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12 funders with a record of paying for “tenants”
Where the money went
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
30 matching grants · $5.4M · through 2024Largest: $35,000 to COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO — program - to provide tenant leaders and grassroots tenant's groups with the technical capacity to develop and advance solutions to the 3ps of housing across the bay area: protect t…
Largest: $75,000 to MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK — to support its tenant organizing work, including pushing for expanded statewide tenant protections such as good cause eviction and a housing access voucher program; educating tenan…
Largest: $50,000 to North Carolina Tenants Union — north carolina tenants union is a statewide union of local tenant unions aiming to democratize housing in nc and build a housing system that prioritizes people over profit.
Largest: $400,000 to CAAAV ORGANIZING ASIAN COMMUNITIES — 82320 strengthening the astoria tenants union in queens, nyc, as a pilot project organizing working class immigrant renters to fight gentrification
Hutton FoundationSanta Barbara, CA
26 matching grants · $297,500 · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — np tenants, crisis & special initiatives - sb
Largest: $150,000 to HOUSING RIGHTS COMMITTEE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — strengthening tenant power for housing justice and health: to strengthen tenant power for housing justice and community health by regulating corporate landlords and sharing best pr…
Largest: $100,000 to Community Alliance of Tenants — for general operating support of this statewide, grassroots, tenant-controlled, tenant-rights organization
Liberty Hill FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2023Largest: $15,000 to SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL — multiple grants: to shape polices for tenant protections for low income and bipoc tenants; to eliminate substantial rehabilitation as a basis of eviction; to implement a local rent…
Memphis Center City Development CorporationMemphis, TNCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $399,625 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to JEM DINING LLC — tenant improvement grant
Crossroads FundChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $287,000 · through 2024Largest: $54,000 to TENANT EDUCATION NEWTWORK — general operations
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $3.6M · through 2024Largest: $682,370 to DISPUTE RESOLUTION INSTITUTE — to provide mediation services for familiies in the 1st judicial circuit and to tenants, landlords and homeowners in housing disputes due to the pandemic in the 1st, 6th and 20th ju…
Largest: $75,000 to Housing Justice League — support hjl tenant organizing and advocacy work for tenants in south atlanta and across the state of georgia
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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 →