Our Board of Trustees meets two times a year to review applications. Applications are accepted only in the 2-month "windows" prior to the deadlines. The following is a schedule for submitting applications:

Applications Received Between:	Will be considered in:
December 8 and February 8	May
June 8 and August 8	November

Completed Applications (Application Form + supporting documentation) must be received at the Foundation’s Office within the above time periods in order to be eligible for consideration. When February 8 or August 8 falls on a weekend or holiday, the deadline is 5 PM of the previous business day. Due to increasing volume, we cannot guarantee that applications received in the last week of these time periods will be processed for the docket. We urge you to submit your applications as early as possible in each time period.

Information presented to our Board must be timely. Therefore, Applications that arrive either too early or too late for either time period will not be considered.

Grantees will be notified regarding funding decisions following the board meeting that corresponds to their funding cycle (approximately 12-16 weeks after the spring or fall submission deadline).

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US Applicants:

Applications must be complete when they arrive at the Raskob Foundation.
Any application lacking any of the first 3 required documents listed below will not be considered.
The Ordinary's letter may be sent directly to the Foundation, if preferred.

To be considered for review, an application must contain the following documents:

1. A completed Application Form
2. A Detailed Budget of the Project/Program
3. A complete Financial Statement of the incorporated Catholic organization that will conduct the proposed project
4. Letter from the Ordinary of the Diocese where the project will take place, commenting upon your request to the Raskob Foundation.
   
   

Optional Information:

1. Narrative
   
   
   

Foreign Applicants:

Applications must be complete when they arrive at the Raskob Foundation.
Any application which is delivered to the Foundation without one of the first two required documents listed below will not be considered. The Diocesan Ordinary's letter may be submitted later if you are unable to obtain it before the application deadline.

To be considered, an application must contain the following documents:

1. A completed Application Form
2. A Detailed Budget - Include all projected income sources, and all projected expense items, for the project for which funding is requested
3. A Letter from the Ordinary of the Diocese where the project will take place, commenting upon your request to the Raskob Foundation.
   
   

Optional Information:

1. A summary of your proposal in Narrative form is also requested, but is optional (i.e. not required)
2. A Financial Statement of your organization

Computer-Generated Application Forms:

The Raskob Foundation will accept Computer-Generated Applications. If you use this method instead of filling in the Application Form provided, your submission must conform to both the size and layout of the Foundation’s Application Form. All computer-generated applications must be submitted on 8½ x 11 white paper, cannot consist of more than 2 pages and must include the 11-digit tracking number located at the upper left hand corner of the Application Form.

Mailing Address:

All Applications Must Be Sent Directly To:

Raskob Foundation

P.O. Box 4019

Wilmington, DE 19807-0019

Street Address (Overnight Mail Only):

10 Montchanin Road

Wilmington, DE 19807

Contact: Frederick J. Perella, Jr.

Executive Vice President

The Raskob Foundation accepts applications from official Catholic, tax-exempt, non-profit organizations. Per the Foundation’s Charter, requests by or for individuals cannot be honored.

Within the United States, Catholic organizations are recognized by the IRS as those listed in the most recent edition of the Official Catholic Directory, published annually by P.J. Kenedy & Sons. For tax-exempt, charitable organizations not listed in the Kenedy Directory, the Foundation can accept an application for consideration only if it is submitted by an official Catholic organization that is financially supporting the project for which funds are being sought. If a grant were then approved by our Board of Trustees, payment would be made to the Catholic organization, which in turn could assign the funds to the project that it is already financially supporting.

Outside the United States, the Raskob Foundation accepts applications only from Catholic dioceses, Catholic parishes, Catholic schools, Catholic hospitals and Catholic religious congregations.

IMPORTANT!

The Foundation does not accept applications for the following purposes:

1.	Reduction of Debt
2.	Tuition, Scholarships or Fellowships
3.	Endowment Funds
4.	Individual Scholarly Research
5.	Continuing Subsidies
6.	Advocacy, Lobbying or Legislation
7.	Projects which are "after-the-fact" (completed) by the date of the Trustees' Meetings
8.	Grants made by other grantmakers

Other Restrictions:

1. Applications for Construction Projects: In general, requests to fund large construction projects have a low priority with the Raskob Foundation. Building or Renovation Projects costing over $200,000 are not accepted for consideration until:
   
   
   • 50% of the total cost is in hand. (Monies pledged but not actually received or contractually committed, do not satisfy this requirement.)
   • A signed construction contract is in existence.
   • Construction is actually underway.
     
     
2. Unfortunately, the Foundation does not have the facility to translate application materials submitted in languages other than English. In many cases, these requests have to be returned to the applicants. To facilitate the processing of your application for review by the Board, it is advisable that the application materials be submitted in English.
   
   
3. At the present time, the Raskob Foundation does not accept e-mailed appications. It should also be noted that since the application form itself is copied and sent out to our Members for review, faxed submissions are not encouraged, as they are often not clear enough for reproduction.
   
   
4. While there is no limit as to the number of times an applicant may approach the Foundation for funding, in general, the Raskob Foundation does not make grants for the same project or to the same organization on a continuing or regular basis.
   
   
5. If the Foundation is unable to allocate funds for a program/project/need, the Board will not accept the same application for review at the next (successive) Meeting.
   

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Qualified organizations must request a new Application Package each time they wish to submit an application for consideration. Each application is assigned a unique tracking number for correspondence and reporting purposes.

You may obtain an Application Package in one of the following ways: Submit a written request to the Foundation, on the stationery of the Catholic organization that will apply, via US mail or fax; OR Certain organizations may be eligible to download an Application Package from our web site - Please note you will need Adobe Reader V8.0 to download an application package - If you have a previous version of Adobe Reader please go to adobe.com to download V8.0 before continuing. Click here to determine if you are eligible

Applicants Packages will be sent to applicants outside the United States until two weeks before the next application cycle deadline. They will be sent to applicants within the United States until one week before the next application cycle deadline. Requests to receive an Application Package by fax will be honored for applicants in locations where mail is very slow or unreliable until one week before the next application cycle deadline.

Requests for Application Packages received after these timeframes will be answered prior to the subsequent semi-annual application deadline.

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