Grantmaking & Impact

Investing $6M to advance women and girls

Texas Women’s Foundation delivers positive social change and advances economic security and leadership opportunities for women and girls across Texas. Guided by our research that continues to show that women are the face of poverty, over the last year Texas Women’s Foundation has deployed funds to strategic initiatives, programs, granting and advocacy efforts that are making change for women statewide.

Together with our philanthropic partners – Giving Circles, Donor-Advised Fund holders, and Young Women’s Initiative – the collective impact has funded 167 women- and girl-serving organizations and distributed $4.9M in grants this fiscal year. In addition, more than $1M was invested in programs that which equip girls to become strong women, and preparing women to lead in their lives, their workplaces and their communities, which in turn makes Texas a better place for all.

Current Grant Opportunities

The Texas Women’s Foundation’s Community Grant Cycle is an annual cycle focused on supporting and empowering women and girls in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and contiguous counties. To learn more, read through our 2025 Guidelines under the ‘Guidelines, Glossary, & FAQ’ tab below.

Applications are currently closed. Please read through the high-level timeline outlined below.

Community Grant Cycle Opens: Monday, November 11, 2024

Information Session – Tarrant County: December 4, 2024
Information Session – Collin County: December 5, 2024
Information Session – Dallas County: December 9, 2024

Community Grant Cycle Closes: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 – 12 PM NOON CST
Site Visiting Period – February 27 – March 27, 2025
Final Grant Notification of Grant Status for Site Visited Applicants – May 12, 2025

Focus & Priorities

Texas Women’s Foundation is focused on the mid-term and long-term needs of women and girls in North Texas, particularly those facing multiple systems of oppression and disenfranchisement.

Texas Women’s Foundation will consider proposals for capacity building support, general operating support and program/project support for organizations serving women, girls and their families in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant and the immediate surrounding counties.

Texas Women’s Foundation Community Grants are broad based and effect important issues that improve the quality of life and give voice to issues affecting women and girls, as well as cultivates leaders. Our granting addresses such issues as:

support for economic security needs,
workforce development,
child care and adult care services and caregiver support,
transitional housing
basic skills & English as a Second Language (ESL),
education support services (not individual scholarships),
access to health care including women’s health, general physical health, mental health, behavioral health, and dental health,
prevention, intervention programs for girls,
services for survivors of gender-based violence and prevention of gender-based violence,
access to legal services,
engagement and community organizing work for and by women and girls related to economic, social, and racial justice.

Eligibility

Eligible nonprofits must:

have a current 501(c)(3) status,
demonstrates a three-year operating history,
serve Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant Counties, and the immediate surrounding North Texas area,
demonstrate that at least 75% of the clients benefitting from grant funding are women and/or girls inclusive of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expressions.
*NEW* Organizations funded through the Community Grant Cycle in the previous calendar year (May/June 2024) must sit out for one year before submitting a new proposal.

For additional eligibility criteria, please review our most recent grant guidelines.

Guidelines , Glossary, & FAQ

The 2025 Community Grant Cycle is currently closed. Please check back in the Fall for more information on the next granting cycle.

FY2024 Grantee Partners

Amy’s Friends dba New Friends New Life

Bridge Breast Center Inc. dba Bridge Breast Network

Community Council of Greater Dallas

Connections Multiplied Too

Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, Inc.

Hopeful Solution

If Institute (Young Leaders Strong City)

ImmSchools

Irving Healthcare Foundation

LiftFund Inc.

Lone Star Justice Alliance

Methodist Richardson Medical Center Foundation

Mi Escuelita Preschool Inc.

Mission Travis Mercy dba Mercy Clinic of Fort Worth

Mommies in Need Inc. aka Annie’s Place

Opening Doors International Services Inc

Our Friends Place

Rosa es Rojo Inc.

SER – Jobs for Progress National Inc.

Spida Inc dba Braswell Child Development Center

Texas Health Resources Foundation

The Lullaby House For Girls

Wholly Informed Sex Ed