Application Process

The Letter of Inquiry is the first step in the process of requesting a grant from the CPPS Heritage Mission Fund. The Letter of Inquiry must be completed in its entirety. The requested information is critical in order that your organization can proceed in the process. When the Letter of Inquiry is received and reviewed the appropriate grant application will be sent.

Letter of Inquiry submissions will be limited to the first 100 Letters of Inquiry received that are correctly completed and have the proper documentation included. Only those submitting in the first 100 complete and correct Letters of Inquiry will be invited to submit a full application.

The LOI link will be live on our site starting at 12 pm (noon) ET / 9 am PT on the cycle opening day. The link will be live on this page starting at noon Eastern.

Cycle One:  Second week in January: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 starting at 12 pm (Noon) ET through Friday, January 10, 2025 by 11:59 pm ET or until the first 100 fully complete LOIs are processed.

Due to the winter storm affecting a large swath of the South and Midwest on Monday, January 6, 2025, the Letter of Inquiry application time will be delayed one day until Tuesday, January 7 at noon ET (9am PT). Sorry for any inconvenience, but we want to give everyone an equal chance of submitting a Letter of Inquiry and stay safe.

Cycle Two:  Second week in July: Monday, July 7, 2025 starting at 12 pm (Noon) ET through Friday, July 11, 2025 by 11:59 pm ET or until the first 100 fully complete LOIs are processed.

Be aware that Letters of Inquiry submissions fill up very quickly, recently only taking about 30 minutes or so for them to reach our maximum allowed and submissions closed.

We will no longer be contacting organizations whose Letter of Inquiry is incomplete or have incorrect documents submitted to get the correct information. The Letter of Inquiry must be submitted as complete with all correct documents included.

You must register as a New User per form even if you have registered in previous cycles. To increase security, we no longer store logins between grant cycles. You will do this for the “Letter of Inquiry” form, the application form and any report you may submit. You can register for each form using the same login information (i.e. names, email addresses and passwords) to keep consistency, but logins will be deleted after each grant cycle. You will not be allowed to set up an account login prior to the link going live for the Letter of Inquiry on this page of our website.

The link to the Letter of Inquiry form will be live on this page during the Letter of Inquiry acceptance dates or until 100 correct & complete LOIs are processed. Letters of Inquiry are processed in the order they are received.

NOTE: You must complete the Letter of Inquiry form fully for it to be submitted for consideration. You will receive an automatic reply if it was completed and submitted successfully.

You will need to gather the following for the Letter of Inquiry

View a copy of the Letter of Inquiry form (PDF) to see the questions and information you will need to gather for your submission.

There are some questions with character (not word) limits as follows. These limits include spaces.:
Mission Statement: 750 characters
Purpose of Proposal Request: 500 characters
Guiding values of the CHM Fund that are best supported by this proposal: 200 characters
What are the anticipated results of this program / project? Indicate how many individuals will be served and the specific ways they will benefit as a result of this program / project: 300 characters

Reports

If your organization received a CHM Fund Grant in a previous cycle, you must submit a report along with or prior to your Letter of Inquiry before being considered for additional funds. You can find the report forms here:
Submit interim or final reports

Please add execsec@cppsheritagemissionfund.org to your address book and/or email whitelist so you receive correspondence. We are not responsible for lost or blocked emails.