The Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness serves diverse immigrant communities throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania by providing financial support and capacity building to organizations that remove barriers and provide opportunities for individuals to live with dignity and joy.
Donor Name: Thomas Scattergood Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
County: Bucks County (PA), Chester County (PA), Delaware County (PA), Montgomery County (PA), Philadelphia County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/10/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness alters the traditional process of philanthropic giving. In this innovative approach, community-based, immigrant-serving organizations define the grantmaking strategy and disseminate grant dollars from a pooled fund. Ultimately, this process shifts the power dynamic in the funder-grantee relationship by asking service providers to not only inform a funding process but to drive it.
Innovative in its approach, the Community Fund alters the traditional process of philanthropic giving and shifts grantmaking power and responsibility to community-based, immigrant-serving organizations. Ultimately, this process shifts the power dynamic in the funder-grantee relationship by asking service providers to not only inform a funding process but to drive it. At its core, the Community Fund’s approach is asset driven, drawing on the tremendous expertise, commitment, and resilience of the immigrant and refugee communities in Southeastern PA.
In its sixth cycle of grantmaking, organizations can apply for $30,000 unrestricted grants. Organizations must support the emotional health and wellbeing of immigrant and refugee communities work by:
- Creating opportunities with immigrant communities to encourage care, positive coping strategies, and collective healing
- Building spaces that cultivate meaningful connections among community members
- Fostering a sense of dignity and self-agency
- Centering cultural practices of participants.
Funding Information
Organizations are eligible to apply for $30,000 unrestricted grants.
Grant Period
July 2025 – June 2026.
Eligibility Requirements
- Nonprofit Status
- Is the organization is recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or have a fiscal sponsor?
- Geographic Location
- Is the organization located in the Greater Philadelphia region, including the following counties: Bucks County, Chester County, Delaware County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia County?
- Organization Budget Size
- Does the organization have an annual budget of $10 million or less?
- Organization Mission
- Does the organization’s mission state that they work with immigrant and/or refugee communities?
- Representation
- The Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness is dedicated to advancing leadership of immigrants and refugees. In the evaluation process, consideration will be given to how the organization has worked to build a leadership team and board that reflects the community they serve.
For more information, visit Thomas Scattergood Foundation.
