Access Grants

The Bigglesworth Family Foundation's Access Grants aim to strengthen nonprofit organizations in delivering essential legal services to underserved communities. Ranging from $1,000 to $3,500, these grants provide access to critical tools and resources. The application process is streamlined, ensuring a review within 30 days, with a limit of two applications per organization annually. Eligible organizations must be 501(c)(3) nonprofits focused on legal services, as applications outside this area will not be considered.

Background
The Bigglesworth Family Foundation supports programs and projects that help create systemic change by strengthening the capacity of non-profit organizations and addressing delivery system and historic challenges. We are especially inspired by programs that have the potential for sector-wide impact.
Working together with funder and grantee partners in legal services and technology, we strive to make impactful change that enhances access to underserved and underrepresented communities. Through these strategies we endeavor to help break the cycle of poverty.
Access grants strengthen an organization’s ability to effectively deliver services to their clients. Ranging from $1,000 - $3,500, these grants facilitate access to tools, programs and resources that otherwise might be outside of the scope of the organization’s reach.
In an effort to be responsive to the needs of our grantees, Access grants have a streamlined application and are reviewed within 30 days of the date the application is submitted. Organizations are limited to no more than two Access grant applications annually, funding totaling no more than $5,000 in a calendar year.
These grants are limited to organizations whose work closely align with our primary funding area, Legal Services. Applications from organizations that fall outside this focus area will not be considered.

Eligibility

Access grants are limited to organizations whose work closely aligns our primary funding area, Legal Services. Applications from organizations that fall outside this focus area will not be considered.Furthermore, all potential grantees must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Ineligibility

BFF will not support organizations that discriminate against a person or group on the basis of age, political affiliation, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.Broadly, BFF does not fund individuals, direct scholarships or capital campaigns.Specifically for Access grants, BFF will not accept applications from organzations whose work does not fall into our primary funding area, legal services.