Alphawood Foundation Grants
Funding Amount
Varies
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Rolling — applications accepted year-round
- Tracked since
- September 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Can we apply?
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Eligible organizations
- Nonprofits
Geography
- Illinois
Overview
The Alphawood Foundation is a Chicago-based private grantmaking foundation working for an equitable, just and humane society. It awards grants to 200+ organizations annually, primarily in advocacy, architecture and historic preservation, arts, domestic-violence prevention, the environment, LGBTQ+ rights and the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, archaeology, and other human and civil rights. Grants can be sizable (e.g., a $300,000 capacity-building grant to the South Side Community Art Center). Mirrors the prior-wake ACTA/AHF archival-page precedent.
How to Apply
Grant-seekers should confirm focus-area fit and submission process via the Inquiries page (Alphawood's grantmaking is partly relationship/invitation oriented).
What Alphawood Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990 filing, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 126
- Total given
- $8.09M
- Median grant
- $36K
- Range
- $2,500–$733K
- 73% of its 2025 grant dollars went to recipients in Illinois, where this grant's project is located.
- By dollars: Illinois 73%, Pennsylvania 6%, New York 3%. Top recipient cities: Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Washington, DC.
- 72% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 18% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Soas (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Postgraduate diploma in asian art and scholarships
$733K
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA
James d. mcdonough fellowship in queer art history
$522K
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund - Midwest Region · Chicago, IL
General operations for midwest regional office, support for senior attorney position,…
$325K
University of Chicago Institute of Politics · Chicago, IL
Intern program support
$300K
Nijc NFP · Chicago, IL
General operations
$275K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- LGBTQ
- Domestic violence
- Arts
- Environment
- Human rights
- Social justice
Project Locations
- IL
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