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FY23

Although the following list categorizes grantees based on one primary focus, grantees’ work is rarely limited to a single issue area. Most work across issues and prioritize the multiple needs of their diverse constituents. A notation after the grantee description indicates from which grant fund(s) they received funding. Funds include the Seed Fund (SF), Technical Assistance Fund (TA), Youth Fund for Social Change (YF), 501(c)(4) nonprofits (C4), and the Critical Response Fund (CRF), which provides rapid response grants to organizations working on issues that arise due to urgent political and social moments. Some organizations also received grants through the Capacity Building Initiative (CBI), a collaborative program that supports organizational growth and development.

Grantees also received funding from our Partner Funds (PF), which include pooled funds and donor advised funds:

• Anti-Surveillance Network (Anti-Surveillance), a network of technologists and community organizers working to hold government and corporations accountable for their use of technology and data;

• Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund (CRJPF), a funders collaborative housed at Crossroads Fund that supports Black-led community organizing and ally-led groups addressing anti-Blackness;

• Flora Fund (Flora), which supports environmental justice, housing justice, economic justice and solidarity economy, and groups working toward police and prison abolition;

• GRAM Fund (GRAM), which supports women and girls, rights for Arab Americans, and youth projects;

• James Thindwa Grassroots Organizing Fund, which supports grassroots groups and an annual event in honor of the late activist James Thindwa;

• Women’s Voices Fund, a project of Women & Children First Bookstore, helps sustain and develop an ongoing program series focused on women’s lives, ideas, and work;

• Anonymous donors

We also list the awards we grant at our annual benefit, Seeds of Change, by name. They are the Donald F. Erickson Synapses Award, the Lynda J. Tipton Memorial Award for Social Justice, and the Ron Sable Award for Activism.

In FY23, grant amounts ranged from $250 to $629K. Unless otherwise noted, grants are for general operating support.