Urgent Response Fund
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Rolling (quarterly review)
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Rolling — applications accepted year-round
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
The Urgent Response Fund supports smart, efficient, and effective responses to geopolitical crises in their immediate aftermath. From natural disasters to threats to reproductive freedom, partners are working hard and saving lives under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
Human Rights & Immigration
- ICE Detention Support: Paying bonds to help individuals get free from ICE detention
- Family Support: Groceries, child care, and access to information technology for families of detained individuals
- Transportation: Helping people get home after release from detention; providing gas for ride services for those afraid to walk streets
- Income Support: Resources for families losing income due to fear of going to work
- Housing: Rental assistance and other programs addressing medium-term impacts
Geographic Priority: BIPOC and Immigrant-led organizations in communities directly impacted by ICE, including Minneapolis MN, Portland OR, and Lewiston ME
Reproductive Rights
- Direct services in states where abortion remains legal
- Safe, legal pathways to abortion access
- Intersection of reproductive rights and voter engagement for policy reform
Focus Areas Include:
- Integrating full-spectrum reproductive health care into primary care settings
- Supporting independent abortion clinics (security improvements, equipment replacement, legal compliance)
- Benefit events and fundraising campaigns
Natural Disasters
- Emergency relief and recovery support
- Infrastructure restoration
- Food security and housing assistance
- Cash support for disaster survivors
Recent Examples:
- July 2023: Vermont flood response
- February 2023: Syria earthquake survivors
- 2022: Pakistan flood relief
- 2021: Haiti earthquake response
- 2017: Hurricane Irma in Anguilla
Humanitarian Relief
- Support for organizations providing critical humanitarian services
- Refugee and displacement support
- Healthcare access (neonatal care, nutrition centers, clean water systems)
Grantee Organizations Highlighted
- Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (MIBF)
- Seeds Worth Sowing
- Community Organizing Alliance
- BrightSide Produce
- Reproductive Health Care Access Project (RHAP)
- Noise for Now
- Alight
Contact Information
- Address: P.O. Box 1112, Richmond, Vermont 05477
- Email: info@pennywise.org
- Website: pennywise.org
What White Swan Foundation Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 17
- Total given
- $167K
- Median grant
- $10K
- Range
- $7,000–$20K
- By dollars: Vermont 22%, Pennsylvania 16%, Michigan 10%. Top recipient cities: Essex, VT; Harrisburg, PA; Santa Fe, NM.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 65% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
1 Vote Counts · Harrisburg, PA
General operating support
$20K
Noise for Now · Santa Fe, NM
General operating support
$12K
Alight · Minneapolis, MN
General operating support
$10K
Gedakina Inc · Essex, VT
General operating support
$10K
High Fives Nonprofit Foundation · Truckee, CA
General operating support
$10K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Immigration
- Reproductive health
- Disaster relief
- Human rights
- BIPOC
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