Grants

• Hispanic Access Foundation

  for general operating support

  Active

  $1,500,000.00

  Term: 24 Months

  Awarded: April 9, 2025

  The Hispanic Access Foundation connects Latinos and others with partners and opportunities to improve lives and create an equitable society. It promotes civic engagement through public education and mobilizing access to trustworthy information about financial, educational, environmental, and health issues. Hispanic Access Foundation’s conservation program seeks to increase access for Latinos to opportunities for stewardship of our public lands, oceans, and waterways; advocacy; and recreation to promote the health of their communities and the natural environment.

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• Justice Outside

  for general operating support

  Active

  $1,350,000.00

  Term: 24 Months

  Awarded: April 9, 2025

  The nonprofit Justice Outside leads numerous programs intended to create a more just and sustainable outdoor and environmental movement.

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• Race Forward

  for general operating support

  Active

  $3,805,503.00

  Term: 36 Months

  Awarded: April 9, 2025

  Race Forward is a national nonprofit, committed to providing systemic analysis and innovation to complex race issues. Its mission is to build awareness, solutions, and leadership for racial justice by generating transformative ideas, information, and experiences. Race Forward supports communities and public institutions to achieve a just multiracial democratic society, through governance, that advances racial justice.

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• Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación

  for general operating support

  Active

  $1,250,000.00

  Term: 24 Months

  Awarded: March 27, 2025

  Fundar is a Mexican think tank that advocates for and monitors the implementation of public policies to reduce poverty and protect civil rights. In a context of increased political polarization, Fundar works with diverse coalitions to advance concrete governance reforms such as closing tax loopholes and protecting whistleblowers. Priority areas under the strategy from 2022-26 focus on advocacy, community organizing, and institutional strengthening efforts influencing human rights, fiscal justice, anti-corruption, land and territory, and agricultural day laborers. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)

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• Liberty Hill Foundation

  for the Environmental Leadership Initiative

  Active

  $2,500,000.00

  Term: 23 Months

  Awarded: March 27, 2025

  Since 1976, the nonprofit Liberty Hill Foundation has leveraged the power of community organizers, donor activists, and allies to advance social justice through strategic investment in grants, leadership training, and campaigns. This grant supports Liberty Hill’s implementation of the Environmental Leadership Initiative in California.

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• Resources Legacy Fund

  for the Western Energy Project

  Active

  $4,600,000.00

  Term: 24 Months

  Awarded: March 25, 2025

  Western Energy Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Resources Legacy Fund, works to protect treasured landscapes in the American West. The project empowers diverse organizations to preserve ecologically and culturally important areas; support the adoption of commonsense protections for water, air, land, and wildlife; and safeguard opportunities for Americans to enjoy public lands across the Intermountain West.

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• Creative Commons

  for general operating support

  Active

  $1,200,000.00

  Term: 36 Months

  Awarded: March 25, 2025

  Creative Commons empowers individuals and communities around the world through technical, legal, and policy solutions that enable the sharing of education, culture, and science in the public interest. Their strategic goals of strengthening open infrastructure, defending and advocating for a thriving commons, and centering community help ensure education remains a public good.

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• Twaweza East Africa

  for general operating support

  Active

  $2,500,000.00

  Term: 24 Months

  Awarded: March 25, 2025

  Twaweza, which means “we can make it happen” in Swahili, works with citizens to exercise agency and with governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. Through policy research and engagement in multilateral initiatives like the Open Government Partnership, Twaweza convenes citizens and policymakers to co-create solutions to specific issues such as violence against women, student absenteeism, and access to drinking water. Twaweza works to deepen its media partnerships, produce gender-disaggregated data to reveal the differential impacts of policies between men and women, and facilitate policy dialogue between citizens and public officials about civil rights. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)

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• NAWI Collective

  for general operating support

  Active

  $1,400,000.00

  Term: 36 Months

  Awarded: March 25, 2025

  The Nawi Collective is an African feminist political economy collective focused on building a community of African feminist and women’s rights organizations working on influencing, analyzing, deconstructing, and reconstructing macroeconomic policies, narratives, and understanding through an intersectional Pan-African feminist lens. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)

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• Resources Legacy Fund

  for wildfire strategies

  Active

  $4,000,000.00

  Term: 24 Months

  Awarded: March 25, 2025

  Resources Legacy Fund advances bold, collaborative solutions to secure a just and resilient world for people and nature. This grant supports its work to accelerate wildfire resilience in select states in the U.S. West and nationwide, including through community wildfire risk reduction and increasing the use of prescribed and cultural fire implementation as a critical management tool. (Substrategies: Climate-Responsive Solutions and the Climate Change Initiative)

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