The mission of USA Funds^® is to enhance postsecondary education preparedness, access and success. We focus our grant-making primarily on our target populations of of low-income and first-generation students, students of color, foster youth and adult learners.

The three focus areas of our grant-making are postsecondary education:

• Readiness – to make students ready for postsecondary education.
• Enrollment – to advance or promote a broad approach to increasing postsecondary education enrollment levels.
• Success –  to improve students' retention, progression and completion of a postsecondary education with manageable debt.

For details of our grant-making focus and our grant application process, please download “Information for Grant-Seekers.”

If your nonprofit organization’s event is consistent with our grant-making guidelines, we encourage you to submit an event-sponsorship application through our online application. This application includes a brief eligibility quiz to ensure your organization’s request falls within our guidelines.

Please note the following:

• Sponsorships or grants will not be awarded to an individual or political campaign, to any organization that discriminates in any manner, or to an endowment or foundation that is a grant-making or re-granting organization.
• The amount given will vary depending on the stated purpose of the event, project, or program.
• Sponsorships or grants will not be awarded for capital campaigns, debt retirement or primarily to cover operational expenses.

USA Funds accepts applications for sponsorships and awards event sponsorships on a quarterly cycle. For our 2012 fiscal year those cycles are:

• Sponsorship applications accepted: Nov. 1 – Dec. 15.
• Notification by Jan. 15.
• Sponsorship applications accepted: Jan. 1 – March 15.
• Notification by April 15.
• Sponsorships applications accepted: April 1 - June 15.
• Notification by July 31.

No requests will be accepted between June 16 and Sept. 30.

If you previously started an event sponsorship application, you can return to complete the application.

Please contact us if you have additional questions.