Wellspring Fund
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
A four-year commitment to BIPOC-led Minnesota organizations testing multi-year projects and campaigns: organizing models, narrative approaches, coalition structures, campaign strategies and healing practices. The long horizon and the explicit interest in testing organizing models make it one of the few movement funds that can carry a real longitudinal practice-research collaboration.
- Indicative award
- $90k per year (per year)The page states $90,000 per year for four years, totaling $360,000 per grantee.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page states the Wellspring Fund is not currently accepting applications and gives no reopening date. Contact the named program officer listed on the page to learn when a cycle opens.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a BIPOC-led organization in Minnesota working to strengthen the social justice movement ecosystem. A university cannot be the applicant; a social work researcher would join as a partner to an eligible BIPOC-led Minnesota organization. The page does not state a 501(c)(3) or budget-size requirement. The page states the fund is not currently accepting applications.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- multi-year organizing · narrative strategy · coalition building · healing practices · movement infrastructure
- Apply at
- https://headwatersfoundation.org/grants/wellspring-fund/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
Also on the Communities and Neighborhoods shelf
- Grants for AAPI civic engagement and community powerAAPI Civic Engagement Fund$20k–$200k · By invitation
- Disability and aging research and demonstration grantsAdministration for Community Living$200k–$4M · Annual cycle
- Grants to end domestic violence and build health equityBlue Shield of California Foundation$25k–$300k · Periodic calls
- Grants for veterans, service members and their familiesBob Woodruff Foundation$25k–$500k · Annual cycle
- Pooled and participatory fundsBorealis Philanthropy$25k–$300k · By invitation
- Finding your regional and community foundations (Candid)CandidNot a cash award · Rolling / open