Fund of the Sacred Circle
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
A Native-led participatory fund whose decisions are made by the FSC Native Community Grantmaking Circle, an assembly of Native leaders, activists and community members from many Nations. Funds work on sovereignty and treaty rights, language and cultural revitalization, land restoration and environmental justice, and self-determination and human rights, all of which are live areas for Indigenous-led community research.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No grant amount or range is published on the fund page.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page states applications are not currently open and that the website will be updated when that changes. No cycle months are published.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to Native-led organizations and projects in Minnesota and Wisconsin addressing systemic injustice. Decisions are made by the Native Community Grantmaking Circle rather than foundation staff. A university cannot be the applicant; a social work researcher partners with an eligible Native-led organization that holds the grant. The page states applications are not currently being accepted.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- tribal sovereignty · treaty rights · language revitalization · land restoration · self-determination
- Apply at
- https://headwatersfoundation.org/grants/fund-of-the-sacred-circle/
- 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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