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we sustain us. Third Wave Fund | Year in Review 2021

A Letter from the Co-Directors

Dear friends,

When we became Co-Directors in 2019, we understood philanthropy’s tumultuous track record with movements because we came from movement work. And knowing Third Wave’s fierce, feminist legacy of disrupting philanthropy since 1996, we knew that what we did in Third Wave Fund’s next chapter mattered, and how we would do it mattered even more.

But carrying that baton right into a global pandemic was something we never could’ve predicted. We find ourselves entering year three under a system that has consistently chosen capitalism over peoples’ lives.

Crises have been compounded for reproductive justice organizers working to provide COVID support while challenging bans on abortion, Black trans organizers building uprisings and bereavement funds, and disability justice organizers fighting an ableist response to the pandemic and demanding that no body is left behind. And still, we’re reckoning with the question, “What will it take for Big Philanthropy to fully meet our intersectional, grassroots gender justice movements with the responsiveness and trust that they need and deserve?”

As we reflect on not just the past year, but over 25 years of investing in the leadership of communities that philanthropy has consistently left behind, we’re proud of breaking $2 million in grantmaking while growing our own operations with the intention and care we believe everyone should have.

Whatever your relationship is to philanthropy, we know that you’re on this journey with us because you want safety and justice for all people who are suffering under capitalism, racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and anti-sex worker violence. But you’re also with us because you trust us to resource that work with everything we’ve got. Thank you.

When directly-impacted communities have the resources that they need to come together and dream up our shared liberation, they have the capacity to build stronger organizations and movements for social change. That is why we are so deeply invested in movement building not only through rapid response and multi-year funding, but also through funding for community accountability, sex worker-led organizing, LGBTQ liberation, healing work, and disability justice. It’s through our intersectional grantmaking and community of donor activists that we sustain us, and we will continue to work diligently to support our movement partners while also being committed to cultivating a healthy, by-and-for, and leader-full organization.

We’re so grateful to our Grantees, Advisors, Fellows, Grantmaking Panelists, and Advisory Council members for keeping us accountable to our commitment and responsibility as a funder, to our staff who make this work possible, and to our donors, funders, supporters, and amplifiers for believing in our work.

As we enter our 25th anniversary year of resourcing movements, we hope many more of you will join us in practicing hope and trust, and in sending abundance to young queer, trans, intersex and sex working BIPOC organizers fighting for our collective liberation.

In solidarity,

Ana Conner and Kiyomi Fujikawa

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Grantmaking Highlights

2021 Grantees

National

BIPOC Adult Industry Collective | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Black and Pink National (Sex Worker Liberation Project) | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Black Sex Workers Collective | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000 | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

Fireweed Collective | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

HEART Women & Girls | Grow Power Fund: $45,000

In Our Names Network | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

QTPOC Birthwerq Project | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

Safer Movements Collective | Accountable Futures Fund: $20,000

Survived and Punished | Accountable Futures Fund: $15,000

Sovereign Bodies Institute | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

South/Southeast

400+1 Austin, TX | Accountable Futures Fund: $20,000

A Better Chance, A Better Community Enfield, NC | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Black Inmate Commissary Fund Atlanta, GA | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Carolina Youth Action Project Hanahan, SC | Accountable Futures Fund: $20,000

Casa de Colores + Partners El Paso, TX | Mobilize Power Fund: $9,000

Collective Action for Safe Space Washington, D.C. | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000 | Accountable Futures Fund: $21,000 | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Community Estr(el/la) Atlanta, GA | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Empowering Transgender Service, Inc. Hampton, VA | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Fanm Saj Miami, FL | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000 | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Fannie Lou Hamer Center for Change Europa, MS | Mobilize Power Fund: $8,500

Frontera Fund McAllen, TX | Mobilize Power Fund: $9,000

I Am Human Foundation Ellenwood, GA | Mobilize Power Fund: $8,000

InTRANSitive Little Rock, AR | Own Our Power: $25,000

LIPS Tampa Apopka, FL | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Love Me Unlimited 4 Life Jackson, MS | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $15,000 | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

The McKenzie Project Inc. Miami, FL | Mobilize Power Fund: $8,500

Organización Latina de Trans en Texas (OLTT) Dallas & Houston, TX | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $15,000

Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition New Orleans, LA | Mobilize Power Fund: $8,000

QTIPOC Survival Fund Chapel Hill, NC | Mobilize Power Fund: $8,000

Reproductive Justice Action Collective New Orleans, LA | Grow Power Fund: $45,000

RVA26 Mutual Aid Richmond, VA | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

S.O.U.L Sister Leadership Collective Miami, FL | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaP Co) Atlanta, GA | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $15,000

TAKE Resource Center Birmingham, AL | Grow Power Fund: $45,000 | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Texas Jail Support Cypress, TX | Mobilize Power Fund: $9,000

Unspoken Treasure Society Gainesville, FL | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Urban Survivors Union (Sex Workers Organizing Group) Greensboro, NC | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

We Are Family South Charleston, SC | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

We Care TN Memphis, TN | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

West Fund El Paso, TX | Grow Power Fund: $45,000

Women With a Vision New Orleans, LA | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Youth Organizing Institute Durham, NC | Grow Power Fund: $45,000

Midwest

Alternatives to Calling the Police Chicago, IL | Mobilize Power Fund: $8,000

Asian American Organizing Project Minneapolis, MN | Grow Power Fund: $45,000

Assata’s Daughters Chicago, IL | Grow Power Fund: $45,000

Camp Migizi St.Paul, MN | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Dissenters Chicago, IL | Grow Power Fund: $45,000 | Mobilize Power Fund: $9,000

Mo Ho Justice St.Louis, MO | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Own Up AHS Minneapolis, MN | Mobilize Power Fund: $5,925

People Matter Chicago, IL | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Street Youth Rise Up Chicago, IL | Grow Power Fund: $25,000 | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000 | Accountable Futures Fund: $21,000

SWOP Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

Trans Sistas of Color Project Detroit, MI | Grow Power Fund: $45,000 | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

West Coast/Pacific

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective Oakland, CA | Accountable Futures Fund: $21,000

Centro del Pueblo Humboldt County, CA | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

Coalition for Rights & Safety of People in the Sex Trade Seattle, WA | Grow Power Fund: $45,000 | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Coalition for Rights & Safety of People in the Sex Trade + Massage Parlor Outreach Project Federal Way, WA | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Cosmic Pollinators Wellness Collective Los Angeles, CA | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center Honolulu, Hawaii | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Just Practice Collaborative Seattle, WA | Accountable Futures Fund: $21,000

Liberation Medicine School Seattle, WA | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

LOUD for Tomorrow + Delano LGBTQ+ Alliance Delano, CA | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Majdal Center San Diego, CA | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

Together in Service (aka SWOP-LA) Los Angeles, CA | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $15,000

UTOPIA Seattle Seattle, WA | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Vigilant Love Los Angeles, CA | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000 | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

North/Northeast

Choose Yourself Portland, ME | Mobilize Power Fund: $9,000

Collectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo Queens, NY | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Dignity in Schools Campaign NY New York, NY | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Free Ashley Now Brooklyn, NY | Mobilize Power Fund: $7,500

Heaux History Project Philadelphia, PA | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $15,000

Hoe is (Our) Life: Support and Beyond Surviving Beacon, NY | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000 | Mobilize Power Fund: $7,500

Jahajee Sisters Queens, NY | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

NYC Jails Hotline Network New York, NY | Mobilize Power Fund: $5,000

On Muvas Mutual Aid Temple Hill, MD | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Out in the Open Battlebro, VT | Mobilize Power Fund: $9,000

Queer Detainee Empowerment Project Brooklyn, NY | Mobilize Power Fund: $9,000

Support Ho(s)e New York, NY | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Wilkinsburg Strong Pittsburgh, PA | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Young People for Progress Maryland | Mobilize Power Fund: $5,000

Mountain West

Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro Phoenix, AZ | Mobilize Power Fund: $9,000

Fortaleza Familiar Commerce City, CO | Own Our Power Fund: $25,000

The Outlaw Project Phoenix, AZ | Sex Worker Giving Circle: $25,000

Semillas AZ Phoenix, AZ | Mobilize Power Fund: $7,500

Trans Queer Pueblo Phoenix, AZ | Grow Power Fund: $45,000

Wild West Fund Reno, NV | Mobilize Power Fund: $4,305

U.S. Territories

Alimentación Segura Ifantil (ASI) PR Dorado, Puerto Rico | Mobilize Power Fund: $10,000

Semillas Healing Project + Partners San Juan, Puerto Rico | Mobilize Power Fund: $7,500

Meaningful Moments in 2021

New Funding Area: We announced the Accountable Futures Fund, a new grantmaking area which supports communities, organizations, and movements in navigating conflict and harm in ways that decrease the power of carceral and state systems. The fund distributed $180,000 to ten abolitionist-focused QTBIPOC-led groups.

Recognition: We were awarded the Shattering Silos Award for Intersectional Grantmaking from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and ARTNews listed Third Wave as one of the “Deciders” of 2022 in their latest edition, curated by artist and activist Hank Willis Thomas.

Reflections: The Sex Worker Giving Circle launched its first-ever SWGC report, Creating Community Is a Threat to Power: Three Years of Resourcing Revolution and Liberation at the Sex Worker Giving Circle. The report, written by Christian Giraldo and Maryse Mitchell-Brody, shares some of the brilliance of movement leaders and documents the SWGC’s model of participatory sex worker grantmaking to inform other funders in their work.

Transitions and Growth: We welcomed five new staff members to the team in 2021, while others made some exciting transitions! Christian Giraldo has been promoted to leading the SWGC as Program Officer, and SWGC co-founder Maryse Mitchell-Brody has transitioned to a Development Officer role at Third Wave Fund. Joy Messinger transitioned from their role as Program Officer of four years to begin a new journey at Funders For Justice as their new Director of Training and Leadership Development, and Solange Azor transitioned from their role as Donor Organizing Associate to join the Abortion Liberation Fund of Pennsylvania. Priya Dadlani joined the team as our first Communications Associate, and Simone Sobers and Nico Fonseca are conducting interviews with disability justice activists, organizers, artists, and cultural workers as they begin to flesh out how to best resource disability justice work led by queer, trans, BIPOC, and working class organizers.

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Grantmaking Areas

Rapid Response Funding

Through the Mobilize Power Fund (MPF) in 2021, we awarded $399,805 to 44 groups.

We launched the Mobilize Power Fund in 2015 to resource gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions. We believe powerful movements need the ability to respond to and heal from immediate threats with flexible and responsive funding opportunities.

Since its founding, the Mobilize Power Fund’s grantmaking panel has served as an experiment in participatory grantmaking, engaging board members, former grantees, and funding partners in our monthly review and decision-making. After 6 years of experimentation and witnessing the tension between the slow pace needed to meaningfully engage community members in our decision making and the fast-paced nature of rapid response funding, we have decided to sunset the grantmaking panel in 2022. We are grateful for all of our current and former grantmaking panel members for all their support across the years. And as our program staff continues to lead our rapid response decision making, we look forward to creating more sustainable community engagement with grantees and partners along the way.

GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT: Fireweed Collective, Mobilize Power Fund Grantee, 2021

Fireweed Collective offers mental health, education, and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. They offer support for emotional wellness for all people and center the needs of folks most marginalized — reflected both in their programming and in their organizational structure.

"We were able to use all the funds for our support groups’ captioning and ASL. We were able to have folks in job training for captioning, and those people were able to make connections with each other. We also now have long-term relationships with people who were able to meet our needs for ASL interpretation and captioning. We were able to buy the access services and also build a network of people who were for/by the communities of our members and support group. They also understood the language we used and vocabulary with healing justice, disability justice. We’re proud of so much, especially meeting the need of people hungry for spaces like ours. There are not a lot of free spaces digitally for people to connect, and we're really proud that people can access this. It's interesting how safe people feel in these spaces and that says a lot about how rare that is."

Capacity Building Funding

Through the Own Our Power Fund in 2021, we awarded $308,125 to 12 groups, a 60% increase from 2020.

The 2021-2023 docket supports the leadership of young women of color and trans, and gender non-conforming people of color working in many movements, such as trans and queer liberation, rural organizing, police abolition, sex worker rights, restorative and transformative justice, indigenous organizing against the murder and disappearance of Native people, the fight to eradicate Islamophobia, and im/migrant rights organizing.

Since its inaugural grantmaking cycle in 2017, the Own Our Power Fund (OOPF) has awarded a total of $943,125 in two year grants to 28 organizations working across gender justice movements at the intersections of age, race, class, sexuality, disability, and geography.

Recent OOPF grantees used the funding to support those most impacted by gender oppression to lead the work, develop sustainable revenue models and fundraising strategies, and harness the power of self-representation through community-led research, storytelling, or communications.

Long-Term Funding

Through the Grow Power Fund in 2021, we awarded $560,700 to 14 groups, a 72% increase from 2020.

The Grow Power Fund (GPF) is a long-term investment in emerging organizations led by young women of color, trans, gender non-conforming, queer, and intersex youth, and low-income communities.

The fund offers each grantee holistic support by providing a multi-year (six year) grant inclusive of general operating funds, capacity-building funds, and funds for organizational development coaching.

Sex Worker-led Funding

Through the Sex Worker Giving Circle in 2021, Fellows awarded $565,750 to 24 groups, a 70% increase from 2020, with new representation from Florida, Hawai’i, Nebraska, and Michigan.

Additionally, 12 Fellows participated in the Sex Worker Giving Circle’s (SWGC) first national, virtual Fellowship program, with their work highlighted through this blog post on Giving Compass from Philanthropy Together. Fellows also made a big impact in funder spaces in 2021, including workshops and panels at Funding Forward and the Unity Summit.

The SWGC is a cross-class, multi-racial, intergenerational giving circle made up of a group of Fellows with current or past experience with sex work or the sex trade. The Fellows make all high-level funding decisions and grantmaking recommendations, and lead many of our fundraising activities.

Grantee Spotlights:

Over a dozen members of the UTOPIA Washington, smiling, standing, and posing in three rows on concrete steps in front of a building. Image courtesy of UTOPIA Washington.

UTOPIA Washington, Sex Worker Giving Circle Returning Grantee, 2021

United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA) is a queer and trans people of color-led, grassroots organization born out of the struggles, challenges, strength, and resilience of the Queer and Trans Pacific Islander (QTPI – “Q-T-pie”) community in South King County.

"Since the grant period began, our sex worker empowerment program has grown and we have been able to engage the sex worker community not only through wraparound services but also in advocacy work safely in spite of the COVID 19 pandemic restrictions. We have been able to host our monthly TransAction support group where Trans and Gender Diverse sex workers have been able to meet and build community safely with each other, build a Trans Leadership Cohort consisting of 35 sex workers, and we launched our campaign called "SWEI with UTOPIA" online where we continue to provide education to the public aimed at destigmatizing and decriminalizing sex work."

Love Me Unlimited 4 Life, Sex Worker Giving Circle Returning Grantee, 2021

Based in Jackson, Love Me Unlimited 4 Life is the only trans-led organization in the state of Mississippi. The organization emerged out of a pursuit to inspire and support the community, especially the transgender and non-binary community, while having a desire for actions to speak louder than words.

“One of our successes over the past year is securing a spot for a shelter for Black trans sex workers in Mississippi, called Forever Caring Evonné, which is currently under renovations. We are very proud of that, since it’s one of my dreams and my babies that I have been trying to give birth to for ten years. Black trans women owning property, right downtown, and the property value is high!”

Funding for Transformative Justice and Community Accountability

Through the newly named Accountable Futures Fund, we awarded $180,000 to 9 groups in 2021, a 55% increase from 2020.

The Accountable Futures Fund (formerly referred to as the Conflict Resolution Fund) supports communities, organizations, and movements led by young Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), cis and trans women, and queer, trans, and gender non-conforming people to navigate conflict and harm in ways that decrease the power of carceral and state systems. This fund specifically aims to resource Black people, trans people, sex workers, and youth who are at the forefront of both visioning and practicing transformative justice, restorative justice, and community accountability.

In 2021, we entered our third year of grantmaking with the lessons of our first two pilot years, a stronger foundation, and a deepened commitment to not only resourcing this work but advocating for changing if and how this work is resourced. We are excited to share the Accountable Futures Fund with you and look forward to deepening our understanding of how to better resource this work so that philanthropy can be more responsive and accountable to building a world where community safety and liberation is possible for all. And thank you to the one and only Cristy C. Road for our new logo!

Disability Justice Funding

In 2021, we deepened our research into a new area of grantmaking: disability justice. Two of our new staff members, Simone Sobers and Nico Fonseca, conducted interviews with disability justice activists, organizers, artists, and cultural workers as they begin to flesh out how to best resource disability justice work led by queer, trans, BIPOC, working class organizers. We're working to bring on a new group of grantees by early summer, and we're excited to share the practices we learned with you in the fall of 2022!

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Insights from our Donors

At Third Wave, we are so lucky to be supported by, to resource, and to follow the lead of queer, trans, sex working, and BIPOC organizers, who are always the first to throw down for social justice movements, but rarely acknowledged as such in the world of philanthropy.

That’s why we’re envisioning a future where our largest funder isn’t just one institution, but actually a mighty community of monthly donors. What could be more community-led than being community-backed?

Hear from some of our long-term and recurring donors on why they give monthly to Third Wave Fund:

“Giving to Third Wave Fund is part of my practice of self care and community care. I enjoy playing a small part in resourcing youth-led queer and trans movements for personal and collective sovereignty, economic justice, and healing justice.” —Liz Fujii
“It feels amazing to give to Third Wave Fund! I love Third Wave’s commitment to community-led grantmaking, which is why I especially love supporting the Sex Worker Giving Circle, which honors the leadership and brilliance of sex workers! This is the energy the philanthropy sector needs.” —Cade B. Steinmetz-Silber
“Third Wave Fund creates beautiful opportunities to resource youth-led organizing, moving in a way that centers BIPOC and trusts the leadership of 'unapologetic queer, trans, intersex and sex workers.' We're grateful to be here with you as this work engages in the present while honoring the past and dreaming of the future. Thank you Third Wave Fund!” —Mia and Emma Rybeck

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Financials Breakdown

Our budget ended at $5.89m, and we made $2.014m in grants, sponsorships, and capacity building. In addition to the money we raised this year, we wanted to share more about the overall financial health of the organization.

Savings, Endowments, and Reserve

6-month reserve: Proteus Fund’s best practice is for all fiscally sponsored projects to maintain a reserve of 6-months expenses (not including grantmaking). For Third Wave, we presently have $884,167 as a dedicated 6-month reserve.

Endowments and Investments

DataCenter Endowment: The DataCenter—an incredible movement-building research organization that coined the term Participatory Action Research - closed in 2017 and donated their assets (about $458,000 at time of closure) to Third Wave with the agreement we would use 5% of the restricted endowment to make grants towards Participatory Action Research projects. These are usually made through our Own Our Power Fund or Mobilize Power Fund.

Lela Breitbart Memorial: At time of the closure of Third Wave Foundation in 2014, we had an endowed fund called the Lela Breitbart Memorial fund, a fund which a donor generously set up when her daughter, an ardent young feminist activist who worked at Planned Parenthood, unexpectedly and tragically passed away.

Total Investments: With the Lela Breitbart Memorial Fund, DataCenter, and other funds, we have approximately $1.32m invested in a LGBTQ-owned social responsible fund.

Liabilities: We value multi-year funding across many of our funds. As a result, we currently are liable for $1.6m in multi-year grant commitments. We include this amount in our savings.

Net Assets

We have total net assets of $8.15m with $2.2m of that in Restricted Net Assets (these restricted assets are mostly multi-year grant commitments awarded to us, but will not be released until 2022 or 2023).

Values-based Budgeting Process for 2021

With a staff and advisory council made up of mostly young queer and trans people of color with mixed class backgrounds, we know that many of us are not trusted or taught to navigate money matters. In the interest of building stronger financial skills across our team, we took inspiration from our friends at A Bookkeeping Cooperative (ABC) and AORTA to continue the participatory, values-based budgeting process we began in 2019. After members of staff and advisors attended a workshop with ABC and AORTA, we collaboratively set “success statements” for our budget - knowing that budgets reflect values as much as they do how much is in the bank. From these success statements, we developed a budget that has input and buy-in from everyone on our team.

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Our Staff

  • Kiyomi Fujikawa (she/her), Co-Director
  • Ana Conner (all pronouns), Co-Director
  • Nicole Myles (she/her), Donor Organizing Officer
  • Maryse Mitchell-Brody (they/them), Development Officer
  • Christian Giraldo (all pronouns), Program Officer
  • mai c. doan (they/them), Program Officer
  • Simone Sobers (she/they), Program Officer
  • Hạ Trần (their name or they), Program Associate
  • Nico Fonseca (they/them), Program Associate
  • Monica Trinidad (she/they), Communications Officer
  • Priya Dadlani (all pronouns), Communications Associate
  • Agustina Vidal (she/they), Executive Assistant

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Our Advisory Council

  • Adjoa Sankofia Tetteh (she/her), Co-Chair
  • Annie Sullivan-Chin (she/her)
  • Bré Rivera (she/her)
  • Carlton “CJ” V Bell (they/them)
  • Eugenia Lee (she/her)
  • Loan Tran (they/them), Co-Chair
  • Maliyah Worthy (they/dem)
  • Nina Kossoff (they/she)
  • Sam Romero (she/her), Co-Chair
  • Yecelica “YJV” Valdivia (they/them)

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Thank You to our Donors

Institutional Donors

Anonymous (3) • Arcus Foundation • Change.org Racial Justice Fund • Foundation for a Just Society • Freeman Foundation • General Service Foundation • Groundswell Fund • Irving Harris Foundation • Libra Foundation • Open Society Foundations • Overbrook Foundation • Solidaire Network • Sprocket Foundation • Summit Foundation • Tara Health Foundation • Tikkun Olam Foundation • Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

One-Time Donors

Anonymous (76) • A. Sparks • A.M. Wild • Aashish John • Abbey Marr • Abbigail M • Abigail Dow • Adam Roberts • Adrian Croke • Adrienne Wong • Agnes Gund • AHS Foundation • Alexander Wilson • Alfredo L Sosa • Alice Murnen • Alice Swan • Alicia Franck • Alicia Gill • Alison Fraser • Alison Novelli • Alison Silveira • Aliza Lopes-Baker • Allison Simon • Allyson Goose • Alyssa Kalata • Alyssa Slayton • Alyssa Wood • Amanda C Goad • Amanda Peiffer • Amber Schulist • Amelie Zurn • Amy Faulring • Amy Rosenthal • Ana Hedenstrom • Anastasia Svetlichnaya • Andrea Pien • Andrea Sidorow • Andrew Binet • Andrew Gordon • Andrew Slawson • Angelina Fryer • Anna Griggs • Anna Vance • Anna Weisberg • Anne Mendel • Annette Nguyen • Annie Sullivan-Chin • Ansel H Dow • Anthony Bowen • Anya Rous • Arielle Chavkin • Arlene Eisen • Asella Medina-Smith • Ashley Locke • Audrey Horner • Ava Morgenstern • Aviva Rothman-Shore • Back Porch Fund • Batya Franklin • Beatrice Chenkin • Becky Liebman • Beth Jacobs & Kirin Kanakkanatt • Bethashley Cajuste • Bianca Marie Carpio • Bonnie Rough • Bowen Yang • Bradley Justin Rohloff • Breanne Kidman • Brenna Burlingame • Bret VanDerMark • Briar Page • Brie Betlejewski • Brita Fisher • Brittany Arita • Buffalo Exchange • Burt Family Foundation • Caley Eller • Candie Sanderson • Caroline Cotter • Cat Gund • Cerulli Redistribution Fund • Charlie Dubach-Reinhold • Chelsea Devantez • Chloe Eminger • Chloe Parsons • Chrysalis Fund • Claire Newfeld • Clayton Bury • Common Practice LLC • Conor Donnan • Cris Bleaux • Crystal Le • D & K Khan Charitable Fund • Dana Kaplan-Angle • Dana Lenhoff • Daniel & Kathleen Kahn • Daniel Sumerlin • Danielle Kuhlmann • Danielle Zionts • Darshan Khalsa • Daughters Fund • Dave Moss • Davie Loria • Denicia Cadena • Devon Greenwood • Devon Riley • Diana Tordoff • Dolores Otero • Dori Midnight • Dylan Jacobs & Mikayla Wilson • Eden Lord • Eli Plenk • Elise Ammondson • Elizabeth Baldwin • Elizabeth Lower-Basch • Elizabeth Prosser • Elizabeth R Miller • Elizabeth Scott • Ella Stannard • Elle Teshima • Ellie Poley & Brittany Alsot • Elspeth Gilmore • Em Hoover • Emily Mathis • Emily Sanchez • Emily Yoki • Emma Coates-Finke • Eric Bermudez • Erich Hacker • Erin Puglia • Eva Fury • Excess Return Fund • Ezra Cukor • F & K Fund • Fiddlehead Fund • Flannery McDonnell • Fleck / Daniels Giving Fund • Frances Liu • G Frederick Charitable Foundation • Gabrielle Gaujean • Gail Milliken • Genaviv Chapdelaine • Glenn D Magpantay • Glo Ross • Gordan Liu • Graham Gardner • Grano Grundy • Grant Walter • Hailey Suthard • Hallie, Jessie & Sam Boas • Hana Sun • Hannah Feldman • Hannah Giles • Hannah Wainright • Harrison Weinfeld • Harshita Gupta • Hava Buchanan • Hays Golden • Heather Wright • Heidi Massey • Holly Fetter • Holly Sansom • Ian Whalen • Ilyse Magy • Iris Nilsen • Irit Reinheimer • Isabel Rial • Ivan Salazar • Jackie Dubil • Jacob Sternberg • jade schick • Jamal Alsarraj • Jason Rosenberg • Jaye Wells • Jaymee Sheng • Jazz Sparklefur • Jeffrey Sebo • Jennifer Bamberg • Jennifer Herrera • Jennifer Queenan • Jess Holt • Jesse Fiske • Jessica Bluedorn • Jessica Hollinger • Jessica J Henning • Jocelyn Guyer • johnny shea • Jonathan Bix • Jordan Greenwald & Alex Haber • Joseph Haverlock • JP Bowditch • Julia Bailey • Juliana Driever • July Choi • K. Wolfram Schaefer • Kacy Lane • Kara Powell • Karen Riley-Cummings • Karla Salguero • Kate Donahue • Kate Oldshue • Kate Ritchie • katherine vander tuig • Kathryn Flaherty • kathy wu • Katie Lau • Katie Vo • Kelly Glader • Kerriann Curtis • Kickstarter • Kiyomi Fujikawa • Kristin Pitt • Kristin Schoenleber-Fontán • Kristina Schwartz Wolverton • Laura Silverton • Lauren Schneider • Leila Raven • Lesbian Equity Fund • Lex S • Lindsay Burtchell • Lisa Miller • Lisa Porter • Liza Siegler & Aaron Ackerman • Loop & Tie • Louise Davis • Lucy Kahn • Lure Barnes • Luzed Guzman Romano • Lynne Foote • Mackenzie Camisa • Macy Morris • Madeleine Lundberg • Madeline Coven • Madeline Wilson • Maghally Giving Fund • Marc Mazique • Maren Cadwallender • Margaret Berrigan • Margaret Meder • Margot Seigle • Mariel Boyarsky • Marina Valenzuela • Marisa Lum • Marissa Finnhersh • Martha Raynolds • Martha Struthers Farley & Donald C. Farley, Jr. Family Foundation • Mary C Johnson • Mary Capilitan-Pulanco • Mary Cassidy • Mary Martin • Matt Hornyak • Matthew Grover • Max Rink • Mckensey Smith • Megan Montgomery • Megan Murray • Megan Stories • Meghan Magee • Melissa Noble • Meredith Floyd • Mia Rubin • Michael Obuchi • Michael Stansbury • Mikayla Hutchinson • Mischa Buckler-Mullins • Molly Braeunig • Molly Schulman • Monica Trinidad • Morgan Matter • Morgan Thorne • Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss • Naomi Sobel & Becky Silverstein • Natalie Stephens • Nicholas Opinsky • Nico Amador • Nicolas Culley • Nicole Kitagaito • Nicole Zeller • Nikolaus Weinberger • Nikole Pagan • Noah Berman • Noah T Winer & Sarah Zlotnik • Noam Andree Keim • Nora Berenstain • Olivia Chaffee • Olivia D Hauser • Olivia Riley • Ona Gleichman • Pass The Mic Org. • Patricia Jean Severson • Paul Kivel & Mary Luckey • Paul Socolow • Peter Knipper & Joelle Chase • Philip Hoffman • Pink Narwhal• Purnima Baldwin • Pursuit of Justice Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation • Rachael Van Schoik • Rachel Braunstein • Rachel Feliz • Rachel Gelman • Rachel Sherman • Rachel Simone • Raisa & Susan Moore • Reba Crawford-Hayes • Rebecca Loesberg • Rebecca Peterkin • Rebecca Waxman • Reed Boskey • Regina & Melodie Myers • Ren Short • Rhiannan Price • Richard Ressler • Rob Korobkin • Robert Brown • Rong Zhao • Rosalie Abbey • Ryan Fortwendel & Jake Sargent • ryan s • Sam Jacobs • Sam Merkt • Samuel Kendakur • Samuel Omoyugbo • Samuel Vinal • Sara E. Beinert • Sara Hirsch • Sara Sargent • Sarah & David Mele • Sarah Bang • Sarah Barlow-Ochshorn • Saskia Vandekamp • Savannah Jodzio • Sean Mallee • Sex Work Rights Fund • Shannon Carter • Shannon Wyss • Sheba Rivera • Shelby Denham • Sheryl Scott • Sienna Baskin • Silas Curtis • Skyler Wharton • Sofia Chang • Sonia Alexander • Sophie House • Stacy Stein • Susan Goldwomon • Susan Shafer • Suzanne Holland • Swathi Tadepalli • Talya Gillman • Tash Shatz • Tecovas Foundation • Teresa Speranza • The Appleman Foundation • The Harold & Jean Grossman Family Foundation • The Hugh C. & Thomas Lord Fund • The Pierson Fund • Thomos Covo • Tracy Burt • Tracy Freedman & Nicholas Robins • Will Bruno • Will Neff • William Rogers • Yasmin List • Yotam Tubul • Zoe Saunders

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Anonymous (38) • A Grayson Lu • Aapta Garg • Abigail Keel • Adair Iacono • Adam Haber • Adelaide Dicken • Adjoa Tetteh • Aida Manduley • Aidan Orly • Ains Chac • Alea Shurmantine • Alejandra Martinez • Alex Baskin • Alex Clavel • Alex Dang • Alex Haber • Alex Natale • Alex Simon-Fox • Alexa Grae • Alexandra DelValle • Alexandra Sterman • Alexandra Teixeira • Alexis Boutsikoudis • Alexis Briggs • Alexis Flower • Alice Giba • Alice Hansmann • Alison Wood • Alissa Black • Allison Chapin • Allison Conley • Allison Samuels • Amanda Liaw • Amanda Lu • Amanda Richards • amanda wallwin • Ambar Pinto • Amoretta Morris • Amy Ridder • Ana Conner • Andrea Flynn • Angela Vo • Anna Cooper • Anna Leschen-Lindell • Anna Sacks • Anne Keenan • Anne Schwartz • Anthony Vazquez • April Bethea • Ari Erlbaum • Ariel Levin • Ashley Uyeda • Audacia Ray • Audrey King • Avery Mauel • aya tasaki • Ayelet Yonah • Barbara Kass • Bean Yogi • Beckett Koretz • Becky Edmonds • Ben Barg • Ben Barge • Beth Jacksier • Bets Edasery • Bhavana Nancherla • Blake Johnson • Bonnie Boyer • Bree Ferrin • Bridget Burns • Bridget de Gersigny • Britt Willis • Bryan Appleby • Bryn Adams • Bryna Cofrin-Shaw • Cade Steinmetz-Silber • Caitlin Offinger • Camellia Phillips • Candice Crutchfield • Cannell Oliver • Caroline Casias • Caroline Sheffield • Casper Lucia • Cass Regan • Catherine Lundoff • Cayla Kennedy • Cecilia Zvosec • Celia Turner • Charlotte Landes • Charlotte Miller • Chelsea Moore • Chelsea Wynn • Chris Xu • Christa Orth • Christine Davitt • Christine DeBlasio • Christine Williams • Christopher Edmonds • Cindy Choung • Claudia Leung • Cleopatra Acquaye-Reynolds • Cole Parke-West • Cynthia Chandler • Cynthia Ibarra • Dalia Kingsbury • Dallas Schubert • Daniel Susser • Danielle Matheny • Dansen Mayhay • Darby Hickey • David Gore • David Sanchez • Deanna-Marie Norcross • Demian Yoon • Derek Attig • Devin Malone • Diana Scholl • Duncan Carson • Dylan Turmeque-Lament • Edie Joseph • Eliana Rubin • Eliot Colin • Eliza Wilcox • Elizabeth Busch • Elizabeth Crane • Elizabeth Fujii • Elizabeth Reetz • Elle Perez • Ellie Colbert • Elyse Gordon • Em Fishman • Emil Paddison • Emil Rudicell • Emily Bass • Emily Johnson • Emily Varnam • Emily Weinrebe • Emma Burke • Emma Davey • Emma Kupferman • Emma McDonald • Emma McGowan • Emma Pliskin • Emma Price • emma ryan • Erica Bailey • Erica McDowell • Erin Aja Grant • Eugenia Lee • Eva Wingren • evelin montes • Evelyn Israel • Fizz Perkal • Gabi Gaujean • Gabriel Reichler • Gabriela Bonfiglio • Gaea Campe • Gail Robson • Genya Shimkin • Gerald Shin • Gillian May Boeve • Ginger Hollander • Graham Bridgeman • Hạ Trần • Hadassah Damien • Hank Kelley • Hannah Forsberg • Hannah Kiesler • Hannah Nees • Hannah Soreng • Haylie Jacobson • Heather Crespin • Hyunhee Shin • Ian Kerstetter • Ian Mansfield • Ian Schiffer • Ila Duncan • Iliza Sokol • Isabelle Leighton • Ivan Rosales • Jade DeGrio • Jaime-Jin Lewis • James Schaffer • Jane Bowers • Jared Haug • Jeffrey Coleman • Jeffrey Jacobs • Jen Bokoff • Jenna Jerman • Jenna Schmitz • Jennie Kim • Jennifer Morgan • Jennifer Young • Jenny Dodson • Jeremy Zitomer • Jesse Crozier • Jesse Manuel Graves • Jessica Jensen • Jessica Kelley • Jessie Rivera DeBruin • Jessie Sullivan • Jhaleh Akhavan • Jillian Sandell • Jillian White • jo Valdés • Joanna Gurin • Joanna Ware • Joe Bobman • Joe Williams • John Smoker • John Won • Joshua Multer • Joy Messinger • Judith Gorjanc • Julia Stone • Justin Falcone • Justine Hong • Kaitlin Gravitt • Kaitlyn Marchesano • Kara Desiderio • Karen Solt • Kate Bernyk • Kate McDonough • Kate Reeder • Kate Whittemore • Katherine Edmondson • Katherine Madhuri-Asencio • Kathryn Dawson • Katie Diamond • Katrina Green • Kelly Wooten • Kelsey Barowich • Kelsey Butterworth • Kelsey DeForest • Kelsey Knight • Kendall Shaw • Kevin Mernin • Khristina Acosta • Kia Alexander • Kim Kargman • Kim Nguyen • Kimberly Murray • Kirsten Escobar • Kirstie Kimball • Kristina Ferdinand • Kristina Wertz • Kyle Anderson • Lane Fury • Laurel Golio • Laurel Sheffield • Lauren Dawe • Leah & Jahna Knobler • Leah Muskin-Pierret • Leah van Hoeve • Ledah Finck • Lee Strock • Lin Wei • Lindsay Noyes • Lindsey Hennawi • Liz Zale • lola pellegrino • Lolan Sevilla • Luc Athayde-Rizzaro • Luce Lincoln • Lucille Petty • Lucretia John • Lucy Diavolo • Lucy Trainor • Lync Johnson • M Harper Doherty • Maddie Creutz • Madeleine Durante • Madeline Legg • Maggie Rose • Mahx Capacity • Makenna Lehrer • Mana Tahaie • Mara Steinitz • Margaret Ringler • Marguerite Schauer • Mariel Cohn • Marigo Farr • Marin Watts • Marlene Fried • Mars Plater • Maryleen Bernate • Maryse Mitchell-Brody • Matias Pelenur • Matthew Garzarek • Maura Bairley • Maximiliano Alaghband • Maxwell Scales • Meagan L. Butler • Megan Devenport • Megan Honig • Megan Weck • Meghan McNamara • Melanie Flaxer • Melanie Willingham-Jaggers • Melissa Gira Grant • Mercedes Klein • Mia Rybeck • Mia Sullivan • Michael Aguhar • Michael Gast • Michela Masson • Minahil Khan • Miranda Adams • Molly Glenn • Molly McShane • Monica Esopi • Morgan Bennett • Nadav David • Namita Chad • Naomi Harrington • Nathan Campbell • Nic Ryan • Nicky Zarchen • Nicole Myles • Nicole Turcotte • Nina Kossoff • Noah Koch • Noah Souder-Russo • Oliver Meldrum • Olutoyin Demuren • Overstreet Jen • Owen Berson • Pamela Cash • Patrick McNabb • Phoebe Feeley • Pierce Delahunt • Priya Nair • Rachel Connolly • Rachel Harris-Phillips • Rachel Valentine • Rachel Wishnie-Edwards • Raffi Marhaba • Ralph Nelson • Rebecca Coates-Finke • Reed Vreeland • Reed Young • Renee Bracey Sherman • Rickke Mananzala • Ricky Hougland • Robert Fredericks • Rodney Smith • Sabrina Scanlan • Sadie Lune • Saenam Kim • Sam Friedman • Samantha Franklin • Samantha Klein • Samantha Romero • Samuel Hurwitz • Samuel Jacobs • Sara Gould • Sara Morris • Sarah Blazevic • Sarah Gunther • Sarah Hamilton • Sarah Jacqz • Sarah Jane Rhee • Sarah Katz • Sarah Quinto • Sarah Rosenthal • Sarah Schwarzschild • Sarika Kumar • Sebastian Margaret • Serina Jensen • Shannon Perez-Darby • Shayla Nikzad • Sivan Orr • Sonya Karabel • Sophie Hagen • Stephanie Poggi • Steve Quester • Sunny Kim • Suzanne Warshell • syd yang • Sydney Corbeil-Wild • Sydney Kopp-Richardson • Sydney Mokel • Tara Ellison • Tara Tabassi • Tea Wimer • Thea Rossman • Theresa Anasti • Theresa Hemphill • Thomas Arnold • Thomas Frohlich • Tiffany Hong • Tiffany HyeonBrooks • Tiffany Rogers • Tiffany Tai • ting zhang • Tovah Leibowitz • Track Trachtenberg • tyler rizzo • Vanessa Ferrel • Vic Wiener • Wayne Brody • Wendy Sibbison • Will Stolarski • William Eidtson, Sr • Yahya Alazrak • Yasmin Ahmed • Yecelica Valdivia • Yuni Chang • Zachary Eaton • Zakiya Lord • Zil Goldstein

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CREDITS: Year in Review layout design, map illustrations, infographics, grantee illustration, Co-Directors illustration, Disability Justice illustration, and ‘We Sustain Us’ illustration all by Grae Rosa. Grow Power Fund, Own Our Power Fund and Mobilize Power Fund illustrations by Frances Mead. Sex Worker Giving Circle illustration by J.B. Brager. Accountable Futures Fund illustration by Cristy C. Road. Staff illustration by Monica Trinidad.