Applicants are invited to apply for the Roundhouse Foundation Grant.
Donor Name: The Roundhouse Foundation
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/14/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Roundhouse Foundation supports creative solutions to the unique challenges associated with rural culture and landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.
Focus Areas
- Arts & Culture
- Arts and culture bring people together, expand hearts and minds and build vibrant communities. They cultivate, enhance and sustain a sense of community by helping people understand and respect who they are, who their neighbors are and the unique place they call home. Arts and culture also support the creative economy, providing important economic impact in rural communities.
- Education
- Education opens doors, changes lives and strengthens the rural communities.
- Environmental Stewardship
- The future of rural Oregon’s people and places are tightly intertwined. They depend on the environment to provide the water and food, nurture the spirits and offer us recreation. The wise, steady and innovative stewardship, always paramount, holds increasing importance for the quality of life as the climate changes.
- Social Services
- Rural Oregonians know that they depend on one another and how they take care of each other matters deeply. They understand that people cannot reach their full potential, contribute their best or be creative when they are in pain, hungry or don’t have a safe, stable home.
Funding Information
Grant requests between $2,501 and $30,000. Median award is approx. $20,000.
Grant Period
Preferred proposals span 12-18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Are IRS-designated 501(c)3 non-profits, a government entity (including special districts) or a Tribal government.
- share the passion for and commitment to rural Oregon.
- Demonstrate a broad network of community support.
- Advance one or more of the focus areas and understand how these areas are interconnected.
- Approach opportunities and challenges with innovation, creativity and collaborative spirit.
- Have clear goals and clear outcomes that advance work toward solutions.
- Demonstrate thoughtful planning.
- Demonstrate they are doing the work to develop and apply racial equity and DEI lenses to their work.
- Value community and believe strengthening community connections is foundational to their work.
- Demonstrate solid organizational stewardship.
- Want to engage with Roundhouse and those within the network as partners.
- They are especially interested in opportunities that:
- Stimulate rural economies, foster economic resilience and/or advance efforts outside of traditional economies.
- Remove barriers to access services, whether real or perceived.
- Bring great, new ideas at a time when Foundation support can act as a catalyst.
- Engage and mobilize young people.
- Engage a mix of lived experiences at every level, including across generations.
- Celebrate rural landscapes.
- Support sustainable food production and distribution.
- Have the potential to leverage additional investment in rural Oregon.
For more information, visit The Roundhouse Foundation.
