The Peace Development Fund aims to make grants to community-based organizations working for social justice, emphasizing the need for systemic social change rooted in local communities. It believes in mobilizing young people as a vital force in societal transformation, stressing that lasting peace relies on justice, diversity, and equitable relationships among humans and with the natural environment.

Peace Development Fund

De Colores Rapid Response Fund

The mission focuses on supporting small institutions with a strong leadership to fulfill their mission, particularly in the realms of social service, faith-based initiatives, and special grant-making areas. The foundation values innovative opportunities and proactive engagement in responding to new or unique project proposals.

Saw Island Foundation

Saw Island Foundation: Social Change, Faith-Based and Special Grants

The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation aims to support and empower communities by making small grants to local, community-based Vermont non-profit programs and community celebrations. It particularly focuses on uplifting under-served populations and addressing fundamental human needs, with a commitment to community service and the enhancement of a strong volunteer base.

Ben & Jerry's Foundation

Grassroots Organizing National Grant Program

The Norman Foundation supports efforts that enhance communities' ability to determine their own economic, environmental, and social well-being. It aims to empower people to control the forces that affect their lives, focusing on economic justice and development, environmental health, and linking local actions to broader national and international reforms.

Norman Foundation

Norman Foundation Grants

The mission is to create equity by working with those affected and inspiring everyone to end racism and poverty. This organization is committed to combating White Supremacist, sexist, xenophobic, and homophobic actions and language, aiming to replace hatred with love and action, divisiveness with community-building and inclusion, and ignorance with education and support.

William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund

WCGMF Responsive Grant

The B.W. Bastian Foundation is dedicated to supporting organizations that champion equality for all, with a particular focus on the rights and inclusion of the gay and lesbian community. Their aim is to advance the cause of equality through financial grants to organizations that share this commitment.

B.W. Bastian Foundation

B.W. Bastian Foundation Grant

The Impact Fund is dedicated to advancing justice across civil and human rights, environmental justice, and poverty law. Since 1992, it supports legal services, nonprofits, attorneys, and law firms through recoverable grants for impact litigation, aiming to improve rights, reform laws, and address systemic injustices.

The Impact Fund

Impact Fund Grants

The Fund for Change aims to support the building of a society that is democratic, egalitarian, and participatory. It focuses on empowering underserved individuals and communities to influence policymakers through advocacy for social change. While it primarily funds efforts in Baltimore, it also considers groups operating in Maryland and nationally. The fund is dedicated to fostering a healthy city environment where families and individuals can achieve personal and financial stability and affords opportunities to those with the least wealth.

Fund for Change Inc.

Fund for Change Grants

The Indigo Oak Fund, a Colorado-based private foundation, is dedicated to advancing individual potential and supporting effective programs that contribute to this goal. Emphasizing education, the arts, women and children’s issues, and equal justice, its mission encompasses recognizing and respecting each individual's value, funding initiatives that can improve lives, foster lifelong learning, and ensure equal opportunity for all.

Vance R and Colleen H Andrus Family Foundation

Indigo Oak Fund: Equal Justice Under the Law

The H. C. Gemmer Family Christian Foundation, established in 1956 by Hiram C. and Edith Gemmer, and their son, H. Robert Gemmer, focuses on promoting peace, justice, sobriety, and racial harmony. The Foundation champions ecumenical and inter-organizational support, significantly growing its assets through H. Robert Gemmer's estate planning after his passing in 1992.

H. C. Gemmer Family Christian Foundation

H. C. Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Grant

The Leland Fikes Foundation, established in 1954 by Leland Fikes, a distinguished figure in oil, gas, and real estate, is a private grantmaking entity based in Dallas, Texas. Historically funding a wide range of initiatives, the Foundation has in recent years focused its efforts on supporting organizations within four key areas: reproductive health, rights, and justice; civic engagement; local human services in the Dallas area; and medical research. Its mission emphasizes the advancement of equity, particularly racial equity, across all its grantmaking priorities.

De Colores Rapid Response Fund

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