The Denver Foundation is pleased to invite qualified organizations to apply for funding from the Community Grants Programs (CGP).
Donor Name: The Denver Foundation
State: Colorado
County:
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $20,000 to $50,000
Details:
Though The Denver Foundation prioritizes funding to support BIPOC-led organizations, they will take into account each organization’s experiences, learnings, and progress regarding constituent and BIPOC leadership on its staff and board.
The Foundation prioritizes improving the lives of historically oppressed people living in Metro Denver, with a particular focus on people who live in low-income communities and BIPOC communities. They seek to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and economic disparities. They support organizations that share and demonstrate their core values of racial equity and community leadership.
Funding Areas
- Economic opportunity
- community wealth-building
- workforce development
- Education– K-12 in-school reforms with an emphasis on:
- racial equity
- school funding
- Environment
- energy efficiency
- renewable energy
- air quality
- Housing and Homelessness
- affordable housing
- homelessness
- Transportation
- public transit accessibility and affordability
Funding Information
Grant awards typically range from $20,000 to $50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your work must be aligned with The Denver Foundation’s values.
- Your organization must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor.
- Your organization must be located in the seven-county Metro Denver region that addresses one or more of the goals described in this document.
Grant awards given in previous years are no guarantee of future grant awards.
Not eligible for funding:
- Capital campaigns
- Building endowments or reserve funds
- Membership campaigns
- Sponsorships
- Retroactive funding, i.e., activities, projects, or programs that will be completed before funding becomes available
- Debt retirement
- Grants to individuals (please see the Strengthening Neighborhoods program for opportunities)
- Grants for re-granting purposes
- Grants for medical, scientific, or academic research
- Grants that further political doctrine or religious activities
- Grants to parochial or religious schools
- Scholarships (for more information, please visit our website)
- The Denver Foundation does not fund organizations or programs that discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), physical or mental disability, pregnancy status, body type, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, except to serve a historically disadvantaged group.
For more information. visit Community Grants Program (CGP).
