Each request for funding requires a Letter of Inquiry — no longer than two pages and printed on only one side of each page — in which the applicant organization addresses the following points:
- A statement that the organization is currently a tax-exempt organization (The Foundation does not fund individuals).
- Annual operating budget.
- Amount of dollar request.
- Brief description of the focus of the funding request and how this request meets Foundation guidelines.
- Brief description of current organizational leadership.
- Description of the primary roles played by the governing board.
- A figure indicating average percent of board members in attendance at board meetings over the past 12-month period of time.
- Indication whether the organization has completed or plans to complete an organizational self-assessment and the year it was completed or is planned to be completed. (See Little Red Bus — The Check Up — for description of an organizational assessment.)
- Include contact name, email and phone number.
- Additional enclosures, such as fliers, newsletters, etc., are not to be a part of the Letter of Inquiry.

All Letters of Inquiry are to be at the Foundation office no later than 4:00 PM, October 1st.