A Foundation for Radical Possibility is now accepting applications for its 2025 Community Power Grantmaking Program.
Donor Name: A Foundation for Radical Possibility
State: District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/09/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Funding Priorities
- iF’s vision of self-determination for Black people and people of the global majority calls for us to deepen the commitment to racial justice. The American status quo cannot be maintained if self-determination is the goal. Accordingly, moving forward, they will fund innovation (I), disruption (D), and systemic change(s) of the status quo, now coined iF’s IDs.
- In this era of backlash and the rollback of policies and practices designed to address historical harms, iF will double down on its commitment to dismantle the systems that produce and perpetuate the inequitable treatment of Black people and people of the global majority.
- This is a shift. A necessary shift to actualize the vision. At this moment, when philanthropy is called to provide greater and longer-term resources, they are prioritizing funding efforts most strongly aligned with the IDs—Innovation, Disruption and systems change.
- Innovation: Constructing a new status quo based on novel and reclaimed memories, traditions, and wisdom of Black people and people of the global majority that center community wellbeing, cooperation, collectivity, and love. This work is in direct opposition to systems of oppression, namely anti-Blackness, structural racism, racial capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy, and cishetero-patriarchy.
- Disruption: Interrupting and/or destroying the status quo by interfering with, dismantling and/ or destroying systems of oppression, namely anti-Blackness, structural racism, racial capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy, and cishetero-patriarchy.
- systems change: Reforming systems of oppression, namely anti-Blackness, structural racism, racial capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy, and cishetero-patriarchy to positively impact and change the material conditions of Black people and people of the global majority.
Funding Information
Ten grants of $75,000 yearly for three years will be awarded. Grants will primarily be for general operating support.
Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for funding, applicants must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Overall work is in alignment with one or more of iF’s IDs:
- Innovation
- Disruption
- systems change
- Organizational commitment to racial justice
- Nonprofit organization with tax-exempt status under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code OR have a fiscal sponsor at the time of application.
- Note: If selected for a grant, nonprofit organizations will need to confirm they are in “Good Standing” with their local state entity before being awarded the grant.
- Located and doing work in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region:
- District of Columbia;
- Prince George’s County, Maryland;
- Montgomery County, Maryland; and/or
- Northern Virginia
- Note: National organizations and academic institutions may apply in partnership with community-based nonprofit groups serving as lead organizations/applicants.
- Black people and people of the global majority led and centered:
- Board must be composed of 50% or more Black people and people of the global majority.
- Staff must be led by and composed of 50% or more Black people and people of the global majority.
For more information, visit A Foundation for Radical Possibility.
