The Advancement Project runs a national organization and a separate chapter for its work in the state of California. Nationally, the project supports grassroots organizations involved in voting rights, criminal justice, immigrant justice and education, with a strong focus on racial equity. The California organization maintains initiatives for education equity, equity in community investments and political voice.
The Aetna Foundation conducts health grantmaking through a racial equity lens, focusing on improving minority health in the Black, Asian American, and Latino communities.
The Agua Fund work in racial and Indigenous justice focuses on the voting rights, education and health of Native Americans. Much funding here also focuses on agricultural sustainability and the environment.
Racial justice is one of Akonadi’s main grantmaking initiatives. Through the So Love Can Win funding program, the foundation supports “organizers, storytellers, culture bearers, and healers who seek to ignite and implement a radical collective vision of freedom and racial justice”
The Ally Charitable Foundation supports racial equity across all grantmaking areas.
The Amalgamated Foundation has supported racial justice through its 2020 Expanding Our Democracy funding program, which focused on voting rights and civic engagement in Black and Brown communities across the U.S.
AMB’s funding here focuses on Indigenous rights and equity, which is overlapped with its grants for democracy.
Its focus here centers on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in science education.
The Andrus Family Fund supports a variety of criminal justice and anti-violence organizations, as well as, social justice organizations across the United States, focusing on youth populations.
This progressive funder’s work centered on equity prioritizes indigenous land rights in Latin America and Mexico, as well as related human rights.
The Arca Foundation conducts all of its grantmaking through a racial justice lens. At both the national and international levels, it works towards an inclusive economy, democracy and environment.
Astraea exclusively funds LGBTQI issues across all of its four grantmaking categories. It conducts racial justice work through its U.S. Fund, which supports organizations led by “LGBTQ people of color working to advance racial and economic justice.” It’s International Fund supports groups that advance work for racial justice in addition to other forms of justice.
This foundation’s racial equity work centers on diversity and inclusion efforts, as well as minority entrepreneurship.
This funder’s racial justice grants focus on children and families of color.
The Ballmer Group’s racial justice and equity grants focus on the Black community with an emphasis on black educators, civil rights work, criminal justice, policy work, raising Black voices, civic engagement and voting rights.
Bay and Paul broadly funds efforts to support Indigenous peoples in “strengthening self-governance and control over their assets,” “developing land stewardship via traditional knowledge, culture, and sustainable development,” and “advocating for Indigenous Peoples’ rights within local, national and international forums.”
The Black Girl Freedom Fund supports racial justice and issues that affect women and girls across the United States.
Black Public Media runs training and funding programs for filmmakers and teams producing works that bring the global Black experience to broad audiences.
Blavatnik makes grants for racial justice largely through its arts and culture giving.
The Blaustein Foundation’s Racial Justice program area works to “expose and challenge institutionalized racism and to ensure equal and fair treatment for all.”
Borealis Philanthropy describes itself as a “social justice philanthropic intermediary” and runs funds to support grassroots organizations in the areas of racial justice, criminal justice reform, LGBTQ causes and disabilities.
This Fund conducts all of its grantmaking through a racial justice lens.
Cargill’s work focused on Indigenous communities centers on preserving its arts and culture.
The California Black Freedom Fund supports racial equity through grants for Black-led organizations throughout the state of California.
The Center for Arab American Philanthropy makes grants to support the Arab American community nationwide. Its grantmaking supports racial justice, community development, disaster relief, and women and girls, and it also serves to raise the profile of the Arab community in the United States.
The Advancing Indigenous Women’s Rights and Leadership program supports “strengthening the indigenous women’s rights movement.”
The Christensen Fund supports the rights and efforts of indigenous peoples around the world.
The Clara Lionel Foundation supports climate resilience, disaster relief, racial justice, global health, immigrants and refugees, and other issues of interest to the founder in the U.S., the Caribbean and other countries around the world, particularly in Africa.
The Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund supports climate change, the environment, racial equity and Indigenous rights in multiple states across the U.S.
This funder is not a traditional grantmaker; instead, it focuses its energies on targeted campaigns and petitions seeking to mobilize the black community and its allies for specific causes.
Common Stream supports racial justice through its Youth Organizing grants, which support organizations working to address “society’s exploitative economic system [that] benefits the few at the expense of the many,” and “see themselves as active participants in a broader movement for progressive change.
The Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Racial and Economic Justice grantmaking works to “reverse generations of concentrated wealth and racialized power and patriarchy to get to the root causes of inequality and inequity.”
In June 2020, the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation made a $5 million, two-year commitment to support social justice and community rebuilding in the areas it serves.
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund’s equitable access to opportunities program names as one of its main goals “assisting organizations in eliminating unconscious bias by conducting internal audits of policies, procedures and practices and supporting the implementation of recommended changes.”
This foundation’s giving for racial justice and equity supports organizations that work to restore and protect the civil rights of people of color, and a variety of underrepresented groups.
Some of the foundation’s work and opportunity grants are centered on helping minority-owned Fiat-Chrysler car dealerships and suppliers.
The Moses Feldman Foundation’s Social Justice, Education and Human Services grantmaking program funds efforts to “strengthen civic leadership,” “contest hate and bigotry,” and “help disadvantaged populations access services that address urgent needs and build self-sufficiency.”
While previous initiatives for racial justice have finished here, the foundation remains committed to supporting racial justice efforts and communities of color through its grantmaking.
Ford is committed to funding racial justice work at both the national and international levels.
Ford Motor provides grants for efforts that center on racial equity and addressing structural racism. Work here is focused on the “African American and Hispanic” communities.
Rather than maintaining distinct programs, the Foundation for a Just Society conducts all of its work through a racial and gender justice lens that has a dedicated intersectional approach. As a result, this funder is dedicated to women, Black and Afro-Indigenous-led movement building.
The company’s grants for racial equity are still broad and undefined, but have commenced since the murder of George Floyd. Look for evolving funds here.
Racial justice is a primary goal of the Building Voice and Power initiative and grants in this area make up a significant portion of the foundation’s annual giving.
While Google has given grants for racial justice and equity for years, it has increased giving since 2020 in response to the widespread protests against the murder of George Floyd and widespread police brutality in the U.S.
Recent grantmaking in the area of racial justice has focused on men of color in the U.S.
Grantmakers for Girls of Color supports girls of color in the U.S. through several different programs that address the needs of specific demographics.
Hill-Snowdon conducts all grantmaking through a racial equity lens, but in an effort to become more strategic in its equity giving, Hill-Snowdon invests in the Black community through its Making Black Lives Matter Initiative (MBLM). Related giving occurs through multiple programs.
WKKF “supports community-based efforts to heal the historical wounds from racism and to uproot conscious can unconscious biases,” that prevent people from receiving equal access to quality education, equal housing opportunities, and quality healthcare.
Kendeda’s racial equity intersects with it’s violence prevention and criminal justice work.
The foundation’s social justice funding area broadly supports programs that “enhance the economic social and cultural lives and status of racial minorities.”
Langeloth’s safe and healthy communities program supports “the leadership development of men and boys of color” as an important component of its gun violence prevention funding.
The foundation’s indigenous communities program “supports the resolve of Native Americans to renew their communities through their own institutions and traditions.”
This funder’s grants for racial justice and equity largely focus on the the BiPOC LGBTQ community.
Levinson’s grants for racial equity and Indigenous rights overlaps with it’s human rights work and remains purposefully broad.