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Resources to help you find financial support for your work, no matter which type you seek.
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Census Accelerate Video Challenge
United States of America 🇺🇸Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.
Living Cities
1040 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10018We take risks, catalyze fresh thinking and test new approaches in order to creatively disrupt the status quo.
Community is about trust and sharing. Open Collective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.
CivVic Labs
Australia 🇦🇺CivVic Labs brings government and startups together to solve public sector challenges and deliver better outcomes for Victorians.
Google.org Global Impact Awards
United States of America 🇺🇸Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.
The California Health Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the status quo.
Civic Tech Pitch during the 86th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors.
Bloomberg Philanthropies' U.S. Mayors Challenge
25 East 78th Street New York, NY 10075It is a competition designed to help city leaders think big, be bold and uncover inventive – and, ultimately shareable – ideas that tackle today’s toughest problems.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
Neighborhood Funders Group organizes philanthropy so that Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities and low income communities thrive.
LaunchGood
DetroitCrowdfunding Incredible Muslims
Innovate Africa
AfricainnovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.
Formerly StayClassy, Classy’s online fundraising platform gives nonprofits easy, effective, and customizable solutions to manage your fundraising efforts.
Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses th...
Media Democracy Fund
Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DCAt the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.
Blue Utopia
SeattleSoftware and data to help you fundraise, communicate, organize and optimize your campaign.
The Cleveland Foundation’s mission is to enhance the lives of all residents of Greater Cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
Organizations in Western New York and Southeast Michigan within our four core funding areas are now welcome to apply through our online process.
Voqal grantmaking is a philanthropic program that promotes social equity in creative and disruptive ways. We have a deep commitment to racial and social justice. We invest in leaders, organizations, and movements who are closest to injustice and are fighting for collective liberation. We are committed to the promotion of social, economic, and racial justice
The Greater Washington Community Foundation works to strengthen the Washington metropolitan region by encouraging and supporting effective giving and by providing leadership on critical issues in our community
Astraea’s CommsLabs is a radical global movement-building initiative that equips LGBTQI activists with the tools, skills and knowledge they need to securely organize and advocate in online spaces.
National Lottery Community Fund
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery
Democracy Engine
Washington, DCDemocracy Engine offers a suite of fundraising tools to empower donors to support the organizations and issues they care about at any level, in any party, in any state.
Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders and our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for millions of Americans.
Open Tech Fund (OTF)
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036We support the research, design, development, and deployment of technology-focused projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance, to enable global internet users to exercise their fundamental human rights online.
The Barr Foundation is a private, Boston-based foundation with core programs in Arts & Creativity, Climate, and Education.
Sobrato Family Foundation
Mountain View, CAThe mission of the Sobrato Family Foundation is to support low-income residents in Silicon Valley who seek stability and opportunities for upward mobility.
Learn more about the @casefoundation, where they invest in people & ideas that will change the world.
Polk Bros. Foundation focuses its work at the intersection of Chicago's most pressing issues to address the complex roots and devastating effects of poverty, and to challenge inequity. Learn more.
As the nation's largest public health philanthropy, we strive to build a national Culture of Health that will enable all to live longer, healthier lives.
The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.
Welcome to the Ford Foundation. We envision a just, fair, and peaceful world with opportunity for all
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Washington, DCNSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
The Challenge is a three-phase, prize-based competition to find technology-based solutions that address or improve opioid abuse prevention, treatment and overdose avoidance and response.
Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation provides education, scholarships, exhibits, events, and media related to the lives of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world
Expanding opportunities in America’s cities
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Menlo ParkEspecially the Transparency, Participation, and Accountability grantmaking
We build better fundraising tech and give it away for free (seriously). Our products drastically improve the online giving experience and help 501(c)(3) nonprofits raise more for their causes.
Robert Bosch Foundation
Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH is one of Europe’s largest foundations associated with a private company.
Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy is a data visualization platform featuring tens of thousands of grants, available to anyone interested in understanding philanthropy's role in U.S. democracy
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