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Community Interest Funds

Omaha Community Foundation

NontraditionalParticipatory grantmaking

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. 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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