Social Justice Fund (SJF) is pleased to announce the 2025 Immigration Justice Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and/or Wyoming.
This year’s SJF Giving Project is focused on Immigration Justice, funding movements led by immigrants, refugees, and migrant workers most affected by an immigration system built to dehumanize the people caught in its cyclical violence. The Giving Project will make grants to support community organizing work that aims to build collective power and undo the overlapping and intersecting systems of oppression and domination, including colonialism, imperialism, anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, ableism, classism, and xenophobia. For SJF’s definition of community organizing, please click here.
This 2025 Immigration Justice Grant seeks to support organizations working to end the systemic discrimination, criminalization, detention, deportation, and harassment of immigrant, refugee, and migrant communities to build a future where borders do not dictate where and how people live, thrive, love, access joy, heal, and make community and family.
Immigration Justice work can include, but is not limited to, building capacity and knowledge for collective resistance, public advocacy and litigation, gender-based and sexual violence prevention, abolition work, equitable access to healthcare and housing, farmworkers organizing, labor organizing, and policy making at the local and statewide levels.
Click here to register for the Informational Session, March 27, 3 p.m. PT / 4 p.m. MT
Apply here for the 2025 Immigration Justice Grant
Key Details
- 1-year grant of $25,000
- Informational Session: Thursday, March 27, 3:00-4:30 p.m. PT / 4:00-5:30 p.m. MT
- Application deadline: Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Grant Award Announcements: July 2025
Eligibility
Eligible organizations must meet the following criteria:
- Organizations that work within SJF’s community organizing framework
- Nonprofit organizations, tribal agencies, or groups sponsored by a nonprofit organization or tribal agency
- Organizations that carry out their work in ID, MT, OR, WA, or WY
- This grant can fund:
- Organizations with 501(c)(3) or 501 (c)(4) status as determined by the IRS
- American Indian/NativeAmerican/First Nation Tribal Government or Agency
- Organizations that are fiscally sponsored by 501(c)(3) or 501 (c)(4) organizations or tribal governments/agencies
- Organizations can apply without a fiscal sponsor but must confirm a fiscal sponsor if awarded a grant; contact [email protected] for more info
- SJF does NOT fund:
- Individuals, endowment funds or capital campaigns.
- General operating requests from organizations that primarily provide direct services to individuals and families. Direct service organizations can apply for project-specific funds for projects that fit our definition of community organizing.
- Publications, reports, workshops, classes, conferences, media events, arts, theater productions, research, or litigation efforts unless they are part of an ongoing community organizing effort.
- Environmental work unless it is aimed at achieving social justice goals (i.e. undoing environmental racism, cultural resource conservation projects). For example, Social Justice Fund generally does not fund environmental efforts that don’t involve a racial justice analysis, but we do fund community organizing projects addressing environmental threats that disproportionately harm communities of color or low-income communities.
- Projects sponsored primarily by a government agency. For example, the Social Justice Fund would not fund a project led by a public school district. However, we would fund a project led by communities of color that partners with public schools to address the academic achievement gap for students of color. The project must be community-driven and led by those most directly affected by the problem.
Priority
We prioritize organizations in both the prescreening and final decision process that:
- Have leadership (at least 51%) from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities and/or
- Conduct most of their work/organizing within reservation communities and/or rural, small-town communities (SJF defines rural as any location in the five-state region that is outside of the Seattle and Portland metropolitan areas)
Timeline
- Application open: Monday, March 10, 2025
- Informational Session: Thursday, March 27, 3 p.m. PT / 4 p.m. MT
- Application deadline: Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Grant Award Announcements: July 2025
If you are unsure whether your organization qualifies or have any questions about this grant, please email our Grantmaking & Impact team as soon as possible.
*Click here to begin your application in our Grants Portal*
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