Annual Report
Our FY ’25 Annual Report:Building Partnership. Building Resilience. highlights our four pillars of grantmaking, and centers the relationships we cultivated to deepen our impact. The report covers our work from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.
This year called on us to be more strategic, bold, and innovative. We’ve made a commitment to doubling down on our support of transformative organizing to leaning into our anti-militarism roots.
“Real change starts close to home. We’re investing in the communities that gather, plan, and act together—where democracy is practiced through care and shared responsibility”.
— Allistair Mallillin, Executive Director
Our Impact by the Numbers
- $2.4 Million in total grants distributed.
- 181 Grantees supported across 22 states and 4 countries.
- 176% Increase in grant applications, showing the massive demand for grassroots support.
- 3,107 Gifts from a growing community of 1,292 donors
Strategies Into Action
Grassroots Incubation
We incubate grassroots organizations to grow and thrive through technical assistance and capacity building. This includes both our Fiscal Sponsorship Program and our new Resiliency Training Project.
Community Led Grantmaking
We practice community-led grantmaking to shift resources and power to the frontlines of change. We provide unrestricted support through our grant programs, trusting groups to use funds where they are most needed.
Strategic Philanthropic Advising
We facilitate donor-initiated grantmaking to grassroots groups engaged in social movements. We also work through strategic partnerships to increase the pot of money available and ensure it is deployed for organizing.
Grantee Spotlight: About Face
“By using our social capital as veterans, we break down the veneer of “American Exceptionalism” while providing a tangible avenue for veterans and active duty soldiers to resist U.S. military policy.”
-Alex Kerry, About Face
Based in Brattleboro, Vermont, About Face is a national network of post-9/11 service members and veterans taking action against militarism. They occupy a unique space in the movement, using their firsthand experience to challenge the war economy and advocate for racial and economic justice.
A PDF De Colores grant supported mobilization of 130-150 veterans from across the country for a successful sit-in on the Capitol steps on the same day as Trump military parade. The group highlighted the contradiction of celebrating US military prowess while cutting veterans’ benefits and expanding war abroad.
Our FY ’24 Annual Report: Unwavering in a Time of Disruption highlights focuses specifically on our work in the areas of Indigenous Land Justice, Housing Justice, Environmental Efforts, Anti-War Organizing and Sex Worker Rights. In FY ’24 we distributed $2.9 Million through 362 grants to 170 grantees across 31 states and 7 countries.
The FY ’24 report covers our work from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.