The Boulder County Climate Equity Fund is a new grant program designed to advance climate justice in the community.
Donor Name: Boulder County
State: Colorado
County: Boulder County (CO)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Boulder County Climate Equity Fund will advance Boulder County’s racial equity goals, support those most impacted by the climate crisis, and enable grassroots and neighborhood leaders to implement impactful climate action.
Funding Information
The fund will distribute up to $2.5 million in 2025.
- Tier 1: $5,000 – $50,000
- Early-stage or smaller-scale projects that aim to test ideas, build community partnerships, or launch pilot programs.
- Tier 2: $55,000- $1 million
- More established projects or start up initiatives that have already been developed but need funds to execute or continue.
Project Examples
The Climate Equity Fund will support many types of community-led climate action. Categories for possible projects include:
- Healing and cultural connection
- Arts, media and storytelling
- Education and youth engagement
- Mutual aid, basic needs and climate resilience
- Land, air, water, and food systems
- Infrastructure
- Zero waste and low-carbon living
- Workforce and economic justice.
Eligibility Criteria
The Climate Equity Fund welcomes lead applications from locally based, frontline, community-led organizations. These include:
- 501(c)(3) nonprofits or groups with fiscal sponsorship
- Mutual aid networks
- Neighborhood associations, such as mobile home park coalitions, low-income housing cooperatives, or Boulder Housing Partners
- Resident-led initiatives
- Tribes and Tribal entities.
Ineligibility
- These entities not eligible to serve as lead applicants, though they may participate as project partners:
- Universities
- Municipalities, county, state, or federal government agencies
- For‑profit businesses
- Individuals applying as sole entities without collaborators are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Boulder county.
