Grants for veterans, service members and their families
Funds community programmes serving veterans and military families and, unusually, pays for the evaluation capacity those programmes need to show whether they work.
- Indicative award
- $25k–$500k (total award)Programme grants at community scale, with rapid-response funds after specific events.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual investment cycles plus emergency funds opened as needed.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Any faculty rank, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- US non-profits serving veterans and military families; universities apply as partners more often than as leads.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- veterans · evaluation capacity · community programmes · emergency fund
- Apply at
- https://bobwoodrufffoundation.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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