Black Radiance Network — Justice & Liberation Fund
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
Unrestricted general operating support to strengthen the Black movement ecosystem in Minnesota, relaunched in 2025 within the broader Black Radiance Network. Successor to the Black Movement Ecosystem fund. Unrestricted support of this size can carry the organizational capacity a Black-led group needs to sustain its own evaluation and documentation work with a research partner.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No current award size is published. The page reports only historical figures for the predecessor Black Movement Ecosystem round: $550,000 to 17 organizations with awards from $20,000 to $50,000. Those are past awards, not a published current range.
- Timing
- Varies by programmeNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page publishes no application deadline or cycle for the relaunched fund and directs questions to the named Director of Programs.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to Black-led groups doing frontline justice organizing in Minnesota. A university cannot be the applicant; a social work researcher would participate through a Black-led Minnesota organization that holds the grant. The page does not state a 501(c)(3) status requirement or a budget cap.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- black-led organizing · movement ecosystem · general operating support · racial justice
- Apply at
- https://headwatersfoundation.org/grants/black-radiance-network/
- 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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