Donor-Advised Grants
Donor-advised funds allow individuals or groups of donors to make a one-time contribution or several contributions over time and then decide what organizations and movements the fund will support later. They are an easier and faster alternative to private and family foundations.
This year we’ve partnered with Amalgamated Charitable Foundation to offer improved investment and grantmaking options to our donors.
In response to the demands of this year, our donor-advised funds made over 500 grants totaling $5.8 million. Here are the named funds and the grants they made last fiscal year.
You can learn more about our donor-advised fund grantmaking on the North Star Fund website, or reach out to Kofo Anifalaje.
Anonymous
Adelante Alabama Worker Center
Advocacy Institute
Alianza Agricola
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
Amazon Watch
Annunciation House
Asian Cultural Council, Inc.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity (BOLD)
Black Youth Project 100 Education Fund
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Brooklyn Community Foundation
Brooklyn Movement Center
Chinese Association for Science and Technology in Connecticut Inc
Clean Air Coalition of Western NY
Communities United For Police Reform
Community Voices for Youth and Families
Community Voices Heard
Cosecha
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southern Connecticut Inc
Crown Heights Tenant Union/Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
Dance Place
Detroit Action
Educational Alliance, Inc.
Environmental Working Group
Flatbush Tenant Coalition/Flatbush Development Cor
Friends of the Strand Theatre
generative somatics
Groundswell NYC
Hand in Hand: the Domestic Employers Network
Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS)
Healthy Democracy Fund at Tides Foundation
Human Rights Watch, Inc.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jeremiah A Barondess Scholarship Fund at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jewish Voice for Peace
Joyce Theater Foundation Inc
Kino Border Initiative
Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center
Lambi Fund of Haiti
LEGAL ACTION CENTER
National Day Laborer Organizing Network
National Domestic Workers Alliance
New City Arts Initiative
North Star Fund
NY Immigration Coalition
OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL
Prison Policy Initiative
Puente Human Rights Movement
Rainforest Action Network
S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth
Scholars at Risk Inc
Seeding Sovereignty
SEPA Mujer
Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project
Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense
The Campaign Against Hunger
USO of Metropolitan New York, Inc.
VOCAL-NY
Worker Justice Center of New York
Workers Center of Central New York
Workers’ Dignity Project
World Central Kitchen, Inc.
Caribou Fund
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
North Star Fund
Dodson/Mersfelder Solidarity Fund
A J Williams-Meyers African Roots Community Center Inc
Abortion Care Network
Bard Prison Initiative
Groundswell Fund
Labor Notes
Movement for Black Lives Fund
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Native Voices Rising
North Star Fund
Resource Generation
Rise Up Kingston NY Inc.
Third Wave Fund
Worker Justice Center of New York
Emma Goldman Fund
Center for Constitutional Rights
MADRE
North Star Fund
Fountain Fund
Brandworkers
Food Worker Power Fund, Brandworkers New Jersey
Hannah Wainright Fund
Center for Popular Democracy
Movement for Black Lives Fund
J.M. Hamberg Fund
Latino Heritage Scholarship at Empire State College Foundation
North Star Fund
Joanne Lukomnik Fund for Health Care Reform
Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter
Kindling Fund
Aikido Ethiopia
Movement for Black Lives Fund
North Star Fund
Other Shore
Prison Policy Initiative
Project Manzanar
Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund
Team Blackbird
Liberation Fund
Alliance of Families for Justice
Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC)
One Common Unity
Parole Preparation Project
Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
More to Life Fund
Catalyst Project
Resource Generation
Mortar Between the Bricks Fund
North Star Fund
Outstanding Returns
Native American Development Center
NDN Collective Inc
Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust
Out in the Open, Inc
Truth Telling Project at Northeastern Illinois University Foundation
UC Berkeley Chicano Latino Alumni Association
Play it Forward Fund
+972 Magazine
Alliance for Quality Education
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Bank Street
Barnard College
Brooklyn College
Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood
Catalyst Kitchens
Changing The Conversation Together
Class Size Matters
Columbia College Fund
Columbia Land Conservancy
Communities United for Police Reform
Counseling In Schools
Defending the Early Years
DOCS FOR TOTS
Familial Dysautonomia (FD) Foundation, Inc.
Fannie Angelos Program for Academic Excellence at University of Baltimore Foundation
Farm & Wilderness Foundation Inc
Food Bank For New York City
Grace Street Ministry
Groundswell NYC
Harlem Valley Rail Trail
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Journey for Justice
Kolot Chayeinu
Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Network for Public Education
New Israel Fund
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation
New York University
North Star Fund
Outdoor Afro
Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles
Queens College Foundation Inc
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc.
Sanctuary for Families
Southern Poverty Law Center
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
The City College 21st Century Foundation Inc.
The City University of New York
WNYC
REN Fund for Justice
Brandworkers
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
In These Times
North Star Fund
United for a Fair Economy
Sarah Rosenthal & Morgan Coy Fund
Color Of Change
CultureConnect
Drug Policy Alliance
Environmental Advocates of New York Inc
Honolulu Civil Beat Inc
Hudson River Housing
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance
Kindle Project
Kite’s Nest
Movement Voter Project
Nobody Leaves Mid Hudson Education Fund
PROJECT HAWAII INC
Rhinebeck Responds Fund
Sobelstein Fund
Abortion Care Network
Above and Beyond Solidarity Fund
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc.
Allgo
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)
American Indian Community House, Inc.
Annunciation House
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice
Bagly, Inc.
Be’chol Lashon
Bend the Arc: Jewish Partnership for Justice
Beyond Bond and Legal Defense Fund
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Black and Pink Inc
Black Mesa Water Coalition
BlackOUT Collective
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Inc.
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Inc.
Boston Health Care For The Homeless Program Inc
Boston Impact Initiative Fund
Brockton Interfaith Community Inc
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Casa Ruby Inc.
Center for Economic Democracy
Center for Popular Democracy
Chelsea Collaborative
Chinese Progressive Association Boston
Circle for Justice Innovation
Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure Inc. (COHIF)
CommonWealth Kitchen
Communities United for Police Reform
Community Asset Development Re-Defining Education
Community United Against Violence Inc
Corporate Accountability
Creating Freedom Movements
Cypress Fund
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke
First Nations Development Institute
Freedom Inc.
Freedom to Thrive
Ganei Beantown Inc
Grassroots International
Griot Circle
GSA NETWORK
Hebrew College
Highlander Research and Education Center
Hive Community Circle
INCITE!
Jewish Multiracial Network
Jewish Social Justice Roundtable
Jewish Studio Project
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
Jews of Color Initiative
Keshet
Liberated Capital: A Decolonizing Wealth Fund
Make the Road New York
Maria Fund
Mass Voter Table
Massachusetts Bail Fund Inc
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc. (MIRA Coalition)
MassUndocuFund
Material Aid and Advocacy Program Inc
Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education
Mijente Support Committee
Momentum Community
Movement for Black Lives Fund
Muslim Justice League Inc
National Bail Out
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Native American Community Board
NDN Collective Inc
New Economy Coalition