Grant
Opportunities
Atlas Network offers a variety of grant opportunities throughout the year. Prospective grantees should carefully review all opportunities and deadlines below to identify the best fit. Atlas Network strives to champion all worthy efforts to advance liberty, and grants are awarded on a highly competitive basis and in strict compliance with donor intent. Please review our FAQ page and this guide to the application’s important Outputs and Outcomes section.
Requests for general support or for purposes other than those listed should be submitted under the Project Grants category.
Atlas Network encourages our partners to apply with their highest priority projects. Please apply with no more than two grant applications per application cycle.
Public Policy Advocacy
Grant Opportunity
Deadline: October 1
Engaging Hearts & Minds
Grant Opportunity
Deadline: October 1
Organizational Capacity
Grant Opportunity
Deadline: October 1
Lights, Camera, Liberty
Film Pitch Competition
Deadline: December 15
How to
Apply
Follow the two steps below to apply for one of our grant opportunities. Make sure to carefully review the funding topic descriptions before selecting the most suitable option. Funding topic selection is not applicable for Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Pitch Competition.
Log in to our Grants Portal and select the appropriate application for the grant opportunity of your interest.
After selecting the grant opportunity of your choice, indicate in the application which current funding topic you believe best aligns with your initiative, if applicable. If none fit your initiative, please select “Open Category Fund.”
Funding
Topics
LEARN MOREThis fund offers support to Atlas Network partners with innovative ideas that are not a match with currently available funding topics.
LEARN MOREThis funding topic is available thanks to generous support of John Templeton Foundation and the Reynolds Foundation.
LEARN MOREThis funding topic is available thanks to generous support of the Smith Family Foundation, which provides funding to Atlas Network partners and, by invitation, potential partners all around the world to help new think tank leaders establish and grow new organizations committed to advancing liberty.
LEARN MOREThis funding topic is available thanks to generous support of the Smith Family Foundation, who provides funding to Atlas Network partners all around the world to bring more pro-liberty materials to their target audience in local languages.
LEARN MOREThis funding topic is available thanks to Atlas Network’s partnership with the Freedom and Prosperity Center of the Atlantic Council, which provides funding for strong partner organizations who seek to present achievable strategies for increasing economic, political, and legal freedoms in their country or community.
LEARN MOREThis funding topic is available to Atlas Network partners all around the world working to counter authoritarianism and the rise of illiberal statist sentiment.
LEARN MOREAs part of our Dignity Unbound project, this funding topic is available thanks to generous support of John Templeton Foundation and the Smith Family Foundation.
LEARN MOREThis funding topic is available thanks to Atlas Network's partnership with the Fraser Institute, which provides consulting and expert support to grantees of this program around the globe.
Grant Cycle
Process
Atlas Network operates on a structured grant cycle, and applications are reviewed three times a year. Please take note of the following grant cycle deadlines:
Deadlines: February 1 I June 1 I October 1
Application
Submission
Atlas Network accepts a maximum of two (2) applications per organization in a given grant cycle.
Application
Review
The Grants Committee will review your application(s) and send you a final decision within one (1) to two (2) months of the application deadline.
Grant
Agreement
If approved, a grant agreement and payment information form will be sent to the point of contact listed in the application.
During each grant cycle, Atlas Network strives to champion all worthy efforts that increase the capacity and raise the ambitions of our independent partners to advance liberty, and grants are awarded on a highly competitive basis and in strict compliance with donor intent. Please review our FAQ page and this guide to the application’s important Outputs and Outcomes section.
Contact Us
hunter.rauch@atlasnetwork.orgAustralia & New Zealand,
Sub Saharan Africa
hane.crevelari@atlasnetwork.orgEast Asia & Pacific,
Europe & Central Asia
alyssa.dipadova@atlasnetwork.orgLatin America & Caribbean,
Middle East & North Africa
grauben.lara@atlasnetwork.orgUS & Canada,
South Asia