Funding Opportunities

We fund 501(c)(3) organizations, groups of residents in low-income neighborhoods, and collaborative efforts among groups in the seven-county Metro Denver.

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Community Grants Program (CGP)

Through the Community Grants Program, The Denver Foundation supports nonprofits that serve the seven-county Metro Denver area, advance our core values of constituent engagement and racial equity, and align with our priority funding areas.

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  • Funding Areas: Economic Opportunity, Education, Environment & Climate, Housing & Homelessness, Transportation
  • Grant Range: $20,000-$50,000
  • Region: Metro Denver
  • Status: Open
  • Opening Date: 1/15/2023
  • Closing Date: 3/1/2023

Denver Reparations Fund

The Denver Reparations Fund grant program is focused on rebuilding and sustaining institutions and traditions that were affected, destroyed, damaged, or prevented from thriving as the result of the enslavement of African and African descendant people, and the oppressive aftermath of slavery.

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  • Funding Areas: Economic Opportunity, Education, Health & Mental Health, Human Services
  • Grant Range: $2,500 - $7,500
  • Region: Colorado
  • Status: Open
  • Opening Date: 2/1/2023
  • Closing Date: 3/15/2023

Lowe Fund

The Lowe Fund provides grants to nonprofits in Colorado that support training, education, and research into the causes, cures, and treatment of developmental disabilities, cerebral palsy, and other related nervous and muscular disorders.

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  • Funding Areas: Education, Health & Mental Health
  • Grant Range: $10,000-$50,000
  • Region: Colorado
  • Status: Open
  • Opening Date: 2/1/2023
  • Closing Date: 3/15/2023

Strengthening Neighborhoods

The Strengthening Neighborhoods program supports neighborhood residents who want to make a difference in their own communities. 

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  • Funding Areas: Arts, Culture, Humanities, Civic Fabric, Economic Opportunity, Education, Environment & Climate, Food & Nutrition, Health & Mental Health, Housing & Homelessness, Human Services, Other, Religious Institutions, Transportation, Youth Development
  • Grant Range: up to $5,000
  • Region: Aurora, Metro Denver, Westwood
  • Status: Open
  • Opening Date: 1/20/2023
  • Closing Date: 12/31/2023

Technical Assistance (TA) Fund at The Denver Foundation

The Technical Assistance (TA) Fund at The Denver Foundation is developmental support that enables you to do your work more effectively. Technical assistance activities build new skills and provide information that will help your organization change and grow. They should include the active involvement of staff, constituents, and board members. We consider requests for Technical Assistance at The Denver Foundation on an ongoing basis.

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  • Funding Areas: Other
  • Grant Range: $500 - $6,000
  • Region: Metro Denver
  • Status: Open