Funding search · EIN 931207351 · Santa Cruz, CA

Spirit in Action

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

166
grants reported
$564,701
total given
2021–2024
filing years
$3,300
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20212024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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1 grant matching “famer · $7,324

  • $7,324

    Manyamula Comsip Cooperative · 2021

    Administration support for famer's cooperative

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Flaming Chalice International5 grants · $41,357
  • Cap AIDS Uganda5 grants · $36,605
  • Visionary Women'S Centre8 grants · $31,911
  • Manyamula Comsip Cooperative9 grants · $30,697
  • Reach Girls4 grants · $18,025
  • Tubunganire Association4 grants · $16,685
  • Ubuntu Community Based Organization4 grants · $15,675
  • Empowering Communities As Actors for Transforming Societies (E-Cats)3 grants · $15,255
  • Great Lakes Peace Center5 grants · $14,893
  • Wambui Nguyo3 grants · $12,890

Giving over time

$128,459
2021
$146,397
2022
$149,971
2023
$139,874
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 166 grants.

  • $13,153

    Flaming Chalice International · 2024

    Office support and youth entrepreneurship program.

  • $12,946

    Flaming Chalice International · 2023

    Administrative support, youth empowerment, and entrepreneurship program for rural youth

  • $12,009

    Flaming Chalice · 2021

    Admin support and youth poultry project

  • $11,790

    Cap AIDS Uganda · 2024

    Support for eighty 7th grade students from vulnerable families in rural uganda, and support for the cap-aids uganda office

  • $11,082

    Canada Africa Partnership (Cap) AIDS Uganda · 2023

    Savings and loans group for young women and school fees for 80 7th grade students

  • $11,025

    Asbl Apdei (Association Pour La Protection Et La Promotion Des Droits L'Edu · 2023

    Administrative support, motorcycle, and market gardening project

  • $11,000

    Cap AIDS Uganda · 2021

    Poultry proejct at the home of hope; tuition for 70 students to attend shool

  • $10,300

    Apdei · 2024

    Office support and organic garden program for school children and families

  • $9,360

    E-Caempowering Communities As Actors for Transforming Societies (E-Cats) · 2023

    Conduct 10 listening circles workshops targeting 25 people, office rent, salaries for project officer and finance/admin officer

  • $9,000

    Cap AIDS Uganda · 2022

    School desks and 70 student education fees; year 1 of administrative support

  • $8,890

    Empowering Communities As Actors for Transforming Societies (E-Cats · 2022

    Support for peacebuilding workshops

  • $8,341

    Visionary Women'S Centre · 2021

    Support for the mother's support programme and poultry project; sustainable agriculture training and support

  • $8,000

    Empowering Communities As Actors for Transforming Societies (E-Cats) · 2021

    Salaries and hosting listening circle workshops

  • $7,758

    Flaming Chalice International · 2022

    Support for local staff and rent

  • $7,350

    Ubuntu Community Based Organization · 2021

    Computer lab

  • $7,324

    Manyamula Comsip Cooperative · 2021

    Administration support for famer's cooperative

  • $7,060

    Ubuntu Community-Based Organization · 2024

    Empower 80 young mothers with skills in hairdressing, beauty and nail art.

  • $7,000

    Empowering Communities As Actors for Transforming Societies (E-Cats) · 2024

    Office support, rent, and hosting listening circle peacebuilding workshops

  • $6,750

    Women of Change · 2023

    Buying land for women farmers

  • $6,500

    Adolescent Psychosocial Support and Resource Centre (Apsarc) · 2024

    Support for salaries and office rent, and running mental health and livelihood development programs

  • $6,500

    Reach Girls · 2024

    Support for office support and office equiptment, and running vocational training programs for young women

  • $5,743

    Visionary Women'S Centre · 2022

    Support for local staff and rent

  • $5,597

    Manyamula Comsip Cooperative · 2022

    Administrative support for savings and loans cooperative

  • $5,550

    Visionary Women'S Centre · 2021

    Land for model garden

  • $5,527

    Visionary Women'S Centre · 2023

    Salaries and training support for mother's support program poultry project

  • $5,025

    Tai Community Based Organization · 2023

    Empower women and young girls to overcome gender bias in the workplace and excel in fields traditionally dominated by men.

  • $5,000

    Flaming Chalice International · 2022

    Youth mentor project for rural youth entrepreneurs

  • $5,000

    Kiserem Epileptic Foundation · 2021

    Mental health workshops to teach about epilepsy and mental health; baking project for single mothers with epilepsy

  • $5,000

    Reach Girls · 2021

    Train 10 more girls on sewing skills; buy 4 sewing machines; start a menstrual pad project

  • $4,994

    Tombolombo Organization · 2022

    To install 4 greenhouses, pay the for the paperwork and registration process for beneficiaries, and assit with the cost of monitoring the project.

  • $4,985

    Great Lakes Peace Center · 2022

    Identify cohort 2 of 25 households to receive goats and financial management skills; in addition, cohorts 1 & 2 (50 households) will receive training in mushroom growing and marketing

  • $4,968

    Cercle Des Ducateurs Spcialiss Ami De La Personne Handicape (Cesaph) · 2021

    Educational materials for blind and low-vision students

  • $4,895

    Great Lakes Peace Center · 2021

    Goat and poultry project for families displaced by flooding

  • $4,845

    Wambui Nguyo · 2023

    Small business fund

  • $4,845

    Nguyo Wambui · 2022

    Small business support to urban families

  • $4,845

    Wambui Nguyo · 2021

    Small business development

  • $4,700

    Asbl Apdei (Association Pour La Protection Et La Promotion Des Droits Lduca · 2022

    Continuation of rabbit breeding project and financial management and entreprenuership workshops

  • $4,560

    Tubunganire Association · 2022

    Continuing a project of training women in the nawenuze approach including helping women with their home gardens and pig rearing. They will provide trainings and create a capital fund for each group to increase their cre read all
  • $4,500

    Teimuge Samuel · 2021

    Expand teri farm as a model farm for sustainable agriculture training

  • $4,500

    Tubunganire Association · 2021

    Increase fund for saving and lending program; "solidarity chain" with pigs; demonstration garden

  • $4,300

    Kiserem Epilepsy Foundation · 2024

    To hold a specialized medical camp for people with epilepsy in kenya, designed to provide free diagnosis, treatment, and education to individuals in underserved areas.

  • $4,300

    Teri Farm · 2024

    Beekeeping on organic farm

  • $4,025

    Adolescent Psychosocial Support and Resource Center (Apsarc) · 2023

    Provide farming skills training to adolescent girls and young women to improve their household's economic status.

  • $4,025

    Forum Pour La Memoire Vigilante Rwanda · 2023

    Continued funding of staff salary and organizational activities for programs supporting refugees.

  • $4,025

    Kiserem Epileptic Foundation · 2023

    Training 80 community health workers on the importance of epilepsy diagnosis.

  • $4,025

    One Soul Matters Foundation · 2023

    Training young girls and vulnerable women on economic empowerment.

  • $4,025

    Reach Girls · 2023

    Training of young girls and women in business management and tailoring skills with the purchase of two sewing machines.

  • $4,025

    Rural Initiative Development Program · 2023

    Group savings and loan project

  • $4,025

    Transformers Mathare Community Based Organization · 2023

    Purchasing a motorbike to reduce the production costs and provide wages to the staff.

  • $4,025

    Tubunganire Association · 2023

    The formation of a potato seed distribution center that will reduce the lengthy travel to procure seeds.

  • $4,025

    Ubuntu Community Based Organization · 2023

    Support poultry farming for local grandparents aged 45-60

  • $4,018

    Manyamula Comsip Cooperative · 2022

    Year 5 administrative support for savings and loans cooperative

  • $4,000

    Manyamula Comsip Cooperative · 2024

    Administrative support for savings and loans cooperative and oil processing machine

  • $4,000

    Burundi Bridges To Justice · 2023

    Pay for one year of an attorney salary who will take on prob-ono cases related to the project to prevent abuse and violation of the procedural rights of the most vulnerable.

  • $4,000

    Great Lakes Peace Center · 2023

    Goat rearing project

  • $4,000

    Cap AIDS Uganda · 2022

    Administrative support

  • $4,000

    Manyamula Comsip Cooperative · 2022

    Winter maize crop for hungry families

  • $4,000

    Matungu Community Development · 2022

    To support 200 poor farmers with sustainable agricultural training that will hopefully help them to generate more income

  • $4,000

    Samuel Teimuge · 2022

    Solar panels for farm

  • $4,000

    Community Initiatives for Rural Development (Ciford) · 2021

    Workshops for girls on sexual and reproductive health; business training for young mothers; start a revolving loan fund for the young mothers

  • $3,975

    Manyamula Comsip Cooperative · 2023

    Administrative support for savings and loans cooperative and oil processing machine

  • $3,800

    Burundi Bridges To Justice · 2024

    Provide legal support to vulnerable members of society and raise awareness about access to justice.

  • $3,800

    Community Initiatives for Rural Development (Ciford) · 2024

    Sewing program for young mothers

  • $3,800

    Kiini Sustainable Initiative · 2024

    Honey production room

  • $3,800

    One Soul Matters · 2024

    Empowerment program for young women, including anti-fgm awareness

  • $3,800

    Universal Love Alliance (Ula) · 2024

    Men for women's empowerment workshops for couples

  • $3,800

    Caretakers Orphans Education Centre · 2021

    Generator to provide stable power source for their soap project

  • $3,700

    Community Initiatives for Rural Development (Ciford) · 2022

    Workshops for girls on sexual and reproductive health; gender equality training for boys

  • $3,700

    Forum Pour La Memoire Vigilante Rwanda · 2022

    Pig rearing and training on agriculture, livestock, and entrepreneurship skills for refugees and their families

  • $3,700

    Kakuuto Development Initiative - Kadi · 2022

    Increase income security for youth, women, and the elderly through pineapples growing and selling in the luwero district

  • $3,700

    Kiserem Epileptic Foundation · 2022

    Mental health workshops to teach about epilepsy and mental health; baking, tailoring, and beauty projects for single mothers with epilepsy

  • $3,700

    Ndekanga Support Self-Help · 2022

    Funds will help to establish the centre with the purchase of knitting machines and materials and stipends for the training.

  • $3,700

    Pastoralist Child Foundation · 2022

    Support for anti-fgm and girls empowerment workshops

  • $3,700

    Tai Cbo · 2022

    Small buiness support for women; agribusiness farm training for women

  • $3,700

    Transformers Mathare Cbo · 2022

    To purchase machines and materials for the tailoring program help with overhead costs such as staff and water/electric.

  • $3,700

    Ubuntu Community Based Organization · 2022

    Setting up a custom web system for their savings and loans; also support for office rent and supplies

  • $3,600

    Tubunganire Association · 2024

    The project consists of growing potatoes and then forming a distribution center of selected seeds to help the population of this community no longer travel many kilometers to obtain the selected seeds.

  • $3,578

    Namaiyana Womens Group · 2021

    Purchase jewelry making beads, tools, and accessories to hand-produce items to sell to tourists

  • $3,500

    Rural Initiatives Development Programme (Ridep) · 2024

    Formation of three more savings and loans groups

  • $3,500

    Transformers Mathare Community Based Organization · 2024

    Providing carpentry and tailoring skills to youth, as well as financial literacy training.

  • $3,300

    Charite Sans Frontier (Csf) · 2024

    To implement a soap manufacturing business enabling those with disabilities living in poverty to self-finance their needs. The project will include 50 women and men living with disabilities.

  • $3,300

    Forum Pour La Mmoire Vigilante (Fmv) · 2024

    Office support for peacebuilding and refugee support programs

  • $3,300

    Tai Cbo · 2024

    The project will introduce agroecology farming techniques that increase productivity and protect the soil from erosion.

  • $3,300

    Visionary Women'S Centre (Vwc) · 2024

    To empower vulnerable women through sustainable agricultural practices and financial inclusion by implementing subsistence farming and table banking systems.

  • $3,270

    Charite Sans Frontieres · 2023

    Pig rearing project

  • $3,200

    Wambui Nguyo · 2021

    Small business development

  • $3,000

    Visionary Women'S Centre (Vwc) · 2024

    To empower vulnerable women through sustainable agricultural practices and financial inclusion by implementing subsistence farming and table banking systems.

  • $3,000

    Women of Change · 2023

    Buying land for women farmers

  • $3,000

    Universal Love Alliance · 2022

    To provide for the multiple workshops for each targeted vulnerable population

  • $3,000

    Visionary Women'S Centre · 2022

    Sustainable fruit farm for vulnerable women

  • $2,819

    Consortium Des Coopratives De Dveloppement Intergnrationnel (Ccdi) · 2024

    To build a hostel for those recovering from trauma

  • $2,800

    Cercle Des Ducateurs Spcialiss Ami De La Personne Handicape (Cesaph) · 2024

    Sewing training program for disabled women and girls.

  • $2,800

    Great Lakes Peace Centre (Glpc) · 2024

    Goat-rearing project for flood-affected families

  • $2,714

    Teimuge Samuel · 2021

    Expand teri farm as a model farm for sustainable agriculture training

  • $2,500

    Flaming Chalice International · 2023

    Crop support and food relief

  • $2,500

    Reach Girls · 2022

    Distributing livestock to local families, providing training on business management for 10 women, training teachers on girls rights, and providing training to 10 boys and young men on gender equality, and lastly, will i read all
  • $2,025

    Centre De Formation Rural De Giheta · 2023

    Building an agro-food processing workshop for approval by the burundi bureau of standards and quality control.

  • $2,025

    Consortium Des Coopratives De Dveloppement Intergnrationnel (Ccdi) · 2023

    A cow project aimed at producing organic manure.

  • $2,025

    Kiini Sustainable Initiative · 2023

    Beekeeping and honey producing project

  • $2,025

    Universal Love Alliance Uganda · 2023

    Workshops to stop spousal abuse and promote gender equity in the household

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