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2023 Grant Cycle Now Open

We are now accepting applications for the 2023 Grant Cycle.
Applications for support will be accepted from January 1st, 2023 – May 30th, 2023 to qualified 501(c)3 non-profits.

Please do not email about the status of your grant application. For any other inquiries about the T-CETRA Foundation please contact foundation@tcetra.com.

For information regarding our previous grant selections, you can view past grantees of the T-CETRA Foundation here, 
or to learn more about what we support, you can find more information here.

Donation Request Form

Thank you for your interest in support from the T-CETRA Foundation. Please fully review our guidelines below. If you feel your organization meets our eligibility criteria, please proceed by answering the questions below.
Review Guidelines

Grant Application and Timeline

Applications will reopen on January 1st.

Grants and in-kind technology donations will be determined, and grantees notified, by June 30, 2023

Our average grant award is $3,500.

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GRANT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

The T-CETRA Foundation will give priority consideration to organizations whose primary focus is centered around financial literacy education in the form of programs or curricula that can positively impact low income, underserved persons, with an emphasis on targeting younger students. Organizations who consider or who are open to technology products or consultative technology support from T-CETRA’s large IT team to spur economic and community development in underserved areas will be given extra consideration. Significant partnership projects and capital requests are by invitation only.

At a minimum, nonprofits requesting support from the T-CETRA Foundation must:

  • Be a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit charity as sanctioned by the Internal Revenue Service
  • Serve areas where VIDAPAY has a retail presence across the United States and Puerto Rico, and/or our corporate office (central Ohio).
  • Not exhibit discriminatory behavior or practices

WHAT WE DO NOT FUND

  • Organizations that are not 501(c)(3) public charities
  • Individuals, for any purpose (e.g. hardship, illness, scholarship)
  • Political candidates, committees, or organizations
  • Athletes, teams, sporting events or tournaments of any kind
  • Fraternal, labor, social, or veterans’ organizations
  • Places of worship such as churches, synagogues, mosques
  • Non-academic educational activities such as bands, choirs, proms, after-proms, graduations, etc.
  • Public service agencies such as police/fire departments nor staff positions for government agencies
  • Organizations that spend more than 20% of their revenue on overhead and fundraising costs
  • Organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, uniformed service member status, age, marital status, parental status, disability
  • Requests to fund publications, or audio or video productions, unless they serve as supporting materials for a project within our focus
  • Requests to support travel for groups or individuals wherein that is the primary reason for the proposal

Please Note: It is expected all grantees are equal opportunity employers and in their governance policies or procedures do not discriminate against any person or group on the bases listed above or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.