2026 Community Grant Application
Trustees' Garden Club Grant Guidelines
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU APPLY
Trustees’ Garden Club adheres to the purpose of The Garden Club of America (GCA), which is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence, and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement.
Grant applications should be consistent with at least one of these goals.
Trustees’ Garden Club Community Grant does not finance:
- Organizations that do not hold a 501 (c) (3) status.
- Fraternal, Political, Labor, Athletic or Social Groups.
- Funding for Institutional overhead or indirect costs incurred during a project.
- Capital campaigns or endowments.
- Activities of Organizations serving primarily their own members.
- Maintenance of existing projects.
Proposals should be submitted to the Trustees' Garden Club Treasurer and must fulfill at least one of the club’s purposes, as stated in its bylaws.
For questions about our grant process, please contact Catherine Gussler, Treasurer of the Trustees’ Garden Club, at cmgussler@gmail.com.
