Sparkplug Foundation: Emergency Grants

Sparkplug Foundation: Emergency Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Sparkplug Foundation
Amount: Up to US $5,000
Last Updated: August 25, 2025

Summary

The Sparkplug Foundation offers Emergency Grants of up to $5,000 exclusively for current and past grantees in education or community organizing. Funding is aimed at organizations with annual budgets of $500,000 or less, supporting innovative projects with limited existing funding sources. These one-time grants address urgent needs due to unforeseen circumstances, ensuring accountability and inclusion, particularly within communities in the US and Palestine/Israel.

Overview

Note: Unfortunately we cannot accept Emergency Grant requests from those who are not previous grantees. Sparkplug Foundation: Emergency Grants Emergency Grant funding is available to current and past grantees only in the education or community organizing funding areas. Emergency Grant funds are provided through a process of application, quick board review, and approval. Applications for Emergency Grant funding must demonstrate that the need for funding is due to unanticipated events, sudden opportunities, and insufficient time to seek other sources of funding. Emergency Grant requests can be up to $5,000. Emergency Grants are one-time funding. We are not likely to make repeated Emergency Grants to a single organization.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Emergency Grant funding is available only for organizations with an annual budget of $500,000 or less.WE DO FUND early stage organizations and projects. We offer grants to innovative and important work that has not yet established broad sources of support.WE DO FUND small-to-medium organizations or ideas. We most often fund projects with small budgets, and that are less likely to receive corporate, institutional, or government funding.WE DO FUND 501c3 non-profits or individuals, communities or collectives that have a US-based 501c3 fiscal sponsor. WE DO FUND materials and activities that make new ideas real and sustainable. This can include support for a new organization’s growth like outreach materials, short-term staff to get your project underway, and short-term general operating support for new organizations only. We have very occasionally funded website development or software purchases where it drives other work. A grant can cover capacity-building expenses like trainings that grow your community leadership.WE DO FUND one-year grants. Since we focus on start-up projects and organizations, we accept applications for up to one year. WE DO FUND with an eye for community accountability and inclusion. We recognize that power imbalances in the world impact how work happens in any organization. Power imbalances shift how people within organizations interact, and how organizations’ work affects others in their communities. WE DO FUND projects in the US and Palestine/Israel. Our funding in Palestine/Israel, given current conditions of colonial apartheid, is limited to projects that involve Palestinian communities, operate with Palestinian leadership (and may also include non-Palestinian leadership), and work for justice.

Ineligibility

Individual life-related emergencies such as food, rent, medical bills, childcare, and other basic necessities;Reimbursement for expenses incurred in the past;Support for projects with no scheduled date;Fees and amounts from unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for current projects. Requests to attend professional training, workshops, lectures, symposiums, conferences, or competitions.