The Opportunity Fund awards grants to small to midsize arts organizations, and initiatives that advance social and economic justice.
Donor Name: Opportunity Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Opportunity Fund seeks to support activist organizing and movement work that:
- is led by a significant majority of people who are Black, African American, and/or of African descent
- originates from Black-led community organizing and remains grassroots and community-centric
- challenges, disrupts, and transforms existing power structures, when those power structures lead to disparate and unjust outcomes: benefitting some, disadvantaging others
- is led by people who directly experience the disparate and unjust outcomes of those power structures, or by those whose work is deeply informed by directly affected people
- is structured to resist institutional pressures that often work to dilute visions and tame power.
Funding Areas
- Arts
- Performing Arts, with an emphasis on theatre, dance and music, especially classical chamber music and jazz, presented by small and mid-sized arts organizations
- Visual Arts, with an emphasis on craft and small to mid-sized organizations
- Social & Economic Justice: with a focus on Racial Justice
- Black-Led Movement Work
- Civil Liberties
- Civil Rights, with special interest in Black and LGBTQ+ people, and other groups impacted by social injustice
- Human Rights
- Reproductive Freedom
- Safety Net Resources for people in need, including social services, economic independence, housing, tangible aid, transportation, healthcare.
Funding Information
- Maximum: $20,000
- Grants typically range between $7,500 – $15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Opportunity Fund awards grants to organizations that have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, and to certain governmental entities.
- The Opportunity Fund does not make grants directly to groups without 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, or to organizations located outside of the United States. They cannot make grants to individuals.
For more information, visit Opportunity Fund.
