California · Public charity
Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism
Uaf is a global women's fund that protects, strengthens and sustains women's human rights activists at critical moments. We intervene quickly when activists are poised to make great gains or face serious threats to their lives and work.
- $13M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $140,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 82% of the organizations Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $441k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 36 | $1.1M | 69% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $563k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $221k | 73% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $302k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $125k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $61k | 88% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fanm Saj Inc | $147,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Cihuapactli Collective | $146,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Ejerie Labs | $110,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Women Enabled International | $107,906 | 2 | 2% |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc | $106,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wildseed Society | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Library Study Hall Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Experimental Farm Network Cooperative | $75,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Whyhunger Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Transformations Youth Group | $63,000 | 2 | 12% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 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: Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Groundswell Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · Solidaire Network Inc · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
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About Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism
- How much does Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism give?
- Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism reported 38 itemized grants totaling $1,239,706, out of $12,634,203 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (22%), Environment (15%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Fanm Saj Inc ($147k), Cihuapactli Collective ($146k), Ejerie Labs ($110k).
- Does Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Proteus Fund Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Borealis Philanthropy.
- Where is Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism based?
- Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism is based in CA.
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