Finding your regional and community foundations (Candid)
Most community foundations never post a national call, so their money is invisible unless you go looking. Candid's directory and the free Funding Information Network locations are how you find the ones near your study site.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)A directory rather than a funder; the local grants it surfaces are typically community-scale.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Continuous.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Full directory access is subscription-based, but partner libraries in the Funding Information Network provide it free.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- community foundations · local funders · directory · library access
- Apply at
- https://candid.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.
Also on the Communities and Neighborhoods shelf
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- Sociology ProgramNational Science Foundation$100k–$500k · Rolling / open
- Disability and aging research and demonstration grantsAdministration for Community Living$200k–$4M · Annual cycle
- Research grants and visiting scholarsRussell Sage Foundationup to $200k · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- Active funding opportunitiesRobert Wood Johnson Foundation$100k–$1.5M · Periodic calls
- Faculty grant programLois and Samuel Silberman Fundup to $50k · Annual cycle