FAQs

BCCT does not provide grant funding for operational expenses.

Operational expenses are the ongoing costs to maintain day-to-day operations including payroll, utilities, rent, office supplies; any basic expenses required to run an organization.

Applications may be submitted on our website through our online application form. You may also submit your application by mail or hand deliver it. Provide six copies of your proposal request to:

Boone County Community Trust
C/O Central Trust Company
720 East Broadway, 4th Floor
PO Box 577
Columbia, MO 65205

For grants of an urgent nature that fall outside our submission cutoff dates, organizations may submit an emergency application. Please contact the Trust Administrator via email to make this request at [email protected].

At least two bids are recommended of items for which there is a market sufficient to support; there may be some specific items which have very limited availability and are available from few suppliers. If you only have one bid please provide an explanation.

Per our governing document we do not fund anything other than non-profit entities.

Grants awarded by the Trust have to be to nonprofits located in Boone County only.

For grants awarded for the purchase of specific item(s) and/or funding a specific project, a receipt or paid invoice totaling a minimum of the amount awarded. For grants made to a capital campaign, a letter of acknowledgement/receipt. All documentation should be sent to the Trust Administrator via email at [email protected] or mailed to:

Boone County Community Trust
C/O Central Trust Company
720 East Broadway, 4th Floor
PO Box 577
Columbia, MO 65205.

Please contact the Trust Administrator at (573) 874-8549 or by email at [email protected] to discuss.

Please contact the Trust Administrator at (573) 874-8549 or by email at [email protected] to discuss.

Please contact Beth Naylor at (573) 874-8490 or by email at [email protected]. Monies awarded are to be used for purposes stated in the application. Any other use must be approved by members of the grant selection committee.

We are interested in helping but look to nonprofits to raise funds from other sources as well. We can consider a new request but ask that you demonstrate other funding and resources are accessed. For example, we do not look to fund the same request year after year.