Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) Grant Program
Seattle Foundation's community-led, participatory grant program funding grassroots community organizing, resident leadership development and neighborhood-designed projects in Greater Seattle. Running since 1991, the program describes itself as designed by and for community members, and awards flexible early funding to small, emerging groups — a route by which a social work researcher partnered with a grassroots organization can support community-based inquiry, documentation and evaluation of local organizing.
- Indicative award
- $10k (total award)The program page states that as of spring 2025 individual N2N grant awards increased to $10,000 per organization.
- Timing
- Several times a yearNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page shows quarterly funding rounds but does not publish specific application deadline dates; applicants are directed to the online application portal. No future deadline date is published, so none is recorded here.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a grassroots organization based in Greater Seattle, with priority focus on South Seattle, White Center, Kent, and SeaTac/Tukwila. The program prioritizes groups led by people from marginalized communities — communities of color, Black, Native and Indigenous communities, immigrant and refugee communities, and low-income communities. A university cannot be the applicant; a faculty researcher would participate only as a partner to a community-based grantee organization, with the grantee holding the award.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community organizing · resident leadership · grassroots capacity · racial equity
- Apply at
- https://www.seattlefoundation.org/grants/neighbor-to-neighbor
- 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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