While JoMiJo Foundation appreciates and honors the efforts of the following kinds of groups, we choose not to fund them. Again, if we feel you don't fit, most likely you will not get a response from us.
One very well-meaning and persistent fellow from the south with the best smoker's hack I've ever heard kept after us for a year with periodic phone calls, making sure his kind of program fit. From what he told us it did. But when he sent in his full proposal it was a heartbreaker to have to turn him down. Either he forgot to see what we don't fund and didn't mention it to me, or he didn't tell me he was associated with a religious group so I couldn't tell him no on the phone, or maybe he thought we'd overlook our guidelines for him because I'd talked with him on the phone three times. You can imagine what a drag it was to have to say no after all that time.
We do not fund:
- large or national non-profit organizations;
- scientific or other kinds of research efforts;
- arts groups;
- organizations needing to do public relations or endowment building;
- non-profits that run nursing homes or nursing homes themselves;
- religious organizations or groups associated with religious or religious educational outlets, as well as no churches or synagogues or mosques, ashrams, cults, sub-cults, as well as and no groups associated with churches, mosques, synagogues, cults or sub-cults;
- hospitals or health organizations;
- capital campaigns and other efforts for bricks and mortar, or other building projects or efforts to secure equipment of any kind for building;
- individuals with no connection to a 501(c)(3), or similar designation within a nation foreign to the US - this includes scholarships and other kinds of requests, such as travel (We get a lot of these kinds of requests from young folks overseas, and yes, we know of expenditure responsibility. The answer's still no);
- efforts that produce videos or films, and no support of acquisition of technology or access to technology such as web sites;
- efforts where anyone is using computers to learn rather than interacting face-to-face;
- efforts where people are making films or videos;
- governmental entities of any kind, including public schools, fire districts, any police organizations, or nonprofits raising money for cities, counties, states or foreign nations; and
- no emergency funds are granted, ever.
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