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 218 items
| Organization | Amount | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Organization Coleman Children and Youth Services | Amount $25,000 | Description Coleman is a member-led, multi-racial, intergenerational community organization building the leadership and power of Black and Brown children, youth, community college students, and families in San Francisco to advance racial and economic justice. Through grassroots organizing, budget and policy advocacy, and voter engagement, they are building a city of hope, justice, and opportunity where all children and families have access to high-quality education, living wage jobs, and affordable housing | Year 2025 |
| Organization Community Coalition For Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment | Amount $25,000 | Description The core of CoCo’s work is community organizing, a strategy of promoting collective action, which has helped build strong relationships with community residents in South LA to become trusted messengers in the community. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Food is Free Solano dba Food is Free Bay Area | Amount $25,000 | Description Food is Free Bay Area is a grassroots organization dedicated to improving food security by distributing surplus food to those in need. Through partnerships with our local food bank, businesses, and community groups, we provide fresh produce and essential groceries to underserved communities. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Foundation for a College Education | Amount $25,000 | Description FCE’s mission is to increase the number of first-generation, low-income students of color from East Palo Alto and similar communities who graduate from a four-year college. Students will receive individualized college advising, tutoring, SAT prep, career exploration, college tours, soft skill enhancement and financial aid assistance. | Year 2025 |
| Organization Oakland Public Education Fund | Amount $25,000 | Description Oakland Goes Outdoors, an initiative of Oakland Unified School District offers accessible and equitable opportunities for Oakland youth to experience the health, social-emotional and academic benefits of spending quality time in nature. Through inclusive, culturally informed, skills-building outdoor learning trips facilitated by OUSD educators and partners during and beyond the school day, the program strengthens students’ connections with the natural world, their peers, and trusted adult leaders. | Year 2025 |