Borealis Philanthropy

Borealis Philanthropy is a left-of-center philanthropic intermediary that has supported the creation, provided operational expertise, and staffed 299 groups since its founding in 2014. Borealis is deeply involved in identity-interest advocacy and organizing; it is perhaps most notable for partnering with the Black Lives Matter movement since 2016.¹

At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)

Issue Areas: Multi-Issue Advocacy

Website: borealisphilanthropy.org

Formation:

2014

President:

Margarita Rubalcava Shulm

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Tax ID: 46-4598642

Most Recent Filing: 2024

Budget (2024): Assets: $78,225,705 Revenue: $42,473,306 Expenses: $54,652,165

Contents

Borealis specializes in matching donors and creating or finding groups that support the donor’s policy preferences. Borealis Philanthropy then providing those groups with money via pooled funds, specialized staff, project management, media expertise, and fundraising support. Borealis operates a number of funds focused on various identity and interest groups: the Black-Led Movement Fund, the Communities Transforming Policing Fund, the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund, the Immigration Litigation Fund, the Racial Equality to Accelerate Change Fund, the Disability Inclusion Fund, the Transforming Movements Fund, and the Fund for Trans Generations.

Background

Borealis Philanthropy is a left-wing philanthropic intermediary that does not fundraise for any specific organization or causes but acts as a matchmaker that finds grant-seeking activist groups that can further the policy preferences and desires of liberal-left donors. The organization was founded in 2014 in Minneapolis and has been directed by Margarita “Magui” Rubalcava, a career left-wing nonprofit official, since its founding.² In 2016, Borealis Philanthropy and the Ford Foundation partnered to raise funds for the Movement for Black Lives, an organization in the Black Lives Matter movement.¹

The group focuses on supporting left-wing identity-based advocacy by providing money and operational support to groups advocating on behalf of left-wing LGBT people, African Americans, illegal immigrants, and other left-leaning constituencies. It raises funds from donations made by institutions, foundations, and private individuals to make grants to activist groups and then advises, staffs, coordinates, and assists in managing the activist’s projects according to the donor’s guidance.

Structure and Organization

Borealis Philanthropy is a “philanthropic intermediary,” allowing left-of-center donors and institutions to support activist groups with support from Borealis’s professional staff. ³

Borealis operates a number of “rapid response funds” able to make grants within ten days or less for “unanticipated critical needs or moments.” ³ It also has a series of “pooled funds” that create a marketplace of groups and activists Borealis Philanthropy aggregates funds from multiple donors and then directs, finds, or creates groups that meet donor requirements regarding a policy area, demographic group, or shared aspirations. ³

Pooled Funds

Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF)

The Black-Led Movement Fund provides funding to young, Black, queer, feminist, and immigrant leaders involved with the Movement for Black Lives with organizational development support and resources. ⁴

Their recipients are as follows:

Afrikan Black Coalition
Assata’s Daughters
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Black Excellence Collective
Black Lives Matter
Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity
Black Youth Project 100
Blackbird
BlackOUT Collective
Dignity and Power Now
Enlace
Freedom, Inc.
Immigrant Youth Coalition
LGBTQ Black Immigrant Justice Project
Marsha P Johnson Institute
Million Hoodies Movement for Justice
Movement for Black Lives
Organization for Black Struggle
Project South
Saint Louis Action Council
SONG southerners on new ground
Southerners on New Ground
The Knights and Orchid Society
The Organization for Black Struggle
The Undocumented and Black Convening
UndocuBlack Network

The Fund for Trans Generations (FTG)

The fund gives money to transgender activists and organizations for advocacy that must be trans-led, defined by the Trans Justice Funding Project as, the majority of the people “in charge” of the group identify as transgender or gender non-conforming. The Fund’s priorities are intersectional feminism, transgender girls/women, non-white transgender individuals, incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people, and people with disabilities.⁵ According to the LGBT-interest magazine Out, the Fund supported 93 groups and organizations in 2018.⁶

Their recipients are as follows:

API Equality – Northern California
Arianna’s Center / Trans Latina T Services
Audre Lorde Project
Baltimore Transgender Alliance
Black and Pink
Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project
Black Trans Media
Black Transwomen, Inc.
Black Women’s Blueprint & Trans Sistas of Color Project
Brave Space Alliance
BreakOUT!
Campaign for Southern Equality
Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo
Community Ele’te
Destination Tomorrow
El/La Para TransLatinas
Equality New Mexico
Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement
For the Culture (formerly Liberatory Motion)
Forward Together
Fuerza y Unión Múltiple
Garden of Peace Project
Gender Benders
Gender Justice LA
Gender Justice League
Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network
Genders and Sexualities Network
Global Action Project
Global Transgender Safety Task Force USA
Green Mountain Crossroads
Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat & Historical Center
Heartspark Press
Hilltop Urban Gardens
Icarus Project
Interfaith Working Group (Aka Trans Faith)
Interlocking Roots
Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project
Keeping Ballroom Community Alive Network (KBCAN)
Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project
Kween Culture Initiative
La Gender, Inc
Life Foundation
Minnesota Trans Health Coalition
Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
Montana Gender Alliance
Montana Two Spirit Society
My Sistah’s House
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
Native Justice Coalition
New York City Anti-Violence Project
No Justice No Pride
NQAPIA
Open Arms Rape Crisis Center & LGBT+ Services
Organización Latina de Trans en Texas
Our Spot KC
Peacock Rebellion
QTPOC Birthwerq
Queer and Trans People of Color Birthwerq Project
Queer and Trans People of Color Collective Charlotte
Rainbow Defense Fund DBA Mariposas Sin Fronteras
RARE Productions
Rare Productions
Reconciling Ministries Network
Red Gate Media
Semillas
Southern Fried Queer Pride
St. James Infirmary
Stonewall Youth
TEI Transwoman Empowerment Initiative
TGI Justice Project
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
The Spectrum Center
The TransLatin@ Coalition
Tiger’s Eye Collective
Trans Action SD
Trans and Queer People of Color Collective
Trans Assistance Project
Trans Faith
Trans Justice Law Project
Trans Latina Coalition
Trans Ohio
Trans Ponder
Trans Pride Initiative
Trans Queer Pueblo
Trans Queer Pueblo, Trans Queer Migrant Community Defense Project
Trans Sistas of Color Project
Trans Student Educational Resources
Trans United
Trans Visible
Trans Youth Advocates DMV
Trans(forming)
TransAction South Dakota
TRANScending Barriers Atlanta
Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois
Transforming Hearts Collective
Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering (TAKE)
Transgender Gender-variant and intersex justice project
Transgender Law Center
Transgender Religious Professional Unitarian Universalists Together (TRUUsT)
Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico
Transgender Youth Project
Translatina Network
Transwoman Empowerment Initiative
Tranzmission
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (U.T.O.P.I.A.) Seattle
Wisconsin Trans Health Coalition
Wisconsin Transgender Health Coalition
Youth Empowerment Performance Project

Immigration Litigation Fund (ILF)

The Immigration Litigation Fund supports legal actions challenging the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, policies, and practices. The fund’s donors prioritize litigation efforts that are connected to and coordinated with, illegal immigrant communities and allied organizations.⁷

Their recipients are as follows:

ACLU of New Jersey Foundation
ACLU SoCal
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice
Advancement Project
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality
Aldea – The People’s Justice Center
American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California
American Immigration Council
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Americans for Immigrant Justice
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
ASISTA Immigration Assistance
Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project
Brennan Center
Bronx Defenders
Brooklyn Defenders Services
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition
CASA de Maryland
Catholic Charities of New Mexico
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Las Cruces
Center for American Progress
Center for Community Change
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Migration Studies of New York
Center for Popular Democracy
CERES Policy Research
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy
Children’s Rights
Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Community Activism Law Alliance
Community Justice Project
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Detention Watch Network
Equality Alliance of San Diego
Equity Alliance of San Diego
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Free Migration Project
Friends of Farmworkers
Grassroots Leadership
Heartland Alliance – National Immigrant Justice Center
Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative
Human Rights Defense Center
Human Rights First
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas
IDP
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Immigration Equality
International Refugee Assistance Project
Jewish Family Service of San Diego
ILG Innovation Law Lab
Immigrant Defense Project
IRAP Urban Justice Center
Jane’s Due Process
Justice for Our Neighbors Houston
Justice in Motion
Justice Strategies
Latino Justice
LatinoJustice/ PRLDEF
Legal Aid Society
Make the Road New York
Make the Road NY
MALDEF
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Migrant Justice
Mijente / #Not1More Deportation Campaign
Muslim Advocates
National Center for Youth Law
National Day Laborers Organizing Network
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Immigration Law Center
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
National Iranian American Council
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium
New York Civil Liberties Union
New York Immigration Coalition
No More Deaths
Northwest Immigrants’ Rights Project
Organized Communities Against Deportations
Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans
Public Counsel
Safe Passage Project
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
Tahirih Justice Center
Texas Civil Rights Project
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc
The Bail Project
The Bronx Defenders
The Providence youth student movement
Towards Justice of Colorado
United We Dream
Yemeni American Merchants Association

Transforming Movements Fund (TMF)

The TMF attempts to coordinate the efforts of identity politics factions to support policies that would provide mutual benefits with a special focus on those led by young LGBT people. TMF supports left-wing campaigns seeking changes to policing policies, expanding access to abortion, advocating for de facto open borders in the US, and supporting illegal immigration to the US. ⁸

Their recipients are as follows:

Blackbird
BreakOUT!
Freedom, Inc.
Gender Justice League
LGBTQ Black Immigrant Justice Project
Providence Youth Student Movement
Queer and Trans People of Color Collective Charlotte
The Providence youth student movement
Third Wave Fund
Transgender Gender-variant and intersex justice project
VAYLA New Orleans

Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF)

CTPF attempts to modify policing policies in local US jurisdictions on behalf of non-white, LGBT people, homeless, and the mentally ill by providing grants, technical assistance, organizational capacity-building, networking, and leadership.⁹

The 2019 recipients are as follows:

ACLU of New Mexico
AJC
Austin Justice Coalition
AZCNL
Blueprint NC
Blueprint North Carolina
Center for Neighborhood Leadership
De-Escalate Washington I-940
Faith in the Valley
Foundation for Louisiana
GAPA
Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability
HIPS
Indian People’s Action
PrYSM
Racial Justice Action Center (RJAC)
The Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions
Unite Oregon
Wisconsin Voices

In June 2023, the Fund announced its list of 2023 Participatory Grantmaking Grantee Cohorts, in which 26 organizations recognized would receive roughly $3.9 million in multi-year grants. These included: ¹⁰

Alianza Agricola
Black Lives Matter Cleveland
Black Queer & Intersectional Columbus
Cary on the Ball Inc.
Chainless Change, Inc
Crip Justice
Decrim Sex Work CA
Harriet’s Wildest Dreams
Healing by Choice!
Juntos
Justice 4 Housing
Kilometro Cero
Long Island United To Transform Policing & Community Safety
New Britain Racial Justice Coalition
People’s Budget Birmingham
People’s Justice Project
Racial Justice NOW
Revolutionary Black Panther Party
Sex Worker Advocates Coalition (SWAC)
Southside Together Organizing for Power
Take Action Mon Valley (TAMV) / Take Action Advocacy Group (TAAG)
The Love We Don’t See
Triad Abolition Project
Washtenaw Care Based Safety
YA-YA Network
Youth Justice & Power Union

That same year, the Fund handed out 4 additional grants to its Participatory Grantmaking Learning Opportunity Grantee Cohorts, which would receive “1-year learning opportunity” grants totaling $100,000. The recipients included: ¹⁰

Darkness Rising
Imaginoir / BLMHTX
Providence Student Union
Women All Point Bulletin

Racial Equality to Accelerate Change Fund (REACH)

The Racial Equality to Accelerate Change Fund combats a supposed disparity in the treatment of different races in the non-profit sector by providing “racial equity practitioners” to serve as technical advisors and activist organizers for non-profits. ¹¹ According to Inside Philanthropy, its first funding round in 2019 would provide eight left-progressive nonprofits that provide “racial equity training” with $150,000 grants.¹²

Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund (REP)

The Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund seeks to end supposed racial disparities in the non-profit world by creating a “more nuanced” approach to philanthropy. The REP Fund is a collaboration between Ford Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ¹³

Their recipients are as follows:

Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance (AMOR)
BoardSource
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
CFLeads – Community Foundations Leading Change
CHANGE Philanthropy
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)
Detroit Future Youth
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP)
Equity in the Center (EiC)
Exponent Philanthropy
Foundation Center
Freedom Cities
Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
GuideStar
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Juntos
Khmer Girls in Action
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
Native Americans in Philanthropy
New Voices Pittsburg
None All Years
Nonprofit Quarterly
PEAK Grantmaking
Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)
Revive Love Tour
Southern Vision Alliance
SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
Spark reproductive justice now
T Services
Third Wave Fund
TPS Committee for Permanent Residency
Trans ID Fund
United Philanthropy Forum
University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service Center on Community Philanthropy
VAYLA New Orleans
Women with A Vision
Young Women United

Disability Inclusion Fund

The Disability Inclusion Fund is a 5-year $10M fund that supports U.S. groups run by and for disabled people to advocate for policy change. The funds stated objectives are to strengthen the disability community/movement, facilitate racial inclusion, boost fundraising capacity, integration philanthropy, share best practices, and collaboration of the “mainstream” with disability groups.¹⁴

People

Margarita Rubalcava leads Borealis Philanthropy. Prior to joining Borealis, Rubalcava worked throughout left-of-center advocacy philanthropy, most prominently for the Four Freedoms Fund, a project of pass-through funder NEO Philanthropy focusing on liberal expansionist immigration policy.²

Funding

Borealis Philanthropy’s funds are financially supported by the Ford Foundation, JPB Foundation, NoVo Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Reis Foundation, Arcus Foundation, Cricket Island Foundation, Foundation for a Just Society, the Overbrook Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, Barr Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, the Grove Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Meyer Memorial Trust, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation, and many other anonymous donors. ⁴⁵⁸⁹¹¹

In 2025, Borealis Philanthropy received a grant from Yield Giving, MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropic initiative started in 2022. Scott is the former wife of Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos and gave over $7.16 billion to various organizations in 2025. ¹⁵

Financial Statistics

Total Assets

Total Revenue

Total Expenses

Year	Total Assets	Total Revenue	Total Expenses	Filing
2024	$78,225,705	$42,473,306	$54,652,165	View
2023	$86,759,283	$39,366,975	$44,560,166	View
2022	$88,580,581	$37,532,996	$45,590,858	View
2021	$93,121,969	$83,860,189	$39,182,151	View
2020	$46,728,380	$50,610,882	$36,411,224	View

Prior year filings: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

Revenue Detail

Expenses Detail

Employee Compensation

Number of Employees: 63

Highest Earning Employees

Employee	Title	Total Compensation
Amoretta Morris	PRESIDENT	$254,402
Randolph Miller	MANAGING DIRECTOR	$218,888
Maya Wiener Berkowitz	DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT	$182,962
Carrie Coley	DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS	$177,792
Nnene J Essien	DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE & CULTURE	$177,049
Winifred Olliff	DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS	$170,475
Julia Beatty	PROGRAM DIRECTOR	$164,142
Rebecca Luxenberg	DIRECTOR OF FINANCE	$163,772

Grant Activity

All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

Total Grant Value: $328,787,486
Number of Grants: 551
Number of Funders: 123

Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

Amount	Year	Funder	Subject
$34,000,000	2021	National Philanthropic Trust	PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
$10,750,000	2021	Foundation to Promote Open Society	to expand the efforts of the Communities Transforming Policing Fund to identify, support, and nurture promising community-based police reform campaigns
$10,000,000	2021	Foundation to Promote Open Society	to support the Black-Led Movement Fund, a project of the grantee, a national donor collaborative seeking to build a new generation of racial justice advocates promoting systemic social change
$9,000,000	2024	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	To provide flexible funding support for Borealis Philanthropy's intersectional racial justice and disability justice movements through its Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) and Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF).
$6,000,000	2021	Ford Foundation	Core support to the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, a donor collaborative to assist and strengthen people of color-led and -serving media institutions, particularly around civic news coverage and core support for fund strengthening
$6,000,000	2021	W.K. Kellogg Foundation	support racial equity and justice in the philanthropic field by building the strong sector's capacity to integrate racial equity within institutions serving the infrastructure of philanthropy through support of a funding and learning collaborative cohort
$5,000,000	2021	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	To support disability justice activities and increased philanthropic engagement with and knowledge about the disability community through participatory grantmaking and convenings aimed toward relationship-building between the disability and philanthropic communities.
$4,600,000	2022	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	To fund the Black-Led Movement Fund to provide general-operating-support grants through a newly developed participatory grantmaking process to Black-led organizations; to make special opportunity grants that elevate solutions by and for disabled Black actors in the movement; and to design and implement a participatory impact and learning process that will design measures for assessing the movement's progress toward its stated outcomes.
$4,000,000	2021	Ford Foundation	Core support for the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund to ensure funders are provided with the incentive and means to embrace racial equity in their operations and grantmaking
$3,500,000	2023	John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation	for flexible support of the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund.
$3,000,000	2020	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	77744 Supporting Borealis Philanthropy's Black-led
$3,000,000	2020	Ford Foundation	Core support for the Black-led Movement Fund for intersectional, Black-led organizing and to support their leaders as they build and activate bases of power in local communities
$2,500,000	2025	Vanguard Charitable	FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
$2,500,000	2024	The James Irvine Foundation	To support a participatory grantmaking process to resource California-based disability-led and serving grassroots organizations building power at the intersection of disability and economic justice.
$2,125,000	2024	Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc	General operating support and project support
$2,100,000	2022	Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc	PROJECT SUPPORT
$2,000,000	2023	Ford Foundation	Core support for the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund to ensure funders are provided with the incentive and means to embrace racial equity in their operations and grantmaking
$2,000,000	2022	Ford Foundation	Core support for the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund to ensure funders are provided with the incentive and means to embrace racial equity in their operations and grantmaking
$2,000,000	2020	National Philanthropic Trust	Public, societal benefit
$2,000,000	2020	MacKenzie Scott	Mackenzie Scott made an unrestricted donation of $2 million to The fund for Trans Generations (FTG). The gift will be granted over three years, and will allow the Fund for Trans Generations to continue supporting trans, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people, especially Black trans women and femmes, working to ensure the safety, security, and self determination of trans people. This grant is part of $1.7 billion in gifts Scott made to 116 organizations that address racial equity, climate change, public health, and more.
$2,000,000	2020	Ford Foundation	Core support for the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund to ensure funders are provided with the incentive and means to embrace racial equity in their operations and grantmaking
$1,940,000	2020	Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.	GENERAL
$1,695,000	2020	Ford Foundation	For the Reclaiming the Border Narrative: Storytelling and Cultural Power for Migrant Justice project
$1,618,000	2023	Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc	Project support
$1,600,000	2024	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	To develop a community-based participatory research project that identifies the assets and needs of Black disabled children and families; to create a blueprint for change; and to fund a two-year fellowship program that invests in implementation of solutions identified in the blueprint.

All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

Total Grant Value: $205,938,174
Number of Grants: 2,087
Number of Recipients: 971

Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

Amount	Year	Funder	Subject
$1,544,200	2022	Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc.	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS
$1,305,000	2023	Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc.	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS
$1,283,000	2024	Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc.	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCAL PROJECTS
$1,245,000	2021	Tides Center	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE FOR RACIAL EQUITY
$1,038,460	2020	Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc.	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF WOMEN ON THE RISE
$988,000	2024	SOCIAL GOOD FUND	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCAL PROJECTS
$983,200	2022	SOCIAL GOOD FUND	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS
$945,000	2020	Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF PEOPLES ADVOCACY INSTITUTE
$850,000	2020	THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF UNDOCUBLACK NETWORK
$785,000	2023	Tides Foundation	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS
$760,000	2021	Tides Foundation	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF MASS LIBERATION ARIZONA EDUCATION FUND
$729,000	2023	ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS
$685,000	2022	Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF HIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER
$630,000	2022	THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS
$569,000	2021	Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc.	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF SOLUTIONS NOT PUNISHMENT
$558,000	2024	Hispanics In Philanthropy	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY & FISCAL PROJECT
$550,000	2021	Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES
$550,000	2021	National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY
$533,000	2022	Allied Media Projects	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS
$529,000	2024	Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCAL PROJECTS
$525,000	2021	Equity in the Center	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF EQUITY IN THE CENTER
$523,250	2021	SOCIAL GOOD FUND	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF PEACOCK REBELLION
$503,430	2020	SOCIAL GOOD FUND	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FIREWEED COLLECTIVE
$500,000	2022	Freedom Inc	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FREEDOM, INC.
$500,000	2021	Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF GRANTMAKERS FOR SOUTHERN PROGRESS

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