NOTE: In recognition of shelter in place ordinances among our communities, our requirements for the 2020 Sponsorship Program have changed. It is important that we continue supporting changemakers while we collectively observe social distancing. 

Overview

Thanks for your interest in Beneficial State Foundation. We are a unique foundation in that our primary role is to protect and support the triple bottom line missions of Beneficial State Bank. We help ensure that the banks meet the goals of generating prosperity for people and the planet, and avoids extractive practices while being financially sound.

Beneficial State Bank is helping to build human and environmental prosperity primarily by providing fair and honest loans and financial services to businesses and nonprofits that are striving to be a force for good. We at the foundation support this work in the ways described here.

Sponsorships

We fund and manage the sponsorships of Beneficial State Bank. From day one, Beneficial State Bank has been committed to supporting our community above and beyond its lending by providing sponsorships to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations each year — before the bank has made any profits. Historically we have provided the equivalent of 10% or more of Beneficial State Bank’s profits. That’s ten times the U.S. average corporate giving of less than 1% (0.76%).

Sponsorships

We will continue to help the bank provide sponsorship to 501(c)(3) organizations in California, Oregon, and Washington that are engaged in transformative social justice and environmental work in our target sectors:

Social:

• Affordable and Multi-family Housing
• Arts, Culture and Community Building
• Education and Youth Development
• Beneficial Financial Services
• Economic, Business and Job Development
• Making, Manufacturing and Production
• Social Justice

Environmental:

• Environmental Sustainability
• Health and Well-being (non-food)
• Healthy Food
• Other Mission Categories (Business Ownership, Structures and Practices)

We choose to make small sponsorships available to many organizations; most of our sponsorships since 2013 were less than $1,000.

The Educational Foundation of America (EFA) is a family foundation. It was established in 1959 to preserve the lifelong altruistic commitment of its founders, Richard Prentice Ettinger and his wife, Elsie P. Ettinger.

Today, decedents of the founder in generations three and four lead the Foundation. Together, they direct efforts to fund nonprofits working on efforts related to Creative Placemaking, Climate, Democracy, and Reproductive Health and Justice. Much of our work is focused in the Appalachian region of the United States, as well as the South and the Pacific Northwest. 

Our grants are typically for general operating support and for more than one year. EFA believes in building the capacity of our partners and will support efforts to do so. As active impact investors, EFA is also committed to activating our endowment to align with our grantmaking goals. 

Environment Program

EFA’s Environment Program seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with a focus on state-based organizations working to transition to a clean energy economy. The Program has major initiatives, described below.

Expanding Access to Clean Energy

Our Clean Energy Access initiative focuses on increasing distributed solar deployment in Texas and Florida--two states with huge solar potential and, combined, less installed solar than Massachusetts. Additional grantee partners are working to educate elected leaders about the benefits to clean energy

Carbon Pricing

Our Carbon Pricing Initiative works with partners in Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington who are working to put a price on carbon emissions and ensure that polluters pay for the true cost of those emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions create externalities that are not fully accounted for in most business models. A price on carbon (along with other greenhouse gases, including methane) would correct this market failure.

Coal Ash

EFA's Coal Ash initiative, active from 2011-1017 and ramping down through 2019, supports grantee partners who seek to hold utilities responsible for their waste stream through litigation, advocacy, and policy work. The goal is to increase the cost of dirty energy by forcing utilities to internalize externalities and pay the true cost of burning coal. Coal ash is the toxic byproduct of burning coal for energy and, without proper regulation, ends up in our nation's waterways, sickening local residents and poisoning communities' drinking water supplies.

Submit an Idea to the Environment Program

EFA’s Environment Committee welcomes project and program ideas that will help to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy, accessible to all. We are interested in innovative ideas that require collaboration, especially those that bridge climate and democracy.

Environmental Justice Giving Project Grant

What We Will Fund

The Giving Project will focus on Environmental Justice, making grants to support organizing work that aims to achieve equitable access to a clean and healthy environment for frontline communities most impacted by the climate crisis, environmental racism, and environmental injustice.

The “environment” in the context of the environmental justice movement is defined as the spaces where we live, work, learn, play, pray, and heal. This grant will fund rural and urban organizations working at the intersection of environmental, racial, and economic justice to create sustainable, self-determined and just communities.

We will prioritize funding organizations with Black, Indigenous, and/or POC leadership, and/or who conduct most of their work in reservation communities, and/or rural, small town communities.

Some examples of organizing work that is eligible for this grant include:

• Resource mobilization for affordable and healthy housing
• Organizing efforts supporting access to clean and healthy food, water, and air
• Leadership development programs for environmental justice and health equity
• Facilitating just transition and climate resilience work
• Developing community processes, practices, or civic engagement addressing neighborhood blight

Due to applicant feedback and organizational capacity, this grant cycle will not include the site visit process. 

Funding

Grant amount: Two-year grants of $30,000 ($15,000 per year)

The Gathering Collaborative

$25 Million Total in Grants to Address Racism Is A Public Health Crisis

King County declared racism as a public health crisis in 2020, recognizing that governments need to acknowledge and respond by undoing the centuries of harms of systemic racism in our society and equitably invest in dismantling racism and protecting the health and well-being of Black, Indigenous and People of Color so that all communities thrive.

Envisioned jointly by community members and King County in August 2021 and launched in March 2022, The Gathering Collaborative is a group of trusted community members who are involved to uplift Black and Indigenous people and their communities – those who are most directly harmed by racism. The members largely reflect these communities and have lived experience in these communities that they serve, with Executive Dow Constantine, Abigail Echo-Hawk and Dr. Ben Danielson, serving as co-chairs. 

The Gathering Collaborative is an iterative co-creation effort between King County government and the community. The Gathering Collaborative community members will collaborate with King County to equitably distribute $25 million that starts to undo the harms of racism compounded by the pandemic, influence the County’s budget cycle and process, and establish a longer-term, multi-generational vision for King County to become an anti-racist government. 

Focus Populations

The focus of this effort and the related investments is to start to undo the harms on the following populations who, based on extensive research and data nationally and in King County, most negatively experience the generational, current, and longstanding impacts of racism, making it a public health crisis:

• Black Americans who are the descendants of enslaved Africans and continue to experience the ongoing and deep impacts of systemic racism in all of its facets. 
• Indigenous Peoples directly impacted by settler colonialism within the US borders which have created the systems of institutional and structural racism perpetuated by the United States government and ongoing settler colonialism of the United States. It includes American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, American Samoa, and Pacific Islander communities. 

Grant Priorities

Together, The Gathering Collaborative and King County aim to invest in a wide range of services, programs, operations, community advocacy efforts, and physical infrastructure designed and delivered through community-based service providers and businesses that move the needle on the established grantmaking priorities. 

• Health and Wellness
  • Increase investments in and improve wraparound services to provide family and community-based approach to mental and physical health focused on the whole community, and the whole person
  • Invest in and increase culturally rooted, community-rooted mental health providers, services, and/or entities
  • Invest in and improve Black and Indigenous healthcare and wellness overall
  • Increase resources / funds for Healthy Aging support by increasing and creating multigenerational spaces, activities, use of arts toward social justice, health literacy services, and education around medical language (an umbrella of services)
  • Increase investments in efforts that center and advance Black and Indigenous joy, play, wellness, mental health, and resilience
  • Increase and improve access to culturally appropriate, reflective, and rooted services for reproductive, women's rights
  • Improve support for family caregivers that strengthen networks of care
  • Improve and increase youth safety
  • Invest in environmental justice and recognize that it is interconnected to climate change based on where Black and Indigenous communities live, work, play, and pray
  • Invest in resources that improve health of Black and Indigenous birthing people and after birth for the birther and baby
  • Acknowledge and repair harm done to Black and Indigenous women
  • Acknowledge and address various types of system violence that disproportionally affect Black and Indigenous women, LGBTQ2S people as victims of sexual assault  
• Economic Stability and Strengthening
  • Increase support and utilization of banks, businesses, educational entities, philanthropy whose work are led by and that serve Black and Indigenous communities
  • Increase investments in entrepreneurship opportunities for Black and Indigenous women
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Support new and developing entrepreneurship in Black and Indigenous communities
  • Provide a social safety net to be able to support people in meeting their material needs 
• Housing
  • Ensure housing resources are equitably distributed particularly to Black and Indigenous homeless community members
  • Create conditions and places to prioritize housing stability of Black and Indigenous families and individuals and prevent them from going into homelessness in the first place
  • Relieve financial burden of elders in Black and Indigenous communities who are experiencing gentrification pressures and help keep our elders in the homes that they are in
  • Acknowledge and repair harm done to Black and Indigenous women 
• Education
  • Increase Black and Indigenous representation and leadership in decision-making roles across various healthcare professions and systems through workforce development
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Increase access to Black and Indigenous-rooted education opportunities for STEM for Black and Indigenous families and their children
  • Acknowledge and address various impacts of racism in schools on Black and Indigenous young people
  • Invest in and/or increase access to mentors, field trips, afterschool snacks and activities, etc.
  • Support new and developing entrepreneurship in Black and Indigenous communities
  • Improve, increase access to and investment in arts and culture for our Black and Indigenous youth 
• Power and Capacity  Building
  • Increase Black and Indigenous representation and leadership in decision-making roles across various healthcare professions and systems through workforce development
  • Reduce the burden on community of receiving funding, including reporting requirements
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Increase tracking and transparency of how funding is being directed (revisit if done toward our health and wellness)
  • Invest in and increase community defined, built, and owned culturally rooted data gathering and research
  • Grow regional advocacy and power to continue this work
  • Improve, increase access to and investment in arts and culture for our Black and Indigenous youth 

Funding

• Total Available Funding for this grant category: $3,312,500
• Minimum award:$25,000 
• Maximum award: $125,000    

The Gathering Collaborative

$25 Million Total in Grants to Address Racism Is A Public Health Crisis

King County declared racism as a public health crisis in 2020, recognizing that governments need to acknowledge and respond by undoing the centuries of harms of systemic racism in our society and equitably invest in dismantling racism and protecting the health and well-being of Black, Indigenous and People of Color so that all communities thrive.

Envisioned jointly by community members and King County in August 2021 and launched in March 2022, The Gathering Collaborative is a group of trusted community members who are involved to uplift Black and Indigenous people and their communities – those who are most directly harmed by racism. The members largely reflect these communities and have lived experience in these communities that they serve, with Executive Dow Constantine, Abigail Echo-Hawk and Dr. Ben Danielson, serving as co-chairs. 

The Gathering Collaborative is an iterative co-creation effort between King County government and the community. The Gathering Collaborative community members will collaborate with King County to equitably distribute $25 million that starts to undo the harms of racism compounded by the pandemic, influence the County’s budget cycle and process, and establish a longer-term, multi-generational vision for King County to become an anti-racist government. 

Focus Populations

The focus of this effort and the related investments is to start to undo the harms on the following populations who, based on extensive research and data nationally and in King County, most negatively experience the generational, current, and longstanding impacts of racism, making it a public health crisis:

• Black Americans who are the descendants of enslaved Africans and continue to experience the ongoing and deep impacts of systemic racism in all of its facets. 
• Indigenous Peoples directly impacted by settler colonialism within the US borders which have created the systems of institutional and structural racism perpetuated by the United States government and ongoing settler colonialism of the United States. It includes American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, American Samoa, and Pacific Islander communities. 

Grant Priorities

Together, The Gathering Collaborative and King County aim to invest in a wide range of services, programs, operations, community advocacy efforts, and physical infrastructure designed and delivered through community-based service providers and businesses that move the needle on the established grantmaking priorities. 

• Health and Wellness
  • Increase investments in and improve wraparound services to provide family and community-based approach to mental and physical health focused on the whole community, and the whole person
  • Invest in and increase culturally rooted, community-rooted mental health providers, services, and/or entities
  • Invest in and improve Black and Indigenous healthcare and wellness overall
  • Increase resources / funds for Healthy Aging support by increasing and creating multigenerational spaces, activities, use of arts toward social justice, health literacy services, and education around medical language (an umbrella of services)
  • Increase investments in efforts that center and advance Black and Indigenous joy, play, wellness, mental health, and resilience
  • Increase and improve access to culturally appropriate, reflective, and rooted services for reproductive, women's rights
  • Improve support for family caregivers that strengthen networks of care
  • Improve and increase youth safety
  • Invest in environmental justice and recognize that it is interconnected to climate change based on where Black and Indigenous communities live, work, play, and pray
  • Invest in resources that improve health of Black and Indigenous birthing people and after birth for the birther and baby
  • Acknowledge and repair harm done to Black and Indigenous women
  • Acknowledge and address various types of system violence that disproportionally affect Black and Indigenous women, LGBTQ2S people as victims of sexual assault  
• Economic Stability and Strengthening
  • Increase support and utilization of banks, businesses, educational entities, philanthropy whose work are led by and that serve Black and Indigenous communities
  • Increase investments in entrepreneurship opportunities for Black and Indigenous women
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Support new and developing entrepreneurship in Black and Indigenous communities
  • Provide a social safety net to be able to support people in meeting their material needs 
• Housing
  • Ensure housing resources are equitably distributed particularly to Black and Indigenous homeless community members
  • Create conditions and places to prioritize housing stability of Black and Indigenous families and individuals and prevent them from going into homelessness in the first place
  • Relieve financial burden of elders in Black and Indigenous communities who are experiencing gentrification pressures and help keep our elders in the homes that they are in
  • Acknowledge and repair harm done to Black and Indigenous women 
• Education
  • Increase Black and Indigenous representation and leadership in decision-making roles across various healthcare professions and systems through workforce development
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Increase access to Black and Indigenous-rooted education opportunities for STEM for Black and Indigenous families and their children
  • Acknowledge and address various impacts of racism in schools on Black and Indigenous young people
  • Invest in and/or increase access to mentors, field trips, afterschool snacks and activities, etc.
  • Support new and developing entrepreneurship in Black and Indigenous communities
  • Improve, increase access to and investment in arts and culture for our Black and Indigenous youth 
• Power and Capacity  Building
  • Increase Black and Indigenous representation and leadership in decision-making roles across various healthcare professions and systems through workforce development
  • Reduce the burden on community of receiving funding, including reporting requirements
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Increase tracking and transparency of how funding is being directed (revisit if done toward our health and wellness)
  • Invest in and increase community defined, built, and owned culturally rooted data gathering and research
  • Grow regional advocacy and power to continue this work
  • Improve, increase access to and investment in arts and culture for our Black and Indigenous youth 

Funding

• Total available funding for this category: $9,563,000
• Minimum award: $100,000 
• Maximum award: up to 50% of the highest total annual revenue during 2019-2022 OR $550,000 -- whichever amount is lower. 

Liberated Paths Grantmaking Program

Building a More Just and Sustainable Outdoor and Environmental Movement Together

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led organizations are on the frontlines of the grassroots work being done to build a better planet but our work is chronically overlooked and underfunded. We know that when our voices are left out, our communities suffer, and our planet does too. With the Liberated Paths Program, we envision a way to bridge that gap.

Through this program, we are working to create a more just and sustainable outdoor and environmental movement by shifting resources to and building power with Black, Indigenous, and Communities of Color. The Liberated Paths Program supports outdoor initiatives and organizations that cultivate and celebrate the contributions of Black, Indigenous, and Communities of Color and affirm the many experiences and identities our communities hold, through grantmaking, capacity building, and network building.

Through our Liberated Paths regional grants, we support organizations and initiatives of all sizes located in California, the Pacific Northwest (Oregon and Washington), the Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico), and the Delaware River Watershed that work at the intersection of racial justice, outdoor experiences, and the environment. In 2023, we will also launch grantmaking in North and South Carolina. Our Liberated Paths: Youth Access to Nature Fund supports efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area that increase safe and equitable access to the outdoors for Young People of Color.

We work with leaders and organizations who are rooted within their communities with the lived experiences to understand how to best advance justice and center the needs of the community. We support Leaders of Color to design and lead the types of joyful outdoor experiences and environmental efforts that are most meaningful to them and their communities. 

Liberated Paths support looks like:

• Relationship-driven and trust-based support
• Multi-year grants of $1,000 to $20,000 per year when possible
• Long-term, deep engagement in financial, operational, and fundraising capacity building
• Network building with a cohort of grantees to facilitate shared learning and systems-level changes
• Eligibility that is not hinged on organization size, ability to do impact reporting, or 501(c)(3) status
• Support for organizations and initiatives of all sizes and in all stages of their development
• Prioritized funding for organizations and initiatives led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
• Capacity building trainings and workshops for grantee partners

Capacity Building

Our model offers financial grants, as well as consistent coaching and mentorship. We want to connect our grantee partners with the tools and resources they need to sustain their vital work. To that end, in addition to trainings and workshops for all grantee partners, we work with each partner to identify areas where they want to grow and tailor our support to their needs. These areas could include: board recruitment, financial sustainability, staffing and hiring considerations, executive leadership coaching, budget planning, program design, insurance and liability considerations, safety, guidance on applications for additional grants, and more.

Network Building

Through Liberated Paths, we seek to bring together organizations and leaders working at the intersection of environment and racial justice. We do this through virtual get-togethers and information sessions. We facilitate network building within each cohort of grantees to facilitate shared learning and systems-level changes.

We also bring together funders and partners through a webinar series to connect, share information about the Liberated Paths Grantmaking Program and to also hold critical conversations regarding topics such as the explicit role of race in Liberated Paths, the racial funding gap, and racial bias and its impact in philanthropy.

The Gathering Collaborative

$25 Million Total in Grants to Address Racism Is A Public Health Crisis

King County declared racism as a public health crisis in 2020, recognizing that governments need to acknowledge and respond by undoing the centuries of harms of systemic racism in our society and equitably invest in dismantling racism and protecting the health and well-being of Black, Indigenous and People of Color so that all communities thrive.

Envisioned jointly by community members and King County in August 2021 and launched in March 2022, The Gathering Collaborative is a group of trusted community members who are involved to uplift Black and Indigenous people and their communities – those who are most directly harmed by racism. The members largely reflect these communities and have lived experience in these communities that they serve, with Executive Dow Constantine, Abigail Echo-Hawk and Dr. Ben Danielson, serving as co-chairs. 

The Gathering Collaborative is an iterative co-creation effort between King County government and the community. The Gathering Collaborative community members will collaborate with King County to equitably distribute $25 million that starts to undo the harms of racism compounded by the pandemic, influence the County’s budget cycle and process, and establish a longer-term, multi-generational vision for King County to become an anti-racist government. 

Focus Populations

The focus of this effort and the related investments is to start to undo the harms on the following populations who, based on extensive research and data nationally and in King County, most negatively experience the generational, current, and longstanding impacts of racism, making it a public health crisis:

• Black Americans who are the descendants of enslaved Africans and continue to experience the ongoing and deep impacts of systemic racism in all of its facets. 
• Indigenous Peoples directly impacted by settler colonialism within the US borders which have created the systems of institutional and structural racism perpetuated by the United States government and ongoing settler colonialism of the United States. It includes American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, American Samoa, and Pacific Islander communities. 

Grant Priorities

Together, The Gathering Collaborative and King County aim to invest in a wide range of services, programs, operations, community advocacy efforts, and physical infrastructure designed and delivered through community-based service providers and businesses that move the needle on the established grantmaking priorities. 

• Health and Wellness
  • Increase investments in and improve wraparound services to provide family and community-based approach to mental and physical health focused on the whole community, and the whole person
  • Invest in and increase culturally rooted, community-rooted mental health providers, services, and/or entities
  • Invest in and improve Black and Indigenous healthcare and wellness overall
  • Increase resources / funds for Healthy Aging support by increasing and creating multigenerational spaces, activities, use of arts toward social justice, health literacy services, and education around medical language (an umbrella of services)
  • Increase investments in efforts that center and advance Black and Indigenous joy, play, wellness, mental health, and resilience
  • Increase and improve access to culturally appropriate, reflective, and rooted services for reproductive, women's rights
  • Improve support for family caregivers that strengthen networks of care
  • Improve and increase youth safety
  • Invest in environmental justice and recognize that it is interconnected to climate change based on where Black and Indigenous communities live, work, play, and pray
  • Invest in resources that improve health of Black and Indigenous birthing people and after birth for the birther and baby
  • Acknowledge and repair harm done to Black and Indigenous women
  • Acknowledge and address various types of system violence that disproportionally affect Black and Indigenous women, LGBTQ2S people as victims of sexual assault  
• Economic Stability and Strengthening
  • Increase support and utilization of banks, businesses, educational entities, philanthropy whose work are led by and that serve Black and Indigenous communities
  • Increase investments in entrepreneurship opportunities for Black and Indigenous women
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Support new and developing entrepreneurship in Black and Indigenous communities
  • Provide a social safety net to be able to support people in meeting their material needs 
• Housing
  • Ensure housing resources are equitably distributed particularly to Black and Indigenous homeless community members
  • Create conditions and places to prioritize housing stability of Black and Indigenous families and individuals and prevent them from going into homelessness in the first place
  • Relieve financial burden of elders in Black and Indigenous communities who are experiencing gentrification pressures and help keep our elders in the homes that they are in
  • Acknowledge and repair harm done to Black and Indigenous women 
• Education
  • Increase Black and Indigenous representation and leadership in decision-making roles across various healthcare professions and systems through workforce development
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Increase access to Black and Indigenous-rooted education opportunities for STEM for Black and Indigenous families and their children
  • Acknowledge and address various impacts of racism in schools on Black and Indigenous young people
  • Invest in and/or increase access to mentors, field trips, afterschool snacks and activities, etc.
  • Support new and developing entrepreneurship in Black and Indigenous communities
  • Improve, increase access to and investment in arts and culture for our Black and Indigenous youth 
• Power and Capacity  Building
  • Increase Black and Indigenous representation and leadership in decision-making roles across various healthcare professions and systems through workforce development
  • Reduce the burden on community of receiving funding, including reporting requirements
  • Help youth get better education and allow them to build leadership and cognitive skills
  • Increase tracking and transparency of how funding is being directed (revisit if done toward our health and wellness)
  • Invest in and increase community defined, built, and owned culturally rooted data gathering and research
  • Grow regional advocacy and power to continue this work
  • Improve, increase access to and investment in arts and culture for our Black and Indigenous youth 

Funding

• Total available funding for this grant category: $6,000,000
• Maximum award of $3 million per project 

NOTE: Funding will be available through the 3 proposed deadlines or until the money is used. 

Community Care Fund

Community care keeps us alive and plants seeds for queer and trans futures.  

Community care is the antidote for isolation, exploitation, and oppression. We create the joy, rest, pleasure, and healing we need to sustain and transform ourselves. For queer and trans people, there are infinite possibilities for how we protect and care for each other—and this fund supports our collective efforts to practice that care.  

For us, community care is any effort to respond to community threats, harms, needs, hopes, and healing. Whether it’s mutual aid, safety planning, opportunities for healing, or any number of practices—we want to help support whatever “community care” means to you.  

Guidelines

For this grant, the definition of ‘community care’ is broad; ‘community care’ is any collective efforts to protect and care for queer and trans communities.

This funding will be unrestricted (unless you want it to be restricted) .

We define “community care” as any effort to respond to community threats, harms, needs, hopes, and healing. We welcome your own definitions and practices of community care. Examples of community care include, but are not limited to:    

• Mutual aid and financial relief 
• Community organizing, policy advocacy, political education and mobilization
• Gifts cards & stipends for community members  
• Access to housing, transportation & health care i.e. rent support, mental health, gender affirming care & abortion access 
• Opportunities for rest, grieving, healing, play, pleasure, and joy  
• Bringing community together though virtual and in person events  
• Protecting people from violence, criminalization, incarceration, detention, and deportation e.g. bail and legal fees    
• Leadership and professional development, for topics ranging from herbalism to accounting  
• Language access and justice i.e. captioning, interpretation and translation  
• Food access and justice 
• Land access and justice 
• Conflict resolution, accountability and efforts to address trauma and harm 
• Safety planning 
• Disaster and crisis preparation and response  
• Administrative and technological support for events, programs, and organizations (e.g. hardware, software & licensing) 

Grant Priorities

We prioritize funding queer, trans, and gender diverse organizations for and by Black, Brown, Indigenous and other Racialized Peoples (BBIRP).

We prioritize funding BBIRP-led LGBTQIA2S+ organizations that practice the following social justice values. We don’t expect organizations to practice all of these values, and we hope to learn more about what’s important to you:

• Racial justice
• Anti-colorism
• Gender Justice
• Feminism
• Disability Justice
• Reproductive Justice
• Fat Liberation
• Prison Abolition
• Transformative Justice
• Economic Justice and anti-capitalism
• Healing Justice
• Climate & Environmental Justice
• Housing Justice
• Immigration Justice
• Anti-imperialism and anti-militarism
• Decolonization
• Anti-ageism

We prioritize BBIRP-led LGBTQIA2S+ organizations for and by the following people. We don’t expect organizations to have every identity present, we are excited to learn more about your communities:

• People living with HIV/AIDS
• People discriminated by colorism
• Queer people
• Trans people
• Non-binary, Two-Spirit, and Gender Expansive People
• Women and people discriminated by misogyny and patriarchy
• People with disabilities
• People targeted by sizeism and fatphobia
• People who are targeted by law enforcement, incarcerated, and criminalized
• People whose livelihoods are criminalized e.g. sex work
• People exploited and harmed by capitalism
• People harmed by climate change and disasters
• People harmed by pollution, resource extraction, and land appropriation
• People experiencing houselessness and housing instability
• Immigrants
• Refugees
• People exploited and harmed by militarism, imperialism, and nationalism
• People exploited and harmed by colonization
• Youth
• Elders  

OUR GRANTMAKING

Since our founding, the collective membership of Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF) has granted millions of dollars to nonprofit organizations across Washington State. Despite these investments, inequity and disparate access to justice, housing, food, art, community culture, healthcare, environmental safety, fair labor, and education persist throughout our state.

At the same time, we know there is no shortage of impactful, hopeful work being done to disrupt systems of oppression and the inequities they perpetuate. We fund change and changemakers in Washington State: the people and organizations driving equitable solutions to the greatest challenges facing our communities.

COLLECTIVE GRANTS

We're delighted to announce that Washington Women's Foundation's 2024 Funding & Learning Priorities are:

• Theme: Arts & Community Culture
  • Priority: Expanding Access to Arts in Schools
• Theme: Housing & Hunger
  • Priority: Mental Health & Housing
• Theme: Law, Justice, and Incarceration
  • Priority: Re-Entry Support