The Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies (CFKR) is pleased to invite applications to its 2025 granting process. This includes CFKR’s community funds in Elkford, Sparwood and Fernie, as well as its endowment funds for Cranbrook and area, including the South Country.

CFKR welcomes applications from eligible non-profit organizations from January 1 to February 15.

Interested non-profits are invited to visit www.cfkrockies.ca/grants/ to review and download CFKR’s 2025 grant application guidelines and fillable pdf application form.

According to Lynnette Wray, CFKR Executive Director, “Our annual granting continues to grow, with over $150,000 available for granting in 2025, thanks to the generosity of our donors and their commitment to sustainable charitable giving through permanently invested endowment funds.”

To be eligible to apply, an organization must be a CRA qualified donee, such as a registered charity, or, if the organization is not a qualified donee, enter into an agency agreement with a qualified donee. Grant applications need to clearly demonstrate a direct, positive benefit to local residents.

Most CFKR annual grants range from a few hundred dollars up to $2,000 and support local non-profits in making our communities even better places to live, work, and play.

Since 2003, thanks to the income earned from its endowment funds, as well as external project funding, CFKR has granted a total of over $1 million to more than 300 local non-profit projects in the communities of Elkford, Sparwood, Fernie, Cranbrook, and the surrounding rural areas.

The Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies (CFKR) provides grants to a wide range of projects: Animal Welfare; Arts/Culture/Heritage; Education; Environment; Mental Health/Addictions; Outdoor Recreation/Physical Activity/Sports; Programs for Equity-Deserving Populations (e.g., Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ+, women, diverse abilities, seniors, children/youth); and Social/Health/Housing Services.

For examples of the wide variety of projects funded by CFKR, please see the 2024 list of CFKR grant recipients.

CFKR is deeply honoured to live, work, and play in beautiful ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa, the traditional and unceded homelands of the Ktunaxa Nation, serving the communities ofʔaq̓am, Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi ‘it, Elkford, Sparwood, Fernie, Cranbrook, and the surrounding rural areas, including the South Country.

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