Grant Details

The Austin Community Foundation offers grants through four strategic programs: The Black Fund, Hispanic Impact Fund, Women's Fund and Community Grants.

The Community Grants program is a year-round grant opportunity for local nonprofits working in our eight impact areas. Each quarter, we match grant requests with the interests and passions of our fundholders, ensuring your project is funded at the highest level possible.

The Black Fund at the Austin Community Foundation exists to harness the power of Black-led organizations and uplift solutions to benefit the Black community in Central Texas. Driven by data and community voices, we strive for an equitable, just society that nurtures the growth, economic security, and wellness of Black people.

Each grant cycle, The Black Fund will invest in organizations and initiatives in the following strategy areas:

• Education: support successful educational outcomes for Black people.
• Health & Wellness: advance the mental, physical, and spiritual health and wellness of Black Central Texans.
• Power Building, Organizing, & Advocacy: support urgent, emergent, and ongoing efforts that harness the collective power of Black people as a means of challenging, redesigning, or uprooting systems to continually move us towards an equitable society.
• Wealth Building: close the racial wealth gap for Black Central Texans by providing an ecosystem of support resulting in increased individual and shared growth and prosperity
• New! Arts, Culture & Preservation: support programs and organizations that directly invest in the creative and cultural contributions of Black artists of all kinds as a means of expressing, celebrating, preserving, and advancing the legacy of Black people.

The Hispanic Impact Fund – a signature program at Austin Community Foundation – works to bridge the racial wealth divide and advance economic opportunity for Latino families in Central Texas.

This grants cycle, the Hispanic Impact Fund will be awarding funding to organizations and programs that fit into one of the following strategy areas:

• Early Childhood Education: The Fund will invest in organizations that provide access to affordable, high-quality Pre-K and early childhood education starting at age 3, building the pipeline from cradle to career for Latino families.
• Health & Wellness: The Fund will invest in organizations that provide preventative, culturally competent health education and access to quality mental and physical health services.?
• Job Skills & Entrepreneurship: The Fund will invest in organizations that assist Latino entrepreneurs in gaining the knowledge and skills needed to expand their businesses.
• Leadership Development: The Fund will invest in organizations advancing Latino leadership and creating pipelines of youth, emerging, and established Latino talent, which are critical to building a thriving Central Texas.

This grants cycle, the Women's Fund will be awarding funding to organizations and programs providing direct services and systems-level changes in the following strategy areas:

• Housing: Support access to affordable housing for women that include a network of support and/or opportunities for long-term wealth building.
• Child Care: Expand access to safe, quality, culturally competent and affordable child care that is conveniently located for families with low incomes.
• Education: Provide access to an ecosystem of support – academic, emotional, and financial – for women pursuing educational dreams.
• Unintended Pregnancy Prevention: Increase access to consumable, unbiased pregnancy prevention resources.
• Women's Health: Reduce health disparities faced by women of color.