Deadline: 21-Apr-2025
AJ Muste Foundation is currently accepting applications for the Organizing Grants available to organizations and projects that are based in the United States.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant award is $10,000. Most grant awards will be around $5000.
What they Fund?
- Newly-founded and existing organizations that are engaged in activist organizing. They prefer groups that don’t have much foundation funding or other traditional streams of income.
- 501c3s, groups with a 501c3 fiscal sponsor, and organizations with a bank account in the thier name.
- Projects as well as general operating costs. They’re looking for creative and bold ideas that have a specific goal.
- Projects and organizations dedicated to fighting for systemic change, rather than personal/individual support.
What they do not Fund?
- individuals, or individual projects.
- direct services, healing or therapy work, or mutual aid that’s not a component of organizing.
- projects or organizations with operating budgets exceeding $250,000.
- lobbying or political campaigns.
- art, films, or dance projects that aren’t a component of organizing.
- tuition or scholarships.
- university supported projects.
For more information, visit AJ Muste Foundation.