Open Call for Sparkplug Foundation Grant Program (US)
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Deadline: 31-Oct-22
The Sparkplug Foundation is accepting applications for its Grant Program to encourage Black, Indigenous, People of Color, people with disabilities, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, queer and other queer-identifying communities, organizations or organizers to apply.
The Sparkplug Foundation is a family foundation, funded and administered in the US. They are guided by community voices, and prioritize grassroots organizing and innovation as the key for creating change.
Focus Areas
Education
Community Organizing
Music
Funding Information
They consider grant applications for amounts from $1,000 to $20,000. Most grants are in the $10,000 to $15,000 range.
They accept applications for one-year grants.
Eligibility Criteria
They do fund early stage organizations and projects. They offer grants to innovative and important work that has not yet established broad sources of support. For Sparkplug, what matters is that the project comes from and supports an engaged community.
They do fund small-to-medium organizations or ideas. They most often fund projects with small budgets, and that are less likely to receive corporate, institutional, or government funding.
They do fund 501c3 non-profits or individuals, communities or collectives that have a US-based 501c3 fiscal sponsor.
They do fund materials and activities that make new ideas real and sustainable. This can include support for a new organization’s growth like outreach materials, short-term staff to get your project underway, and short-term general operating support for new organizations only.
They do fund one-year grants. Since they focus on start-up projects and organizations, they accept applications for up to one year.
They do fund with an eye for community accountability and inclusion. They recognize that power imbalances in the world impact how work happens in any organization. Inclusion means that the organization deliberately structures itself to be guided by, and to support, people on the downside of power imbalances.
They do fund projects in the US and Palestine/Israel. Their funding in Palestine/Israel, given current conditions of colonial apartheid, is limited to projects that involve Palestinian communities, operate with Palestinian leadership (and may also include non-Palestinian leadership), and work for justice.
Ineligible
businesses or any organization or individual without a fiscal sponsor
general operating expenses
lobbying or election campaigns
technology equipment
budget replacement for classes or programs within the formal education system that have been cut
service projects
budget replacement for music programs
multi-year requests
projects or organizations in Palestine/Israel that do not have either a US-based 501c3 fiscal sponsor or Israeli documentation of NGO status
religious projects, projects run by religious organizations, or any project that involves religious practice
visual arts projects, films, medical research or relief, dance, animal rescue, athletic programs, tuition grants, or scholarships
university-based projects
any projects or organizations with budgets larger than $1 million
technology equipment
For more information, visit https://www.sparkplugfoundation.org/information/