2025 Grant Opportunities
Supporting economic well-being for older adults and the organizations that serve them.
grant opportunity overview
Colorado Organizational Resiliency (COR): Providing flexible financial support to Colorado-based nonprofits working to make it less expensive to age in Next50’s three priority areas. This grant seeks to help organizations build their resiliency, effectively navigate uncertainties, recover from setbacks, and maintain impact over the long term.
Changing Aging – Catalyzing systems-level, equitable programmatic innovations that reduce the cost of aging and/or support economic well-being of older adults in Next50’s three priority areas.
Sudden & Urgent Need (SUN) – Addressing one-time, urgent needs for small nonprofit organizations based in Colorado.
APPLICATION EVALUATION
01 – Connection to Marginalized Older Adults
Requesting organizations must demonstrate a focus on serving marginalized older populations. Marginalized refers to the systematic social, economic, and political exclusion or disadvantage faced by individuals or groups, particularly those with intersectional identities. Please refer to our list of priority populations. Applicants who demonstrate a strong understanding of the intersectional identities of the older adults they serve and actively work to dismantle systemic barriers to access will be prioritized.
02 – Commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Applicants must clearly demonstrate the organization’s commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, including staff and leadership diversity. Applications must show thoughtful and intentional efforts to understand and promote equitable and inclusive values within their organization and in their responsiveness to the communities served.
03 – Alignment to Priority Areas
Applicants will be asked to briefly describe how their work with older adults aligns with one or more of Next50’s priority areas: ending ageism, advancing digital equity, and supporting aging in place.
04 – Innovation
Applicants must articulate how their request is innovative by explaining 1) how novel the project is, and 2) if it is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions. This work should make strides toward lasting improvement rather than maintaining the status quo.
05 – economic well-being
Applicants must demonstrate a path to improving older adults’ economic well-being in short-and/or long-term.
06 – Partnership (Changing Aging grants only)
Applications will be strengthened by meaningful partnerships that will contribute to the grant’s ultimate impact on changing aging. Partners may be other non-profits or may include cross-sector collaborations. Applicants will be asked to provide an MOU or Letter of Commitment for named partners.
07 – systems change (Changing Aging grants only)
Applicants will need to demonstrate how the organization is a key contributor toward a path to transforming structures, policies, practices, power dynamics, and/or norms within an organization, community, or larger social structure.
08 – organizational resiliency/Capacity (COR grants only)
Grant seekers must show how the grant will restore or increase the organization’s capacity or resiliency, not maintain the status quo. The activities of the grant should clearly support the goal of increasing capacity or resiliency.
09 – Need For Funds
Applicants must clearly describe their organization’s financial need for requested funds. Because funding is limited, we will consider both an organization’s need for funding and its financial sustainability. If you have significant cash reserves or a budget surplus, please explain why the requested funds are needed. Similarly, if you have low cash reserves or a budget deficit, please share how the requested funds will help improve financial sustainability and/or how you plan to improve your financial position.
Requirements of Grantees
If selected for funding, the grantee will be expected to agree to Next50’s grant agreement. Please review this agreement before applying as it addresses Next50’s requirements for reporting, publicity, intellectual property, and other performance-related obligations. Modifications or adjustments to the grant agreement will not be accepted.
Application information
2025 funding is available by invitation only
• All interested organizations are invited to schedule a call with a Next50 Community Impact Manager to discuss our opportunities.
• Click here to request a meeting with a Community Impact Manager.
Beyond the Grant
Not ready to apply, but want to get to know us? We’d love to learn about your work! We are particularly interested in talking with organizations that are led by and/or focused on our priority populations.
Are there ways that Next50 might support your organization outside of funding? We’d love to hear from you! Examples may include:
• Teaming up on policy advocacy
• Making connections to others in our network
• Non-monetary partnership
• Technical assistance
Click here to learn how to schedule a meeting with Next50.
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Which grant opportunity may be right for your organization?
| Criteria | Colorado Organizational Resiliency (COR) | Changing Aging | Sudden & Urgent Need (SUN) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Making aging more affordable | The organization or program must be working toward making aging more affordable. | The proposed grant must be working toward making aging more affordable. | The organization or program must be working toward making aging more affordable. |
| Next50 priority areas | The organization or program must be doing work in support of one or more of Next50’s priority areas. | The proposed grant must directly align with one or more of Next50’s priority areas. | The organization or program must be doing work in support of one or more of Next50’s priority areas. |
| Connection to marginalized older adults | The organization or program must be connected to and working with one or more of Next50’s priority populations. | The organization or program must be connected to and working with one or more of Next50’s priority populations. In addition, the proposed grant must focus on, prioritize, and directly impact one or more of Next50’s priority populations. | The organization or program must be connected to and working with one or more of Next50’s priority populations. |
| Innovation | The organization or program is making a change or improvement to their work or processes that will allow it to be more effective, equitable, efficient, or sustainable. Funding must be used to make an improvement to the organization’s capacity or resiliency, not just maintain the status quo. | For the purposes of this funding opportunity, innovation refers to: –Novel projects that create improved, equitable solutions to reduce economic disparities among older adults. –Improvements to an existing program that will allow the program to be more effective or efficient in improving the economic wellbeing of older adults, or solutions that will allow these programs to scale or to improve long-term sustainability. For existing programs, funding must be used to make a lasting improvement to the program, not just maintain the status quo. –Transformative ideas that seek to change the landscape of economic wellbeing for older adults but need funding to research, experiment, pilot, or prove their concept. | Not required. |
| Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging | The organization must show a clear commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. They will be asked to describe their work in this area. | The organization must show a clear commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. They will be asked to describe their work in this area. | The organization must show a clear commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. They will be asked to describe their work in this area. |
| Impact on organizational resiliency | The proposed grant must improve the organization’s resiliency and/or capacity. Funding should restore or increase resiliency/capacity, not maintain the status quo. | Not required. | The proposed grant must address an urgent issue that threatens the organization or program’s resiliency or capacity. |
| Partnership | Not required. | MOU’s or Letters of Commitment will be requested during the application process. | Not required. |
| Multi-year funding option (not a factor for award decision making) | Yes. Up to 2 years. Multi-year will only be awarded when it is clear that the second year will build upon the initiatives of the first. Limited funds are available for multi-year requests. | Yes. Up to 3 years. Multi-year will only be awarded when it is clear that subsequent year(s) will build upon the initiatives of the last. Limited funds are available for multi-year requests. | No. |
Grant Portal Information
Next50 uses Fluxx Grantmaking portal. To apply for funding, all organizations will need to have an account in our new system. Please click here to complete your registration. *Please note that registration can take up to two business days.
Visit our Grant Portal Resource page for additional instructions.
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