California · Public charity
Thousand Currents
Through our grant making program, THOUSAND CURRENTS partners with organizations and movements in the global south that are creating lasting solutions to societal challenges. Our partners develop solutions that are innovative and impactful. They work to ensure their communities have access to healthy and locally grown food, are able to…
- $77M
- Granted FY2021
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
88% of Thousand Currents’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Peace Development Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Thousand Currents named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $72M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2021
- $72M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $69,164,086
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 7
- Total assets, FY2021
- $28M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 75% of the organizations Thousand Currents funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 8 | $71M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $961k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $128k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $70k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc | $69,177,865 | 2 | 87% |
| Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism | $7,615,750 | 9 | 19% |
| Grassroots International Inc | $6,925,250 | 7 | 22% |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi | $250,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Global Fund for Women Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network | $92,950 | 1 | 2% |
| Black Lives Matter Foundation | $90,130 | 2 | 27% |
| Destiny Bridge Builders | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Thousand Currents supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Proteus Fund Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Common Counsel Foundation · Novo Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Endowment · Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc · Willow Redistribution Foundation
How this is measured
About Thousand Currents
- How much does Thousand Currents give?
- Thousand Currents reported 10 itemized grants totaling $71,759,086, out of $76,784,062 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Thousand Currents fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (72%), International (19%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Thousand Currents's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc ($69M), Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism ($7.6M), Grassroots International Inc ($6.9M).
- Does Thousand Currents fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thousand Currents?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Thousand Currents based?
- Thousand Currents is based in CA.
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