Funding Amount

Not stated

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

Can we apply?

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Geography

  • Based in the United States
  • Located within an ecology of social justice organizations

Size & budget

  • An organizational budget under $150,000

Required status

  • 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status

Other requirements

  • _You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's [website](https://resist.org/grants/)._
  • In order to be eligible organizations must
  • Be led by those most impacted by intersecting systems of oppression
  • For the this grant cycle year groups must aligned with Resist in the following ways

Not eligible / not funded

  • Not eligible: We do not fund
  • Not eligible: Social service or research projects
  • Not eligible: Legal defense costs or lawsuit projects not directly connected to a progressive organizing campaign
  • Not eligible: Material aid campaigns
  • Not eligible: Individuals
  • Not eligible: Projects whose primary work is outside the United States
  • Not eligible: Capital campaigns, capital projects, or endowments
  • Not eligible: Organizations with access to traditional sources of funding
  • Not eligible: Other foundations or grant-giving organizations
  • Not eligible: Organizations with annual budgets over $150,000

Overview

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Groups that organize, base build, engage in direct action and cultural organizing. Groups organize within communities for structural social and economic change. Groups develop tools for consciousness raising, including popular education and radical pedagogy development.

Re-imagine

These groups live into transformative justice by creating community-based alternatives to dehumanizing or inaccessible institutions and systems. This work might look like: alternatives to policing, urban gardens, cooperative childcare, etc.

Build Resilience

Groups that are creating through arts and cultural work and all forms of creative resilience building. Groups that are healing through sacred resistance, sustainability, ritual, bodywork, and other embodied healing for communities engaged in the work of liberation.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

  • In order to be eligible organizations must:
  • have an organizational budget under $150,000 per year
  • be based in the United States
  • be led by those most impacted by intersecting systems of oppression
  • be an organization with 501(c)3 status as determined by the IRS, be a federally recognized American Indian tribal government or agency, be sponsored by one of the above
  • For the this grant cycle year groups must aligned with Resist in the following ways:
    • Their work is located within an ecology of social justice organizations.
    • They are aware of how their work fits into a greater whole.
    • Work reflects a clear understanding of purpose and function within movements for social change
    • Have an intersectional / cross-issue analysis
    • Work actively against white and Christian supremacy, capitalism, gender, and sexual oppression, and all forms of patriarchy
    • Are led by those most affected by structural oppression

Ineligibility

  • We do not fund:
  • social service or research projects
  • legal defense costs or lawsuit projects not directly connected to a progressive organizing campaign
  • material aid campaigns
  • individuals
  • projects whose primary work is outside the United States
  • capital campaigns, capital projects, or endowments
  • organizations with access to traditional sources of funding
  • other foundations or grant-giving organizations
  • organizations with annual budgets over $150,000

What Resist Inc actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2024

Grants in 2024
119
Total given
$2.47M
Median grant
$15K
Range
$7,000–$302K
  • By dollars: Massachusetts 21%, California 11%, Texas 9%. Top recipient cities: Albuquerque, NM; New York, NY; Oakland, CA.
  • 23% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.

Example grants

  • The Movement Retreat Center Inc (Bent Birch) · Cambridge, MA

    Regranting - invoice #4

    $302K

  • Abide Women's Health Service · Dallas, TX

    Bce operating grant 2024

    $100K

  • Elephant Circle · Denver, CO

    Bce general operations grant 2024

    $100K

  • Luna Tierra CASA De Partos LLC · El Paso, TX

    Bce grant payment 2 of 2

    $78K

  • Southern Birth Justice Network · Miami, FL

    Bce grant year 1 of 2

    $75K

IRS Form 990, 2024. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Grassroots
  • Social justice
  • Community development

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