The Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation monetary grants are awarded annually at the end of each Blue Jackets hockey season. Any non-profit organization may apply for a grant, however, the Board of Directors will give those organizations with a focus of pediatric cancer, education, the health and safety of today’s youth and the development of youth and amateur hockey priority.
The basic criteria for the grants are as follows:
- Foundation grants range in value at the discretion of the Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation Board of Directors
- The Blue Jackets Foundation Board of Directors meets yearly (in March) to review grant applications for funding and distributes all grants at the end of the Blue Jackets season
- Any organization applying for a grant must be a 501 (c)(3) serving the Central Ohio and/or Ohio area
- Non-profit organizations requesting funding for a specific project are more likely to be awarded funding
- The Foundation is not able to consider the following grant requests for approval
- Individual/personal support
- One time events Fundraising events (e.g. golf outings, school events)
- Political events and campaigns
- Religiously affiliated events, campaigns, or organizations
- Ethnic organizations
- Labor groups
- Staffing
- Endowments and capital campaigns
- Any request seeking financial support for the purpose of debt retirement
- Programs outside the geographic markets we serve
- Organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, age or religion
View Grant Application
Grant Applications Deadline: March 1 (in office)
Mail to:
Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation
200 W. Nationwide Blvd
Columbus, OH 43215
Drop off: business hours 9am-5pm (Monday-Friday)
Hard copy required - faxes and emails not accepted
How to get here:
- Enter through the Box office doors (on the corner of Nationwide and McConnell)
- Immediately to your right through the double doors will be a security desk
- Tell them that you are there to go to the offices on the Suite Level
- Security will direct you to the elevators. Take the elevators to your left up to the Suite Level
- There will be double glass doors through which there is a front desk