The Dallas Foundation is a community foundation devoted to the Dallas area. All of our competitively awarded grants go to agencies that serve Dallas County. Your agency may be located outside the county, but more than half of your clients must be Dallas County residents to qualify for a competitively awarded grant. The guidelines say that The Dallas Foundation generally makes capital grants. Capital grants are directed to fix, build, or buy something tangible.
Examples are office equipment, construction or renovation projects, and medical equipment.
These are assets that the nonprofit will use over an extended period and that it cannot generally obtain with its ordinary operating revenues. Noncapital grants include operating and program support. Operating grants, as the name implies, support the charity's general operations. The charity may use these funds for any purpose, generally for things like salaries, utilities, and rental of facilities or equipment. Program grants are similar to operating grants, but support a particular area of the nonprofit's work, such as the salary of a caseworker devoted to a special initiative.