org/learn/fees-and-minimums/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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