Awesome Foundation Rhode Island supports creative ideas for the Ocean State.

Our October 2025 grant cycle is now CLOSED. Our application periods are open from the 1st of the month until 11:59 PM on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, or until a total of 100 applications come in, whichever is first.

Please do not submit an application until our next round opens on November 1, or it will be missed when we filter applications for voting!

Suggestions:

• Write proposals in a doc outside our portal. This protects against loss, and lets you flush ideas out more naturally.

• Have a friend read your proposal. Ensure you’re not skipping key points.

• Assume we have some idea what’s going on (in culture, media, technology, education). We need to know the basic Who / What / When / Where / Why, but it need not be an essay.

• Budgets can be a top-level overview.