Apply for a Grant

Before applying for a grant, please be sure to fully review our Program Areas and Eligibility Requirements below.

Currently accepting grant proposals for all programs on an ongoing basis until November 8, 2024.

Due by 11:59pm Pacific Time at: 7genfund.submittable.com

Grant Applications online will be available 30 days before the due date.

Please allow up to 12 weeks for review.

Grant Award Range: $500 to $50,000

(average grant award: $10,000 – $25,000)

Seventh Generation Fund annually raises funds to grant out and has limited funds to distribute throughout different regions of the Indigenous World across our four program pathways.

Native Peoples’ organizations and projects are eligible to apply for one grant per calendar year.

The Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples invites Native-led and community-generated organizations to apply for support from one of its four grant programs:

Community Vitality

Strengthens Indigenous identity by revitalizing cultural lifeways, language, creativity, and food sovereignty.

Flicker Fund

Responds to already vulnerable and stressed Indigenous communities on the frontlines of climate caused crisis and emergencies ranging from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its rippling negative effects, to fires, floods, drought, and climate disasters.

Land, Water, and Climate

Recognizes and supports Indigenous Peoples’ traditional relationships and responsibilities to land, water, community, and spirit.

Thriving Women

Recognizes Indigenous women and girls’ inherent strength and capacity for healing, leadership, and regenerating positive futures.

All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples. Eligible applicants:

• Emerge from, are led by, and grounded in, the Indigenous Peoples served and who are most impacted by the project.

• Nurture and center the culture, language, traditional knowledge systems, and healthy lifeways of the Indigenous Peoples involved in the project.

• Have 80% or more Indigenous Peoples leadership at the Board of Directors or other decision-making entity, and have an Indigenous Executive Director or Project leaders, and Indigenous Peoples engaged throughout all aspects of the organization. (Thriving Women mandates 80% or more Indigenous women-identified Board of Directors, and an Indigenous woman Executive Director or Project leaders.)

• Are a non-profit with 501(c)3 tax exempt status, a federally-recognized tribal nation project, have a fiscal sponsor or are a SGF Affiliate Project. If fiscally sponsored, the Seventh Generation Fund prioritizes applicants with Native or People of Color fiscal sponsoring organizations.

• Prioritizing community-based projects with budgets of <$500,000.

• Are in good standing with the Seventh Generation Fund without reports due or outstanding issues.

Special Initiatives: SGF is looking to support projects by and for Two Spirit community members and also projects focused on land, culture, and language in the North American Southwest.

We do not support: non-Native organizations or religious missionizing efforts.

Please email all questions to: grants@7genfund.org