The Austin Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Women’s Fund grant program.
Donor Name: Austin Community Foundation
State: Texas
County: Bastrop County (TX), Burnet County (TX), Caldwell County (TX), Hays County (TX), Travis County (TX), Williamson County (TX)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Austin Community Foundation believes that advancing the economic mobility of women and children is essential to closing the opportunity gap in Central Texas—and they know true progress requires tackling the persistent economic and health disparities many women still face.
Funding Areas
The Women’s Fund awards funding to organizations and programs providing direct services and systems-level change in the following strategy areas:
- Housing: Supporting access to affordable housing for women that include a network of support and/or opportunities for long-term wealth building.
- Child Care: Expanding access to safe, quality, culturally competent and affordable child care that is conveniently located for families with low incomes.
- Education: Providing access to an ecosystem of support—academic, emotional, and financial—for women pursuing educational dreams.
- Unintended Pregnancy Prevention: Increasing access to consumable, unbiased pregnancy prevention resources.
- Women’s Health: Reducing health disparities experienced by women facing the greatest barriers to care.
Funding Information
- In each strategy area, three grants will be distributed as follows:
- Winning Finalist: $60,000 total; a multi-year grant over two years – $35,000 the first year and $25,000 the second year
- Runner-up Finalist: $30,000
- Semifinalist: $20,000
- In total, $550,000 in unrestricted, general operating support will be awarded to 15 different nonprofit organizations.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants must be tax-exempt organizations or units of government serving the six county Central Texas region which includes: Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, Burnet, and Caldwell Counties.
- Organizations must be tax-exempt under Sections 501(c)3 or 170(b)(1)(a)(vi) of the Internal Revenue Code, and/or be a unit of government.
- Proposals will be considered from organizations that engage in non-lobbying advocacy work. Organizations doing systems change level work such as educating the public about issues, community organizing, policy research and other non-lobbying advocacy activities may apply.
- Proposals will be considered from religious organizations that engage in non-religious programming.
- Religious organizations will need to demonstrate that their work aligning with the Women’s Fund strategies is secular in nature and does not discriminate against any employees or clients based on religion.
For more information, visit ACF.
