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SOMA Foundation Priorities
The SOMA Foundation will consider requests from organizations that are in the following categories.
However, the Board is not limited by these criteria.

General Guidelines for Grants

 

The Soma Foundation seeks out organizations/ministries that: (1) demonstrate effectiveness (2) exercise collaboration (3) adhere to best practices (4) strive for sustainability (5) document ministry outcomes.

Geographic Area of Grant Focus

Soma Foundation accepts grant applications from the geographic area defined by the sixteen counties of the West Central Georgia Health District* and Russel County, Alabama. Organizations outside the defined geographic area may submit a letter of inquiry for a grant proposal, then a grant application if invited to do so by the Soma Board of Trustees.

Priorities & Restrictions

  • Soma makes charitable grants only to 501(c )3 organizations as classified by the IRS Code of 1986ff

  • Soma requires organizations receiving grants to be compliant with the Foundation’s Statement of Faith

  • Soma does not give to endowments

  • Soma does not make loans to individuals or to organizations

  • Soma does not give to social clubs or booster organizations

  • Soma does not give to political or legislative advocacy groups or organizations

  • Soma does not give to organizations headquartered outside of the United States or its territories

  • Soma generally does not give to the production of films or documentaries

  • Soma generally does not give to local churches or school operating budgets

  • Soma generally does not give to requests for “seed” or startup money for organizations

  • Soma generally does not give for festivals or conferences

  • Soma generally does not give grants for previously incurred debt

  • Soma generally does not give grants in the form of multi-year pledges

 

(*) Georgia Counties in the West Central Health District: Chattahoochee, Clay, Crisp, Dooley, Harris, Macon, Marion, Muscogee, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor, Webster

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