Building Strong Family Relationships: Prevention and Intervention in Child Welfare
Minnesota-focused funding for prevention and intervention in child welfare. The foundation explicitly funds direct service, research, field building and systems change, and lists research organizations among eligible applicants.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No grant range is published on the funding page.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Feb, SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-25 — 42 days awayTwo grant rounds in 2026, with due dates of February 27 and September 25. The child welfare priority is listed as accepting inquiries; applicants are asked to discuss fit with staff first.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Minnesota only, with priority to the seven-county Twin Cities metro. Eligible applicants include nonprofits, schools, early childhood settings, research organizations, government agencies, collaboratives and networks. No grants to individuals, endowments, lobbying, debt reduction or fundraising.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- family preservation · child welfare prevention · systems change · field building
- Apply at
- https://www.sauerff.org/funding
- 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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- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Young Scholars ProgramFoundation for Child Development$100k–$250k · Annual cycle
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- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open