Statistics per Cycle
2025 Cycle 1 – We received 206 applications, and 50 were awarded for a total of $1,000,000.
2024 Cycle 2 – We received 147 applications, and 16 were awarded for a total of $330,000.
2024 Cycle 1 – We received 91 applications, and 22 were awarded for a total of $275,000.
2023 Cycle 2 – We received 58 applications, and 9 were awarded for a total of $131,100.
2023 Cycle 1 – We received 119 applications, and 22 were awarded for a total of $140,000.
Unsolicited Grant Recipients
Showing 1–12 of 223 items
| Organization | Amount | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organization Ayudando a Latinos a Soñar | Amount $25,000 | Description Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) empowers Latinx children and families in the Half Moon Bay, CA region through mental health services, cultural arts, social services, farmworker programs, youth education, and advocacy, ALAS also supports the Latinx community with wrap-around services foc | Year 2025 |
| Organization Mid Shore Community Foundation | Amount $25,000 | Description Envision the Choptank is a collaborative partnership working to improve water quality and strengthen community resilience. Co-created with local community members, Envisions LEAD (Leadership Education Advocacy Development) the Shore program is a shared learning and leadership development initiative designed to equip residents of disenfranchised communities with the tools they need for effective civic engagement on climate change, natural resource, and community development related issues. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Black Organizing Project | Amount $25,000 | Description Bettering Our School System (BOSS) seeks to end the criminalization of Black and Brown students in the Oakland Unified School District and ensure it invests in models of school safety that do not rely on police. BOP develops leadership to transform unjust systems, and build power in Oakland’s Black community. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Education and Leadership Foundation | Amount $25,000 | Description ELF provides critical social justice, education, and immigration services to underserved communities in the Central Valley of California. We focus on mixed status families to empower them with knowledge on immigration benefits, legal protection, and family preparedness to support them navigate the complex realities they face. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Vida Verde Nature Education | Amount $20,000 | Description Vida Verde addresses the inequity in access to the healing and learning power of nature by providing free overnight environmental experiences for students from historically marginalized communities. Based in San Gregorio, CA. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Breakbox Thought Collective | Amount $25,000 | Description BreakBox Thought Collective fosters emotional resilience within the trauma-informed, arts-integrated community healing center by offering culturally competent mental and behavioral health training services, programs, and events in Fresno, CA. | Year 2025 |
| Organization California Indian Environmental Alliance | Amount $25,000 | Description CIEA collaborates with Tribes statewide to address water, climate, and environmental justice challenges. They advocate for Subsistence and Cultural Tribal Beneficial Uses to ensure watersheds are supportive of Tribal physical and cultural health. They foster climate resilience through the Northern California Tribal Climate Consortium and through our work with the North Coast Resource Partnership. CIEA also supports Tribes with technical assistance, capacity-building, and strategic planning. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Kids In Need Of Defense | Amount $25,000 | Description Founded in 2008, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) is the preeminent international nongovernmental organization devoted to the protection of unaccompanied and separated children. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Community Media Access Collaborative | Amount $25,000 | Description The EmpowHERd Voices project empowers women in the Fresno metropolitan area to share their stories through documentary filmmaking. Open to women 18+, this project addresses underrepresentation of women’s perspectives in media, reduces financial and educational barriers to mentorship and training opportunities, and provides access to media production resources. Participants gain skills in planning, filming, and editing by producing short documentaries that amplify women’s voices and foster creative expression. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Hijas del Campo | Amount $25,000 | Description Hijas del Campo (HDC) is a Contra Costa County-based org that aims to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers, along with their families, to improve their daily lives, working conditions, health and safety. Their work centers around four pillars: food security, healthcare, housing, and education. HDC is a trusted community-based organization that now serves over 500 families annually. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Wicomico County Free Library Inc | Amount $10,000 | Description Wicomico Public Library will establish their facilities as trusted community spaces for environmental literacy, using their first permanent rural library, scheduled to open this summer in Parsonsburg, as a pilot site. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Alliance for California Traditional Arts | Amount $25,000 | Description ACTA is an arts service organization and direct programming provider. They focus on historically marginalized communities, addressing systemic inequities by supporting traditional artists—primarily BIPOC—who use cultural practices to foster equity, healing, and well-being. | Year 2025 |