Hubert E. Sapp Regular Grant Cycle
Grants for rural grassroots organizing in a 12-state Southern region, decided by a grants committee of SPF members who are themselves rural community leaders and current or former grantees.
- Indicative award
- up to $5k (total award)The application-process page states first-time recipients may receive a maximum of $5,000. No published range for returning grantee partners; the grants page reports $6,367,336 total granted 2022-2024 but no per-award range.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Apr, MayNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Published cycle: RFP released early April, proposals due early May, panel review May-September, decisions announced early October. The 2026-2027 cycle closed May 6, 2026; the 2027-2028 cycle is listed as RFP early April with proposals due early May, no exact date yet published.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a rural community organization, coalition, or network in AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, or WV, majority-governed by leaders from its target population and using grassroots organizing. General support requires a budget of $500,000 or less; project support $500,001-$1.2M; over $1.2M ineligible. A university cannot apply; researchers participate as partners to an eligible grassroots grantee.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- rural organizing · racial justice · environmental justice · voting rights · economic justice
- Apply at
- https://southernpartnersfund.org/application-process/
- 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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