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Every year, the Foundation provides grants to approximately 1,200 projects implemented by charitable and non-profit organizations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These projects are divided into 6 grant tracks, each of which has its own controls, standards, policies and models, as detailed in the various guides that can be obtained when entering the link (Instructions and Forms Guides) from the (Grants) list on the Foundation’s website. Submitting a grant application to the Foundation requires that the entity review the instruction manual for each track and fully understand it to ensure that the grant application is prepared in accordance with the requirements of the track required to obtain grants in and according to the approved programs that are explained in detail in each application period provided by the Foundation.

The Foundation mainly provides grants to charitable organizations licensed by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development. It also provides grants to government agencies in special cases. Grants have four basic controls without which grants cannot be provided to any entity, which are:

The entity must be charitable or non-profit.
The presence of an official permit from the competent authority.
The existence of a bank account in the entity’s explicit name, with the exception of government agencies and subsidiary entities that are affiliated with main entities that have a bank account.
The existence of financial statements such that the entity’s accounts are subject to review by a certified public accountant’s office, with the exception of new entities and government entities.

The Non-Profit Sector Empowerment Program (enabling non-profit organizations to achieve a deeper impact by enhancing the organizations’ capabilities in meeting societal needs, and its most prominent areas include:
Institutional capacity development
Developing human capabilities
Develop financial capabilities
The Women and Family Empowerment Program (deepening family cohesion and stability so that the family fulfills its desired role in light of social changes and educational challenges. Among its most prominent areas are:
Balancing family and work
Women support the family
Family media
Activating technology in serving the family
Family research and studies
Family rehabilitation
The program for strengthening Islamic values and national identity (maximizing the sources of legislation, paying attention to the call to God, consolidating the values of the individual and society, and strengthening national identity with its Islamic, Arab, cultural depth. Among its most prominent areas are:
Building a values strategy
Programs for calling to God
Programs to strengthen national identity
Raising the efficiency of male and female teachers of the Holy Qur’an
Maximizing the impact of scholars
Dissemination of scientific heritage
Support scientific institutions
The Basic Needs Program (providing the basic needs of the needy through specialized charitable agencies and developing appropriate solutions for them. Its most prominent areas are:
Education and qualification
Food and clothing
Stability and housing
Health and treatment
Mosques and Mosques Program (contributing to the construction, maintenance and reconstruction of mosques and mosques, and its most prominent areas include:
Building mosques and mosques
Maintenance and reconstruction of mosques and mosques

Direct grant path:
Definition of the path and its goal:
A fast track to ready-made grants that serve the needs of charitable beneficiaries, so that they can choose the program that is compatible with their specialization, indicating the numbers of beneficiaries of the project and the required amount.
The path specializes in small and medium-budget charities, to serve the basic needs they provide to beneficiaries.
The goal of the path: Accelerating grants to charitable organizations so that they reach their beneficiaries on time and in a precise manner. According to the areas and programs specified by the institution annually.
Track features:
Ready to serve the basic programs of charitable organizations according to their specialization.
Speeds up grant processes between the application and approval stages.
It achieves the principle of spread and targets small and medium charitable organizations.
Competitive scholarship track:
Path definition:
A grant path for specific priority issues from the institution according to the banks; Charitable organizations compete for it by presenting their projects to serve these causes.
Path goal:
The organization’s contribution to solving societal issues
Directing grants by developing pre-defined social issues
Achieving the goals of charitable organizations by raising societal issues and directing them to search for solutions to them
Track features:
Commitment to prioritizing community needs
This path takes into account diversity in grants to contribute to resolving issues
This path encourages competition and creativity.
This path includes all types of projects according to the identified priorities
Participatory grant path:
Definition of the path and its goal:
These are financial grants that are made through partnerships that the Foundation holds with government agencies, institutions, and profit and non-profit entities.
Path objectives:
Through this path, the Foundation aims to achieve the following:
Investing the resources of the organization and partners in an optimal way that will have the most comprehensive and beneficial impact.
Contributing to empowering non-profit sector organizations and facilitating the achievement of their goals
Contributing to achieving the vision, mission and goals of the institution
Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of partnerships in achieving the organization's strategic goals.
Establish a frame of reference for selecting and managing partners to be more quality and sustainable.
Initiative Grant Track:
Definition of the path and its goal:
A grant track dedicated to development solutions and projects initiated and managed directly by the Foundation on issues or priorities that serve the community or the non-profit sector.
It aims to:
Providing community solutions in the form of initiatives adopted by the organization itself or in partnership with other parties.
Contributing to maximizing the impact of grants.
Contributing to empowering the non-profit sector.
Stimulating coordination and integration to serve the community and the non-profit sector.
Stimulating qualitative innovation to provide sustainable development solutions.
Track features:
This track is concerned with the initiatives adopted by the Foundation
This path contributes to the involvement of stakeholders in creating and developing ideas and solutions and contributing to their implementation
Knowledge scholarship track:
Definition of the path and its goal:
It is a path for transferring the accumulated experiences gained by the organization and its employees in all fields, especially in charitable work, by employing the assets and knowledge assets therein with the aim of creating added value for charitable organizations.
The path specializes in all charitable organizations by providing direct and rapid knowledge grants and large, qualitative knowledge grants.
Path goals:
Contributing to empowering knowledge in the charitable sector
Transferring the organization's accumulated knowledge to everyone who seeks this knowledge
Maximizing the impact of the organization’s giving and its diversity
What the track does not include:
Knowledge grants provided to private, endowment, and governmental institutions for the purposes of providing grants, and to individual donors because there is a path specialized for them, “the donor service path.”
Track features:
The path adds value to charitable work in general and to charitable organizations in particular.
The path achieves targeted coordination and integration into the organization's strategic directions.
The path helps charitable organizations gain experience, rationalize expenses, and master business.
Donor service path:
Definition of the path and its goal:
Executive services provided by the Foundation through its departments and branches to benefit donor agencies and individuals who wish to maximize the impact of grants through a set of advisory and executive services provided by the Foundation.
Path objectives:
Through this path, the Foundation aims to achieve the following:
Contributing to achieving the goals of the National Transformation Program 2020 and the Kingdom’s Vision 2030
Achieving integration and cooperation between donors and their institutions
Contributing to improving grants, tools and procedures
Promoting volunteer work and empowering human resources
Track features:
Activating the transfer of expertise and experience between donors, and localizing knowledge
Maximizing the impact of grants provided by the Foundation to civil society organizations and associations.
Strengthening the role of the third sector in community development
Contributing to overcoming economic conditions and resolving societal issues.
Study and highlight successful practices in the field of grants

The Foundation’s Grants and Programs Department, with the support of the concerned departments and donor service centers in the regions, studies the submitted grant applications according to the following:

The study of the application goes through three steps:

Ensure that the entity, project, and grant controls apply to the submitted application.
Evaluating the entity according to specific criteria.
Evaluating the project according to specific criteria.

The entity and project controls and evaluation criteria for each differ depending on the track to be applied for. To know this in detail, please review the instruction manual for each track before submitting the application.
The institution usually contacts the applicant at the study stage to discuss the details and make the required amendments.
Based on the above, the applications and the results of their evaluation are presented to specialized committees in the institution to take a decision on them.

The Sulaiman bin Abdulaziz Al Rajhi Charitable Foundation announces the date for receiving grant applications through the electronic portal and its official account.

All grant applications are submitted electronically through the Grantor System
If the entity does not have an account on the grants system, meaning that it is applying for the first time, it must create an account for it by entering the basic data and attaching the necessary documents as shown when entering the system. For more information, please review the instructions for using the grant system
After the organization accepts the entity’s registration and activates its account, it can complete submitting the application.
The entity must read the instruction manual for the program you want to apply for.
The entity can access the grants system and update its data at any time of the year, but it cannot send the support request to the organization through the system except at the times specified for receiving applications as described in the section on application periods and the period required to make a decision.
The institution will study the application in accordance with the controls and standards specified for each track and will communicate with the requesting entity continuously during the study process and provide it with any developments. The entity can also log into the system and follow up on the application at any time.

General framework for grants
Grant Pathways Guide
Instructions for using the grant system

Contact via beneficiary services email nvg@rf.org.sa