Child & Family Well-Being Grants
Grants to Carolinas nonprofits serving children and families who have experienced or are at risk of abuse and neglect, in three streams: implementing tested programs, advocating for system improvement, and innovation where proven models do not yet exist.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)The application page publishes no grant range. Awards vary by stream (implementation, advocacy, innovation).
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Jun, DecPublished deadline: 2026-12-15 — 122 days awayPre-application deadlines are June 15 and December 15 each year; the portal opens roughly six weeks before each. An eligibility decision follows within 30 days, after which an invited full application may be submitted.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Accredited nonprofits and other nonprofit organizations in North Carolina or South Carolina only, with two years of audited financial statements. Public schools are ineligible; startup group homes, child care, early education and afterschool programs and congregate care are not funded.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- child abuse and neglect prevention · evidence-based programs · system advocacy · innovation and testing
- Apply at
- https://www.dukeendowment.org/grants/child-family-well-being-application
- 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 Child Welfare shelf
- Research and evaluation grantsOffice of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and FamiliesAmount not published · Periodic calls
- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceWilliam T. Grant Foundation$100k–$1M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- 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
- Grants and research partnershipsThe Annie E. Casey FoundationAmount not published · By invitation
- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open