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Buckeye Education Foundation Grant Program

Project Grants

The Buckeye Education Foundation (BEF) is proud to offer direct grants to BUSD district teachers and staff to enable them to implement special projects to provide educational enrichment or enhance the learning experience for students at any BUSD campus. BEF offers these grants in addition to its primary role of supporting the school district with district-wide grants.

We invite you to view past grants to see how donations to Buckeye Education Foundation have been put into action!

In the 2025-26 school year, we will offer a rolling grant process through March 31, 2026.

Grants will be considered on a rolling basis, reviewed approximately every two months at Buckeye Education Foundation board meetings. All are welcome to attend board meetings.
Because of the frequency of board meetings, it may take up to two and a half months to receive a grant decision / funding.
2025-26 school year grants must have reimbursement requests / funding requests received and a Project Report completed by June 4, 2026.

Projects that meet the following criteria will be eligible for funding consideration:

Led by BUSD teachers or school staff members
Provide a meaningful impact to provide educational enrichment or enhance the learning experience for a group of students, either one-time use or ongoing use
- One-time use (example: single use supply purchase, exhibition or demonstration)
- Ongoing use (examples: teaching tools or aids, lesson plans/materials/equipment purchase, subscription purchase)
Funding will make the difference between the project happening or not; funding is not readily available through other sources or programs
Students should experience the benefit of the grant before the conclusion of the 2025-26 school year.
Note for repeat applicants: Funding priority will go towards applicants who have not yet received any BEF Grant funding previously, however we welcome repeat applicants.

Grants applicants may apply for up to $1,000. The number of project grants awarded in the 2025-26 school year will depend on the applications received, the amount of funding requested, the amount of funding available, and other factors. Teachers and staff at every school in the district are encouraged to apply!

Grant Application Requirements and Process

Grant awardee requirements:

Must be employed by the Buckeye Union School District
Must be willing to complete a brief summary report including photos and/or video, and brief narrative description, by June 4, 2026. BEF may post your photos/videos to our online channels if you are chosen as an awardee.

Additional applicant information:

Your application should not be pooled with other applications; there should be one application per project. We can accept multiple applications for the same genre of project, but not grouped applications for a single project, i.e. where funding is dependent on all of the group's applications being approved. Each project should be unique, and applications will be reviewed individually.
We will not accept applications on behalf of someone else's project. All applicants should be responsible for / in charge of the project they are applying to fund.

Project budget:

The application process includes completing a form and submitting a project budget. The project budget should include

Total cost of the project, including identifying any other sources of funding
Indicate specifically what the BEF grant funds will purchase.

Budgets do not need to be complicated. They can be a PDF printout of a spreadsheet, Amazon / vendor shopping cart, or vendor website. Budgets should show what is planned to be purchased, and what it costs, for the whole project and for any BEF portion.

IMPORTANT:

Please email a copy of your budget to grants@buckeyefoundation.org

Indicate your project name.

THEN: Add grants@buckeyefoundation.org to your contacts!

Our emails are sometimes sent to spam folders, and grant awardees have missed important notifications. Please make sure you can receive our emails!

Evaluation process:

Grants will be evaluated as a regular part of Buckeye Education Foundation board meetings, which take place approximately every two months throughout the year. Decisions will take into account equity among school and grade level distribution, as well as available grant funding.

After you apply, a copy of your application will be automatically emailed to you. If you do not hear from us in 2-3 weeks, please check your spam folder, and if nothing is there, send an email to check in.

Funding process:

Grant awardees will fund their project by:

Traditional receipt reimbursement using the reimbursement request form provided by BEF, or
Creating a "cart" on Share-A-Cart for BEF to fund, or
Having BEF make the purchase directly.

Please note that all purchases made through the grant are the property of BUSD and not the property of the individual grant awardee.

Questions:

Questions are welcome! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you want to run ideas by us or want to learn more about the types of projects this grant program is seeking to fund. Please also see past grant recipients for examples. Please contact grants@buckeyefoundation.org.

2025-26 Grant Application