Bread & Roses Community Fund - Opportunity Fund (Rapid Response)
Funding Amount
Up to $50,000 total per organization within any 12 months (across all Bread & Roses funds)
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Monthly
- Tracked since
- September 2026
From the program guidelines: “Deadline: 5:00pm ET on the first business day of each month (rolling).”
Can we apply?
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Eligible organizations
- Organizations
Geography
- Pennsylvania
Required status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
Not eligible / not funded
- Not eligible: Direct service
- Not eligible: Research
- Not eligible: Schools
- Not eligible: Capital
- Not eligible: Individual scholarships
Overview
Monthly rapid-response funding for community-organizing groups in the Philadelphia region (5 PA + Camden NJ counties); open/rolling (deadline first business day each month). Does not fund direct service, research, schools, capital, or individual scholarships.
How to Apply
Rapid-response grants for grassroots community-organizing groups in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery (PA) or Camden (NJ) counties. Must be a 501(c)(3) or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor and use community organizing for sustainable social change (not direct service, research, schools, capital, or individual scholarships). Deadline: 5:00pm ET on the first business day of each month (rolling). Organization cap: up to $50,000 total from Bread & Roses within any 12 months.
What Bread and Roses Community Fund actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 53
- Total given
- $960K
- Median grant
- $15K
- Range
- $7,500–$72K
- 75% of its 2025 grant dollars went to recipients in Pennsylvania, where this grant's project is located.
- By dollars: Pennsylvania 75%, New Jersey 9%, New York 4%. Top recipient cities: Philadelphia, PA; Camden, NJ; New York, NY.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 42% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Movement Alliance Project · Philadelphia, PA
General Operating Support
$72K
Human Rights Coalition · Philadelphia, PA
General Operating Support
$66K
National Institute for Healthy Human Spaces Inc · Camden, NJ
General Operating Support
$50K
Juntos · Philadelphia, PA
General Operating Support
$36K
National Domestic Workers Alliance · New York, NY
General Operating Support
$35K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Social justice
- Grassroots
Project Locations
- PA
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