The King Foundation

Creativity, Access, Enrichment

Site Visits

A divergence of grantmaking practices among foundations is especially evident in the area of site visits.  Some foundations don’t conduct them at all, others rarely, others often.

At the King Foundation, we make site visits to about 70% of the agencies we fund each cycle.  A site visit is not a signal that your proposal will be funded, and the absence of a visit does not mean your proposal will fail.  Geographic, time, and staff limitations prevent us from visiting every agency each cycle.  For similar reasons, we do not conduct pre-proposal site visits.

A typical site visit takes between one and two hours, sometimes a little longer (not including travel time to the site).  A few preparations can make site visits go more smoothly for both your agency and the Foundation, and show your agency to its best advantage. 

 

Questions Asked During a Site Visit

You will find below a comprehensive list of questions the grants reviewer might ask when deciding whether to recommend a grant.  But in reading this list, rest assured we do consider the agency’s age and maturity in formulating appropriate questions and weighing answers.  We have different expectations for a 20-year old agency with a multimillion dollar budget, than we do for a two-year old agency with a $200,000 budget. 

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