Deadline: 9-Jan-24
The Impact Fund is offering grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice.
Focus Areas
- Human Rights, Civil Rights, Prisoners’ Rights, Voting Rights, Children’s Rights, Juvenile Justice Reform, Gun Control, Gender Equity, Disability Rights, Immigrants’ Rights, LGBT Rights, Combatting Racism, Fair Housing, Renters’ Rights, Workers’ Rights, Debt Fairness, Wage Theft, Homeless Advocacy, Clean Water, Clean Air, Clean Soil, Environmental Racism, Community Green Space, Food Policy, Water Conservation, Environmental Impact, Transportation Justice, Energy Justice, Other.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant size is $50,000.
- They do make grants in that amount, but their average grant size is around $20,000.
- There is no minimum grant size.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any nonprofit organization, solo practitioner, or small legal firm that is involved in a public interest impact lawsuit is eligible to apply. Let them know if you have questions about whether you or your organization would be eligible.
- You may only apply for one grant for one case per quarter.
- They fund cases that seek to achieve a systemic solution to an economic, environmental, racial, and/or social injustice. Most of the cases they fund are class actions, but they also fund other types of cases that could affect a significant number of people, such as multi-plaintiff cases, challenges to the constitutionality of laws or ordinances, and environmental reviews.
- They generally fund cases that confront an ongoing injustice and seek future-facing relief, rather than cases that solely seek accountability for past harm. While they do at times support cases that seek damages, they only do so when the primary focus of the case is systemic change, such as when the case is seeking injunctive or declaratory relief. They also tend not to fund cases brought on behalf of individual plaintiffs due to the limited potential for systemic impact.
For more information, visit Impact Fund.