Foundation for a Just Society

• Foundation for a Just Society works globally, prioritising Francophone West Africa, Mesoamerica, South and Southeast Asia, the US Southeast and New York City, and it funds organisations advancing women and girls' rights, LGBTQI rights, and gender and racial justice, so work outside these themes or priority areas is unlikely to be a fit.
• It does not accept unsolicited proposals and only invites applications from organisations whose work it already considers aligned with its mission, so writing in cold is unlikely to succeed; building visibility within its stated themes and priority regions is the realistic route in.
• Typical grants run from $9,800 to $350,000, with a median of $100,000, so a request in that range is sensible, though it has made a grant as large as $1,100,000.
• Most of its grant dollars go to organisations it has funded before, so it tends to favour continuing relationships over one-off awards, and it prioritises multi-year general operating support rather than restricted project funding.
• It will not fund individuals, educational scholarships, endowments or capital campaigns, partisan organisations or political parties, or institutions that discriminate in policy or practice, and it looks for a vision for transformation rather than direct service alone; applicants must be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) or an equivalent status.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Fondo de Acción Urgente para América Latina y el Caribe · To provide general operating support
  $1,100,0002024 tax year
• Urgent Action Fund-Africa · To provide general operating support
  $1,100,0002024 tax year
• Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · To support the charitable activities of collaborative for gender and reproductive equity (cgre)
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres Foundation · To provide general operating support to asociacion fondo centroamericano de mujeres (fcam)
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Initiative Sankofa d'Afrique de l'Ouest · To support the charitable activities of isdao
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Fondo Semillas · To provide general operating support
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Capital for Good USA · To support the charitable activities of girls first fund
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Borealis Philanthropy · To support the black-led movement fund
  $1,000,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.