Before you submit a proposal to either the Gill Foundation or the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado, we encourage you to use the guidelines to make a checklist for all of the information you need to include in order for your proposal to be considered. The following areas are often incomplete . Please be sure to include this information. If possible, include page numbers on your attachments.
Handwritten numbers are fine.
A current operating budget for your organization including both income and expenses. The most common mistake we see is a budget that only has expenses. Be sure to include secured and projected income. If you are requesting funds for a project, program or event, you must include a project budget. This is from the Internal Revenue Service and is not the same as a state sales tax exemption certificate.