Each grant is made possible by a community of thousands of donors giving what they can to support movements for justice.
Racial & Economic Justice Fund
The Racial & Economic Justice Fund supports grassroots groups using community organizing to build power and create change by pressuring policymakers and corporations to adopt legislation, policies, or practices that advance racial justice and a just economy
Amistad Law Project organizes and litigates for the human rights of incarcerated people and their families and builds intersectional movements against systemic oppression.
Brewerytown Sharswood Neighborhood Coalition (BSNC) is a resident-led grassroots group organizing community members in North Philly neighborhoods to ensure food security and equitable access to libraries, play areas, and other social infrastructure.
Camden For Clean Air is organizing to close the Reworld Camden incinerator and stop their plan to import and burn liquid industrial waste in South Camden.
Diaspora Within Inc. is building a network of people of color in the United States to access holistic healthcare, coaching, training, and counseling services.
El Comité de Trabajadorxs (Restaurant Worker Collective) organizes immigrant farmworkers toward improved working and living conditions.
Free Migration Project organizes community members and law professionals towards freedom of movement for all people, fighting for migration as a basic human right.
Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together (GREAT) uses collective resources to grow food, share tools, support each other in times of need, organize around issues of housing justice, and strengthen the community’s holistic health and well-being.
Healing Communities PA trains faith community members to build community organizing skills while acting as a bridge between the faith community, the criminal justice community, and directly impacted people.
Human Rights Coalition is organizing to dismantle the prison system by abolishing solitary confinement, shutting down toxic prisons, and fighting for the freedom of their loved ones.
Indigenous Education educates the public about the omitted history of brown and dark-skinned Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, particularly from the Southeastern United States.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly builds an active Native American and Indigenous presence in Philadelphia through cultural, community-building initiatives that uplift their Native traditions, creative economies, and histories.
Lift Every Voice Philly is a Black-led, multi-racial organization building parent power to transform Philly schools by mobilizing for racial, economic, and education justice.
Philadelphia Area Jobs with Justice is a coalition of more than 35 labor unions and student, community, and faith groups organizing for the fair treatment of working people, building long-term partnerships and grassroots power for economic justice.
Philadelphia Community Bail Fund organizes to end cash bail and pretrial detention in Philadelphia.
Philly Homeless Union, a chapter of the National Union of the Homeless, organizes to end homelessness and poverty and fights for the human right to housing, dignity, and economic justice.
Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign develops leaders of the poor across color lines for a broad movement to abolish poverty and build a cooperative society that ensures economic, social, and cultural rights.
reparationWorks organizes grassroots reparations work in Philadelphia, building a citywide culture of redistributing resources and working to abolish the systems that perpetuate the harms of capitalism, colonialism, and racism.
W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction builds the capacity of aspiring organizers to understand and change the world, shifting narratives around policing and mass incarceration across West Philadelphia and the city.
Woori Center organizes Korean and Asian Americans to achieve social, racial, and economic justice, with special attention to immigration reform and healthcare.
Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project organizes young people who are or have been incarcerated in adult jails and prisons through artistic expression, political education, and leadership development.
Future Fund
The Future Fund provides grants to groups that are working on emerging issues or developing new approaches to social justice activism or community organizing. These groups may be engaging in activities like political education, base-building, or moving toward the launch of an organizing campaign.
Agape African Senior Center organizes Diaspora Elderly, especially those challenged linguistically, socially, culturally, and economically, and their families to access programs, resources, and services to which they are entitled and for which they may be qualified.
At The Center organizes with criminalized survivors of gender-based violence and sex workers who have been excluded from care, safety, and justice.
Gapura Philadelphia builds power within the Indonesian-American community, honoring cultural traditions and supporting community members in achieving economic, social, and cultural equity.
Homies Helping Homies is a resident collective based in Point Breeze that organizes food distributions, hygiene drives, block cleanups, cultural programming, and harm reduction.
Kiths Integrated and Targeted Human Services organizes for self-sufficiency, social justice, and indepence of immigrant and refugee communities.
Movimiento Administradores de Arte en Pensilvania (MAAP) organizes to build equitable access to arts infrastructure for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color and immigrant artists and arts workers across Pennsylvania, with a focus on Spanish-speaking communities that include many recent immigrants from Latin America.
Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac organizes for the rights of indigenous peoples to claim space for indigenous cultural practices in Philadelphia, and provides a venue for all indigenous peoples to investigate, understand, and raise awareness about their ancestral roots.
Philly Children’s Movement mobilizes families and educators to organize, play, and learn together for racial justice, building an intergenerational, child-centered movement.
Philly Justice Innovators organizes Philadelphia’s low-wage and gig workers, particularly Black, Indigenous, and other people of color facing economic exploitation, to reclaim power through cultural, media, and educational strategies.
Prayers for Peace Alliance organizes Jews, Palestinian Muslims, and Christians in the diaspora, drawing on nonviolent faith traditions to mobilize for peace, full equality, and human rights, and to end U.S. support for the State of Israel’s occupation and violence against Palestinians.
Gender Justice Organizing Fund
The Gender Justice Organizing Fund moves money to groups challenging oppression based on gender identity/gender expression or sexual orientation, and building power to drive changes in legislation, policies, or practices that help women, girls, and trans, gender nonconforming, and LGBTQIA+ people thrive.
Abortion Liberation Fund of Pennsylvania organizes to protect and expand abortion access in Pennsylvania.
ACT UP Philadelphia is a diverse, nonpartisan group of individuals united in anger to end the AIDS crisis using direct action.
Ark of Safety is building a housing justice movement led by Black trans women facing the connected issues of poverty, homelessness, addiction, and sex work.
Assata’s House organizes for collective care, healing justice, political education on liberation, and empowerment through culturally rooted tools and networks.
Centro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra is a community-based grassroots group formed by immigrants from Latin America mobilizing for gender equity for all bodies identifying as women, especially those whose first language is Spanish.
Colectiva Feminista Comadre Luna organizes for safe spaces of collective care among immigrant Latine women to challenge systematic oppression that generates trauma in the body.
Girls Justice League is a girl’s rights organization for social, educational, and economic justice for girls, young women, and those who identify as female in the Philadelphia region.
Hearts on a Wire is a Philadelphia-based collective of transgender and gender nonconforming people building power for gender self-determination, racial and economic justice, and an end to the policing and imprisonment of transgender and gender nonconforming people.
Juntos combines community organizing, leadership development, and collaboration with other community-based organizations to build power in Latine immigrant communities.
Lift Every Voice Philly is a Black-led, multi-racial organization building parent power to transform Philly schools by mobilizing for racial, economic, and education justice.
National Domestic Workers Alliance builds power, recognition, and respect for nannies, house cleaners, caregivers, and other domestic workers in the Philadelphia region.
Native American House Alliance is organizing for Native American racial, gender, economic, and health justice issues, and mobilizing community members toward preserving and promoting an accurate understanding of Native American culture and contributions to American history.
Philadelphia Community Bail Fund organizes to end cash bail and pretrial detention in Philadelphia.
Philly Childcare Collective mobilizes its community base for free and donation-based childcare for grassroots organizing meetings and events.
Womxn Beyond Borders organizes to prevent and end domestic violence among womxn by elevating, educating, and organizing them with crisis interventions, compassion, and humanitarian resources.
Climate Justice Organizing Fund
The Climate Justice Organizing Fund supports grassroots groups organizing to change the policies, practices, and processes that create and maintain climate inequities, and provides grants for community-based groups to strengthen their capacity to organize or develop a climate justice organizing strategy.
Brewerytown Sharswood Neighborhood Coalition (BSNC) is a resident-led grassroots group organizing community members in North Philly neighborhoods to ensure food security and equitable access to libraries, play areas, and other social infrastructure.
Camden For Clean Air is organizing to close the Reworld Camden incinerator and stop their plan to import and burn liquid industrial waste in South Camden.
Center for Environmental Transformation (CFET) is organizing for environmental transformation for the neighborhoods of Camden, New Jersey.
Centro de Cultura Arte Trabajo y Educacion (CCATE) organizes toward social transformation by building power in the Latine community through health, science and technology, environmental care, and participatory research.
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL) is leading the environmental justice movement for clean air and healthy communities in Chester City and Delaware County since 1992.
Diaspora Within Inc. is building a network of people of color in the United States to access holistic healthcare, coaching, training, and counseling services.
Earth Quaker Action Team organizes Quakers and people of diverse beliefs in nonviolent direct action for a just and sustainable economy, centering climate actions as their focus.
Eastwick Friends & Neighbors Coalition is a resident-led organization that educates, organizes, and empowers Eastwick residents to advocate for climate justice, public health, and equitable development in a community harmed by flooding and unjust land use.
GREAT (Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together) organizes to improve housing conditions for the most vulnerable populations, demonstrating how housing and climate justice are connected.
Homies Helping Homies is a resident collective based in Point Breeze that organizes food distributions, hygiene drives, block cleanups, cultural programming, and harm reduction.
Hunting Park Neighborhood Advisory Committee (HPNAC) builds power toward the welfare, development, and well-being of people residing or established in the Hunting Park Community, shaping housing, development, and repair practices for homes in the neighborhood.
Iglesias Garden Co. is a community garden building power around gardening, food, and land justice.
Indigenous People’s Day Philly builds an active Native American and Indigenous presence in Philadelphia through cultural, community-building initiatives that uplift their Native traditions, creative economies, and histories. Their connection to climate justice is rooted in a shared commitment to cultural practices and political education.
One Art Community Center builds a base for marginalized communities in Philadelphia to connect, heal, and grow through arts, culture, and educational programming.
Reinhard Street Community Farm & Kitchen is mobilizing people in the communities of South and Southwest Philadelphia toward food security.
Sunrise Movement Philadelphia is organizing young people toward slowing down climate change and winning a Green New Deal that ensures every Philadelphian has access to good jobs, stable housing, clean air and water, and green community space.
Urban Creators is building power toward resilience and self-determination in North Philadelphia by organizing for land and food sovereignty.
We Are the Seeds of CultureTrust is an Indigenous-led arts and culture organization based in Philadelphia building a base of Indigenous voices through storytelling, cultural programming, and community organizing.
Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative
The Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative moves money to groups organizing to change the criminal legal system by increasing police accountability, challenging racially biased sentencing and the for-profit prison industry, and abolishing the death penalty. The money for these grants comes from a partnership with the Phoebus Fund family foundation.
Amistad Law Project organizes and litigates for the human rights of incarcerated people and their families and builds intersectional movements against systemic oppression.
Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration organizes to end life without parole sentences in Pennsylvania by centering people who have been directly impacted by crime and long-term incarceration.
Healing Communities PA trains faith community members to build community organizing skills while acting as a bridge between the faith community, the criminal justice community, and directly impacted people.
Human Rights Coalition is organizing to dismantle the prison system by abolishing solitary confinement, shutting down toxic prisons, and fighting for the freedom of their loved ones.
Metropolitan Christian Council of Philadelphia (MCCP) organizes at the neighborhood level toward a grassroots-led restorative city, promoting policies and practices that move away from law enforcement and incarceration and toward restorative rather than retributive justice.
Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania (MILPA) organizes, educates, and mobilizes community members for social, political, and economic changes to ensure that human needs become human rights, regardless of immigration status.
Prison Health News organizes to abolish prisons, end HIV, hepatitis C, COVID-19, and other diseases fueled by systemic injustice while building a base of healthcare organizers among people in prison.
Still We Rise Freedom Coalition is led by women and transgender and gender-nonconforming people directly affected by incarceration, probation, and supervision, organizing from the belief that those most harmed by the carceral system hold the power to transform it.
W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction builds the capacity of aspiring organizers to understand and change the world, shifting narratives around policing and mass incarceration across West Philadelphia and the city.
Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project builds power among young people who are or have been incarcerated in adult jails and prisons through artistic expression, political education, and leadership development.
Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project is mobilizing to reduce the imposition, duration, and impact of adult criminal sentences on low-income children and their families.
No Borders: Sanctuary and Solidarity Fund
Through No Borders: Sanctuary and Solidarity Fund, Bread & Roses made $5,000 grants to the 10 organizations that received grants through our initial round of solidarity funding in November 2025 (in partnership with Artists for Immigrant Rights). This rapid response fund also made $10,000 grants to 10 additional organizations working for immigrant justice in the Philadelphia region. This grantmaking moved money to where it is needed most: to communities leading the charge against ICE, working to shift narratives about immigrants in the United States, and building community power that is widely inclusive.
Agape African Senior Center organizes Diaspora Elderly, especially those challenged linguistically, socially, culturally, and economically, and their families to access programs, resources, and services to which they are entitled and for which they may be qualified.
Asian Americans United organizes Asian Americans in the Philadelphia region to exercise leadership in their communities and challenge oppression.
CAIR-Philadelphia uses political education and community organizing to enhance the understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
Centro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra is a community-based grassroots group formed by immigrants from Latin America mobilizing for gender equity for all bodies identifying as women, especially those whose first language is Spanish.
Coalition of African Communities (AFRICOM) organizes members toward immigrant and refugee justice.
Colectiva Feminista Comadre Luna organizes for safe spaces of collective care among immigrant Latine women to challenge systematic oppression that generates trauma in the body.
Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA) organizes migrant farmworkers toward safe working and living conditions, fair wages, and dignity.
El Comité de Trabajadorxs (Restaurant Worker Collective) organizes immigrant workers for safe and just restaurants.
Faith in New Jersey (FINJ) organizes a multi-faith, multi-racial network of faith leaders and communities to develop grassroots leaders, analyze policy, and mobilize faith voices toward social and economic justice.
Free Migration Project organizes community members and law professionals towards freedom of movement for all people, fighting for migration as a basic human right.
Juntos is building movement leaders and power in all Latine communities, organizing for their rights and towards ending criminalization of their lives.
Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania (MILPA) organizes, educates, and mobilizes community members for social, political, and economic changes to ensure that human needs become human rights, regardless of immigration status.
National Domestic Workers Alliance builds power, recognition, and respect for nannies, house cleaners, caregivers, and other domestic workers in the Philadelphia region.
New Sanctuary Movement is an immigrant-led organization challenging the immigration system by organizing for policy changes at the local, state, and federal level to create safer and fairer communities for immigrants to thrive.
No ICE Philly is a coalition building power for immigrant justice and fighting back against ICE-sanctioned violence.
Pennsylvania Fund for Immigrant Rights and Equity (PA FIRE) is a pooled fund supporting immigrant-led and immigrant-serving community organizations through the Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition, which advances a statewide plan to protect and advance immigrant rights.
Philadelphia Area Jobs with Justice is a coalition of more than 35 labor unions and student, community, and faith groups organizing for the fair treatment of working people, building long-term partnerships and grassroots power for economic justice.
Puentes de Salud partners with Philadelphia’s growing Latine immigrant community to build long-term power through education, health, and social services, while training future artists, educators, and healthcare providers to explore the intersections of social justice, structural violence, and health.
Vietlead is a grassroots community-based group that builds power to advance community self-determination, social justice, and cultural resilience.
Woori Center organizes Korean and Asian Americans to achieve social, racial, and economic justice, with special attention to immigration reform and healthcare.
No Going Back: Queer and Trans Liberation Fund
The No Going Back: Queer and Trans Liberation Fund made $10,000 grants to 15 organizations working toward queer and trans liberation in the Philadelphia region. In an age when queer and trans people are increasingly targeted by harmful policies and discriminatory practices at all levels, this grantmaking moved money to where it is needed most: to communities not only ensuring the survival of their most vulnerable members, but also organizing for the rights of queer and trans communities to thrive.
ACT UP Philadelphia is a diverse, nonpartisan group of individuals united in anger to end the AIDS crisis using direct action.
Ark of Safety is building a housing justice movement led by Black trans women facing the connected issues of poverty, homelessness, addiction, and sex work.
Black and Latinx Community Control of Health is an intergenerational group of Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ base organizing for liberation across health, healthcare, economics, and community, mobilizing to dismantle the systems of racism and discrimination that have historically harmed Black and Latinx communities.
Black Visioning Group mobilizes white and non-Black people to secure housing for Black queer and trans Philadelphians through wealth redistribution.
chosen•kin: a circle honoring Black, queer and trans parenthood organizes Black queer and trans parents to build community power through storytelling and artmaking.
Coalition for Black Trans Economic Liberation is a Black trans-led grassroots group that redistributes monetary, physical, and material resources directly to Black transgender and gender-nonconforming Philadelphians, building community power rather than relying on traditional charity.
Eastern PA Trans Equity Project builds community and advances social justice for trans people, providing services and building power across the Philadelphia region.
Galaei is a Queer and Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) radical social justice organization mobilizing for access, opportunity, sexual empowerment, and economic justice while overcoming systemic oppression, structural racism, discrimination, and white supremacy.
Hearts on a Wire is a Philadelphia-based collective of transgender and gender nonconforming people building power for gender self-determination, racial and economic justice, and an end to the policing and imprisonment of transgender and gender nonconforming people.
Housing Reparations Group Skill Development Collective organizes to secure housing through redistribution and reparations for people who are Black, queer, trans, or hold marginalized genders.
Philadelphia Black Pride builds multicultural opportunities that educate, inspire, and celebrate LGBTQIA+ Black people through programs, policy, advocacy, and partnership, working to transform the living and social environments of the city’s Black LGBTQIA+ communities.
Philly Trans March organizes an annual action against the hate, social injustice, and inequity faced by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming individuals and communities.
Project SAFE organizes with street-based sex workers and advocates for the rights of women and LGBTQIA+ people who use substances and sex workers of all genders, working toward full decriminalization and destigmatization.
Refuge America builds a base of forcibly displaced LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees, working with Philadelphia’s Asylum Pride House while contributing to a nationwide movement to support people seeking safety, dignity, and belonging.
Womxn Beyond Borders’ mission is to prevent and end domestic violence among womxn by elevating, educating, and organizing them with crisis interventions, compassion, and humanitarian resources.
Previous Grantees
View our 2025 grantees here.