NCF seeks to connect with innovative partners and proximate change makers driving impact.

We believe that social change takes time and requires long-term investments. We also see immense value in supporting new, innovative, and exploratory work. To reflect this, we have a range of grant types:  

• Venture Grants (up to $100k for one year): These grants are short-term and designed to expedite support to social entrepreneurs with breakthrough, emerging, and innovative solutions. They also serve to mutually explore new relationships and partnerships.  
• Advancement Grants (Up to $250k annually for up to two years): These grants are designed to provide two-year support to project-based work and/or help scale organizations and promising solutions.  
• Enterprise Grants ($250k+ annually for more than two years): These grants are invitation-only and are designed to provide multi-year, unrestricted funding to partners that have deep alignment across our REEJ focus areas and offer the most opportunity to use all our financial and non-financial resources to support their solutions.  

• 501(c)(4) organizations  
• Individuals  
• NCF maintains a funding area in Israel-Palestine, that portfolio is invitation-only  
• Social or direct service projects that are not a part of a larger advocacy strategy. For example, we do not support direct services (e.g. cash transfer, work development programs, food and education services, housing assistance, etc.).  
• Fundraising events, sponsorships, panel requests, or galas  
• Campus or prison-based programs  
• K-12, extra-curricular, religious, or community arts education programming  
• Religious communities, congregations, and churches  
• Community gardening and tree planting projects  
• Conservation projects  
• Projects addressing diseases, including medical research, personal health, and wellness program

There are two types of funding opportunities: grants and program-related investments (PRIs). Both grant and PRI proposals must align with our interconnected goals of racial, economic, and/or environmental justice (REEJ). Proposals that align and intersect with REEJ and our place-based initiatives, which include the U.S. South, are especially encouraged.    

All applicants will be notified within 12 weeks of their submission whether their application has been selected for further consideration.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as the portal will remain open for REEJ-related LOIs year-round.