Grant Funding Opportunities for Equity and Diversity

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!

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Impact Fund

The Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits who seek to confront economic, environmental, racial, and social injustice.

Deadline: July 8, 2025

https://www.impactfund.org/about-legal-case-grants

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Foundation is requesting proposals for its Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity to promote health equity and combat structural racism as the most fundamental barrier to health in America.

Deadline: July 16, 2025

https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/research-to-advance-racial-and-indigenous-health-equity.html

Third Wave Fund

Applications are now open for the Mobilize Power Fund, a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions. Potential projects include healing justice work, conflict mediation/resolution, legal or bail fees, marches or rallies, leadership training and skills building, and more.

Deadline: July 1, 2025

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

AJ Muste Foundation for Peace and Justice

The Foundation’s Social Justice Fund supports grassroots activist projects in the US, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources. The Fund is especially interested in confronting institutionalized violence against racial, ethnic, gender-based, and LGBTQ communities, ending criminalization of immigrants, ending economic exploitation, and more.

Check Website – New Deadlines To Be Posted in Late May 2025

https://ajmuste.org/apply/sjf

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/

Russell Sage Foundation

The Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry under the core program for Social, Political, and Economic Inequality to support original research in the U.S. Areas of interest include economic wellbeing, equality of opportunity, climate change, natural disasters, and others.

Deadline Date: July 16, 2025

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

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