BOS approves nonprofit Human Services Grant Funding for FY 2026

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors approved funding to community nonprofit organizations during its May 20, 2025, meeting after a competitive grant process. Grant funding opportunities were made available to tax-exempt, private, nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations that provide a wide variety of services to Loudoun County residents. These services include community-based health and human services and related infrastructure of care services, particularly for underserved residents in the areas of need identified and approved by the Board of Supervisors for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY 2026), which begins July 1, 2025.

The areas of need are:

• Crisis Intervention and Diversion: Services provided to individuals and families in crisis to overcome immediate problems, and reduce or prevent the need for more restrictive and expensive higher-level services.
• Improved Quality of Human Services: Services and opportunities provided to individuals, organizations and communities that enhance the quality, accessibility, accountability and coordination of services provided by community organizations.
• Long-Term Support: Services that focus on assisting individuals who have continuing, long- term support needs to remain healthy, safe and independent in the community.
• Prevention and Self-Sufficiency: Services focused on assisting individuals and families in becoming and/or remaining independent and stable, and providing tools, skills, strategies and resources to individuals and families.

The county’s FY 2026 Adopted Budget includes a $2,947,966 allocation for the human services nonprofit competitive grant process and a mini-grant process. In addition, the Board approved the appropriation of $895,072.65 in anticipated FY 2025 year-end fund balance for a total allocation of $3,843,038.65 for nonprofit grant funding for FY 2026.

Standard Competitive Grants

Through the county’s standard human services nonprofit competitive grants process, 45 nonprofit organizations were selected to receive grant funding for FY 2026. All requests were capped at $113,000 for activities in their grant request. These organizations are:

• A Farm Less Ordinary ($94,078.18)
• A Place To Be ($111,693.44)
• All Ages Read Together ($68,259.04)
• Ayuda ($105,994.00)
• Best Buddies International, Inc. ($100,805.42)
• Brain Injury Services, Inc. ($62,594.14)
• Catholic Charities Diocese of Arlington ($101,348.05)
• Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties ($71,112)
• Creating Foundations for Hope, Inc. ($44,855.36)
• Crossroads Jobs ($46,644.44)
• Dulles South Food Pantry ($109,233.33)
• Dulles South Soup Kitchen ($95,898.16)
• ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia ($89,654.17)
• Friends of Loudoun Mental Health ($34,271.63)
• Insight Memory Care Center ($39,637.79)
• Just Neighbors Ministry Inc. ($41,145.00)
• Legacy Farms ($100,971.39)
• Legal Services of Northern Virginia ($103,847.00)
• Liberty’s Promise ($44,204.69)
• Loudoun Cares ($106,341.24)
• Loudoun Coalition on Women and Girls ($81,200.00)
• Loudoun Free Clinic ($103,506.82)
• Loudoun Habitat for Humanity ($108,480.00)
• Loudoun Hunger Relief, Inc. ($113,000)
• Loudoun Islamic Center ($86,411.32)
• Loudoun Literacy Council ($105,692.67)
• Loudoun Serenity House ($105,220.73)
• Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers ($91,579.44)
• Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy ($94,060.92)
• Mobile Hope Association ($103,206.67)
• Northern Virginia Dental Clinic ($92,555.21)
• Northern Virginia Family Service ($98,558.36)
• Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons ($27,242.29)
• OAR of Fairfax County Inc. ($99,977.93)
• Piedmont Dispute Resolution Center ($35,705.88)
• Piedmont Environmental Council ($27,470.96)
• Pillars4Humanity ($100,490.84)
• Ryan Bartel Foundation ($100,580.59)
• Specially Adapted Resource Clubs ($78,710.04)
• The Arc of Loudoun ($99,186.93)
• The Chris Atwood Foundation ($90,511.82)
• Tree of Life Ministries ($104,649.77)
• Windy Hill Foundation ($96,502.00)
• Women Giving Back ($110,363.33)
• Youth for Tomorrow ($95,937.00)

Competitive Mini-Grants

Four organizations will receive mini-grant funding (requests of $5,000 or less), which helps smaller organizations build capacity or support small-scale innovative ideas or projects. Those organizations, each of which were awarded their requested amount, are:

• Loudoun Youth, Inc. ($5,000.00)
• Love, KK ($5,000.00)
• NOVA Diaper Bank ($5,000)
• Rx Drug Access Partnership, dba Rx Partnership (RxP) ($5,000.00) 

More information about the funding process is online at loudoun.gov/NonprofitGrantFunding.

Grant Training

Nonprofit organizations interested in diversifying their funding opportunities are encouraged to apply for Loudoun County’s Summer Professional Development Grant Cohort. Participants will explore the various facets of grant seeking and proposal development, including federal, state, foundation and corporate grant opportunities. Participants will develop proposals in response to relevant funding opportunities over a series of four training sessions in a six-week period from June to August 2025.

More information, including descriptions of the courses and a link to the online application, can be
found at loudoun.gov/GrantTraining.