Youth Climate Justice Fund — Annual Open Call
Flexible grants of up to $40,000 to youth-led climate justice and socio-environmental groups worldwide, with regional youth committees reviewing and deciding awards.
- Indicative award
- up to $40k (total award)The page states grants of up to $40,000 USD. Reporting on the same call describes a smaller local-group tier and a larger national-group tier, but the fetched page publishes only the $40,000 ceiling, so no minimum is recorded.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jan, Feb, MarNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The 2026 round closed 1 March 2026 at 23:59 UTC. Calls have run on an annual cycle opening in the new year; no future date is published yet.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Master's / undergraduate
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be youth-led groups with people 35 and under in leadership, organizing non-partisan, non-violent and legal action. Groups in wealthy nations must represent minority or underserved communities; groups doing only international work with no local base cannot apply. A university is not an eligible applicant — the researcher route is as a partner to a grantee group.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- climate justice · youth organizing · movement building · policy accountability · global south
- Apply at
- https://ycjf.org/2026-grant-applications-are-open
- 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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