Impact 100 Metro Denver Grants

Impact100 Metro Denver offers a transformative $100,000 grant aimed at empowering Denver-area non-profits to enhance their mission and community impact. With a focus on underserved populations, this initiative encourages innovative solutions across various sectors, including arts, education, health, and social services. By fostering a community of informed women philanthropists, the program not only provides funding but also promotes engagement in local needs, ensuring that the grant supports sustainable and meaningful projects.

About Grants
Impact100 Metro Denver provides high-impact grants that enable compelling but often lesser known initiatives to dream “big”. Our goal is to provide significant grants that reach under-served populations, highlight unmet needs in our community, and raise the profile of organizations striving to make transformative change.
The Impact100 Metro Denver 2025 grant is a one-time, $100,000 Impact Grant to empower a Denver area non-profit to significantly impact its ability to meet its mission and serve its constituents. This is core mission funding; the grant could be used in any way the applicant believes this funding will impact its ability to serve its constituents, including strengthening or expanding existing programs or adding a new program.
About Impact100 Metro Denver
Impact100 Metro Denver brings together women in our community to provide a $100,000 grant to a Denver-area non-profit to significantly impact how it meets its mission and serves its constituents. The mission of Impact100 Metro Denver is to inspire and empower a community of women to be intentional and informed philanthropists, collectively funding grants to Metro Denver nonprofits. Each of our members gives $1,000 annually and has one vote toward the selection of the annual grant award.
Arts & Culture
Programs that promote creative thinking, expression, education or appreciation.
Economic Opportunity
Programs that focus on economic independence, housing security, training, education or life skills
Education & Lifelong Learning
Programs that strive to close achievement gaps by addressing access, parity and quality.
Environmental Conservation
Programs that address economic and health consequences, protect natural resources or provide access to recreation.
Health & Wellness
Programs that provide access to health services, raise risk awareness and build equity in health care.
Social Services
Programs that meet needs for food, clothing, shelter and safety; or that tackle social problems in vulnuerable communities.

Eligibility

To be considered for an Impact100 grant, organizations must have: 501(c)(3) status.Annual operating expenses between $500,000 and $5 million during the most recently completed fiscal yearAt least 65% of programming emphasis directed to constituents in one or more of the seven Metro Denver counties: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and JeffersonClear plan for an innovative and sustainable program/project within their organization that aligns with one or more of the focus areas selected for the grant cycleDemonstrated commitment to constituent engagement and diversity, equity and inclusion

Ineligibility

Impact100 will not consider applications from organizations that:Are private foundationsDiscriminate in any way, though this does not rule out organizations that target services to specific demographicsAre subsidiaries of a national/international nonprofit, unless the local chapter has a local board that is responsible for financial and organizational decision-makingPreviously have received an Impact100 grant, with the following exceptions:$100,000 grant recipients may reapply after seven years$25,000 to $99,999 grant recipients may reapply after three yearsGrant recipients who received $24,999 or less may reapply at any timeSubmit a proposal for a grant of less than $100,000.Impact100 will not fund:
Debt reduction, operating deficits, bridge fundingEndowmentsCapital campaignsFundraising events or activitiesReligious, partisan, or political activitiesLitigation or legal expensesPass through funds or regranting