Applicants are invited to apply for the Roundhouse Foundation Grant.
Donor Name: The Roundhouse Foundation
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/13/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Focus Areas
- Arts & Culture
- Arts and culture bring people together, expand hearts and minds and build vibrant communities. They cultivate, enhance and sustain a sense of community by helping people understand and respect who they are, who their neighbors are and the unique place they call home. Arts and culture also support the creative economy, providing important economic impact in rural communities.
- Education
- Education opens doors, changes lives and strengthens rural communities.
- Environmental Stewardship
- The future of rural Oregon’s people and places are tightly intertwined. They depend on environment to provide water and food, nurture spirits and offer them recreation. The wise, steady and innovative stewardship, always paramount, holds increasing importance for quality of life as the climate changes.
- Social Services
- Rural Oregonians know that they depend on one another and how they take care of each other matters deeply. They understand that people cannot reach their full potential, contribute their best or be creative when they are in pain, hungry or don’t have a safe, stable home.
Funding Information
Grant requests between $2,501 and $30,000. Median award is approx. $20,000.
Grant Period
Proposed project activities should take place 12 to 18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- are IRS-designated 501(c)3 non-profits, a government entity (including special districts) or a Tribal government.
- share passion for and commitment to rural Oregon.
- demonstrate a broad network of community support.
- advance one or more of focus areas and understand how these areas are interconnected.
- approach opportunities and challenges with innovation, creativity and collaborative spirit.
- have clear goals and clear outcomes that advance work toward solutions.
- demonstrate thoughtful planning.
- demonstrate they are doing the work to develop and apply racial equity and DEI lenses to their work.
- value community and believe strengthening community connections is foundational to their work.
- demonstrate solid organizational stewardship.
- want to engage with Roundhouse and those within network as partners.
The foundation especially interested in opportunities that:
- stimulate rural economies, foster economic resilience and/or advance efforts outside of traditional economies.
- remove barriers to access services, whether real or perceived.
- bring great, new ideas at a time when Foundation support can act as a catalyst.
- engage and mobilize young people.
- engage a mix of lived experiences at every level, including across generations.
- celebrate rural landscapes.
- support sustainable food production and distribution.
- have the potential to leverage additional investment in rural Oregon.
For more information, visit The Roundhouse Foundation.
