District Grants, 2025-26
(Note: These are DISTRICT Grants, not GLOBAL grants: Global grants are for projects of larger scope, a minimum budget of $30,000, and an international partner. If you are interested in learning more please review the following and contact the District 7450 Rotary Foundation Committee Chair. See https://my.rotary.org/en/document/guide-global-grants.)
Introduction
District Grants help fund club-organized projects that benefit our local communities or the world community. Each club is entitled to apply for funding if it has:
- Completed the requirements of Grant Training for that year. (This is called “qualifying.”).
- Submitted its signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to the District as part of the application on DACdb.
Find more information about qualifying and the training sessions via the links available on the upper right corner of this page.
Application Deadline: May 31, 2025:
Applications for the 2025-26 Rotary year are due online via DACdb by this date.
Questions? Contacts.
The District Grants Subcommittee (of the District Rotary Foundation) is eager to help clubs successfully apply for grants. Contacts:
Warren Sell
Chair, District Grants Subcommittee
631 E Wiltshire Dr
Wallingford PA 19086
Cell: 484-557-5442
Email: [email protected]
PDG Peter Mardinly
Chair, District Rotary Foundation
146 Willits Way
Glen Mills PA 19342
Cell: 610-574-2507
Email: [email protected]
Source of funds for District Grants (or, why contributing to the RI Annual Fund is important!)
- Rotary Districts (ours is #7450) receive funds for District Grants annually from The Rotary Foundation (TRF) of Rotary International.
- Annual Fund contributions are returned to a District for its use to fund District Grants as well as Global Grants. These are called “District Designated Funds,” or the “DDF.”
- The amount available for District Grants is no more than one-half of the DDF. The other half of the DDF is available to D7450 for Global Grants (matched by the World Fund which is the other half of the Annual Fund donations), and for other uses (e.g. Polio) authorized by the TRF, and the District 7450 Rotary Foundation Committee
- The amount a District receives in DDF for its grants depends entirely on the exact amount a District has contributed three years prior; the more funds contributed by the District to the Annual Fund that year, the more the District receives in return three years later.
- Therefore, the specific amount a District has to distribute for District Grants varies each year (the District knows three years in advance how much that will be).
- That’s why maximizing individual and therefore District contributions to the Annual Fund every year is important!
The more those of us in this District give to the Annual Fund,
the more the District receives in return to fund our club’s District Grant projects.