IMA Foundation Grants

The 2023 spring cycle is now open. Applications are due April 5 at 5 p.m. MST.

Applicants’ primary missions must align with one of the three IMA Foundation giving pillars and be located near one of our major markets. Nonprofits may apply once every 12 months. Grant sizes are under $10,000.

Email foundation@imacorp.com with questions regarding grant applications.

Shortly after the incorporation of IMA more than 40 years ago, the company’s founders showed true vision and commitment to the community by creating the IMA Foundation. With employee owners at the core of our business, the goal of the IMA Foundation is to represent the passions of our associates and make strategic contributions within the foundation focus areas.

IMA Foundation Vision: Empowering our communities to create opportunities which protect assets and make a difference.

IMA Foundation Mission: To provide philanthropic support in the communities where we work and live.

IMA is excited to announce our community report for 2021 is here. It was an extraordinary year and the 2021 report represents the growth IMA has seen through the addition of partners and programs that have added new meaning to our work in the community. Here are a few quick highlights:

Our fundraising events, Ping Pong on the Plaza, Pickleball, Pickle Jam, Sandblast and the Bolton Throw Down raised more than $540,000
The IMA Foundation provided $514,500 in grants to 61 deserving nonprofit organizations
IMA associates gave more than $254,000 in personal giving, and an additional $137,000 was donated by the IMA Foundation through our Matching Gifts and Dollars for Doers programs

View IMA's Impact in the Community >

The IMA Foundation focuses its efforts in three key areas:

Advancing Youth

To reduce the drop-out rate and offer a chance of quality futures for our young people.

Mentoring programs
After school programs
Youth Mental Health*

Arts & Culture

To improve the quality of life in our communities through the arts.

Cultural institutions
Arts in Education programs that offer arts education programming in public schools

Education

To support educational institutions so that young people graduate with increased skills and knowledge, resulting in a higher skilled workforce in the future.

Educational institutions
K-12 public education
Higher education

2022 IMA Foundation Grant Recipients – $651,000

Twice a year, the IMA Foundation board of trustees reviews hundreds of applications and determines grants to award to deserving nonprofits whose missions reflect the IMA Foundation’s focus areas of Education, Arts & Culture, and Advancing Youth. In 2022, the IMA Foundation awarded $651,000 to deserving nonprofits in IMA communities!