Deadline: 8-Jul-25
The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront economic, environmental, racial, and social injustice.
Funding Sectors
- Social Justice
- The Impact fund provides grants and legal support to assist in human and civil rights cases. They have helped to change dozens of laws and win cases to protect the rights of thousands.
- Environmental Justice
- The Impact Fund provides grants to support impact litigation in pursuit of environmental justice. These grants are for cases aiming to help people or communities who are affected by environmental harm or who lack access to basic environmental needs, such as clean water, clean air, adequate waste treatment, and green spaces.
- Economic Justice
- The Impact Fund provides financial and other forms of support to cases fighting for economic justice. From workers’ rights to consumer protection for vulnerable populations, impact litigation is a powerful tool to hold corporations and the government accountable.
Funding Information
- They award grants four times per year, most within the range of US$10,000 to US$50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Impact Fund makes recoverable grants to nonprofit organizations, solo practitioners, and small law firms involved in impact litigation.
- They fund economic, environmental, racial, and social justice cases that will benefit a community facing systemic oppression.
- Most of the grants are for class actions, but they also fund multi-plaintiff and environmental justice cases that aim to significantly affect a larger system or lead to meaningful law reform. Impact Fund grants may be used for out-of-pocket litigation expenses such as expert fees and discovery costs, but not for attorneys’ fees, staff, or other overhead.
For more information, visit Impact Fund.