JustPax Fund Grant

JustPax Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: JustPax Fund
Amount: Up to US $25,000
Last Updated: May 16, 2025

Summary

The JustPax Fund Grant supports innovative projects addressing gender, environmental, and economic justice. It invites nonprofits across the U.S. to apply for funding up to $25,000 annually, with a focus on transformative initiatives that challenge existing paradigms of oppression. Proposals should foster critical inquiry and community engagement, and can originate from diverse backgrounds, including faith-based organizations. JustPax aims to provide resources that empower agents of change to address pressing societal challenges effectively.

Overview

Vision Justice challenges are spiritual, social, political, practical and personal. They are woven together in an entrenched paradigm that infects every institution, from the religious to the secular. Many of our longest standing cultural artifacts depend on their perpetuation and our corresponding belief that they cannot or should not change. But change they must, and now. The JustPax Fund seeks to support projects that offer a new paradigm, a more gracious path forward. JustPax Fund Grant Any organization who feels that their work speaks to the priorities outlined in the JustPax Fund’s Vision and Application Guidelines is welcome to apply. We offer descriptions of prior projects as a historic record, to provide insights to new applicants on our past funding activities, and to celebrate the accomplishments and activities of our partner projects. The JustPax Fund provides financial and logistical support to individuals and organizations working for effective change in the realm of gender justice, environmental justice, and/or economic justice. Through monetary grants, JustPax invests in projects and initiatives that bring innovative and novel approaches to justice advocacy, research, and implementation. The JustPax Fund welcomes proposals that seek to create space for critical inquiry, generating awareness, and promoting solutions to some of the most complex societal challenges facing the global community. The JustPax Fund seeks to bolster the capacity of passionate and creative agents for change by providing the financial resources necessary for their work. The JustPax Fund donors are adherents of the Believer’s Church tradition and welcome proposals that address gender, environmental, and economic justice as applicable or relevant to that tradition. Applications stemming from other faith traditions and belief systems are also welcome. Beyond addressing the effects of economic, environmental, and gender injustice, qualifying activities create innovative and replicable initiatives that transform paradigms of oppression. These initiatives provide real-world examples of non-extractive economic activity, environmental systems that harmonize human and non-human activities, and social systems of respect and just governance. Examples of transformative rather than reactive proposals include but are by no means limited to alternative economic systems that reward sustainable rather than extractive practices, community engagement strategies that elevate marginalized groups into leadership roles, and initiatives that transform our participation in systems of oppression or injustice. Funding The JustPax Fund has traditionally awarded grants of up to $25,000/year for gender, environmental, and economic justice projects. We occasionally increase this cap for exceptional projects. Awards are generally given for a single year of funding. If your proposed project has already completed significant preparatory planning and is seeking to launch a considered initiative with multi-year impact and you believe that a multi-year funding commitment is necessary for the success of your project, you may apply for up to three years of funding in a single application.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. JustPax Fund invites applications for funding from nonprofit organizations across the United States that are engaged in gender, environmental, and economic justice initiatives.Eligible applicants must be associated with a USA-qualified tax-exempt organizations under regulations of the United States Internal Revenue Service in order to receive funds.Recognizing the potential for funding across national borders, the JustPax Advisory Board may consider grants made to organizations sourced outside the United States, so long as the recipient is associated with a USA tax-exempt organization.Grants are open and accessible to all qualifying individuals and organizations including, but not limited to: artists, social entrepreneurs, students, teachers, engineers, pastors, professors, poets, scientists, writers, farmers, economists, activists, dreamers, peacebuilders, and individuals and organizations within universities and colleges, mission societies, professional associations, or church agencies, etc. All individuals who possess a passion for justice and have a plan for confronting the most urgent injustices surrounding gender, the environment, and/or the economy are encouraged to apply. Grant applicants shall not be limited to specific academic disciplines, church and para-church agencies, or their paradigmsActivities must be novel and innovative in nature – creating social space for new conversations, strategies, and partnerships – where proposals are oriented toward new and creative approaches to inquiry, engagement, and action.

Ineligibility

The JustPax Fund cannot provide funding directly to individuals or organizations without USA tax-exempt status.The JustPax Fund discourages applications for the following types of needs (the list is meant to be suggestive but not exhaustive):Funding for operational phases of established programs, salaries or institutional benefits.Partisan political activities and actions that lobby for specific legislation.Tuition assistance (i.e. K-13, undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate studies).In general, the Just Pax Fund discourages applications that have a budget heavily reliant on air travel.Annual fundraising drives, endowments, development campaigns, honorary functions, or similar projects.Projects that do not conform to the general guidelines listed above.