Emergent Fund Rapid Response Grants
Monthly, open-access, low-barrier grants with no reporting requirement, decided by grantmakers drawn from directly impacted communities, for rapid response and emergent organizing by US grassroots groups.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-grant amount is published. The apply page states the fund distributed about $3 million in grant awards across 2025.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct, NovPublished deadline: 2026-09-17 — 33 days awayApplications close the third Thursday of each open month at 5:00pm PST. Published 2026 open cycles: April 1-23, May 1-21, June 1-18, September 1-17, October 1-22, November 1-19. January-March and July 2026 were invitation-only. Not for recurring operating support or direct services without an organi
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must hold 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) status or work through a fiscal sponsor. Government agencies, universities, for-profit businesses and individuals are explicitly ineligible, so a university-based researcher must partner with and apply through a qualifying community organization. Work based outside the US and US territories is ineligible.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- rapid response · grassroots organizing · participatory grantmaking
- Apply at
- https://www.emergentfund.net/apply
- 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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