Texas Women’s Foundation’s Community Grant

Texas Women’s Foundation’s Community Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Texas Womens Foundation
Amount: Up to US $40,000
Last Updated: December 03, 2025

Summary

The Texas Women’s Foundation’s Community Grant supports nonprofits empowering women and girls in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. With a focus on addressing systemic oppression, grants up to $40,000 are awarded for capacity-building, operating, and program support. Key priorities include economic security, workforce development, and health access. Eligible organizations must have a 501(c)(3) status and demonstrate a commitment to serving women and girls, ensuring at least 75% of beneficiaries fall within this demographic.

Overview

Texas Women’s Foundation’s Community Grant The Texas Women’s Foundation’s Community Grant Cycle is an annual cycle focused on supporting and empowering women and girls in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and contiguous counties. Focus & Priorities Texas Women’s Foundation is focused on the mid-term and long-term needs of women and girls in North Texas, particularly those facing multiple systems of oppression and disenfranchisement. Texas Women’s Foundation will consider proposals for capacity-building support, general operating support, and program/project support for organizations serving women, girls, and their families in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, and the immediate surrounding counties. Texas Women’s Foundation Community Grants are broad-based and affect important issues that improve the quality of life and give voice to issues affecting women and girls, as well as cultivate leaders. Our granting addresses such issues as: support for economic security needs, workforce development, child care and adult care services and caregiver support, transitional housing basic skills & English as a Second Language (ESL), education support services (not individual scholarships), access to health care including women’s health, general physical health, mental health, behavioral health, and dental health, prevention, intervention programs for girls, services for survivors of gender-based violence and prevention of gender-based violence, access to legal services, engagement and community organizing work for and by women and girls related to economic, social, and racial justice. Grant Awards The maximum grant request to be considered is $40,000.

Eligibility

We've imported the main document for this grant to give you an overview. You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Eligible nonprofits must: have a current 501(c)(3) status, demonstrates a three-year operating history, serve Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant Counties, and the immediate surrounding North Texas area, demonstrate that at least 75% of the clients benefitting from grant funding are women and/or girls inclusive of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expressionsNEW Organizations funded through the Community Grant Cycle in the previous calendar year (May/June 2024) must sit out for one year before submitting a new proposal. .

Ineligibility

The Foundation does NOT fund:individuals,campaigns to elect public officials or for partisan political projects,projects or expenses which take place before the grant is awarded,projects inconsistent with federal, state, and local nondiscrimination ordinances and laws including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.These activities include, and are not limited to:provision of services,selection of volunteers and vendors, andhiring, and firing of staff,grants that ultimately go wholly to another agency other than the applicant (pass through),organizations which have the ability to levy taxes,sponsorships for events or networking events,fundraising campaigns,endowments, individual education scholarships,programs which promote religious activities, proselytize, or require adherence to a particular religion,projects inconsistent with Texas Women’s Foundation mission, vision, values, and core competencies.