Quest for Democracy Fund (Q4D)
Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM)
A regranting fund created and governed by the national network of formerly incarcerated and convicted people, moving money to small organizations led by people who have been inside. Grants come paired with capacity building and technical assistance.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-grant range is published on the page. It reports aggregate history only: 102 grants totalling $3.46 million since 2019, plus 58 COVID-era grants worth $1.75 million, and $5.2 million administered overall.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page describes a competitive process opened by release of an RFP, but publishes no dates or current cycle status. Watch the site or contact FICPFM for the next RFP.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be organizations whose leadership is governed by formerly incarcerated people, with small operating budgets (page cites grantees typically under $500k) and a demonstrated policy-advocacy and voter-engagement capacity. Universities cannot apply; a researcher's route is as a partner to a grantee organization.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- decarceration · rights restoration · civic engagement · bail reform · movement capacity
- Apply at
- https://ficpfm.org/quest-for-democracy/
- 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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