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12 funders with a record of paying for “affirming”
Where the money went
Largest: $200,000 to THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP — improving youth mental health and wellness across california: to support research, policy implementation and youth engagement to advance culturally-responsive and gender-affirming …
Largest: $119,780 to LAURA STAMM - ROCHESTER U OF — 81517 studying clinicians' response to state laws and institutional policies that restrict pediatric gender-affirming care and the impact on their practice
Largest: $125,000 to YVETTE A FLUNDER FOUNDATION INC — support for the fellowship of affirming ministries to create a faith movement supportive of social justice.
Largest: $30,000 to AFFIRMATION LGBTQ MORMONS FAMILIES & FRIENDS — help with the costs of three affirmation projects: affirmation international conference, suicide prevention initiative, and local chapter development and support for regional confe…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
9 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $125,000 to EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC — develop and support a network of leaders who are developing, implementing and affirming a standards-aligned prek-12 social studies curriculum, professional learning and community e…
Largest: $125,000 to CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE ANALISE E PLANEJAMENTO — core support for the afro center to do research and training on inequalities, race relations, and intersectionality, and project support for the research titled quotas in higher ed…
Largest: $350,000 to EDUCATION LAW CENTER - PA — to advance education justice, beginning in early childhood, by removing barriers to public education and replacing them with affirming policies and structures necessary for childre…
Largest: $40,000 to CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION — to support the general operations of chinese for affirmative action.
Largest: $60,000 to San Francisco State University — examining culturally and linguistically affirming translanguaging practices in augmentative and alternative communication intervention: an action research study
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $494,124 to CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION — program - to support the justice for jaxon sales campaign. program - for general support. program - to support bay area creative corps. advised - to help stop aapi hate support res…
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2022Largest: $1.5M to Chinese for Affirmative Action — unrestricted support for lavender phoenix (all investment earnings on this contribution shall inure for the benefit of lavender phoenix)
Horizons FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $167,250 · through 2024Largest: $43,500 to CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION — unrestricted operating support grant for response to the covid-19 pandemic
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →