Institutional Grants (Democratic Governance and Education)
Grants to organisations working in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin America. Eligible activities explicitly include applied research, evaluation, community engagement, workshops, and scaling up promising interventions.
- Indicative award
- $50k–$150k per year (per year)The application page states awards generally range from $50,000 to $150,000 annually for up to three years, and that smaller grants for bounded projects are also welcome.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · JanNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The 2026 cycle opened 7 January 2026 with a 21 January 2026 LOI deadline, invited full proposals due 19 March 2026 and decisions in June 2026. That cycle has closed and no 2027 dates were published at the time of checking.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Organisations only — individuals are not funded. Applicants need charitable status (US 501(c)(3) or non-US equivalent) and an annual budget of at least $50,000 in 2023, 2024 or 2025. Work must concern Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries. Indirect costs are capped at 15%.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- latin america · democratic governance · education · applied research · evaluation
- Apply at
- https://tinker.org/institutional-grants-apply-page/
- 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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