Visionary Grants (Community Vision Fund)
Visionary Grants (Community Vision Fund) support grassroots leaders and community organizations testing community-rooted ideas and creative approaches to strengthen connections and well-being in the Fox Valley.
Funder: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
Due Dates: February 23, 2026 (Applications open) | October 31, 2026 (Applications close; rolling submissions)
Funding Amounts: $5,000–$10,000 for one year; no multi-year grants in 2026
Summary: Supports community-rooted ideas and innovative experiments that strengthen community connections, advance learning, and improve regional well-being.
Key Information: Projects must benefit the specified Fox Valley service area; capital campaigns are ineligible.
Description
Visionary Grants, administered by the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region through its Community Vision Fund, support community-driven ideas emerging from lived experience and grassroots leadership, and projects testing new approaches or creative solutions. The fund advances well-being in Calumet, Outagamie, Shawano, and Waupaca counties and the Neenah-Menasha area of Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
The program supports early-stage, experimental, evolving, or non-traditional work that may struggle to attract conventional funding. It welcomes thoughtful risks where learning matters as much as outcomes. Projects may generate shared learning, strengthen community connections, or offer insight into systems and root causes. Applicants can focus on either community voice and lived experience or innovation and experimentation.
