General Grants
General grants are awarded to help cover both operating or program costs. Operating costs include the fixed and variable expenses of the organization. Program costs include expenses associated with providing services associated with the organization's mission.
General Grants with a Challenge Matching Funds Component
General Grants with a Challenge Matching Funds Component are awarded to help cover both operating or program costs, which are defined above. The grants require that matching funds be raised before AFF funds are distributed.
The challenge matching funds goal is to lead others to give by encouraging board members, staff members, and to tease out new contributors and contributions to the organization.
Organizations may have a limited time in which to raise matching funds as well as a limited funding pool e.g. in-kind, pledges, and government funding cannot count toward matching funds. Trustees will set the matching funds parameters. Different match criteria may apply to different grant awards.
General Grants Awarded in 2010
- Frederick Alliance for Youth
- NRSsT
- Hope Alive
- Delaplaine Center for the Arts
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre
- Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs
- Frederick Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Prenatal Clinic
General Grants Awarded in 2009
- Centro Hispano de Frederick
General Grants Awarded in 2008
- Able & Willing International Education Foundation
- Alzheimer’s Association
- American Express - March of Dimes
- Avon Foundation - Walk for Breast Cancer
- Ballenger Creek Elementary School PTA
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Frederick County
- Boy Scouts of America
- Boys & Girls Club of Frederick County/Washington County
- Brunswick High School Safe and Sane
- Carroll Manor Athletic Association
- Chloe's Cause Foundation
- Community Foundation of National Capital
- Community Living, Inc.
- Damascus Road Community Church
- Delaplaine Visual Arts & Education Center
- Downtown Frederick Partnership (beautification program)
- Ebenezer United Methodist Church
- Episcopal Ministries to the Aging
- Fountains of Living Waters Ministry
- Frederick Community Action Agency
- Frederick County 4-H BSS Sale
- Frederick County 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program
- Frederick Festival of the Arts
- Frederick Rescue Mission
- Fredericktowne Baptist Church
- The Fredericktowne Players
- Friends of Neighborhood Progress
- Friends of Safe Place Child
- Fundraising 501©, Inc.
- Gary D. Leith Foundation for Parkinson's Research
- Girl Scounts of the USA
- Glade Valley Athletic Association
- Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County
- Hayden Enterprises Giving Fund
- Heartly House, Inc.
- Hood College Gymnasium Fund
- IM Able Foundation
- International Church of Four Square Gospel
- Jefferson Ruritan Club Foundation
- Jefferson Volunteer Fire Company
- Man in the Mirror, Inc.
- Maryland Public Television Foundation
- Mental Health Association of Frederick County
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- New Market Volunteer Fire Department
- Partners in Care, Inc.
- Patty Pollatos Fund
- Redeemer Luthern Church
- The Religious Coalition for Human Need
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- St. Johns Regional Catholic School
- Saint Katherine Drexel Catholic Church
- St. Marks Apostolic Faith Church
- Saint Thomas More Academy
- Tuscarora High School Performing Arts Booster
- Tuscarora High School Safe and Sane
- Tuscarora High School Track Team
- The Washington Chorus
- Weinberg Center for the Arts, Inc.
- Woodsboro Volunteer Fire Department
General Grants Awarded in 2007
- Alzheimers Disease & Related
- American Cancer Society
- American Diabetes
- American Horticultural Society
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Frederick County
- Birthright of Frederick County
- Boys & Girls Club of Frederick County/Washington County
- Brunswich Junior Baseball
- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Community Living, Inc.
- Delaplaine Visual Arts & Education Center
- Farmers & Hunters Feeding the Hungry
- Frederick Arts Center Foundation
- Frederick Community Action Agency
- Frederick County 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program
- Frederick County YMCA
- Frederick Rescue Mission
- The Fredericktowne Players
- Fundraising 501©, Inc.
- Glade Valley Athletic Association
- Goodwill Industries
- GSCNC Troop 81602
- Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County
- Heartly House, Inc.
- Help the Homeless
- Hospice of Frederick County
- House of Ruth
- Humane Society
- Jefferson Volunteer Fire Company
- Kennedy Kreiger Institute
- Mount St. Mary's Grotto
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- National Philanthropic Trust
- National Trust for Historic
- New Market Volunteer Fire Department
- Partners in Hope
- Rebuilding Together with Christmas in April
- Redeemer Luthern Church
- The Religious Coalition for Human Need
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- The Rotary Foundation
- Ruritan National Foundation
- St. Johns Literacy Institute
- St. Johns Regional Catholic School
- St. Peter the Apostle
- Saint Thomas More Academy
- Salvation Army
- Smile Train, Inc.
- TJ High School Safe and Sane
- Trinity United Methodist Church
- Tuscarora High School Athletic Boosters
- United Way of Frederick County
- The Washington Chorus
- Way Station
- Weinberg Center for the Arts, Inc.
- Women’s Giving Circle
- Woodsboro Volunteer Fire Department
Please visit the Ausherman Family Foundation website to view their General Grant Program.