Donor-Advised Funds

Donor-advised fund (DAF) holders at North Star Fund—like so many of our donors—don’t have to be directed to do the right thing. They know what they want to do—resource community organizations that need the support. The donor-advised funds we host via Amalgamated Community Foundation have all the standard flexibility of DAFs, but our donors are committed to moving money and do so at a rapid pace.

In our 2021-22 fiscal year, our DAF holders moved $9.3 million in over 600 grants via over 50 funds. Grants ranged from less than $1,000 to $250,000 and included organizations across New York as well as across the United States. Grassroots organizations are moving faster than ever to address pressing needs in communities. We appreciate how many of our DAFs are moving funds quickly into movements for justice. The full list of grants is below, (except for grants made anonymously).

We made $9.3 million in donor-advised fund grants.
We made just over 600 grants
Through over 50 funds
Anna Santoleri DAF

Movimiento Cosecha Support Network

Brookpark Fund

Asian American Journalists Association
Donors Of Color Network
Free Press
Korean American Family Service Center, Inc.
North Star Fund
Political Research Associates
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement, Inc.
The New York Women’s Foundation

Caribou Fund
North Star Fund
Catalyst Projects Fund
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project
Al Otro Lado
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc
Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc
Innovation Law Lab
Justice Action Center
Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Of The San Francisco Bay Area
National Immigration Project Of The National Lawyers Guild, Inc.
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (Nice)
Public Counsel
Public Justice Foundation
Community Support Fund
American Indian Law Alliance
Black Lives Matter- Memphis
Black Trans Media
Catalyst Project
Community Aid & Development Corporation
Connected Chef Foundation Inc
Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi
Crossroads Fund
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Harriet’s Wildest Dreams
Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization Inc
Masjid Al-Rabia
National Alumni Association Of The Black Panther Party
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
North Star Fund
PACBI
Palestinian Youth Movement
Showing Up For Racial Justice Inc
SISTERREACH
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
Tides Center
Tonatierra Community Development Institute
U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
WESPAC FOUNDATION INC
Women On 20S Inc
Dawn Fund
A BETTER CHANCE INC OF NEW CANAAN
American Exchange Project Inc
American University of Afghanistan
Americares
Brooklyn Community Foundation
Carver Foundation Of Norwalk Inc
Columbia Business School Club of NY Inc
Cuso International
Educational Alliance, Inc.
Environmental Working Group
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
Friends of the Strand Theatre
Governors Island Corporation
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Integrity Initiatives International
Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine
Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center
Legal Action Center
NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST, INC.
Planned Parenthood NYC
President And Fellows Of Harvard College
Progeorgia State Table
Punctuate4 Productions
Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project
Southern Environmental Law Center
Southern Methodist University
StreetWise Partners, Inc.
Tides Foundation
Dinner Guys Giving Circle
Asian American Futures
Dodson/Mersfelder Solidarity Fund
A J Williams-Meyers African Roots Community Center Inc
Dream Defenders Education Fund
For the Many Education Fund
Labor Notes
National Domestic Workers Alliance
New Virginia Majority Education Fund
Newburgh LGBTQIA Center
Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson Education Fund
North Star Fund
Resource Generation
Sunrise Movement Education Fund
Warehouse Worker Resource Center
Worker Justice Center Of New York
Ellis Scholarship Fund
John Jay College
Mercy College
Fossey Northrup Giving Fund
Givewell
PACBI
Fountain Fund
African Communities Together
Brandworkers
Hannah Wainright Fund
Resource Generation
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
Hope for the Future
Black Outside, Inc
Center For Popular Democracy
Groundswell Fund
HBCU Green Fund Inc.
Native Movement
Polaris Institute
The Center For Protest Law & Litigation
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
YMCA of Greater New York
International Dreamers Scholarship Fund
College of Staten Island
CUNY New York City College of Technology
Hunter College
Kingsborough Community College
York College
Joanne Lukomnik Fund for Health Care Reform
Physicians For A National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter
The JR Mammoth Fund
Make the Road CT
Ukrainian Congress Committee Of America
Kindling Fund

Annunciation House
Black Organizing For Leadership & Dignity (Bold)
Black Youth Project 100 Education Fund
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)
Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC
Detroit Action Education Fund
generative somatics
Groundswell Fund
Kino Border Initiative
Make The Road New York
Media Sutra
National Day Labor Organizing Network
National Domestic Workers Alliance
New American Leaders
Prison Policy Initiative
Project Manzanar
Puente Human Rights Movement
RAICES
Resource Generation
Showing Up For Racial Justice Education Fund
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
VOCAL-NY
Wildfire Project

Liberation Fund
For the Many Education Fund
North Star Fund
The Mina Fund
African American Policy Forum
Borealis Philanthropy
Center For Third World Organizing (CTWO)
NDN Collective Inc
North Star Fund
Third Wave Fund
Neskowin Fund
Abortion Care Network
Bread & Roses Community Fund
Climate Justice Alliance
Corporate Accountability
Debt Collective
Highlander Research And Education Center
Make The Road New York
Movement for Black Lives
Movement Voter Fund
North Star Fund
Resource Generation
Solidaire Network
The Eli Kane Fund
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
Third Wave Foundation
Outstanding Returns
Cooperative Development Institute
Corporate Accountability
Kibilio Community & Farms
Migrant Justice
Out in the Open, Inc
Visual Aids For The Arts, Inc.
Play it Forward Fund
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Bank Street College Of Education
Barnard College
Butterfly Pavilion
City College Of New York
Class Size Matters
Columbia College Alumni Association Ferris Booth Hall
Counseling In Schools
Defending the Early Years
Docs For Tots
Fair Foods Standards Council Inc.
Farmon! Foundation Inc
FJC
Friends Of The Bklyn New School- Bklyn School For Collab Studies
Friends of Tucson Birthplace
Groundswell NYC
Harlem Valley Rail Trail
Haven Media
IntegrateNYC Inc.
International Rescue Committee
Kidsave International Inc
Kite’s Nest
Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
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 Policy & Education Fund
Public Policy And Education Fund Of New York Inc
Queens College Foundation Inc
Sakhi For South Asian Women
Sanctuary for Families
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
The New 3Rs, Inc.
Tides Foundation
University Of Baltimore School Of Law
R&R Fund
American Indian Community House, Inc.
Center for Popular Democracy
Center For Third World Organizing (CTWO)
Community Food Advocates
Corner To Corner
EcoWomanist Institute
Grassroots International
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc
Make The Road New York
Make The Road New York
North Star Fund
Resource Generation
Rip Medical Debt
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
Social And Environmental Entrepreneurs
Street Vendor Project
The Brigid Alliance
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
Third Wave Fund
Thousand Currents
United For A Fair Economy
REN Fund for Justice
Global Greengrants Fund
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
Hopewell Fund
In These Times
United for a Fair Economy
Sagner Family Foundation
215 People’s Alliance/ Our Cities Our Schools
Abolitionist Law Center
African American Policy Forum
Akiing Community Development Corporation
Barrington Stage Company
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc
Compassionate Response
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Edith Wharton Restoration Inc
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Highlander Research And Education Center
Honor The Earth
Innovations in Reproductive Health Access
Just Vision Inc
Landback
MADRE
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
Mondoweiss
National Latina Institute For Reproductive Health
New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc.
Newark Museum Association
PA Working Families Party
Palestine Legal
Roots Rising Inc
Solidaire Network
The Center for Economic Research and Social Change
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
Sarah Rosenthal & Morgan Coy Fund
Bard College
CultureConnect
Education Network For Teachers & Artists Inc
Fiesta Youth
Good Work Institute
Kindle Project
National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
TRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEXAS
Sobelstein Fund
826 National
African American Policy Forum
Agrarian Land Trust
Akiing Community Development Corporation
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)
American Jewish World Service
Ammud The Joc Torah Academy Inc
Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice
Audre Lorde Project
B-Word Worldwide
Bend the Arc: Jewish Partnership for Justice
Beyond Bond & Legal Defense Fund Inc
Black Futures Lab
BlackOUT Collective
Boston Impact Initiative Fund
Boston Women’s Fund, Inc.
Brigham And Women’S Hospital, Inc.
Brockton Interfaith Community Inc
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Carolina Jews For Justice
Center For Economic Democracy
Center For Teen Empowerment
Chelsea Collaborative
Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc
Chinese Progressive Association
Chinese Progressive Association Boston
Circle for Justice Innovations
City Life/Vida Urbana
CLIMA Fund
Climate Justice Alliance
Coalition For Occupied Homes In Foreclosure Inc. (Cohif)
CommonWealth Kitchen
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)
Congregation Tchiyah/ Detroit Jew For Justice
Corporate Accountability
Critical Resistance
Decolonizing Wealth Project
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
EcoWomanist Institute
Egleston Square Main Street
Everyday People for Change Inc
Families for Justice As Healing Inc
First Nations Development Institute
Freedom Inc.
Global Fund for Women
Global Greengrants Fund
Grassroots Global Justice
Grassroots International
Groundswell Fund
Hand In Hand
Haymarket People’s Fund
Hebrew College
Hias
Highlander Research and Education Center
Honor the Earth
Indigenous Environmental Network
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
Jeremiah Program
Jewish Community Action
Jewish Studio Project
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice
Jews Of Color Initiative
Jews United For Justice
Joyous Justice
Keshet
Kol Tzedek Synagogue
Liberated Capital: A Decolonizing Wealth Fund
Make the Road New York
Manna-Hatta Fund
Maria Fund
Massachusetts Voter Education
Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh And Education
Muslim Justice League Inc
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Day Labor Organizing Network
Native Land Conservancy Inc
Native Voices Rising
NDN Collective Inc
New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc
New England Womens Support Inc
New Israel Fund
North Star Fund
One Fair Wage Inc
Political Research Associates
Project South
Resist
Resource Generation
Right to the City Alliance
Rise Up
Seventh Generation Fund
Showing Up For Racial Justice Education Fund
Showing Up For Racial Justice Inc
Sistersong Women Of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
Social Good Fund
Social Justice Fund Nw
Sogorea Te Land Trust
Solidaire Network
Southerners On New Ground
Sunrise Movement Education Fund
SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
T’Ruah: The Rabbinic Call For Human Rights
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
The Ruckus Society
Third Wave Fund
Thousand Currents
Tides Foundation
Transgender Emergency Fund Of Massachusetts
Transgender Law Center
TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC
United For A Fair Economy
United We Dream
Unnamed Youth Coalition
Urban Farming Institute
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
Violence In Boston
Western States Center Inc
Sugar Forest Fund
9to5 National Association of Working Women
Beautiful Ventures Foundation Inc.
BVM Capacity Building Institute
Corporate Accountability
Cultural Research Institute of Acadiana
Dat School
Harambee House Inc.
Housing Justice League
National Birth Equity Collective
National Black Midwives Alliance
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Network of Abortion Funds
New Georgia Project Incorporated
New Orleans Abortion Fund
New Orleans Video Access Center Inc
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice
Resource Generation
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education Inc
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW!
The New York Women’s Foundation
Women Engaged
Tom and Michele Solidarity Fund

Advocacy Institute
Brandworkers
Center For Law And Human Values Inc
Center for Popular Democracy
Color Of Change Education Fund Inc
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)
Community Voices Heard
Doctors Without Borders
For the Many Education Fund
Generation Citizen Inc
Good Old Lower East Side
Hunger Free America
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice
Litchfield Performing Arts
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
Make The Road New York
New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc.
New York Times Neediest Cases Fund
Take Root Justice
West Side Campaign Against Hunger

Tom and Olivia Fund

Brooklyn Zen Center

Works in Progress Fund

AgitArte
Black and Pink Inc
California Coalition For Women Prisoners
Center For Third World Organizing (CTWO)
Communities United For Restorative Youth Justice
Corporate Accountability
Crossroads Fund
Decolonizing Wealth Project
Dissenters
GINIW Collective
Hawaii Peoples Fund
Highlander Research and Education Center
Honor the Earth
Indigenous Environmental Network
Indigenous Peoples Power Project Inc
Intransitive Tm Inc
Project South
Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian (PLSR)
Right to the City Alliance
SNAPCO
St James Infirmary
Taller Guaguarey
The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
The Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat & Historical Center
Upstate Downstate Housing Alliance/Hj4A
Worth Rises Inc
Young Of Heart Workshop Dba Pu’Uhonua Society

Starting a Donor-Advised Fund is simple

 

  • You get immediate tax benefits.
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Is this the year you start a donor-advised fund? Email kofo@northstarfund.org with your questions.

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