Funded by our 2026 Tenant & Housing Giving Project (GP), this grant seeks to support organizations working to undo and/or create alternative solutions to exploitative housing systems which were built and are sustained by capitalism, colonialism, classism, racism, xenophobia, and ableism. The GP will fund organizations that meet SJF’s community organizing framework and prioritize communities […]
Seed grants provide small unrestricted funds to new groups who are in the early stages of building their community work but do not yet meet all of SJF’s community organizing framework, and may not yet qualify for our regular grants
Want to learn more before applying? Check out the Info Session recording for more information and important details. The 2025 Giving Project will focus on Immigration Justice, funding movements led by immigrants, refugees, and migrant workers most affected by an immigration system built to dehumanize the people caught in its cyclical violence. This Giving Project […]
Focused on urgent and emerging needs, EJF grants direct unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities targeted by Federal, State, and Local policies. See Round 1 AwardeesSee Round 2 AwardeesSee Round 3 AwardeesSee Round 4 AwardeesSee Round 5 Awardees
The 2024 Giving Project will focus on Environmental Justice, making grants to support organizing work that aims to achieve equitable access to a clean and healthy environment for frontline communities most impacted by the climate crisis, environmental racism, and environmental injustice. The money raised by this Giving Project will fund rural and urban organizations working […]
Supported organizations working to end the systemic discrimination, criminalization, detention, deportation, and harassment of immigrant, refugee, and migrant communities to build a future where borders do not dictate where and how people live, thrive, love, access joy, heal, and make community and family.
Historically, a significant portion of Social Justice Fund Northwest resources have been moved to large urban centers such as Seattle and Portland. The Mountain West Organizing Grant supported community organizing that builds grassroots power in Idaho, Montana, Oregon (the mountain west region), and Wyoming
Read: Announcing the awardees of the Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project! The 2022 Queer Justice Momentum Project will support building new and imaginative systems that help achieve a world where queer communities are protected, honored, and thriving. Through this grant, we hope to support organizers in working towards a world where LGBTQIA+ folks, fem(me)s, and […]
The Rural & Small Town Organizing Giving Project took place from March – September of 2019. Learn more about the grantees from this project here. Social Justice Fund NW’s grantmaking region is made up primarily of small towns, reservations, and rural communities, but much of the resources go to the major urban centers of Seattle […]
Supported Base Building as a community organizing tactic that grows the breadth and depth of people who share a vision for social justice, and who develop and execute the organizing strategies to make that vision a reality in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and/or Wyoming.
Read: Announcing the Awardees of the Innovative, Just, & Equitable Housing Momentum Giving Project! Who’s behind the 2021 Innovative, Just, & Equitable Housing Momentum Giving Project? We are a group of artists, public servants, parents, organizers, nonprofit workers, builders, immigrants, and readers. We live and work across the ancestral lands of the Duwamish, Coast Salish, […]
Supported organizing work that aims to achieve equitable access to a clean and healthy environmental for frontline communities most impacted by the climate crisis, environmental racism, and environmental justice.
The 2019-2020 Economic Justice Giving Project wrapped up in June of 2020. Learn more about the grantees from this project here. As the racial wealth gap grows, it is necessary to support work that addresses the structural problems that face low-income communities, families, and workers. This Giving Project funds organizations and groups that work at the intersection […]
Supported organizing work that aims to address economic injustice, build power to transform unjust systems, and overcome barriers to wealth for individuals, families, and communities. A collaboration between SJF and City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods.
The 2019-2020 Seattle Economic Justice Giving Project wrapped up in June of 2020. Learn more about the grantees from this project here. As the racial wealth gap grows, it is necessary to support work that addresses the structural problems that face low-income communities, families, and workers. This Giving Project funds organizations and groups that work […]
Supported grassroots, community organizing efforts that advance the movement for reproductive justice and increase access to self-determination, bodily autonomy, and reproductive/sexual health.
The 2019-2020 Seattle Criminal Justice Giving Project wrapped up in April of 2020. Learn more about the grantees from this project here. This Giving Project will support organizing work addressing the systemic criminalization and disproportionate targeting of people of color and poor people. Criminal Justice issues include, but are not limited to, ending racial profiling and police brutality, […]
Supported groups led by LGBTQIA+ individuals, non-binary folks, and fem(me)s organizing against heterosexism, transmisogynoir, homophobia, cissexism,, and working to build the liberation of groups who have been marginalized because of their sexual and/or gender identity. See Awardees
The 2018-2019 Seattle Black-Led Organizing Giving Project wrapped up in May of 2019. Read more about the grantees from this project here. This project will support community organizing led by and for Black communities and communities of African descent who are working to end anti-Black racism and discrimination, support and invest in Black leadership, and […]
Seed grants will provide small unrestricted funds for grassroots groups developing their community organizing work who do not yet meet all of SJF’s community organizing framework and would not be eligible for our regular grants. If your organization or project is less than three years old, has never been funded by SJF, and is currently doing or planning community organizing […]
The 2020-21 Black Led Organizing Giving Project wrapped up in May of 2021. Learn more about the grantees from this project here. The 2020-21 Black Led Organizing Giving Project supported community organizing led by and for Black communities and communities of African descent who are working to end anti-Black racism and discrimination, support and invest […]
The 2020-21 Forced Migration & Displacement Giving Project wrapped up in April of 2021. Learn more about the grantees from this project here. The 2020-21 Forced Migration & Displacement Giving Project supported grassroots organizing to disrupt forced migration and displacement and build new and/or innovative systems for community interdependence and wellbeing. “Forced migration and displacement” […]
This project wrapped up in March of 2019. Read more about the grantees from this project here. This project will focus on community organizing at the intersection of gender, race, and sexuality, which works for a world where all people — especially women, girls, transgender and gender non-conforming people — are able to identify and […]