Chick-fil-A True Inspiration Awards Program 2026 (up to $350,000) – YOA

Deadline: May 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Chick-fil-A True Inspiration Awards Program 2026. The True Inspiration Awards program was created in 2015 to honor the legacy of Chick-fil-A® founder S. Truett Cathy. Through these annual grants, it’s their pleasure to rejoice and help nonprofit organizations making an influence of their native communities.

True Inspiration Awards grants vary from $30,000 to $350,000, with $6 million awarded in 2025 to organizations all through the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada and the United Kingdom. One group might be chosen because the S. Truett Cathy Honoree. The S. Truett Cathy Honoree embodies the beneficiant, revolutionary spirit of Chick-fil-A’s late founder — pioneering new methods to clear up issues and serve others.

Focus Areas

Sixteen organizations might be awarded for his or her work in these areas:

• Caring for People (4 winners): Programs or initiatives supporting instructional initiatives, together with fostering character and management growth, tutorial excellence and group involvement in underserved youth.
• Caring via Food (4 winners): Programs or initiatives centered on addressing starvation and meals insecurity going through kids and their households.
• Caring for Communities (4 winners): Programs or initiatives centered on offering housing and different direct providers to help younger individuals and their households.
• Caring for our Planet (4 winners): Programs or initiatives that present look after the surroundings and our planet, or that exhibit environmental stewardship via initiatives straight associated to different True Inspiration Awards classes of meals, group and folks (i.e., group beautification, schooling alternatives, group gardens, outside lecture rooms, and so on.)

grant

• True Inspiration Awards grants vary from $30,000 to $350,000, with a collective $6 million awarded yearly.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for a True Inspiration Awards grant, a company ought to be:

• A 501(c)(3) primarily based within the U.S. or
• A charitable group primarily based in Canada, United Kingdom or Singapore that may present an opinion of counsel that confirms it’s the equal of a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity in its home jurisdiction.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to True Inspiration Awards.