Pawanka Fund Grants

Nontraditional Participatory grantmaking

A global Indigenous-led and Indigenous-governed fund supporting traditional knowledge, language revitalisation, Indigenous governance and self-determined development across seven world regions.

Indicative award

Amount not published (varies by call)No amounts are published on the fund's own grant partners page. Figures circulating in third-party profiles are not confirmed by the funder and are therefore not recorded.

Timing

By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Grants are made in numbered cycles decided by an Indigenous Guiding Committee. There is no open call and no published deadline; the page directs enquiries to pawanka@pawankafund.org while discouraging solicitations.

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Grants go to Indigenous organisations and communities worldwide. The fund is invitation-only and states plainly that no unsolicited applications will be considered, so neither a community group nor a university can apply cold; academic involvement realistically comes through an invited Indigenous grant partner. Listed as a record here because the funding stream is real and largely invisible outside Indigenous networks.

SSWR clusters

Topics

traditional knowledge · language revitalisation · indigenous governance · food systems

Apply at

https://www.pawankafund.org/grant-partners/

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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Pawanka Fund Grants

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