Immigrant Rights and Workers' Rights grantmaking
California-focused grantmaking supporting leadership development, policy advocacy and grassroots organising on immigrant rights and workers' rights, including capacity for community organisations working with the state's immigrant residents.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No grant range is published. The foundation reports close to 2,800 grants totalling nearly $80 million since inception, but does not state a per-grant figure.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Two-page letters of inquiry are accepted on an ongoing basis by email; no deadline dates are published.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit or a public agency, based in California or managing significant activities in California. Preference for organisations with budgets not exceeding $2 million. The foundation identifies most grantees directly and funds only a few unsolicited inquiries.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- immigrant rights · workers' rights · policy advocacy · community organising
- Apply at
- https://rosenbergfound.org/how-to-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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