Keystone Grants
Forecasted
Keystone Grants support grassroots and community-led groups in Maine, funding organizing, resilience-building resources, and systems-level advocacy to advance environmental and racial justice.
Funder: Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $10,000–$60,000 per year by category, for up to 4 years; $1,390,000 available in 2026
Summary: Supports grassroots and community-led environmental and racial justice work through organizing, resilience-building resources, and systems-level advocacy.
Key Information: Work must focus on Maine; organizations with active multi-year grants must wait until their grant’s final year to reapply.
Description
Keystone is the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation’s grant program supporting grassroots and community-led efforts that advance environmental and racial justice, equitable social change, and community well-being. The program understands grassroots work as efforts led by people from communities most affected by the problems they seek to address, mobilizing marginalized communities to dismantle harmful systems.
Keystone frames its support through advocacy and an interconnected ecosystem of movement-building. It funds on-the-ground organizing, organizations providing tools and training that sustain community ownership, and systems-level advocacy that centers the lived experiences of people facing marginalization. Together, these approaches connect public policy advocacy, community organizing, and community power-building.
