Community Power Grantmaking Program
iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility
Multi-year general operating grants in the Washington DC region decided by a committee of community members with lived experience of racial inequities, including people organising around criminalisation and safety.
- Indicative award
- $75k per year (per year)Page states ten grants of $75,000 yearly for three years ($225,000 over the term) in general operating support.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · Apr, May, JunNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The 2025 RFP closed 9 June 2025 and the 2025-2028 cohort has been selected; no successor cycle date is published. The prior cycle ran an information session in April with a June deadline.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Organisations must work in the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland, or Northern Virginia, and hold 501(c)(3) status or a fiscal sponsor. The page does not list universities as eligible; decisions are made by a committee of community members with lived experience, with foundation staff as non-voting members.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- participatory grantmaking · community power · general operating support · washington dc region
- Apply at
- https://www.iffdn.org/grantmaking
- 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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