DOWN PAYMENT GRANTS
Our housing justice program offers down payment grants to qualifying first-time home-buying residents in the DC & Philadelphia areas. Awards range from $5,000 to $20,000, and grants are made two times per year until funds are expended. Our application for our spring 2026 round closed on March 31. We will make grant awards by April 30. Our fall deadline is September 30 and we will make fall awards by October 30.
We are proud to partner with Flock and welcome birdSEED into the Greater Washington Community Foundation family. This program comes at a time when our region, and our nation, is reckoning with its past and searching for solutions to address the history of discriminatory policies that Black and Brown folks have endured in our communities. We look forward to working with our community to grow the seed of this work to a scale that matches the disparities we see and the aspirations we share for a racially equitable and just region.
tonia wellons
President and CEO of the Greater Washington Community Foundation