Grants & Scholarships
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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Kaiser Permanente Northern Virginia Social Health Impact Fund

The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia has partnered with Kaiser Permanente to support Kaiser Permanente’s Northern Virginia Social Health Impact Fund.  Grantees must be part of Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic Community Network/Unite Virginia and grantees must be based in Virginia.
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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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