2025 Open Grants
The following grant opportunities are available from Social Justice Fund Northwest in the current calendar year.
Emerging Justice Fund
One-year grant
$10,000
Deadline: Rolling throughout 2025. Decisions made every other month starting in February.
The Emerging Justice Fund will move unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities that have been and continue to be targeted by Federal, State and Local policies.
Seed Grant
One-year grant
$5,000
Deadline: Quarterly throughout 2025. Decisions made Q1-Q3 starting in March.
Seed Grants will provide small unrestricted funds to new groups who are in the early stages of building their community work but who do not yet meet all of SJF’s community organizing criteria, and may not yet qualify for our regular grants.
SJF Sponsorship
At Social Justice Fund NW, we utilize sponsorships as a way of building bridges. We hope that organizations utilize this resource to fund their most ambitious, innovative projects that are often not supported by other funders. If you are not currently an SJF grantee or haven’t received a grant from us in over 5 years, sponsorship is a great way to get more connected to the organization.
Sponsorships are available to grassroots organizations based in ID, MT, OR, WA, and WY. If you do not have 501c3 or 501c4 status, you will need a fiscal sponsor.
Past Grants
The following grant opportunities have passed, but are shared here for reference. Please note, this is not a comprehensive list of all SJF grantmaking.
Basebuilding Grant
Two-year grant
$50,000 per year ($100,000 total)
Deadline: CLOSED
Supported Base Building as a community organizing tactic that grows the breadth and depth of people who share a vision for social justice, and who develop and execute the organizing strategies to make that vision a reality in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and/or Wyoming.
Environmental Justice Giving Project Grant
Two-year grant
$25,000 per year ($50,000 total)
Deadline: CLOSED
Supported organizing work that aims to achieve equitable access to a clean and healthy environmental for frontline communities most impacted by the climate crisis, environmental racism, and environmental justice.
Community Wealth Building Grant
One-time grant
$50,000
Deadline: CLOSED
Supported organizing work that aims to address economic injustice, build power to transform unjust systems, and overcome barriers to wealth for individuals, families, and communities. A collaboration between SJF and City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods.
Reproductive Justice Grant
One-time grant
$17,500
Deadline: CLOSED
Supported grassroots, community organizing efforts that advance the movement for reproductive justice and increase access to self-determination, bodily autonomy, and reproductive/sexual health.
Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project Grant
Two-year grant
$20,000 per year ($40,000 total)
Deadline: CLOSED
Supported groups led by LGBTQIA+ individuals, non-binary folks, and fem(me)s organizing against heterosexism, transmisogynoir, homophobia, cissexism,, and working to build the liberation of groups who have been marginalized because of their sexual and/or gender identity.