2020-2021 Donor-Advised Fund Grants

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From summer 2020 to summer 2021, our Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) holders, just like the rest of North Star Fund, moved to meet the moment, and made close to $7 million in grants in 12 months.

We welcomed ten new DAFs and made grants at a faster pace than ever. Our DAF holders combined to make over 500 grants!

A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) is a giving vehicle that provides you with the ability to support organizations and issues you care about most while also receiving immediate tax benefits. Donor-advised funds are an efficient and cost-effective alternative to private or family foundations.

Our partnership with the Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, which we launched in 2019, has proven to meet our goals: streamlining the contribution and grantmaking process and allowing more flexibility in strategic and responsible investment choices for funds while donors make their grant plans. Feedback about the new system from our DAF holders has been positive, and since we moved to this platform in late 2019, we’ve made over $11 million in grants!

In 2021, a few of our donors have signed onto the #HalfMyDAF challenge, part of the growing movement to make sure that DAFs are stewarded as responsibly as possible, and not just used as vehicles to continue hoarding wealth. A couple of our donors who signed onto #HalfMyDAF won additional funds for their grantees!

With North Star Fund, your donor-advised fund can move resources quickly to support grassroots organizing and social justice when and where it’s needed most.

If you’ve been thinking at all about starting a donor-advised fund, now is a great time. Reach out to Kofo Anifalaje (kofo@northstarfund.org) to learn more.

Anonymous DAF Grants

A Better Way Foundation, Inc
Adelante Alabama Worker Center
Alliance for Global Justice
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
Amazon Watch
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Build the Bench
Center for Popular Democracy
CultureConnect
Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School
Highlander Research and Education Center
Justice for Migrant Families
Make the Road New York
OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL
Pueblo Organizado En Defensa DE La Tierra Y Sus Recursos
Pueblo Organizado En Defensa DE La Tierra Y Sus Recursos
Rainforest Action Network
Rural Community Workers Alliance
Social Good Fund
Southerners On New Ground – SONG
Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense
The Fund for Public Schools
VOCAL-NY
Voces de la Frontera

Aletheia Fund

Council of Peoples Organization
The New Press Inc

Asian American Impact Fund

Chinese American Family Alliance for Mental Health
Chinese-American Sunshine House
Community Inclusion & Development Alliance
Laal NYC
Mekong NYC
Southeast Asian Defense Project

Caribou Fund

North Star Fund

Dawn Fund

A Better Chance Inc of New Canaan
American Councils for International Education
Americares
Asian Cultural Council, Inc.
Beatastic
Brooklyn Community Foundation
Brooklyn Museum
CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC
Columbia Business School Club of NY Inc
Community Resource Exchange
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southern Connecticut Inc
Dance Place
Dance Place
Educational Alliance, Inc.
Environmental Working Group
Friends of Cuso International
Friends of the Strand Theatre
Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine/ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Gloucester Stage Company, Inc.
Governors Island Corporation
Groundswell NYC
Human Rights Watch, Inc.
Impact Assets
Impact Assets
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Joyce Theater Foundation Inc
Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center
LEGAL ACTION CENTER
NEO Philanthrophy, Inc.
New Canaan Land Conservation Trust
New Canaan Library Inc
New City Arts Initiative
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Robert A Toigo Foundation
Scholars at Risk Inc
Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project
Third Sector New England
Tides Foundation
Virginia Discovery Museum Inc
Yale University

Dinner Guys Giving Circle

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
Womankind (twice)

Dodson/Mersfelder Solidarity Fund

A J Williams-Meyers African Roots Community Center Inc
Labor Notes
National Domestic Workers Alliance
New Florida Majority Education Fund Inc
New Virginia Majority Education Fund
Newburgh LGBTQIA Center
North Star Fund
Resource Generation
Tides Center
Warehouse Worker Resource Center
Worker Justice Center of New York

Ellis Scholarship Fund

Le Moyne College
Saint John Fisher College
SUNY Oneonta
SUNY Potsdam

Emma Goldman Fund

North Star Fund

Fountain Fund

African Communities Together
Brandworkers (two grants)
Third Sector New England

Hannah Wainright Fund

American Indian Community House, Inc.
Center for Popular Democracy
Resource Generation

Hope for the Future

Abortion Care Network
Adelante Alabama Worker Center
Resource Generation
Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund
The Story of Stuff Project
Tides Foundation

International Dreamers Scholarship Fund

Borough of Manhattan Community College (five grants)
College of Staten Island
CUNY New York City College of Technology (four grants)
Kingsborough Community College (two grants)
LaGuardia Community College
New York University
York College

J.M. Hamberg Fund

North Star Fund

Joanne Lukomnik Fund for Health Care Reform

Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter

The JR Mammoth Fund

Make the Road States

Kindling Fund

Alliance for Global Justice
Bend the Arc: Jewish Partnership for Justice
Center for Neighborhood Leadership
Common Ground Farm Inc
Fractured Atlas
generative somatics
Highlander Research and Education Center
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Indigenous Womens Resource Center
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc
Resource Generation
ROW NEW YORK
Social Good Fund
The Praxis Project
Tides Center
Tides Foundation
United We Dream

Liberation Fund

Arab American Association of New York
Audre Lorde Project
Common Counsel Foundation
Community Aid & Development Corporation
CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK
DRUM – South Asian Organizing Center
Fund for the City of New York
Girls for Gender Equity
Global Action Project
Justice Committee
North Star Fund
Picture the Homeless
Resource Generation
Rockaway Youth Task Force
Social Good Fund
Tides Center

The Mina Fund

Proteus Fund

Outstanding Returns

Building Dignity and Respect Standards Council
Center For Third World Organizing (CTWO)
Corporate Accountability
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
Retreat Farm, LTD.
The Ruckus Society
Tides Foundation

Play it Forward Fund

Academy of Music for the Blind
American Bar Foundation
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Appalachian Mountain Club
Bank Street
Barnard College
Brooklyn College
City College of New York
Class Size Matters
Columbia Land Conservancy
Counseling In Schools
Defending the Early Years
DOCS FOR TOTS
Familial Dysautonomia (FD) Foundation, Inc.
Farm & Wilderness Foundation Inc
FARMON! FOUNDATION INC
Food Bank For New York City
Groundswell NYC
Harlem Valley Rail Trail
Haven Media
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
IntegrateNYC Inc.
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Kite’s Nest
Kolot Chayeinu
Maple Street School
Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Network for Public Education
New Israel Fund
New York – New Jersey Trail Conference, Inc.
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation
New York Public Radio
North Star Fund
Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles
Public Justice
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc
Queens College Foundation Inc
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc.
Sakhi for South Asian Women
Sanctuary for Families
Scholarships and Honors Board
Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc.
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
THE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC
University of Baltimore Foundation

Prospect Fund

Jewish Voice for Peace

R&R Fund

Alliance for Global Justice
American Indian Community House, Inc.
American Indian Community House, Inc.
Center for Popular Democracy
Center for Popular Democracy
Community Food Advocates
Community Food Advocates
CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK
Groundswell Fund
North Star Fund
North Star Fund
North Star Fund
North Star Fund
One Fair Wage Inc
Resource Generation
Resource Generation
RIP Medical Debt
RIP Medical Debt
SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST
Southerners On New Ground – SONG
Thousand Currents
Thousand Currents
United for a Fair Economy

REN Fund for Justice

]Brandworkers
Global Greengrants Fund
Good Nation Foundation
In These Times
United for a Fair Economy

Sagner Family Foundation

1hood Media Academy
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta
Berkshire Natural Resources Council
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc
Brennan Center for Justice
Grassroots International
Jewish Voice for Peace
MN350
Movement Alliance Project
Movement Strategy Center
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
NEO Philanthropy, Inc.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation
Northside Residents Redevelopment Council Inc
Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Solidaire Network
The Watershed Center
Unkitawa
WAM Theatre
Young Mens Christian Association of San Francisco

Sarah Rosenthal & Morgan Coy Fund

Actblue Charities Inc
Common Counsel Foundation
CultureConnect
Rise Up Kingston NY Inc.

Sobelstein Fund

826 National
ABORTION CARE NETWORK
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc.
Al Otro Lado
Allgo
Alliance for Just Society
Allied Media Projects
Allied Media Projects
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)
American Indian Community House, Inc.
American Jewish World Service
Annunciation House
ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Asian American Women’s Political Initiative Inc
Audre Lorde Project
B-Word Worldwide
Bagly, Inc.
Be’chol Lashon
Bend the Arc: Jewish Partnership for Justice
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Black and Pink Inc
Black Youth Project 100 Education Fund
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Inc.
Boston Health Care For The Homeless Program Inc
Boston Impact Initiative Fund
Boston Public Library Fund, Inc.
Boston Women’s Fund, Inc.
Brockton Interfaith Community Inc
CALIFORNIA SIBLING LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC
Canticle Farm
Carolina Jews for Justice
Casa Ruby Inc.
Center for Economic Democracy
Center for Popular Democracy
Center for Sex and Culture
Center for Teen Empowerment
Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc
Chinese Progressive Association Boston
City Life/Vida Urbana
Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure Inc. (COHIF)
Common Counsel Foundation
Communities United for People
COMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION
Community United Against Violence Inc
Congregation Tchiyah/ Detroit Jew for Justice
Critical Resistance
Dignity and Power Now
Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund
Ganei Beantown Inc
Global Fund for Women
Grassroots International
Griot Circle
Groundswell Fund
GSA NETWORK
Haymarket People’s Fund
Hebrew College
hias
Hispanic Federation Inc.
HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE
Honor the Earth
INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
Jeremiah Program
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc
Jewish Community Action
Jewish Studio Project
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Jews United for Justice
Justice Now
Kehillah Community Synagogue and School
Keshet
Kol Tzedek Synagogue
Louisiana Rise
Make the Road New York
Massachusetts Bail Fund Inc
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc. (MIRA Coalition)
Massachusetts Voter Education
Momentum Community
Muslim Justice League Inc
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Day Labor Organizing Network
Native American Community Board
Native Land Conservancy Inc
Native Movement
New Economy Coalition
New Israel Fund
New Voices Pittsburgh Inc
North American Indian Center of Boston
North Bay Organizing Project
North Star Fund
Old Lesbians Organizing for Change
On the Rise, Inc.
Open Hillel Inc
Political Research Associates
Proteus Fund
Race Forward
Resist
Resource Generation
Rosie’s Place Inc
Santa Fe Dreamers Project
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, In
Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
Slingshot Fund Inc
Social Good Fund
SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST
Southerners On New Ground – SONG
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW!
SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva
SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Tahirih Justice Center
The City School Inc.
The Food Project
The Praxis Project
The Ruckus Society
Third Sector New England
Tides Center
Tides Foundation
Transgender Law Center
Union Theological Seminary
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF TUCSON
United for a Fair Economy
United We Dream
UPROSE
Urban Farming Institute
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout

Sugar Forest Fund

Forward Justice
Goodnation Foundation
Project South
The Praxis Project

Tom and Michele Solidarity Fund

Brandworkers
Center for Popular Democracy
Common Cause Education Fund – New York
Doctors Without Borders
Good Old Lower East Side
Hunger Free America
Make the Road New York
New York Times Neediest Cases Fund
North Star Fund
Take Root Justice
Tides Center
West Side Center for Community Life Inc

Tom and Olivia Fund

Momentum Community
North Star Fund

Unfettered Fund

Alliance for Global Justice
Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice
Bend the Arc: Jewish Partnership for Justice
Black and Pink Inc
Center for Popular Democracy
Class Action Network, Inc.
Color Of Change Education Fund Inc
Corporate Accountability
Haymarket People’s Fund
Here Education and Support Fund
Jobs With Justice Education Fund
National Domestic Workers Alliance
North Star Fund
One Fair Wage Inc
People’s Action Institute
PolicyLink
Resource Generation
Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) United
Solidaire Network
The City School Inc.
Third Sector New England
Third Wave Foundation
Tides Foundation
United for Respect Education Fund

Works in Progress Fund

AgitArte
Alliance for Just Society
Center For Third World Organizing (CTWO)
Communities United For Restorative Youth Justice
Corporate Accountability
Correctional Association of New York
Indigenous Environmental Network
International Indigenous Youth Council
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services
Make the Road New York
Movement Strategy Center
NDN Collective Inc
NEO Philanthropy, Inc.
Peace Development Fund
Project Prosper
Proteus Fund
Storyline
Taller Salud
Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid
The Ruckus Society
Tides Center
Women Make Movies, Inc
Worth Rises Inc

Do you want to be funding movements for justice?

We are committed to moving money in these challenging times to grassroots organizing based in BIPOC communities in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Join us — make a gift today. We’ll combine your gift with many others to support on-the-ground organizing. 

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