Community Interest Funds
Five resident-led funds — Omaha Neighborhood Grants, African American Unity Fund, Futuro Latino Fund, LGBTQIA2S+ Equality Fund, and Refugee Community Grant Fund — where committees of people from the served communities set the process and make the funding decisions.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-grant range is published. The page reports the 2025 cycle awarded $665,000 across 86 organizations, which is a total, not an award size.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jan, Feb, MarNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Applications open January 1 and close March 1 at 11:59 p.m. each year; the 2026 window has closed. One-on-one coaching in English and Spanish is offered January through February. Residents who want to join a review committee apply March 1 to April 1.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must serve people living in the Omaha metro; priority areas and eligibility differ by fund. Decision committees are made up of residents who come from or identify with the population served, so a university would be an unusual applicant here; partnering with an on-the-ground organization is the realistic route.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- black communities · latino communities · lgbtqia2s+ communities · refugee communities · neighborhood leadership
- Apply at
- https://omahafoundation.org/nonprofits/community-interest-funds/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
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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