Wellspring Fund

Nontraditional Participatory grantmaking

A four-year commitment to BIPOC-led Minnesota organizations testing multi-year projects and campaigns: organizing models, narrative approaches, coalition structures, campaign strategies and healing practices. The long horizon and the explicit interest in testing organizing models make it one of the few movement funds that can carry a real longitudinal practice-research collaboration.

Indicative award

$90k per year (per year)The page states $90,000 per year for four years, totaling $360,000 per grantee.

Timing

By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page states the Wellspring Fund is not currently accepting applications and gives no reopening date. Contact the named program officer listed on the page to learn when a cycle opens.

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Applicant must be a BIPOC-led organization in Minnesota working to strengthen the social justice movement ecosystem. A university cannot be the applicant; a social work researcher would join as a partner to an eligible BIPOC-led Minnesota organization. The page does not state a 501(c)(3) or budget-size requirement. The page states the fund is not currently accepting applications.

SSWR clusters

Topics

multi-year organizing · narrative strategy · coalition building · healing practices · movement infrastructure

Apply at

https://headwatersfoundation.org/grants/wellspring-fund/

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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