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12 funders with a record of paying for “resist”
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The Schott Foundation for PublicCambridge, MACharity · may take applications
36 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $125,000 to SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — to support education justice alliance's work seeking to resist politically motivated attacks on critical race theory in order to advance an honest, accurate, and fully funded publi…
ResistJamaica Plain, MACharity · may take applications
32 matching grants · $355,000 · through 2024Largest: $32,000 to TINY SEED PROJECT INC — resist grant summer 2024
Largest: $225,000 to ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY — for research on inequitable and illegal supply chains of transition minerals and to strengthen local resistance and territorial monitoring in mexico and brazil
Largest: $123,750 to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — deciphering response and resistance in a clinical trial of anti-gd2 and anti-cd47 antibodies in children with cancer
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $662,391 · through 2024Largest: $169,000 to Resist Inc — operating support/annual fund
Healthy GulfNew Orleans, LACharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $427,664 · through 2024Largest: $110,000 to Air Alliance Houston — resisting dirty energy
Nellie Mae Education FoundationQuincy, MACharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $183,000 to RESIST INC — coalitions 2024-26 - massachusetts education justice alliance - education fund
Largest: $127,501 to SMART HOME AM — 80086 incentivizing better-built and adequately insured workforce housing in colorado, kentucky, and louisiana to resist climate and disaster impacts
Largest: $466,180 to Resist — boston education justice alliance, matahari women workers' center, reclaim roxbury, other projects, and general support
Largest: $40,000 to JAMIE ALLISON HAVERKAMP — haverkamp, jamie (bates college) "climate coloniality: resilience, resistance and restor(y)ing in andean worlds"
Largest: $200,000 to CENTRO BINACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO INDIGENA OAXA — general operating support: to support an organization that works to foster and strengthen the civic participation, economic, social and cultural development, and resistance of indi…
Largest: $75,000 to (272) RESIST INC — climate: to support research on experiences with mass save and capacity building within boston-based community organizations
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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 →