Awesome Foundation micro-grants
No-strings $1,000 grants awarded monthly by autonomous local chapters of roughly ten micro-trustees each, for community, social innovation, accessibility and public-interest projects. Useful for small pilot documentation or community data work that cannot wait for a grant cycle.
- Indicative award
- $1k (total award)Flat $1,000 per grant, no strings attached.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, DecNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Chapters award monthly and applications are open year-round; each chapter sets its own review timing.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Practitioner, Community organisation, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- No formal eligibility gate is published: individuals as well as groups may apply, and applications go to a local chapter (69 chapters across 10 countries), so the practical constraint is whether a chapter covers your geography or theme.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- micro-grants · community projects · social innovation
- Apply at
- https://www.awesomefoundation.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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