Thank you to Our Donors

We extend a huge thank you to the nearly one thousand donors who made a gift to North Star Fund this year.

There’s a place for everyone to be part of the North Star Fund community—and with the gifts we’ve received this year ranging from one dollar to $2 million—there’s a place for everyone to be involved as a North Star Fund donor.

The median gift our donors made this year was $54. (Half the gifts we received were over $54 and half of all the donations we received were under $54.) Your gifts combine together to have the greatest impact in supporting grassroots organizing.

In these uncertain and unprecedented times, every gift counts

After a wave of increased giving for racial justice in 2020, there has been a concerning overall decline in donations. Along with many of our allied social justice organizations, we are also experiencing this decline. So we are especially grateful that so many in our community have shown staying power. This is essential as we increase multi-year grants and remain committed to growing our support of Black-led organizing throughout New York City and the Hudson Valley.

The impact of your gift

As a donor, your contribution supports at least a dozen different justice movements—and our activist-led Community Funding Committees ensure that grants reach organizations you are familiar with, as well as groups you likely don’t know about yet. Your donation to North Star Fund powers hundreds of grants for millions of dollars, from Albany to Staten Island.

Your gift supports delivery workers, domestic workers, incarcerated New Yorkers, students and farmers—there are literally hundreds of settings where people are organizing for their lives and communities. You can support them all with your single gift.

Once you make a gift, you trust our Community Funding Committees to make grants that reach across the region. We’re honored to have your support as we move resources to all the different forms of organizing that are changing New York for the better.