Surdna Foundation Announces $22 Million in Grants
During the period of January-June 2020, 169 grants totaling $22,116,243 were approved by the Surdna Foundation staff and board to further the Foundation’s mission of fostering just and sustainable communities in the United States – communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, inclusive economies, and thriving cultures.
Grants are listed below by program area with additional information about the specific strategy within each program or COVID-19 rapid response support. Grant information is also available in our grants database.
Inclusive Economies
Accelerate 500, Washington, DC
$50,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, Washington, DC
$50,000 | 6 months
Support for the equitable economic recovery grantmaking efforts of the Families and Workers Fund.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Association for Enterprise Opportunity, Washington, DC
$50,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Association for Enterprise Opportunity, Washington, DC
$150,000 | 18 months
Support for the introduction of a new tech-enabled solution to assess and match businesses of color to services that build their capacity to compete successfully within inclusive procurement programs after their initial decline by a participating corporate partner.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Black Worker Initiative, Washington, DC
$75,000 | 1 year
Support for IPS and Alabama Arise, working with the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, to develop a new, cutting-edge regional economic development approach for Greater Birmingham, with strong input from diverse local partners and national experts.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Boston Impact Initiative Fund, Jamaica Plain, MA
$50,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Boston Ujima Project, Boston, MA
$75,000 | 1 year
Support for the hire of a Director of Investment and Fund Analyst, to increase the research capacity of the Ujima Fund as well as an emergency fund that will provide relief for businesses and individuals in Ujima’s network.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Camelback Ventures, New Orleans, LA
$50,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
CapEQ, Dallas, TX
$75,000 | 1 year
Support for the development of the Black Business Development Goals which includes convening costs.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Code Fever Miami, Miami, FL
$350,000 | 2 years
Support for Code Fever Miami Inc.’s VC-In-Residence and national expansion work with support for the Center for Black Innovation’s infrastructure to further the national work.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
ColorOfChange.org Education Fund, Oakland, CA
$50,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Community LIFT, Memphis, TN
$150,000 | 1 year
Support to advance four elements of the River City Capital Investment Corp (RCC) strategic plan. RCC plans to commission a fundraising feasibility study, develop a new loan product, increase its loan loss reserve, and support ongoing operations.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Coworker.org, Brooklyn, NY
$300,000 | 2 years
Support for Coworker.org to build systems that workers can use to develop leadership, new forms of collective power, and productive engagement with employers.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Didtechnology, Inc., Newark, NJ
$15,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Economic Security Project (Fiscal Sponsor: Hopewell Project), Washington, DC
$250,000 | 2 years
Support for the Anti-Monopoly Fund to build a grassroots, sustained, and cross-sector anti-monopoly effort to rein in the power of corporations in the U.S. to the benefit of low- and middle-income people.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Family Values at Work: A Multi-State Consortium, Milwaukee, WI
$50,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Georgetown University – McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, DC
$200,000 | 1 year
General operating support to successfully graduate 28 Fellows by July 2020. Specifically, the grant will ensure that: Georgetown receives payment that will allow Fellows to register for summer classes and obtain their degree; and Fellows receive stipends that allow them to complete their placement performance with integrity.
Strategy: Other
Good Jobs First, Washington, DC
$600,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
HBCU VC, San Francisco, CA
$50,000 | 6 months
General program support.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
HBCU VC, San Francisco, CA
$225,000 | 2 years
Support for HBCU VC’s student run venture capital training program in partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Higher Purpose Co, Clarksdale, MS
$50,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Higher Purpose Co, Clarksdale, MS
$380,000 | 2 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Inner City Advisors, Oakland, CA
$50,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Jobs with Justice Education Fund, Washington, DC
$50,000 | 6 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
JUST Capital, New York, NY
$175,000 | 1 year
Support for a new workstream at JUST Capital that advances research and engagement on quality jobs issues, specifically around transparency, and to better understand the nature of contracting and domestic supply chains.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Latino Business Action Network, San Jose, CA
$190,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
MORTAR Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
$206,000 | 2 years
Support for the development, beta testing, revisions and evaluation of the MORTAR 3.0 curriculum which is geared towards helping minority small business owners expand and tech-enable their businesses.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders, San Antonio, TX
$525,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
NDN Collective, Rapid City, SD
$225,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
New Orleans Black Mardi Gras Indian Co-Op, New Orleans, LA
$75,000 | 18 months
Support to build infrastructure for the New Orleans Black Mardi Gras Indian Co-op and provide technology training to members in response to COVID-19 needs.
Strategy: Other
New Orleans Business Alliance, New Orleans, LA
$50,000 | 6 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
New Orleans Business Alliance, New Orleans, LA
$300,000 | 2 years
Support for the New Orleans Business Alliance’s Small Business Growth workstream as it works to close the revenue gap between white and ethnic minority business owners in New Orleans.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
New Orleans Video Access Center, New Orleans, LA
$7,000 | 6 months
Support for the production and post-production of A FINE GIRL, a short documentary about Brandi Jarrow, a successful hairstylist and trans woman of color in New Orleans. At the Tribeca If/Then Pitch at the 2019 New Orleans Film Festival, the film project was awarded a special jury prize by the Surdna Foundation.
Strategy: Other
Next City, Philadelphia, PA
$50,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Next City, Philadelphia, PA
$400,000 | 2 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Other
North Star Fund, New York, NY
$50,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), Philadelphia, PA
$250,000 | 2 years
General operating support for the development of new capital and operating models for community development financial institutions.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Rockefeller Family Fund, New York, NY
$525,000 | 3 years
Support for the Local Solutions Support Center to provide local officials and national and local advocates with tools and resources to define, defend, and where needed, expand local power in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Rutgers University – Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, New Brunswick, NJ
$30,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Talk Tech Foundation, New York, NY
$250,000 | 2 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Business Start Up and Growth
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund, San Antonio, TX
$31,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund (TOPEF), San Antonio, TX
$400,000 | 2 years
Support to further TOPEF’s Board and Commission Leadership Institute (BCLI) and to expand training opportunities more broadly across progressive partners and TOPEF grassroots community leaders.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
The Partnership for Working Families, Oakland, CA
$50,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Transform Finance, Inc., New York, NY
$570,000 | 3 years
Support for social justice actors to develop place-based and topic-based strategies to influence financial actors and capital flows in advancement of social and economic justice.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
Urban Manufacturing Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
$20,000 | 6 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Equitable Economic Development
YES! Media, Bainbridge Island, WA
$50,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Sustainable Environments
Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute, Chicago, IL
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute, Chicago, IL
$175,000 | 2 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Other
California Environmental Justice Alliance, Huntington Park, CA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Center for Heirs Property Preservation, Charleston, SC
$300,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Land Use Through Community Power
Center for Popular Democracy, Brooklyn, NY
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Madison, WI
$100,000 | 2 years
Support to advance the Center on Wisconsin Strategy’s mission of equity, sustainability, and democracy in cities through peer learning, sharing of best practices, and supporting new, under resourced and marginalized mayors through leadership development opportunities.
Strategy: Land Use Through Community Power
Climate Justice Alliance, Oakland, CA
$500,000 | 3 years
General program support to the Climate Justice Alliance through its fiscal sponsor, Movement Strategy Center.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
Common Market Philadelphia, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
$100,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Land Use Through Community Power
Corbin Hill Food Project, New York, NY
$1,600 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Foundation for Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Georgia WAND Education Fund, Inc., Atlanta, GA
$150,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
Good Old Lower East Side, Inc., New York, NY
$12,500 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Good Old Lower East Side, Inc., New York, NY
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Grassroots Global Justice, Washington, DC
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Grassroots Global Justice, Washington, DC
$500,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
Greater New Orleans Foundation, New Orleans, LA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, Slidell, LA
$62,500 | 3 months
General program support.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
Jobs to Move America, Los Angeles, CA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Justice Funders, Oakland, CA
$2,000 | 3 months
General program support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Los Angeles, CA
$75,000 | 1 year
Support to LAANE and the Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) to ensure the implementation of the Safe Clean Water Program (SCWP) to treat and recycle rainwater within the flood control district in LA County.
Former Category: Urban Water Management
Movement Strategy Center, Oakland, CA
$300,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
National Black Food and Justice Alliance (NBFJA), (Fiscal Sponsor: The Praxis Project), Washington, DC
$50,000 | 6 months
General program support for COVID-19 Rapid Response efforts through the Alliance Mutual Aid and Action Fund. This fund will offer seed grants to NBFJA members from $500-$5,000 in the areas of Food Security, Community Wellness and Cooperation and Mutual Aid.
Strategy: Land Use Through Community Power
National Black Food and Justice Alliance (NBFJA) (Fiscal Sponsor: The Praxis Project), Washington, DC
$500,000 | 3 years
General operating support for NBFJA and the Black Land and Power Project to implement the organizing strategy involving but not limited to listening sessions with black farmers and the larger black community.
Strategy: Land Use Through Community Power
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
New York Energy Democracy Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
$2,000 | 3 months
General program support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Next City, Philadelphia, PA
$1,542 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Project, Durham, NC
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
North Star Fund, New York, NY
$50,000 | 3 months
General program support for North Star Fund’s Community Food Funders in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
North Star Fund, New York, NY
$2,062 | 3 months
Support for the Let Us Breath Fund.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
OneAmerica, Seattle, WA
$190,000 | 2 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
Partnership for Southern Equity, Atlanta, GA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
People’s Action Institute, Chicago, IL
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
People’s Action Institute, Chicago, IL
$200,000 | 2 years
Support for the People’s Action Institute’s Climate Justice program to deepen its organizing activities and run climate justice campaigns that center around the interest of working-class people and communities of color.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
Pie Ranch, Pescadero, CA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Pittsburgh United, Pittsburgh, PA
$90,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Former Category: Urban Water Management
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
$200,000 | 2 years
Closeout support for the continuation and development of two of the Initiative for Responsible Investment’s projects: Investing in a Just Transition and the Trustee Leadership Forum for Retirement Security.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
Project South, Atlanta, GA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Southwest Georgia Project For Community Education, Inc., Albany, GA
$300,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Land Use Through Community Power
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Land Use Through Community Power
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, Los Angeles, CA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), Los Angeles, CA
$75,000 | 1 year
Support for SCOPE’s partnership with Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) and Pacoima Beautiful to ensure the implementation of the Safe Clean Water Program (SCWP) to treat and recycle rainwater within the flood control district in LA County.
Former Category: Urban Water Management
The Maria Fund, San Juan, Puerto Rico
$250,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
THE POINT Community Development Corporation, Bronx, NY
$12,500 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
THE POINT Community Development Corporation, Bronx, NY
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
THE POINT Community Development Corporation, Bronx, NY
$375,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
The Solutions Project, Oakland, CA
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
The Solutions Project, Oakland, CA
$450,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Environmental and Climate Justice
Urban Sustainability Directors Network, Port Washington, WI
$150,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Former Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Verde, Portland, OR
$2,000 | 3 months
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Thriving Cultures
Black Lily Inc., Philadelphia, PA
$500,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Connect
Community Aid & Development Corporation, Decatur, GA
$1,200,000 | 3 years
General project support to the Community Aid & Development Corporation for its regranting initiative, in partnership with the City of Jackson, MS, to invest in artists, artists collectives, and small arts organizations of color proposing projects to imagine and practice more racially just systems and structures.
Strategy: Create
Design Studio for Social Intervention, Dorchester, MA
$225,000 | 3 years
General program support.
Strategy: Create
First Peoples Fund, Rapid City, SD
$50,000 | 1 year
To provide emergency economic relief, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, for ALAANA artists through First Peoples Fund’s Intercultural Leadership Network.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
For Freedoms, Brooklyn, NY
$225,000 | 1 year
To support artists fees and travel stipends for the For Freedoms Congress (FFCon), a gathering of artists, academic and cultural institutions, and organizations that are transforming our political landscape through creative civic engagement.
Strategy: Connect
Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, MN
$130,000 | 1 year
Close out general operating support.
Former Category: Teens’ Artistic and Cultural Advancement
La Marana, San Juan, Puerto Rico
$35,000 | 1 year
Support for the ongoing emergency relief efforts in Puerto Rico on behalf of the design team at La Marana. They will continue their cultural organizing efforts across beach, mountain, and urban communities providing much needed economic relief for community leaders and purchasing necessary personal protective equipment.
Strategy: Create
Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
$10,000 | 1 year
Emergency COVID-19 artist relief to Philadelphia-based women and trans artists and cultural producers working in communities at the intersection of art, culture, and social change.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Native Arts and Culture Foundation, Vancouver, WA
$50,000 | 1 year
To provide immediate individual artist relief to Native Communities across the US.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
OTV | Open Television, Chicago, IL
$225,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Connect
Race Forward, New York, NY
$225,000 | 1 year
General program support to Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE).
Strategy: Connect
REBUILD, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
$300,000 | 2 years
Support to strengthen the relationship between the community and the City of Philadelphia at sites receiving Rebuild investment funds by supporting resident volunteer groups and codifying the partnership and relationship between the City and its residents.
Former Category: Community Engaged Design
The Center for Cultural Power, Oakland, CA
$63,500 | 1 year
Support to build Narrative Strategy and the field of cultural strategy by co-creating funder recommendations with practitioners, co-leading a funder briefing with the Surdna Foundation and increasing the visibility of cultural strategy thought leadership.
Strategy: Connect
Twin Cities Theatres of Color Coalition, Saint Paul, MN
$500,000 | 3 years
Support for the Minnesota-based Racial Equity Funders Collaborative in collaboration with The Twin Cities Theatres of Color Coalition to change the relationship between funders and arts organizations and increase the overall support for arts organizations of color across the Twin Cities.
Strategy: Connect
Andrus Family Fund
Advance Peace, Richmond, CA
$10,000 | 1 year
General program support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
American Youth Policy Forum, Washington, DC
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, Washington, DC
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Campaign for Youth Justice, Washington, DC
$10,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Center for Young Women’s Development, San Francisco, CA
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Common Justice, Brooklyn, NY
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Communities for Just Schools Fund, Washington, DC
$40,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Communities for Just Schools Fund, Washington, DC
$25,000 | 1 year
Support for communications and funder organizing related to Education Anew: Shifting Justice, an Andrus Family Fund and Communities for Just Schools Fund joint grantee convening.
Strategy: Juvenile Justice
Communities United, Chicago, IL
$12,500 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Juvenile Justice
Educate Tomorrow, Corp., Miami, FL
$37,500 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Oakland, CA
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Funders’ Collaborative On Youth Organizing, New York, NY
$40,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, Brooklyn, NY
$10,000 | 1 year
General program support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Just in Time for Foster Youth, San Diego, CA
$10,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia, PA
$15,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, New Orleans, LA
$10,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Make the Road New York, Brooklyn, NY
$35,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Make the Road New York, Brooklyn, NY
$5,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA
$10,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
National Network for Youth, Washington, DC
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
PolicyLink, Oakland, CA
$10,000 | 1 year
Support for the Building Beyond Policing convening.
Strategy: Juvenile Justice
Puente Human Rights Movement, Phoenix, AZ
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Safe Passage Project Corporation, New York, NY
$15,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
School Justice Project, Washington, DC
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Silver Lining Mentoring, Boston, MA
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
The Forum for Youth Investment, Washington, DC
$10,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
The Maria Fund, San Juan, Puerto Rico
$150,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Strategy: Other
Universal Partnership, Cortlandt Manor, NY
$5,000 | 1 year
Support for the Andrus Family Fund’s grantee partners to access healing justice tools, coaching and support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Youth Engagement Fund, New York, NY
$15,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project, Philadelphia, PA
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Strategy: COVID-19 Rapid Response
Impact Investing
60 Decibels, New York, NY
$50,000 | 1 year
Support for decision-makers and social impact organizations to understand and prioritize the biggest concerns facing people and design solutions that meet those needs both today and in the future.
Strategy: Impact Assessment Tools
Aeris Insight Inc., Philadelphia, PA
$50,000 | 1 year
Support to expand Aeris’ cloud-based data collection and management platform to support impact measurement and management (IMM) by fund and asset managers.
Strategy: Impact Assessment Tools
Confluence Philanthropy, Oakland, CA
$50,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Networks
Global Impact Investing Network, New York, NY
$50,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Networks
Impact Capital Managers Institute, Inc., Durham, NC
$50,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Networks
Mission Investors Exchange, New York, NY
$50,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Strategy: Networks
Pacific Community Ventures, Inc., Oakland, CA
$50,000 | 1 year
To support research to help investors more systematically identify, assess, manage, and document the positive and negative impacts of their investments throughout the investment process, thereby enabling more informed decision-making and strategies for mitigating and/or preventing negative impacts.
Strategy: Impact Investing Tools/Frameworks
U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, Washington, DC
$50,000 | 19 months
General operating support.
Strategy: Networks
Capacity and Infrastructure
Alliance For Justice, Washington, DC
$150,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Asian American Federation, New York, NY
$120,445 | 1 year
To support the collection of data on how Asian American small businesses in New York City have been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, while expanding their direct reach to small business owners in the region.
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), Oakland, CA
$150,000 | 3 years
General operating support to build AAPIP’s capacity and infrastructure.
Candid, New York, NY
$75,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Center for Effective Philanthropy, Cambridge, MA
$75,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, New York, NY
$150,000 | 3 years
General program support.
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Washington, DC
$150,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
National Center for Family Philanthropy, Washington, DC
$150,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Washington, DC
$150,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
North Star Fund, New York, NY
$100,000 | 2 years
General operating support.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, New York, NY
$50,000 | 2 years
Support to extend and expand Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisor’s Theory of the Foundation learning collaborative. This global community of funders committed to strengthening their organizations and their impact has become a dynamic network and a unique resource for candid dialogue as well as pragmatic tools and concepts.
Techsoup Global, San Francisco, CA
$75,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Flexible Grantmaking Fund
Allied Media Projects, Detroit, MI
$100,000 | 1 year
Support to renovate a 27,000 square foot property (the LOVE Building) in the Woodbridge/Core City neighborhood of Detroit as a local-national hub for social justice that integrates disability justice, environmental responsibility, artful design, and community connectivity.
Category: Presidential
Borealis Philanthropy, Minneapolis, MN
$50,000 | 1 year
General support for Borealis’ Disability Inclusion Fund.
Category: Presidential
Brava Media, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 | 1 year
To support the completion of the feature-length documentary film, 40 days and 40 Nights.
Category: Presidential
Living Cities, New York, NY
$1,500,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Category: Institutional
National Community Land Trust Network, Oakland, CA
$25,000 | 1 year
To support the CEO Circle.
Category: Presidential
National Low Income Housing Coalition, Washington, DC
$20,000 | 1 year
General operating support.
Category: Presidential
Neighborhood Funders Group, Oakland, CA
$750,000 | 3 years
General operating support.
Category: Institutional
Roosevelt Institute, New York, NY
$182,594 | 2 years
General operating support.
Category: Presidential
Schott Foundation for Public Education, Quincy, MA
$25,000 | 7 months
Support for the Loving Communities Response Fund to resources to grassroots organizations supporting youth and families directed impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
Category: Presidential
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY
$20,000 | 1 year
To support travel and accommodations with an emphasis on indigenous women for a half-day meeting with scientists, advocates, and policy experts to share findings and strategies to address the public health impacts of fracking.
Category: Presidential