The Movement & Power Building Grant is designed to support grassroots organizations, programs, and coalitions that are building the leadership, base, infrastructure, and strategy needed to advance racial, economic, and gender justice for Queer communities of color.
Donor Name: Contigo Fund
State: Florida
County: Brevard County (FL), Flagler County (FL), Indian River County (FL), Lake County (FL), Orange County (FL), Osceola County (FL), Polk County (FL), Seminole County (FL), Volusia County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/29/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Movement & Power Building Grant is Contigo Fund’s primary investment in long-term, community-led power-building across Central Florida. These inequities cannot be solved through short-term services alone. While direct support may meet an immediate need, it does not on its own shift the policies, institutions, leadership pathways, public narratives, or community power needed to transform the underlying conditions. Contigo Fund is a systems-change funder. That means they prioritize work that builds long-term impact and helps move communities from survival to power.
Through this grant, Contigo seeks to support organizations that are growing and activating a base, developing leadership from within impacted communities, advancing organizing and advocacy strategies, strengthening community-rooted accountability and governance, and contributing to a broader social justice ecosystem. We are especially interested in work that builds durable community power, strengthens movement infrastructure, and creates long-term solutions that shift power, not only respond to harm.
Funding Information
Grants Up to $75,000.
Grant Period
12 months.
The Foundation is Looking to Support:
They are particularly interested in grassroots organizations, programs, and coalitions whose work reflects a clear movement-building strategy and strong accountability to Queer communities of color across Central Florida.
This includes efforts that are building long-term community power through strategies such as:
- Base-building and grassroots development that grows, engages, and activates community members over time
- Leadership development that prepares community members to lead issue campaigns, organizations, coalitions, and movement spaces
- Grassroots organizing and advocacy that addresses root causes and advances policy, systems, and institutional change
- Community-rooted governance and accountability structures that strengthen leadership, transparency, and long-term sustainability
- Coalition-building and bridge-building across Queer, racial justice, immigrant justice, gender justice, and economic justice movements
- Capacity-building and organizational strengthening that directly supports sustained movement infrastructure and long-term power-building
- Work deeply rooted in and accountable to communities most impacted, especially Black, Latinx, immigrant, trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive Queer communities of color
Eligibility Criteria
Contigo Fund seeks applications from grassroots organizations, programs, and coalitions based in Central Florida whose work aligns with its charitable purpose and program priorities and that are building long-term power in Queer communities of color and advancing racial, economic, and gender justice.
To be eligible to apply, applicants must meet the following baseline requirements:
- Be based in Contigo Fund’s Central Florida grantmaking region: Brevard, Flagler, Indian River, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, and Volusia counties
- Be deeply rooted in and accountable to Queer communities, with strong preference for organizations that demonstrate accountability to Queer communities of color
- Be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or be fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
- Engage in ongoing movement-building work that aligns with the priorities of the Movement & Power Building Grant
- Demonstrate a clear commitment to leadership development, base-building, organizing, advocacy, coalition-building, and/or broader systems change
- Be prepared to participate in Contigo Fund’s learning community and cohort-based opportunities during the grant term.
For more information, visit Contigo Fund.
