Grants

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.

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.

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

2023 Community Grant Guidelines

2023 Glossary of Terms

For the Community Grant Cycle 2023, 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.

Capacity building grants provide funds for the improvement of an organization’s effectiveness in its services to benefit women and girls.  General operating grants provide flexible funding for the overall operations of the nonprofit.  Capacity building grants and operating grants require that at least 75% of the organization’s primary service beneficiaries are women or girls.

Program/Project grants provide funds for a specific new or existing program in which at least 75% of the program’s primary service beneficiaries are women or girls.

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.