Step 1: Check Your Eligibility
Review eligibility criteria for your non-profit organization.
Step 2: Attend a Grant Workshop (February)
If this is your first time applying for an Impact100 grant or if you would like a refresher on our process, attend a Grant Application Workshop in February. Attendees will be introduced to Impact100 Wichita Falls, learn about the five focus areas, review eligibility requirements, and receive training for the online application process. Appropriate personnel to attend would be the person who will write the grant application at your organization, the finance person responsible for developing the proposal’s budget, and/or the Executive Director.
For information about the next Grant Workshop email grants@impact100wf.org.
Step 3: Submit a Grant Proposal (February or March)
The entire application process is online. Please do not send documents by mail unless requested to do so. For any documents needed to accompany your application, you will have the ability to upload digital versions online.
Grant Application Online Portal
PLEASE NOTE: 2025 Grant Application Deadline: March 16, 2025
Step 4: Review Process (March – July)
- Volunteer members of Impact100 Wichita Falls work in committees to review each application, including project budgets.
- Site visits are scheduled with applicants and conducted.
- Committees meet and pick finalists.
- All applicants are informed of the status of their application and if they have been chosen as a finalist.
Step 5: The Big Give (August)
The Big Give is our annual meeting (members only). We will ask the finalists to provide a brief video of their project, which will be shown at the Big Give. (Guidelines for the video will be provided when finalists are notified.) After viewing, Impact100 Wichita Falls members will vote (one woman, one vote) to determine the grant award winner.
Please note: For each finalist, Impact100 members will have received project information taken from the grant application, project budget from the application, an opportunity to visit in person and ask questions with each finalist at our “Meet the Finalist” social, and review the video provided by each finalist before they vote at the Big Give Annual Meeting.
Step 6: Payment
Before the release of funds, the grant recipient must sign a Grant Agreement. Impact100 Wichita Falls will distribute funds in a lump sum or in installments, depending on the nature of the program or project and the Grant Agreement.
Step 7: Reports and Evaluation
Recipients of grant awards must report periodically to Impact100 Wichita Falls on the progress of their program or project as specified in the Grant Agreement.
