Wayzata Rotary Gives Back to Our Community & Our World

Grant Awards

Wayzata Rotary Club is proud to support projects and organizations both in our community and worldwide with funding grants. Awards are between $100 and $2,000 for locally initiated and managed projects. We fund basic and advanced needs projects. Water, Food, Shelter, Education, Technology, and Health projects are all eligible.


The club accepts applications for grants throughout the year and makes award decisions in November and May. 

  • Applications for the Spring 2026 grant awards are due by April 30, 2026. Awards will be announced on or around May 14.
  • We require each application to be sponsored by a club member. Please reach out to Paul Macek if you have interest in applying and would like to be connected to a Rotary member.  
  • We do not fund capital campaigns.
  • We typically award between $100 and $2,000.

Submit the application and required information to Paul Macek at paul.macek@pemadvisorsllc.com or mail to:

Wayzata Rotary C/O Copeland Buhl

ATTN Rotary Grant Committee

3033 Campus Dr Suite E590

Plymouth, MN 55441.

Emailed applications are preferred. 

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Community Service Grants are evaluated on these values:

  • We are open to funding a variety of purposes or causes.  New ideas are welcome!
  • We are open to small or new organizations as well as larger, well-established organizations.
  • We prefer funding nonprofit or charitable organizations.
  • We strongly prefer projects which are locally initiated and managed.
  • We prefer to fund specific needs, rather than general operations. 

International Service Grants are evaluated on these values:

  • We strongly prefer projects which are initiated and managed from the location that will be served.
  • We are open to new ideas and projects.  Basic needs projects (water, food, etc) and advanced needs (education, technology, etc) are all eligible.
  • Dependence on grants, versus self-sustaining, is not an obstacle to our funding.

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