Funding | Grantmaking Overview | Infrastructure Opportunities
Infrastructure Opportunities
Infrastructure Opportunities grants provide support for specific power-building efforts that have been highlighted as essential by Washington nonprofits and community leaders.
Who Can Apply: Infrastructure Opportunities grants are available to reflective, community-led organizations who are engaging in or have a clear path to collective action that addresses systemic inequities.
To stay up to date with our grantmaking:
The joint application for Campaign, Litigation, Issues, and Policy, Infrastructure Opportunities, and Transformational Capacity Building is OPEN.
Applications will be reviewed in two rounds. We will consider the first round of applications received between March 2 – April 7, 2026 and the second round of applications received between July 13 – August 18, 2026.
Community leaders speaking at a Latino Legislatiove Day event in Tacoma. Photo: Kariba Jack
About Infrastructure Opportunities Grants
The Infrastructure Opportunities Fund explores power-building efforts around specific issues that community leaders and community-based organizations have told us are integral to building community power and transforming systems and structures. They include:
501(c)(4) Community Power-Building
If your organization has decided that you would like to form a 501(c)(4), this grant can help you with that next step.
This opportunity is designed for organizations wanting to expand the tools necessary to get more involved in activities like endorsing political candidates, advocating for ballot measures, influencing policies, and lobbying legislators.
Civil Rights
Unjust and discriminatory policies, violence against marginalized groups, threats to our democracy, and other dangers to the well-being and safety of communities are civil rights violations. This grant is designed to support organizations with a clearly defined strategy and response to civil rights violations in your community.
Immigrant Justice
Regardless of immigration status, people deserve to be treated equally. Whether that’s through safe working conditions, fair wages, access to healthcare, education and economic opportunities, language access, and protections from cruel and unjust immigration and justice enforcement (ICE) activity, this grant ensures you have the support to safeguard immigrant communities from discrimination or harm.
Wealth & Asset Creation
A community’s well-being for generations to come often depends on the ability for organizations today to acquire assets like land and buildings and pay off capital debt. This grant supports those who are engaged in tipping power through asset development and projects that promote community ownership and visibility.
Voter & Civic Engagement
Civic engagement is critical for battles toward equity and racial justice. This grant ensures you have the support to engage your community in the democratic process, from voter registration drives, get-out-the-vote campaigns, election protection programs, and more.
Youth & Student Organizing
Youth organizing helps communities act on issues now while also preparing for the future. Whether you are advocating for youth priorities, bringing young people together, or offering youth leadership development opportunities, this grant supports your work to mobilize the next generation of leaders. Inatai defines youth as up to 30 years old.
ELIGIBILITY
Infrastructure Opportunities grants are available to reflective, community-led organizations who are engaging in or have a clear path to collective action that addresses systemic inequity.
In addition, eligible organizations must be:
- A nonprofit organization or a named sponsored nonprofit organization project.
- Led by communities most impacted by structural inequities, including efforts where decision-making power is held by people of color; queer, transgender, and gender-expansive people; D/deaf and disabled people; immigrants; people who are cash poor, and other lived experiences.
- Able to demonstrate a clear power-building goal regardless of where you are in the journey.
HOW TO APPLY
The joint application for Campaign, Litigation, Issues, and Policy, Infrastructure Opportunities, and Transformational Capacity Building is OPEN.
Applications will be reviewed in two rounds. We will consider the first round of applications received between March 2 – April 7, 2026 and the second round of applications received between July 13 – August 18, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I apply for funding?
To learn more about our process and how to apply, click here.
Can I submit more than one application?
You will only need to submit one application. To learn more about our application process, click here.
Is there an application deadline?
Applications will be reviewed in two rounds. We will consider the first round of applications received between March 2 – April 7, 2026 and the second round of applications received between July 13 – August 18, 2026.
When are Infrastructure Opportunity funds awarded?
A variety of factors, including volume of applications, affect the timeline of decisions and our team takes the time to read every application thoroughly, multiple times. We estimate we will send award notifications approximately 90-120 days after each round closes.
What type of work are you most likely to fund?
These grants are specifically intended to fund power-building efforts around specific issues that community leaders and community-based organizations have told us are integral to building community power and transforming systems and structures.
Can you give me examples of what this means?
Though decisions about who is invited to apply often involve various unique factors and circumstances, here are some examples of what opportunities are not strongly aligned with funding priorities and what opportunities might be aligned with funding priorities.
Immigrant Justice
Not strongly aligned with power-building priorities: An immigrant-serving organization seeking funding for ongoing legal aid work.
Potentially aligned with power-building priorities: An immigrant-serving organization seeking funding to develop and align with other immigrant-serving organizations to identify ways to take collective action.
Youth and Student Organizing
Not strongly aligned with power-building priorities: An organization led by adults seeking funding to support an ongoing a youth mentorship program.
Potentially aligned with power-building priorities: An organization led by youth seeking funding to develop a youth-led organizing training and development cohort.
Wealth & Asset Creation
Not strongly aligned with power-building priorities: An organization seeking resources to rent their first office space.
Potentially aligned with power-building priorities: An organization seeking seed money to kickstart a capital campaign for purchasing a building.
Civil Rights
Not strongly aligned with power-building priorities: An organization seeking resources for ongoing community education programs on social justice issues.
Potentially aligned with power-building priorities: An organization seeking resources to engage in impact litigation to defend communities experiencing discrimination or civil rights violations.
Voter & Civic Engagement
Not strongly aligned with power-building priorities: An organization seeking funding for U.S. citizenship classes.
Potentially aligned with power-building priorities: An organization seeking funding to develop opportunities for community members to engage in civic issues such as voting or running for office.
501(c)(4) Community Power-Building
Not strongly aligned with power-building priorities: An organization is interested in starting a 501(c)(4) but aren’t quite sure how and need some direction. (These organizations may be better suited for support through the Transformational Capacity Building Fund.)
Potentially aligned with power-building priorities: An organization is in the process gaining their 501(c)(4) status, or has very recently launched a 501(c)(4) and are ready receive funding to kick-start their 501(c)(4) work.
What other priorities are you considering when making decisions?
Like all our grantmaking initiatives, Inatai Foundation gives priority to funding organizations dedicated to building power for equity and racial justice. We particularly emphasize supporting groups that reflect the communities they serve and are rooted in Washington communities with less access to resources.
We are prioritizing applicants from the following geographics and/or with the following identities:
- Adams, Wahkiakum, Douglas, Garfield, Lincoln, Skamania, Asotin, Columbia, Cowlitz, Ferry, Franklin, Grant, Island, Jefferson, Kittitas, Mason, Pend Oreille, San Juan, Stevens, and Whitman counties.
- Disability-led or disability-serving organizations working at the intersection of racial justice and disability justice.
- Youth-led and youth-serving organizations focused on racial justice, with an emphasis on those working in smaller, more rural communities.
- Communities facing direct political, legal, or cultural backlash: immigrant justice, queer- and transgender-led, and narrative-change organizations.
I'm having a problem with the application. Who should I contact?
Send an email to impact@inatai.org.
I'm still not sure if this is for me. Who do I talk to?
If you’re still unsure if this is the right opportunity for your organization, we encourage you to reach out to your program officer. Since they are the ones most familiar with your organization they might be able to provide additional insight to help you decide whether now is the right time to submit an application.
ACCESSIBILITY COMMITMENT
- Interpretation and translation services (including American Sign Language and/or Communication Accessible Realtime Translation).
- Large-print formats of instructions and applications.
- Alternative application methods, including over the phone, by video or voice recording, and on paper.
- Support from professional grant writers.
Please contact us at impact@inatai.org if you need one of these or another service, and we will do our best to provide it. We know it takes time, trust, and effort to request these services, and thank you for sharing how we can make this process work for you.