Daily Featured Foundation - 11/7/25

11/7/2025

Here is today’s featured foundation.

The Awesome Foundation

Website: https://www.awesomefoundation.org/

Mission & Purpose: To advance the interest of "awesome" in the universe, $1,000 at a time. It is a global community of autonomous chapters that provide small, no-strings-attached micro-grants to projects and their creators.

Broad Funding Guidelines: This is a global network of local chapters (e.g., "Awesome NYC," "Awesome Ann Arbor," "Awesome Sydney"). Anyone can apply—individuals, groups, or organizations (nonprofit status is not required). Applications are submitted to a specific local chapter online. Each chapter's trustees (who each pool in $100 of their own money) vote monthly to award a $1,000 grant to the project they deem the most "awesome."

Featured Opportunity: The grant itself is the opportunity. It is a no-strings-attached micro-genius grant for flashes of brilliance. There is no reporting, and the foundation claims no ownership over the project. This makes it one of the most accessible funding sources in the world for creative, quirky, or delightful community projects that would never qualify for traditional foundation funding.

Recommendation: An individual or a small, informal group of community members with a creative, delightful, or surprising idea that benefits the public (e.g., building a series of "little free art galleries," hosting a public, city-wide water balloon fight, or creating a pop-up bike repair stand on a busy trail).