The Denver Reparations Fund Coloradans have continued to face marginalization through harms like redlining, gentrification, mass incarceration, and unequal access in areas such as education, employment, and healthcare.
Donor Name: The Denver Foundation
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Focus Areas
Arts, Culture, Humanities, Economic Opportunity, Education, Health & Behavioral Health, Housing & Homelessness, Human Services, Policy.
Funding Information
$2,500 – $7,500.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor.
- Your organization must be located in and do work in the state of Colorado.
- Your organization must be focused on redressing the harms that accrued to Coloradans affected by the legacies of chattel slavery and Jim Crow segregation, including current structural disadvantages.
- Your organization must have substantial representation of persons whose ancestors experienced these harms and hardships within their leadership structures.
- Organizations that fall outside of these definitions and eligibility requirements but have a specific program that fits the fund’s priorities may apply for a program-specific grant.
- Beyond the basic eligibility requirements, the organization’s work must also fit one or more of the priorities identified below:
- Build economic strength, generational wealth acquisition, and financial literacy.
- Preserve, provide access to, and expand the history, culture, knowledge, and awareness of communities in Colorado shaped by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow.
- Enhance mental and physical health access and increase public health education.
- Provide quality education from early childhood through adulthood, including reimagination of career options and pathways.
- Enhance community building and advocacy that responds to the needs of Colorado residents living in communities shaped by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow.
- Provide access, including transportation, to critical life-sustaining services.
- Create openings for transformative change that are both systemic and relational.
For more information, visit The Denver Foundation.
