Pennsylvania · Public charity
Bread and Roses Community Fund
Bread & roses community fund believes in change, not charity. A partnership between donors and activists, we organize individuals and institutions to support grassroots organizations in building movements for social change. By making grants, developing leaders and building community, bread & roses community fund creates real change in…
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $960k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $71,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 114
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Bread and Roses Community Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $451k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $950k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $1.1M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $712k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $1.7M | 62% |
| FY2021 | 91 | $1.2M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 80 | $1.6M | 49% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $482k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $315k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movement Alliance Project | $593,300 | 9 | 2% |
| Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia | $283,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Human Rights Coalition | $215,300 | 7 | 25% |
| Urban Affairs Coalition | $197,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $165,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Why Not Prosper Inc | $164,600 | 8 | 5% |
| Women's Community Revitalization Project | $154,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Juntos | $136,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Federation of Neighborhood Centers | $132,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Abolitionist Law Center | $129,500 | 8 | 5% |
Show all 252 grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($173k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bread and Roses Community Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 180 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Samuel S Fels Fund · The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · Independence Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · The Allen Hilles Fund
How this is measured
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About Bread and Roses Community Fund
- How much does Bread and Roses Community Fund give?
- Bread and Roses Community Fund reported 53 itemized grants totaling $960,300, out of $1,077,521 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 114 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bread and Roses Community Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Civil Rights (13%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Bread and Roses Community Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Movement Alliance Project ($593k), Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia ($283k), Human Rights Coalition ($215k).
- Does Bread and Roses Community Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bread and Roses Community Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Bread and Roses Community Fund based?
- Bread and Roses Community Fund is based in PA.
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