Massachusetts · Public charity
Peace Development Fund
Promotion of Peace and Social Justice. Peace Development Fund is a public Foundation that partners with community based organizations and social justice movements to provide grants, training and educational resources, working with donors and grantees to build a peaceful world.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $274,413
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Peace Development Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $479k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $2.1M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $2.4M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $4.0M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $4.8M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $3.7M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $2.3M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $2.1M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $1.7M | 43% |
99% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Civil Rights$7.9MCrime & Legal$4.3MInternational$3.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MEnvironment$1.4MArts & Culture$914kEducation$910kFood & Nutrition$732kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
AK
ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beloved Economies | $1,931,585 | 5 | n/a |
| Whose Knowledge | $1,842,342 | 6 | n/a |
| Restoring Justice for Indigenous | $1,682,139 | 7 | n/a |
| WOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI | $1,398,931 | 5 | 73% |
| Friends of Taghyeer Movement | $1,328,228 | 9 | n/a |
| I Am Why Inc | $1,143,480 | 4 | 93% |
| Heart and Hand Fund | $1,029,566 | 9 | n/a |
| Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland | $885,866 | 4 | 64% |
| Peoples Justice Project Grou | $802,353 | 5 | n/a |
| Jane Addams Peace Association Inc | $779,917 | 9 | 98% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beloved Economies | $1,931,585 | 5 | n/a |
| Whose Knowledge | $1,842,342 | 6 | n/a |
| Restoring Justice for Indigenous | $1,682,139 | 7 | n/a |
| WOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI | $1,398,931 | 5 | 73% |
| Friends of Taghyeer Movement | $1,328,228 | 9 | n/a |
| I Am Why Inc | $1,143,480 | 4 | 93% |
| Heart and Hand Fund | $1,029,566 | 9 | n/a |
| Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland | $885,866 | 4 | 64% |
| Peoples Justice Project Grou | $802,353 | 5 | n/a |
| Jane Addams Peace Association Inc | $779,917 | 9 | 98% |
| Insight-Out | $679,662 | 4 | n/a |
| Southern Farm Lab | $631,977 | 3 | n/a |
| The Black Sex Worker Collective | $517,307 | 5 | n/a |
| Education Justice Coalition of Vt | $480,819 | 4 | 80% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $394,000 | 3 | 1% |
| American Indian Prison Project Work | $385,151 | 7 | n/a |
| Pi-Tap Inc | $329,976 | 2 | 75% |
| DecrimSex Work CA | $301,731 | 3 | n/a |
| Women's International League for Peace & Freedom Uno Inc | $267,500 | 2 | 19% |
| Milpa Alliance | $263,265 | 3 | n/a |
| Reentry Solutions Group | $251,687 | 3 | n/a |
| The Prison Birth Project | $234,638 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Nadiya Incorporated | $227,156 | 1 | 77% |
| Worth Rises Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Global Justice Ecology Project Inc | $177,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $176,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Western Mass Asylum Support | $160,501 | 6 | n/a |
| Third Sector New England Inc | $160,200 | 4 | 0% |
| East Point Peace Academy | $145,268 | 3 | n/a |
| Unity Foundation | $139,868 | 8 | n/a |
| BAY-Peace Better Alternatives for | $139,073 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Indigenous People of Colo | $132,573 | 3 | n/a |
| Brew & Forge | $130,764 | 4 | n/a |
| Circumpolar Conservation Union | $130,500 | 3 | 74% |
| Center for Labor Education and Research Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Reproductive Outreach & Education C | $124,145 | 1 | n/a |
| Restoring Justice for Indigenous Pe | $120,828 | 4 | n/a |
| Decarcerate WMass Bailout P | $117,520 | 4 | n/a |
| Partnership for Peace | $114,675 | 3 | n/a |
| UndocuHealing Project | $106,270 | 2 | n/a |
| Resist Inc | $104,000 | 1 | 1% |
| One Green Heart LLC | $103,740 | 3 | n/a |
| Sacred Bundle Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Camps in Common | $99,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants | $95,982 | 1 | 3% |
| Hope Community Services Inc | $94,888 | 3 | 1% |
| Grassroots International Inc | $92,616 | 4 | 0% |
| Whose Knowledge Question Mark | $92,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Women Donors Network | $83,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Justice Committee Inc | $81,000 | 7 | 2% |
| REAP Ghana | $78,119 | 8 | n/a |
| Taller Guaguarey | $76,531 | 4 | n/a |
| East Point Peace Academy | $75,111 | 1 | n/a |
| Opencollective Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Women for Genuine Security | $73,442 | 5 | n/a |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $71,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Equity Solutions Curriculum & Train | $70,652 | 4 | n/a |
| Earthjustice | $68,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Changing Worlds | $67,500 | 9 | 1% |
| American Trans Resource Hub | $67,382 | 1 | n/a |
| Encampment for Citizenship | $66,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Tanka Fund | $65,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Opportunity Collaboration | $63,566 | 1 | n/a |
| Together in Service | $63,139 | 2 | 10% |
| Chinese Progressive Association | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Migrant Immigrant Refugee | $58,980 | 4 | n/a |
| Turning Heads | $56,924 | 4 | n/a |
| Sylvia Bingham Fund | $51,940 | 7 | n/a |
| Youth Outreach And Learning Institute | $50,875 | 1 | 48% |
| Southern Partners Fund Inc | $50,024 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Sustainable Economy | $50,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Success Stories Program | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Chickaloon Village Traditional Council | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oceti Sakowin Education Learning | $48,013 | 1 | n/a |
| California Families Rise | $46,431 | 2 | n/a |
| Transformative Feminist Leade | $46,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Golden Gateway | $41,742 | 3 | n/a |
| North Shore Holiday House Inc | $40,500 | 2 | 3% |
| La Cocina | $40,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Change Labs | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Women's Earth and Climate Action Network | $40,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Community Solstice LLC | $39,308 | 3 | n/a |
| Thousand Currents | $39,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cambodian Water Project of Massachu | $36,731 | 3 | n/a |
| Feed the Hunger Fund | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Highlander Research & Education Center Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Impact Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Menikanaehkem Inc | $32,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Outreach and Learning Institu | $32,397 | 1 | n/a |
| Think Again Training and Consulting | $31,613 | 3 | n/a |
| Women's Foundation of California | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Taller Guaguarey | $28,571 | 1 | n/a |
| Hempstead Project HEART | $28,416 | 1 | n/a |
| TASSN Trans Asylum Seeker Sup | $27,597 | 1 | n/a |
| Tonatierra Community Development Institute | $27,500 | 1 | 13% |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Menomini You Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nueva Esperanza Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Palante Transformative Justice Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Sanctuary in the City | $25,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Intertribal Friendship House | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Apiary for Practical Support Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The African American Policy Forum Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Afiya Center | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pilipino Workers Center of Southern | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| People of the Confluence | $24,737 | 3 | n/a |
| San Francisco Living Wage Coalition | $24,408 | 2 | n/a |
| Police2peace Corp | $23,147 | 2 | 48% |
| The Ruckus Society | $23,100 | 1 | 6% |
| The Changing Room 11 | $22,711 | 1 | n/a |
| Teada Productions | $22,500 | 2 | 4% |
| St Petersburg Branch of Asalh | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Right to the City Alliance | $20,492 | 3 | 0% |
| Urban Justice Center | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodland Boys and Girls Club Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Root Social Justice Center Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Collaborative Resolutions Group Inc | $18,500 | 1 | 6% |
| Art Forces | $18,487 | 2 | n/a |
| Voice of the Experienced Vote | $17,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Kentucky Coalition Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Out in the Open Inc | $17,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Centro del Obrero Fronterizo Inc | $15,390 | 2 | 3% |
| Native American Educational Technologies Inc | $15,025 | 2 | n/a |
| Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Immigrant Legal Resource Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Freedom Archives | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Nolumbeka Project Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 17% |
| The Treaty Alignment Campaign Inc | $13,448 | 1 | n/a |
| Fund for the City of New York Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Water Center | $12,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment | $12,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/A Press Pass Tv Inc | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Urban Indigenous Collective Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Parasol Cooperative Foundation | $12,305 | 1 | 15% |
| New Britain Racial Justice Coalition Inc | $12,164 | 1 | 33% |
| RIFT Valley Community Dispute Resol | $12,025 | 1 | n/a |
| Mujer Uwa | $12,025 | 1 | n/a |
| Jobs With Justice Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Camera News Inc | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 2% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds Inc | $11,729 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Abortion Support Collective | $11,555 | 1 | n/a |
| Resource Generation Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Migrant Justice Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Transnational Solidarity | $10,961 | 1 | n/a |
| Common Good Montana Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Netroots Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Greenfield Center School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| In the Weeds Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 350org | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Possibility Labs | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Intercept Media Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunrise Movement Education Fund | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northampton Community Arts Trust Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nuestras Raices Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Tennessee Alliance for Progress | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 350 Seattle | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Communities Creating Opportunity | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Documentary Fund | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inside Climate News Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Propel Nonprofits | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Red Roses Trans Movement LLC | $9,883 | 1 | n/a |
| Turning Heads Collective | $9,843 | 1 | n/a |
| Susu Community Farm Inc | $9,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Clear Fund | $9,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Aid and Development Corp | $9,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greenroots Inc | $8,785 | 1 | 0% |
| Ourspace World Inc | $8,428 | 1 | 3% |
| Coal River Mountain Watch Inc | $8,313 | 1 | 5% |
| America on Trial Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sex Workers Outreach Project | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trans Income Project | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Whiteswan Environmental We | $7,966 | 1 | 5% |
| Leonard Peltier Statue Project | $7,910 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Abortion Support Collective | $7,787 | 1 | n/a |
| Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights | $7,588 | 1 | n/a |
| Syracuse Center for Peace and Social Justice | $7,501 | 1 | 10% |
| Go With Courage Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 6% |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | $7,497 | 1 | 0% |
| Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores Incorporated | $7,497 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Movement Builders Inc | $7,340 | 1 | 3% |
| Our Fire Collective LLC | $7,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Committee on the Middle East Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Pro-Voice Project Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Lambi Fund of Haiti | $7,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Center for Popular Democracy Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Best Practices Policy Project Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Huntsville Bail Fund | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Allied Media Projects | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Who Speaks for Me Project | $6,998 | 1 | n/a |
| Racial Justice Rising | $6,916 | 1 | n/a |
| Seeds of Harmony Inc | $6,577 | 1 | 3% |
| Culture of Peace Alliance Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 5% |
| No Exceptions | $6,372 | 1 | 5% |
| School of Arts and Culture at Mhp | $6,196 | 1 | 0% |
| Destiny Arts Center | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| March on Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Bay Center for the Performing Arts | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United We Dream Network Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Creative Thought and Action | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southwest Learning Centers Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Abortion Care Network | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Focus Center | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Power to Decide | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Paula Ford-Martin Memorial Fund | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Polaris Institute USA | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Springfield Community Based Doula I | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Fortune Society Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice | $6,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Decarcerate Inc | $5,793 | 1 | n/a |
| Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center | $5,774 | 1 | 1% |
| Human Rights Coalition | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Rio Grande Community Development Co | $5,525 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center | $5,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Rosenberg Fund for Children Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Coalfield Justice | $5,480 | 1 | 3% |
| International Traditional Games Soc | $5,321 | 1 | 6% |
| YWCA of Greater Portland | $5,303 | 1 | 0% |
| Arizona State Organizing Committee dba Phoenix LOC | $5,259 | 1 | 7% |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc | $5,165 | 1 | 0% |
| Transit Riders Union | $5,159 | 1 | n/a |
| Tanzanian School Aid Project | $5,123 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality | $5,100 | 1 | 2% |
| Warren J Plaut Charitable Trust | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Union de Vecinos de Pico Aliso | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Pea Cultural Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Southern Coalition for Social Justice | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tree of Life Educational Fund Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adelante Alabama Worker Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montana Racial Equity Project | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Out Now Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Welcome Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Fostering Progressive Advocacy Foun | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pesticide Action Network North America | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Institute for Washingtons Future | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Nc Congress of Latino Organizations (Ncclo) | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Steps Coalition | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Language Conservancy Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project Ico Justice Now | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Public Interest Law Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 8% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($520k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Peace Development Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 133.
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.
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC50× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Solidago Foundation · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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About Peace Development Fund
- How much does Peace Development Fund give?
- Peace Development Fund reported 63 itemized grants totaling $2,143,136, out of $2,339,110 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Peace Development Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (31%), Crime & Legal (17%), International (14%).
- Who are Peace Development Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beloved Economies ($1.9M), Whose Knowledge ($1.8M), Restoring Justice for Indigenous ($1.7M).
- Does Peace Development Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peace Development Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Common Counsel Foundation, Proteus Fund Inc.
- Where is Peace Development Fund based?
- Peace Development Fund is based in MA.
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