Awesome Foundation gives out USD$1000 grants and the application process looks pretty lightweight. I skimmed their blog and saw they'd given out grants to Maker Faire organizers, studenty things, and citizenshippy things. So your project sounds like a good bet.
Open Society Foundation -- I imagine they'd either want to award the grant to the Girl Scouts or have you as a fellow.
The Stumptown Syndicate and the municipality of Portland care a lot about open source technology, community, and education. I believe it's Stumptown people who made the Calagator event calendar webapp, and Stumptown folks work on the fantastic Open Source Bridge conference and its open conferenceware webapp. So, they already love stuff similar to this technologically, and sponsor women-who-code nights. The city itself likes to use and make open source software for, like, transit stuff. I don't know whether Stumptown or the city have ever done grants outside Portland but they might at least be able to give you advice.
IBM is doing many various things (City Forward, the Smarter Cities Challenge, etc.), but I don't know whether there's any grantmaking they do that's small enough for what you need. But it is probably worth skimming.
BTW I checked out Living Cities, OpenPlans, and O'Reilly and none of them seem suitable for your needs.
And along the way I noticed some posts about community planning/design tools that you might find interesting: 1, 2, 3.
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Date: 17 Dec 2012 10:29 am (UTC)BTW I checked out Living Cities, OpenPlans, and O'Reilly and none of them seem suitable for your needs.
And along the way I noticed some posts about community planning/design tools that you might find interesting: 1, 2, 3.
Hope this is useful.