Funding Amounts
Mosaic will distribute $6,000,000; grants will range between $25,000 and $500,000. The size of the grant will not correlate to the size of the applicant’s budget, but we expect that larger grants will be dedicated to larger and broader collaborations or support large numbers of movement participants. Mosaic is accepting both single and multi-year proposals, and projects may be funded either partially or in full.

Eligibility
Mosaic will consider projects that are:

• Led by a 501c3 non-profit public charity organization or fiscal sponsor (including a collaboration of organizations led by a 501c3 non-profit);
• Based in and substantially focused on the United States, (including Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and other US affiliated territories),
• Supportive of people and organizations who predominantly focus on healthy and just communities, clean air and water, a safe climate, the thriving natural systems , or other related environmental protection and justice topics, and
• Advancing field-wide connections and shared tools across our six focus areas that are widely beneficial to multiple organizations (as opposed to one or a small few)

Grantmaking Values
In addition to the basic eligibility criteria described above, Mosaic will prioritize projects that:

• Demonstrate leadership by and are supportive of BIPOC, low-income, women, LGBTQ+ , environmental justice, rural, immigrant, and other socially and economically disadvantaged movement members, organizations and communities.
• Demonstrate a focus on developing the power and capacity of the environmental movement by supporting and connecting organizations and approaches that reflect the full breadth of the environmental field in all its richness, including political, cultural, geographic, economic, social, sectoral, and issue area diversity.
• Are collaborative by design and engage and benefit multiple stakeholders.
• Create shared tools that are widely beneficial to movement members as opposed to narrowly focused on one or a small number of organizations.
• Express, in both design and intent, a commitment to building a more inclusive, equitable, and impactful environmental movement.
• Provide relevant current value (i.e. supporting a current campaign, coalition, effort, etc.) while building long-term power in the environmental movement.
• Build on existing efforts and initiatives when possible; or otherwise fill a current gap in the broader landscape or ecosystem.
• Advance and share learning broadly with the field.

We recognize that proposed projects may not advance all of these values in equal measure.