The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is seeking applications for its 2025-2026 Food Assistance Resiliency Grants.
Donor Name: Washington State Department of Agriculture
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/22/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This program contributes to WSDA’s ongoing Focus on Food Initiative, which aims to ensure access to a safe and nutritious supply of food to support a healthy and thriving Washington population. The Resiliency Grants and Initiatives Committee, a diverse advisory group, helps inform the design of this program.
Grant Objectives
- Collaboration amongst organizations to make significant improvements to the hunger relief network in their area.
- Increase client access to food and reduce client barriers.
- Respond to organizational and community need.
Funding Information
- WSDA anticipates the minimum to be no less than $10-20K.
- WSDA anticipates the maximum not to exceed $150-250K.
Funding Priorities
This funding will prioritize:
- Providing access to flexible funding to hunger relief organizations, including tribes and tribal organizations, to support current and vital organizational needs.
- Supporting hunger relief organizations in ways they determine are best for their community.
- Supporting access to nutritious food, including underserved communities.
- Ensuring funding is distributed across the entire state.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
Who should apply?
- Hunger relief organizations primarily focused on addressing food insecurity within the state of Washington.
- A nonprofit corporation (including an unrecognized tribe or tribal organization that is a 501(c)(3)), or government/public agency, or federally recognized tribe, or a church, or a religious organization associated with a church.
- If an applicant is not an eligible organization, the applicant may seek a fiscal sponsor who is an eligible organization. If awarded the fiscal sponsor would hold the agreement with WSDA Food Assistance.
- Eligibility requirements, listed below, apply to: Nonprofit corporations (including unrecognized tribes or tribal organizations that are a 501 (c)(3)).
- 501(c)(3): IRS Determination Letter: Copy of the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search showing organization is not on the auto-revocation list and has filed their recent 990.
- Registered with Office of the Secretary of State Washington: Copy of the current registration or copy of the most recent annual report.
- Must have been operating: As a nonprofit corporation, or unrecognized tribe, or tribal organization for 12 or more consecutive months (with 501(c)(3) nonprofit status) prior to the beginning date of the written Agreement.
- Eligibility requirements, listed above, do not apply to: Federally recognized tribes, government/public agencies (conservation district, city, authority, commission, etc.), churches or a religious organizations associated with a church (community must recognize as a church or a religious organization associated with a church).
For more information, visit WSDA.
