Change is possible, it's happening!

Crossroads Fund is proud to announce that in fiscal year 2021 (FY21) we gave out $3,392,000 to 201 groups working for social change.

At Crossroads Fund, we believe that we all deserve vibrant and healthy communities. Our grantees are mobilizing Chicagoans to build strong intersectional movements, coalitions, and campaigns that are challenging the entrenched powers that perpetuate injustice. We make grants to those fighting for justice today because they are creating the victories we will celebrate tomorrow.

Since 1981, Crossroads Fund has served as an anchor organization for movement building across the city by moving money to grassroots organizers working at the intersections of racial, social, and economic justice in Chicago.

Since day one, we have been committed to using a community grantmaking model to fund bold organizing that is led by people directly impacted by the issues, strategies, and campaigns that get to the root cause of injustice.

By pooling resources from 1,750+ donors and engaging a community of grantmakers, Crossroads Fund helps to build movements in Chicago.

ARTS & CULTURE

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Axis Lab

Bronzeville Black Chicagoan Historical Society

The Center for International Performance and Exhibition dba HotHouse

Changing Worlds

Chicago Palestine Film Festival (CPFF)

City Bricks: Report Card Project

El Griot & Areito Project

Free Write Arts & Literacy

Honey Pot Performance

Illinois Humanities Council

Mezcla Media Collective

Mobilize Creative Collaborative

Perceptions Theatre

SoapBox Productions and Organizing

Son Chiquitos

St. Kateri Center of Chicago

ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

360 Nation

Action Now Institute (ANI)

The Alliance of the Southeast (ASE)

Cicero Independiente

The Co-op Ed Center (CEC)

Co-ops Not Cages (CNC)

Edgewater Mutual Aid

Equity and Transformation (EAT)

Evanston Present and Future

Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation (FURIE)

Gage Park Latinx Council (GPLXC)

Goldin Institute’s Chicago Peace Fellows Mutual Aid Collaborative

Grassroots Collaborative

The Monroe Foundation

Nehemiah Group DBA Chicago Eco House

Neighborhood Network Alliance (NNA)

Northside Action for Justice (CRF)

The People’s Lobby

Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP)

The Uptown & Buena Park Solidarity Network (UBPSN)

Women for Economic Justice (WEJ)

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Getting Grown Collective (GGC)

People for Community Recovery

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The Black Abolitionist Network (BAN)

Black Leaders Building Together (BLB2)

Black Lives Matter Chicago (BLM)

Blackroots Alliance

The Chicago 400 Alliance

Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR)

Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF)

Chicago Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC)

Chicago Torture Justice Center (CTJC)

Chicago Torture Justice Memorial (CTJM)

Chicago United for Equity (CUE)

Christianaire

Citizen Advocacy Center (CAC)

Coalition to Decarcerate IL

First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA)

Grassroots Illinois Action (GIA)

IL Muslim Civic Coalition

Illinois Prison Project (IPP)

Just Peace (JP) / Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation

Live Free Chicago

Lucy Parsons Labs (LPL)

Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS)

Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration (MUAVI)

Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere (MOVE)

No Cop Academy

The Northside Chicago Prison Letter Writing Coalition

Parole Illinois

Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP)

Sister Survivor Network (SSN)

SOUL in Action

Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL)

Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois

United Working Families

Women’s All Points Bulletin (WAPB)

HEALTH & EDUCATION

AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC)

Alliance for Community Services/RPCAN

Black Girls Break Bread

The Black Researchers Collective

The Chicago Coalition to Save Our Mental Health Centers

Fathers, Families and Healthy Communities (FFHC)

Illinois Single-Payer Coalition (ISPC)

Parents 4 Teachers

People Matter (PM)

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky

Race Conscious Dialogues (RCD)

Raise Your Hand for IL Public Education

Telpochcalli Community Education Project (TCEP)

Ujimaa Medics

YogaCare

HOUSING JUSTICE

Blocks Together

Chicago Housing Initiative

Chicago Housing Justice League (CHJL)

Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community

Garfield Park Community Council (GPCC)

Lift the Ban Coalition

Lugenia Burns Hope Center

Metropolitan Tenants Organization

The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation (NWSCDC)

Pilsen Alliance (PA)

Solidaridad Inquilina

The Tenant Education Network (TEN)

HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY

Christian Peacemakers Teams (CPT)

The Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine (CJPIP)

The National Boricua Human Rights Network (NBHRN)

IMMIGRATION JUSTICE

Albany Park Defense Network (APDN)

The Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE)

Blue Tin Production

Borderless Magazine

The Chicago Law and Education Foundation (CLEF)

Illinois Dream Fund (ILDF)

lllinois Immigration Funders Collaborative

Immigrant Solidarity DuPage (ISD)

The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund Coalition (MIBFC)

Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors (NIJFON)

Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD)

Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project (SSIP)

United African Organization

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER/QUESTIONING, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL

Affinity Community Services

Brave Space Alliance (BSA)

Chicago Therapy Collective

Lighthouse Foundation

Lincoln United Methodist Church (LUMC)

Lorde, Rustin & Bates, Inc. (LRB)

Transformative Justice Law Project (TJLP)

WORKERS RIGHTS

The Center for Racial and Gender Equity

Chicago Community and Workers Rights

Fight Now Chicago

Get to Work (GTW)

Healing to Action (H2A)

Illinois Workers in Action

The National LGBTQ Workers Center

Sex Workers Outreach Project Chicago (SWOP)

Street Vendors Association of Chicago (SVAC)

Temp Worker Union Alliance Project (TWUAP)

The United Transporters Community Council (UTCC)

Workers Center for Racial Justice

Working Family Solidarity

YOUTH JUSTICE

A Long Walk Home (ALWH)

About Face Theatre (AFT)

Arab American Action Network (AAAN)

Assata’s Daughters (AD)

Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)

Chicago Desi Youth Rising (CDYR)

Chicago Freedom School (CFS)

Chi-Nations Youth Council

Chicago Student Action

Circles & Ciphers

Dissenters

Every Voice Coalition

Free Street Theater

GoodKids MadCity (GKMC)

Hana Center’s Fighting Youth Shouting Out for Humanity (FYSH)

Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH)

Imagine Englewood If

InterAction Initiative

ONE Northside

Queering the Parks (QTP)

Solidarity Studios

Stick Talk

Territory

TGi Movement

The Warehouse Project & Gallery

Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP)

Youth Outlook

SPECIAL INITIATIVE

The Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA), a project of the Chicago Reader newspaper, launched in 2019 as a response to the industry’s revenue decline. CIMA believes in collaboration over competition in the media industry and thus launched a collaborative fundraising effort. Thirty seven media outlets were part of this fundraising efforts, these are: AirGo Radio, Better Government, Beverly Review, Chicago Crusader, Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP) Chicago Music Guide, Chicago Public Square, Chicago Reader, Chicago Reporter, Cicero Independiente, City Bureau, Current Magazines, The Daily Line, E3 Radio, Free Spirit Media, Growing Community Media, Hyde Park Herald, Injustice Watch, Inside Publications, Invisible Institute, Kartemquin Educational Films, Korea Times Chicago, La Raza, Left Out Magazine, Loop North News, New City, North Lawndale Community News, Public Narrative, Rebellious Magazine for Women, Rivet, Sixty Inches from Center, SoapBox Productions and Organizing, South Side Weekly, Streetwise, Students Xpress Magazine,Third Coast Review and Windy City Times.