Opportunity Overview
Open now. The Kentucky FFA Foundation is accepting applications for its first Forever Blue Endowment Grant through November 20, 2026. The program offers a $5,000 matching grant to help eligible local Kentucky FFA chapters establish a new Forever Blue endowment. Kentucky FFA states that up to 11 chapters may receive the match. The current grant page and application form do not publish an exact closing clock time or time zone.
Eligibility
This round is for Kentucky FFA chapters that do not already have an established Forever Blue Endowment. The application expressly states that a chapter with an existing Forever Blue endowment is not eligible for this round. Applicants provide chapter and advisor contact information and indicate whether they have an active alumni chapter.
Funding and Match Requirement
Each selected chapter may receive a $5,000 matching grant. A Forever Blue endowment requires at least $10,000 to open, so the chapter must supply or secure the other $5,000. The application asks whether the chapter has at least $5,000 in Forever Blue gift commitments accrued and states that these commitments may be verbal commitments or cash in hand. If not, the form asks for the chapter’s plan to secure the $5,000. Selected chapters must verify funding commitments and complete the formal agreement before receiving the grant.
Centennial Project Requirement
The current application requires a chapter to have completed or be actively working on at least two qualifying Kentucky FFA Centennial history-preservation activities. Listed options include three or more oral-history interviews, curating lists of past officers or award winners, scanning and cataloging chapter photos or scrapbooks, collecting newspaper clippings, creating a chapter-history documentary video, developing a list of successful former members or officers, and creating a historical display for the agriculture classroom.
Application Requirements
The current online application asks for chapter name, advisor name or names, email, phone, alumni-chapter status, confirmation that no Forever Blue endowment is already established, Centennial Project activities, the chapter’s average annual budget over the last three years and primary funding source, the expected annual student impact of the endowment, any new opportunity the endowment would make possible, the chapter’s $5,000 commitment status or plan, potential local donors, and plans to continue growing the endowment. The current form contains no file-upload question.
Selection Factors
Kentucky FFA identifies demonstration of need, ability to secure the additional $5,000 match, participation in the Kentucky FFA Centennial Project, and the one-time nature of matching support as selection controls. Chapters not selected may apply again in the future, but a chapter may receive the matching funds only once.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 72/100. This is a verified Kentucky school and agricultural-education funding opportunity with a clear $5,000 award, a November 20 deadline, and a defined application. The score is moderated by the required $5,000 chapter match or commitment, the restriction to new Forever Blue endowments, and the absence of a published exact closing time and time zone.
N9+ Fit: 0/100. This opportunity funds a permanent agricultural-education endowment for FFA chapter support. It is not a healthcare, telehealth, diagnostics, school-clinic, or remote-examination funding pathway.
Dr. Miltie direct-vendor fit: not viable. The applicant is a Kentucky FFA chapter establishing its own endowment, and the program requires the chapter to secure the additional $5,000. There is no verified direct Dr. Miltie applicant or vendor role.
Outreach Control
Publication is appropriate, but new applicant outreach should remain held unless the exact closing clock time and time zone are verified from the funder. Atlas outreach controls require an exact verified deadline before a new send is authorized.
Official Sources
Grant page: Kentucky FFA Foundation Grants
Program announcement: Kentucky FFA Forever Blue Matching Grant Announcement
Application: Forever Blue Endowment Grant Application