Grants &
Guidelines
Program Areas
Hello and welcome!
Abortion Access, Community Organizing for Racial Justice and Urban Environmental Justice are Conant Family Foundation’s primary funding areas.
Two additional funding areas will be added later in 2026: Immigrants Rights and Palestinian Rights.
Abortion Access
Abortion care is essential health care.
The Abortion Access Program Area supports access to safe, affordable, and legal abortions. Organizations selected for funding receive one-year general operating grants. Three categories have emerged as priorities:
Increasing access to self-managed medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol)
Chicago-area abortion services, financial support, and transportation/housing needs
Abortion access and women's health care information in southeast states
Some of the organizations that receive funding are in states with bans and restrictions; their inclusion here does not in any way describe their activities. Please click on each organization for more information.
There are no formal guidelines to apply; if your organization aligns with these categories, please send an email of introduction.
2025 Grants
Abortion Care Network $10,000
ARC SouthEast $10,000
Chicago Abortion Fund $50,000
CHOICES Carbondale Memphis $35,000
Feminist Women's Health Center $35,000
Kentucky Health Justice Network $30,000
Midwest Access Coalition $30,000
Midwest Access Project $10,000
Mountain Access Brigade $30,000
Provide $10,000
SASS Self-Managed Abortion Safe and Supported $10,000
Western Alabama Women's Center $10,000
Community Organizing for Racial Justice
This Program Area utilizes participatory grantmaking, shifting decision-making power to an external Grants Team of Chicagoans with lived experience of racial injustice as well as proximity to the issues and communities the Foundation seek to engage
Additional information on our participatory grantmaking process can be found on this page.
A new participatory grants team will be assembled in 2026. They will identify the funding focus area(s), develop guidelines and post an application process here by the end of JUNE. Please check back for updates at that time.
Urban Environmental Justice
The vision of the Urban Environmental Justice Program Area is that all Chicago residents live in environmentally safe communities.
Low-income communities and communities of color experience disproportionately higher levels of air, water, and soil pollution and contamination. Nonprofit organizations addressing environmental injustice in these communities are the focus of this Program Area.
Grants are made to organizations that identify environmental hazards, involve their communities in identifying solutions, and advocate for justice and remediation.
Eligible applicants will be Chicago-area nonprofit organizations that are a) led by those directly impacted, b) include community members in decision-making, and c) accountable to the communities they seek to improve.
Grants are not restricted and are awarded annually. There are no formal guidelines to apply; if your organization aligns with these categories, please send an email of introduction.
2026 Grants
Alliance of the Southeast $30,000
Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative $75,000
Coalition for a South Works CBA $35,000
ETHOS $15,000
Friends of the Parks $25,000
Respair Media Quantum Entanglements $20,000
Southside Together $30,000
Sweet Water Foundation $25,000
Funding
Collaborations
The Conant Family Foundation is proud to partner with other foundations on issues that align with our mission.
2026 Grants
Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund $25,000
Chicago Fund for Safe & Peaceful Communities $10,000
Chicago Peace Fellows $35,000
