Grants

From the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:
🌲 NOVA Parks Outdoor Kids Grants - Awards will be accepted and announced on a rolling basis.
NOVA Parks offers grants to Title-I schools in Northern Virginia, helping cover costs for field trips to its parklands, including the Roving Naturalist Program.
🤝 Loudoun Impact Fund Grants - Supporting nonprofits in Loudoun County, focusing on youth, older adults, and people with disabilities.

The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia awards more than $7 million in grants to more than 300 nonprofits every year. While many grants are made at the request of our 250+ donor established fund representatives, the Community Foundation also manages a number of competitive grant cycles to support the Northern Virginia region which vary each year. Volunteer committees review and make funding recommendations for our discretionary grants.

The Community Foundation’s ability to make grants in the region is thanks to generous donors who have helped establish endowments to forever support areas they care about and who contribute each and every year to advance equity across the region.

Permanent Fund for Northern Virginia

The Permanent Fund is a permanent community endowment, ensuring the Community Foundation’s ability to make grants and meet the funding needs of nonprofits in our region into the future.
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Advancing Equity & Building Resilience

The Community Foundation's grants help advance equity and build resilience throughout the region. Scroll through the list below to apply for grants or to donate to one of our existing funds.
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We rely on impartial volunteers to review grant applications for each of our discretionary grant cycles. Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a volunteer grant reviewer.
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Learn more about and apply for a grant from the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia. A full grants calendar is provided below.

To apply, update, or submit a grant application, and to submit final reports for past grants, click the button below.

You will be instructed to set up an organizational profile before applying. If your organization has applied in the past, check with other staff members to get access to the organization profile already established. It contains grant history and past applications. Please do not set up a new profile unless you are sure your organization has not applied previously.
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Below you will find information about each of our grant cycles and their impact focus areas. Organizations may apply to multiple grant cycles during the year. However, only one application in one focus area is accepted in the Community Investment Funds, Arts and Environment Fund cycle.

Community Investment Funds

The Community Investment Funds are the signature grant cycle managed by the Community Foundation in which funds are invested in organizations serving the Northern Virginia community in the areas of child and youth development, disabilities, education, Latino engagement and achievement, mental health, aging, military personnel and their families, and safety net support.
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Business Women's Giving Circle

The Business Women's Giving Circle, a group comprised of accomplished business women in Northern Virginia, supports programs and organizations in our region that promote business innovation, entrepreneurship, and inventive opportunities for women and girls.
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Environment Fund

The Environment Fund protects, restores and improves the natural environment of Northern Virginia, thereby enhancing the health and quality of life of its citizens and the economy of the region. Annual grants are awarded during the Community Investment Funds cycle.
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Healthy Kids Grants

Healthy Kids Grants help public schools encourage healthy lifestyles through increased exercise and better nutrition, supported by the Chin Family Charitable Fund and the J.O.Y. Charitable Fund, donor advised funds with the Community Foundation.
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Innovation Fund

The Innovation Fund invests in inventiveness, creativity and new design. It uses a venture philanthropy model of grant making in which donors to the Innovation Fund, in partnership with the Community Foundation board and staff, find investment opportunities in Northern Virginia. At this time, grant applications for the Innovation Fund are by invitation only.
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Loudoun Impact Fund

The Loudoun Impact Fund is a giving circle of engaged Loudoun County donors managed in partnership by the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia and the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties. The Fund invests strategically in Loudoun County to promote education, the arts and the environment, and to support the needs of Loudoun families, children and youth.
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Micron Opportunity Fund

The Micron Opportunity Fund provides grants to nonprofits and public school systems in Northern Virginia that provide education, skills acquisition, and mentoring for underrepresented and under-funded student populations in the field of engineering, technology, and overall STEM.
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Our Children Fund

The Our Children Fund provides financial assistance for "normalizing" items and experiences to children in the Fairfax County foster care system. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
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The Ross-Roberts Fund for the Arts

The Ross-Roberts Fund for the Arts celebrates, promotes, and supports the arts in Northern Virginia. Annual grants are awarded during the Community Investment Funds cycle.
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Grant Cycle Calendar

The following is an approximate calendar of our annual grant cycles throughout the year.

Competitive Funding Opportunities	Opens	Closes	Announced
Community Investment Funds	January	February	April
Business Women's Giving Circle	July	September	December
Environment Fund	January	February	April
Healthy Kids Grants	April	June	September
Loudoun Impact Fund	July	October	November
The Ross-Roberts Fund for the Arts	January	February	April