Next quarterly applicant grant: The Wildhorse Foundation, managed by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, makes competitive community grants to qualifying organizations in northeastern Oregon, southeastern Washington and eligible Native American organizations. The next announced quarterly application deadline is January 1, 2027, by midnight; the official funder page does not specify a time zone. An individual organization’s request is limited to $30,000 per year, not an overall program allocation. This is a new calendar-quarter application opportunity distinct from the October 1, 2026 round.
Applicant eligibility and geography: Eligible recipients include government, Tribal and nonprofit organizations with eligible projects in Oregon’s Morrow, Umatilla, Union and Wallowa counties; the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; and the Tribes’ ceded territory in southeastern Washington covering most of Benton, Columbia and Walla Walla counties. Eligible Native American Tribal agencies and charities with principal operations in Oregon, and certain national or regional Indian organizations serving Native interests, may also qualify under additional published geographic rules. Verify the specific project location and organizational status against the official application guidance.
Eligible purposes: The Foundation explicitly supports arts and cultural activities, education, environmental protection, gambling addiction prevention/education/treatment, historic preservation, public health, public safety and salmon restoration. Nonprofits, public health agencies, schools and other authorized community organizations can propose legitimate projects that advance those priorities; purchase of a particular commercial healthcare technology is not required.
Restrictions and payments: The administrator ordinarily approves no more than one regular Foundation grant per organization in a 12-month period, and a new regular grant is not available until the prior project’s final report is submitted and the grant closed. Requests cannot exceed $30,000 annually. Funding does not support grants to individuals, sectarian efforts mainly benefiting members, elections or legislative lobbying, private foundations and endowments, debt retirement, routine operating deficits or discriminatory institutions. No universal mandatory matching percentage is published in the current official program guidance. Awards are paid after a grant agreement is signed, with spending constrained to the approved project budget and reporting required by the project end date within one year of funding.
Application: Read the official program rules and quarterly deadlines, prepare the project’s purpose, eligible geography and applicant status, budget and required attachments, then use the Foundation’s linked online grant application portal. The Foundation says applications must be received by midnight on the deadline date with no exceptions and advises early submission. The regular cycle has January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 deadlines. Its separate Rapid Response Grant has different funding and timing requirements and should not be conflated with this competition.
Verified October 27, 2026: Official funder policies, recipient restrictions, eligible project categories, request limit, payment method, annual eligibility and application timing were reviewed. This is an applicant-facing charitable financial-assistance award, not a procurement contract or previous-cycle carryover.