The Women’s Fund of North Carolina is a program of the North Carolina Community Foundation, committed to supporting changing and diverse issues, needs and challenges facing women throughout the state.
Donor Name: North Carolina Community Foundation
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/26/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Women’s Fund of North Carolina is a program of the North Carolina Community Foundation, committed to supporting changing and diverse issues, needs and challenges facing women throughout the state. The Women’s Fund was founded to establish a permanent endowment dedicated to improving the quality of lives of women and girls in North Carolina, encourage philanthropic giving among women and to encourage funding sources to assign a higher priority to issues and concerns of women and girls. The Women’s Fund of North Carolina award grants to proposals that focus on housing security for women.
The community grantmaking funds a broad range of purposes to meet local needs that include human services, education, youth development, health, food/nutrition, arts, and more.
Funding Information
Grants typically range from $1,500 to $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
An organization must meet the following criteria to apply:
- 501(c)(3) public charity nonprofit organizations registered with the IRS.
- Organization with a fiscal agent who is a 501(c)(3) public charity non-profit organizations registered with the IRS.
- Local governments (public including schools)
- Fire and rescue departments
- Religious entities, including churches, congregations and other houses of worship, and/or faith-based organizations whose core functions/operations promote religious doctrine or are restricted to members of a particular faith may apply for funding to support social outreach and charitable service programs to benefit the community-at-large, but they may not apply for general operating support.
- Only those organizations that serve the counties within the affiliate network will be considered. If an organization serves multiple counties within the network, that organization may complete a separate application for each of those affiliates.
- Organizations must offer programs and services without discrimination based on age, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or religious belief.
For more information, visit NCCF.
