Grants Database
Year Approved
|
Organization
|
Status
|
Amount
|
Duration
|
---|---|---|---|---|
2021 |
Mission Driven Finance
The purpose of this grant is to hire a Chief Legal Officer and make investment strategies for inclusive economies accessible at a community scale. |
Closed | $300,000 | 24 months |
2021 |
National Urban Fellows
The purpose of this grant is to support National Urban Fellows’ general and program operations and the placement of a mid-career BIPOC and/or woman in a 9-month mentorship residency in the Surdna Foundation’s Inclusive Economies program. |
Active | $300,000 | 24 months |
2021 |
One Fair Wage, Inc.
The purpose of this grant is to support One Fair Wage’s efforts to conduct policy, industry, and narrative shift activities to educate policymakers and the public about the need to end the subminimum wage for tipped workers and improve wages and working conditions for workers, particularly in the service sector. |
Closed | $450,000 | 24 months |
2021 |
PowerSwitch Action
General operating support for the Partnership for Working Families, a national network of regional advocacy organizations that support innovative solutions to the nation’s economic and environmental problems. |
Closed | $900,000 | 36 months |
2021 |
The Funders Network
General operating support for the Funders’ Network Smart Growth and Livable Cities, a membership organization that inspires, strengthens and expands philanthropic leadership and funding to create more just and sustainable and prosperous regions and communities. |
Closed | $705,000 | 36 months |
2021 |
Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development
To advance the Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development’s efforts to increase wealth, access to capital, revenue growth and opportunities in communities of color by providing the tools, knowledge, and networked ecosystem to support ambitious growth and generational wealth for minority business owners. |
Closed | $430,000 | 32 months |
2021 |
Community LIFT
To build River City Capital’s internal capacity to meet current opportunities and the great challenges of the COVID economy, by fueling Memphis’ small business owners of color with affordable, patient capital. |
Closed | $540,000 | 39 months |
2021 |
Black Farmer Fund
The purpose of this grant is general operating support. |
Closed | $300,000 | 36 months |
2021 |
Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition
The purpose of this grant is general operating support. |
Closed | $300,000 | 36 months |
2021 |
Partnership for Southern Equity
The purpose of this grant is general operating support. |
Active | $800,000 | 40 months |
2021 |
Pie Ranch
The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to Pie Ranch. |
Closed | $100,000 | 12 months |
2021 |
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation
General program support for Minority Business Accelerators transition to affiliate status. |
Closed | $50,000 | 6 months |
2021 |
60 Decibels
The purpose of this grant is to uncover new insights regarding access to capital by speaking directly with underserved small business owners. We will listen to owners who may not be best served by traditional forms and providers of capital. |
Closed | $100,000 | 39 months |
2021 |
Confluence Philanthropy
The purpose of this grant is general operating support. |
Closed | $175,000 | 36 months |
2021 |
Global Impact Investing Network
The purpose of this grant is general operating support. |
Closed | $150,000 | 36 months |
2021 |
Impact Capital Managers Institute, Inc.
The purpose of this grant is general operating support. |
Closed | $150,000 | 36 months |
2021 |
Initiative for Energy Justice
The purpose of this grant is to support the Energy Justice Institute’s development and dissemination of equity-focused energy policy tools, model legislation and model projects in partnership with frontline communities and policymakers. |
Closed | $200,000 | 24 months |
2021 |
Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project
The purpose of this grant is general operating support. |
Closed | $500,000 | 36 months |
2021 |
21/64
The purpose of this grant is to support and extend the reach of the 21/64 Certified Advisors of Color Program, a year-long leadership development initiative dedicated to the advancement of philanthropic practitioners of color, to broaden the guidance and advise philanthropic advisors are providing to donors on their grantmaking and governance; and in turn, to expand the type of investments donors are making. |
Closed | $75,000 | 12 months |
2021 |
Asian American Federation, Inc.
General Operating Support |
Closed | $50,000 | 6 months |
2021 |
Environmental Grantmakers Association
Project support for Executive Director transition. |
Closed | $5,000 | 12 months |
2021 |
Yes for Real Community Oversight of Police
The purpose of this grant is to provide general program support for the grassroots organizing coalition in Portland, Oregon, Yes for Real Community Oversight of Police, which is convening to enhance police accountability and oversight in the city. |
Closed | $45,000 | 12 months |
2021 |
One Fair Wage, Inc.
The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Funds will be used to support OFW’s Emergency Fund that will give direct cash assistance to workers in Texas in response to the weather crisis. |
Closed | $23,450 | 6 months |
2021 |
Juvenile, LLC
The purpose of this project support grant is for the development of Juvenile, a documentary film that details the personal narratives of formerly incarcerated youth and their communities as they trace their pathways through the juvenile justice system through their journeys to healing. |
Closed | $5,000 | 12 months |
2021 |
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund
The purpose of this general operating support grant is to allow Texas Organizing Project to support both current and alumni members of BCLI who have been impacted by the severe weather across Texas. |
Closed | $50,000 | 6 months |