Thinx, Inc.
OVERVIEW: THINX partners with other organizations and donates a portion of its proceeds to support efforts such as puberty and hygiene education, “period poverty” advocacy, and health care access for women and young girls in New York and throughout the United States.
IP TAKE: This modest corporate funder prefers to work with its established partners and does not accept requests for funding. Though it is not accessible at this time, it is deeply focused on driving grassroots activism, most often supporting smaller outfits. Their work centers on period poverty and menstrual education, so if your work falls beyond this scope, it will not receive support.
PROFILE: THINX: Give Rise is the philanthropic arm of THINX, Inc., an underwear manufacturer known for its “period panties,” which are designed to be worn in place of traditional feminine hygiene products. The company donates a portion of its proceeds to charity to “empower critical causes and people who have been marginalized by cultural taboos and limited resources.” It carries out its mission through a three-pronged strategy of Education, Advocacy, and Access.
THINX’s Education initiative consists of the EveryBody program, a partnership with New York City schools to provide “medically accurate and inclusive educational experience to empower young people with body literacy” for 10- to 13-year-old students.
In the field of Advocacy, THINX partnered with PERIOD to launch United for Access, a grassroots campaign to “end period poverty and demand menstrual equity calls on schools — elementary through college — to ensure free and easy access to period products for all students in the US.”
THINX’s Access grantmaking has funded services such as “surgeries for women with obstetric fistula” through the Fistula Foundation and “health and sex education” through Girls, Inc.
THINX does not publicize its grant values online. Other past grantees include the Women’s Prison Association, Homeless Period Project, and Girl Scouts Gold Project.
THINX does not appear to accept unsolicited requests for funding.
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