The Mama Cash 2025 Grantmaking Window will open on 3 March 2025.
From 3 March – 31 March 2025, 11:59 PM CET, Mama Cash invites applicants who are not current Resilience Fund grantee-partners to apply for funding from Mama Cash by submitting their Letters of Interest (LOI). Applicants will be informed by 30 August 2025 whether their application has been accepted by the Community Commitee (COM COM) – Mama Cash’s participatory grantmaking body – to the final round of its decision-making process.
Mama Cash supports ambitious self-led feminist organisations and initiatives that defend and advance the rights of women, girls and trans and intersex people. The Resilience Fund provides core, flexible, long-term support. This enables grantee-partners to strategise, plan and carry out the work they want to do, in the way that they want to do it – over the long term – so that they can grow, strengthen and sustain their feminist movements.
During the 2025 Resilience Fund LOI window, Mama Cash is inviting applications from self-led feminist organisations and initiatives based in the following regions: the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, Central Asia and North Asia. Applicants for new Resilience Fund grants that are not based in the above-listed regions will not be considered this year. We advise groups wishing to apply for a Resilience Fund grant to closely consider the Mama Cash’s selection criteria.
Geographical restrictions
In 2024, Mama Cash invited new applicants to the Resilience Fund from the other regions we work in, that is Africa, West Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania. This year, we are opening for applications from the regions that were closed in 2024. This is to ensure that the bulk of our funding in 2025 continues to be weighted towards our core, long term, flexible funding in regions that we were not able to fund in 2024.
Mama Cash’s other funds—including the Solidarity Fund, Spark Fund, Revolution Fund, and Radical Love Fund—will continue to remain open for new applications from all regions, in alignment with the specific focus and eligibility criteria of each fund. These funds are committed to supporting feminist movements and grassroots activists worldwide, ensuring that diverse communities can access the resources they need to drive transformative change.
In addition, renewal grants for existing Resilience Fund grantee-partners will not be impacted by this year’s regional restriction. Current grantee-partners receiving support from the Resilience Fund can continue to apply for renewal funding as usual, ensuring continuity in their critical work. This commitment underscores Mama Cash’s dedication to sustaining and strengthening long-term partnerships with feminist and activist groups globally.
Decision-making
Consistent with our deep and unwavering commitment to sharing power and ceding decision-making authority to activists, Mama Cash remains a fully participatory grant-maker. We strongly believe that those most affected by systemic injustice and inequality are best positioned to determine their own needs and priorities. Therefore, all decisions regarding all our new grants are made directly by the communities with whom we collaborate and support: Â
- All applicants provide input and guidance on thematic issues they believe should be prioritised for funding, Â
- Mama Cash staff screen all applications for eligibility against the selection criteria and priorities,Â
- The COM COM reviews a longlist of the top applications to discuss, deliberate and make the final decisions on who our new grantee-partners will be. Â
You can read more about the Resilience Fund’s participatory grant-making process here.
The application window is not relevant for current Resilience Fund grantee-partners whose grants are to be renewed during the course of 2025. Please also note that Mama Cash is not affiliated with a loan app called CashMama. Mama Cash will never ask you for money and we will only email you from email addresses ending in @mamacash.org. Please disregard emails sent from other email providers.
