Call for Applications 2026!

Welcome to Egregor’s 2026 selection process for social and environmental organizations!

Egregor is an endowment fund (non-profit) that primarily provides financial and technical support to organisations tackling critical environmental and social challenges, but that lack the resources and access to high-level expertise needed to scale their solutions.

In practice, we work as your free, high-level strategic consulting partner and a co-pilot of your operations, supporting what is most needed for your solution to reach its beneficiaries, strengthen its model, and generate change at a systemic level.

Our approach

Our approach is profoundly human-centered. We build equal partnerships based on trust and deliberately challenge traditional power dynamics between donors and their supported organisations. We work at your service, based on your priorities, your needs, your reality and your pace. And we are available every day for you. This is not a one-time mentorship opportunity or a space where you will be following fit-for-all workshops in a room with a hundred people. We are available for organisations on a day-to-day basis. Our support is tailored, hands-on, and built with you.

Egregor follows a venture philanthropy approach. We work with NGOs, impact start-ups, and applied research teams. We may deploy targeted funding or capital on your key workstreams, alongside our support to develop your key strategies and to execute them.

Our core team brings strong expertise, but we do not pretend to know everything. This is why we mobilise the power of the Egregor Community, a network of more than 100 senior experts across sectors and geographies, whom we engage on demand depending on your challenges.

A selective, long-term commitment

We intentionally retain a very limited number of organisations in our portfolio to ensure deep, dedicated and hands-on support. We currently work with three organisations and expect to select up to three additional organisations through this call.

Our partnerships are built for the long term. We work with organisations for a minimum of three years, because a system-level change does not happen overnight.

At the same time, organisations must be scale-ready. We would like to see that your solution has already proven its impact, that pilots have demonstrated sustainable change, and that your organisation is now at a turning point where growth, replication, or geographic expansion is both possible and necessary. We also actively support access to funding and capital during these critical phases.

Our three pillars of support

All partnerships are structured around three core pillars:

Economic sustainability
Governance and impact
Visibility and communication

2026 eligibility criteria

For the 2026 selection round, we will prioritise organisations that meet the following criteria:

Minimum €75,000 in annual recurring revenue
Operations in:
- France, with a focus on marginalised territories (rural areas, QPV, etc.)
- African continent, with priority given to organisations operating in contexts where access to capital and structured support is more limited.
Strong innovation in approach or delivery model
A clear and intentional gender equity approach. For this round, we will give priority to organisations led by women, including women CEOs and founders.

Our focus areas

We support organisations working within one or more of the following four focus areas:

Education and child protection
Climate change adaptation
Security and social justice
Civic engagement and democracy

How to apply

If this resonates with you, we invite you to apply by filling this form.

The call for applications opens only once per year.

Organisations selected at this stage will receive instructions for Stage 2 during the month of February 2026.

Partnership agreements and collaboration are expected to start in April 2026, beginning with a diagnostic phase.