Nonprofit Funding Opportunities For Diversity And Humanitarian Programs

Scroll down to explore this week's grants. Deadlines are always approaching, so take a look and see which ones might be the right fit for your nonprofit.

Happy grant writing!

Third Wave Fund

Submissions are now open for the Mobilize Power Fund Program, a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats.

Deadline: May 6, 2025

https://www.thirdwavefund.org/mobilize-power-fund

White Feather Foundation

The Foundation supports environmental and humanitarian issues and helps to raise funds for the betterment of all life. Applications are now open for environmental projects that have a definite outcome or result.

Deadline: April 30, 2025

https://whitefeatherfoundation.com/news/applications-now-open-for-2025-environmental-projects/

Righteous Persons Foundation

The Foundation’s Grant Program supports efforts to build a vibrant, just, and inclusive Jewish community in the U.S. The Foundation is currently focused on projects that are national in scope and focus on the vibrancy, complexity, and diversity of Jewish life; build relationships across religious divides; and strengthen faith-rooted moral leadership and advance social justice.

Deadline: August 8, 2025

https://www.righteouspersons.org/letters-of-inquiry/ 

Spencer Foundation

The Foundation is seeking applications for its Racial Equity Research Grants Program to support education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Focus areas include mental health, DEI challenges, and youth civic engagement.

Deadline: May 5, 2025

https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/racial-equity-special-research-grants

Impact Fund

The Fund is providing grants to legal services nonprofits who seek to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice. The Fund supports social, economic, and environmental justice cases that affect groups, including LGBT rights, human and civil rights, gender equity, and more. Submit Letter of Inquiry.

Deadline: July 1, 2025

https://www.impactfund.org/legal-grants/application-requirements

Russell Sage Foundation

The Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry under the core program for Social, Political, and Economic Inequality to support originalr research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S.

Deadline: July 16, 2025

https://www.russellsage.org/research/funding/social-inequality

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