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Community Power Grantmaking Program

iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility

NontraditionalParticipatory grantmaking

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.
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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. 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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