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A national network of chapters that amplify youth voices through writing. The largest youth writing network in the country, it serves 65,000 students annually in its centers and online. In addition to free writing programs, it publishes the narratives and perspectives of young writers and creates a space for volunteers and stakeholders to listen to and learn from local students. In addition to chapters across the country, its 826 Digital platform provides free access to timely and topical writing curricula alongside real samples of student writing.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)

African Wildlife Foundation

A land-based African conservation organization. It works to improve the lives of local people and save wildlife simultaneously. Its conservation-friendly development programs empower people to earn additional income, learn job skills, get sustainability training, and generate steady revenue for their communities. In addition to putting safeguards in place to protect endangered animals, it works with governments to provide education on living side by side with wildlife.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$100,000	2016	general support

ALA

The oldest and largest library association in the world. Its Great Stories Club is a library-led book club model that gives underserved youth the opportunity to read, reflect, and share ideas. Great Stories Club themes and titles are selected by librarians and humanities scholars to resonate with reluctant readers facing challenges like detention, incarceration, addiction, academic probation, poverty, and homelessness.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$150,000	2020	general support
Areas of Exploration	$75,000	2019	general support
Areas of Exploration	$50,000	2019	support for Great Stories Club (GSC)
Areas of Exploration	$50,000	2018	support for Great Stories Club (GSC)

American Documentary

A national media arts organization that strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. AmDoc goes “beyond the broadcast” by partnering with television and radio stations, community groups and local, and national organizations to spark conversation about the issues presented in point-of-view films.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2019	general support

Animal Welfare Institute

A global welfare organization focused on alleviating animal suffering. It engages with policymakers, scientists, industry, and the public to eliminate pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans. Through humane education, policy change, and litigation, it advocates for wildlife, animals in research, farm animals, and companion animals.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$50,000	2019	general support, $50,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	general support, $50,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$35,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$35,000	2016	general support

Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect

A nonprofit that works to create the kinder and fairer world of which Anne Frank dreamed. It offers educational programs, traveling exhibits, theatrical performances, and annual scholarships to bring her message to new generations and honor those inspired to humanitarian action through her words. It treats the diary and spirit of Anne Frank as unique tools to advance her legacy, to educate young people and communities in the U.S. and Canada about the dangers of intolerance, anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination, and to inspire the next generation to build a world based on mutual respect.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$5,000	2018	general support

ASHOKA

A global organization that treats empathy as a critical capacity. It develops resources for the public-at-large, working to give all people the confidence and tools to solve problems for the common good. Its Start Empathy initiative is a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to building a future in which every child masters empathy. It additionally conducts research into and produces toolkits for building empathy and assessing impact.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2018	general support

Bail Project

A community bail fund that combats mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system one person at a time. It works nationally to provide a lifeline for the tens of thousands of low-income Americans who, on any given day, are at risk of pretrial incarceration due to their economic status and race. In 2017, it expanded its revolving-fund model to a national level, with 40 sites in high-need jurisdictions planned to open over the next five years, helping over 160,000 low-income Americans. We are encouraged by its momentum, and the powerful stories and data that indicate money bail is not necessary to ensure people return to court.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Good Fight Grants	$50,000	2018	general support

Best Friends Animal Society

A national companion animal welfare organization. In addition to running the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals, it runs programs to reduce the number of animals entering shelters in the first place. It supports a network of more than 2,000 animal welfare organizations working towards creating no-kill communities, stopping puppy-mill practices, and performing animal advocacy.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$100,000	2016	general support

Big Life

An anti-poaching organization based in East Africa. Through collaborating closely with local communities, partner NGOs, national parks, and government agencies, it apprehends wildlife criminals, helps compensate herders for predator attacks, teaches humane methods to protect crops, and conducts conservation workshops. To help eliminate lion hunting from the Maasai culture, it partnered with the local Maasai to create the first-ever Maasai Olympics: the hunt for medals, not lions.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$50,000	2019	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$50,000	2016	general support

Black Public Media

A public media organization that creates a pathway of support for Black story development and dissemination. It supports diverse voices by investing in the professional development of Black content creators and by funding, developing, producing, and distributing innovative media about the Black global experience. It actively curates audience engagement activities in select communities where the content can be used as a tool for generating public dialogue beyond the big screen.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)

Capital Public Radio

A Sacramento-based public radio service. Its series "The View From Here" features first-person stories and multimedia documentaries about California communities. Its digital stories around a given topic inspire listeners to learn, understand, and respond. Creating space for first-person perspectives, it aims to build stronger communities through relevant storytelling that connects us to each other's experiences, challenges, and dreams.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2019	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2018	support for "The View From Here"
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2017	support for "The View From Here"
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2016	support for "The View From Here"

Center for Asian American Media

An organization that supports Asian American narratives by producing, distributing, and exhibiting media works. It counters the scarcity of Asian/Asian American images, corrects distorted portrayals, and supports Asian American artists. It exposes audiences nationwide to new voices and marginalized communities within the Asian diaspora, emphasizing storytelling by / about Muslim, LGBTQ, and Southeast Asian populations.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2016	general support

Chimp Haven

A chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana. It provides a home to over 200 chimpanzees, most from government biomedical research centers. In addition to promoting best care practices as a permanent sanctuary, it offers educational outreach programs and works to inspire action for the species on a global scale.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Capital/Capacity	$200,000	2018	for the Expansion Campaign
Animal Connection	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$100,000	2016	general support

City Lore

A center for urban folk culture in New York City. It weaves the city's folklore, history, traditions, and grassroots arts into a living legacy. Through collaborations with and support for storytellers, it works towards a vision of cultural democracy that allows varied traditions to co-exist on equal footing and encourages active participation in cultural life.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$85,000	2019	general support, $85,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $170,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$85,000	2018	general support, $85,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $170,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2016	general support

Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity

A donor collaborative housed at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors that is working to build a world where every women, no matter her zip code or income level, has the knowledge, resources, and power to shape her own life. The founding donors share a deep commitment to advancing reproductive health and women’s rights and recognize these as inextricably linked to the broader advancement of women and girls.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity	$5,000,000	2020	support for the Collaborative for Gender & Reproductive Equity
Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity	$5,000,000	2019	support for the Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity

Contra Tiempo

A multilingual urban Latin dance theater company based in Los Angeles. Recognizing the links between community engagement and artistic production, its performances take inspiration from its communities' experiences, cultural creations, and stories. It intentionally engages diverse audiences and features stories not traditionally heard on the stage.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$60,000	2018	general support, $60,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $120,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$60,000	2017	general support, $60,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $120,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2016	general support

Creative Capital

A nonprofit that supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, gatherings, and career development services. It seeks to amplify voices and catalyze connections, helping artists to realize their visions, build thriving practices, and bring their projects to audiences around the world.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2019	general support

CultureStrike

A socially engaged arts organization based in Oakland. Recognizing the role of artists in inciting conversations and inventing new ways of thinking, it invests in creative work that highlights the complexity, nuance, and beauty of communities too often rendered criminal or invisible. It works toward a just world rooted in a sense of shared humanity.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Capital/Capacity	$200,000	2019	for growth campaign
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2019	support for CultureStrike, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2018	support for CultureStrike, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2016	general support

Define American

A national media and culture organization using the power of story to transcend politics and shift conversations about immigrants, identity, and citizenship in a changing America. It runs campaigns that challenge media narratives; develops films that connect immigration, women's rights, and racial and economic justice; and curates a digital platform for people to tell and share stories.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2018	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2016	general support

Detroit Narrative Agency

A storytelling organization working to advance the narrative of a Detroit built on justice. Through seed grants, technical support, skill development, and mentorship, complemented by community mapping and local engagement, it creates narrative-shifting moving image projects that support and connect the community.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2019	support for Detroit Narrative Agency, $50,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $100,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2018	support for Detroit Narrative Agency, $50,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $100,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2017	support for Detroit Narrative Agency
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2016	support for Detroit Narrative Agency

Double Shift Podcast

A reported, narrative podcast about a new generation of working mothers. The goal of the podcast is not just high quality journalism, but to use storytelling to fundamentally transform how society sees mothers and how mothers see themselves in order to achieve greater parity for women in all aspects of society.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$10,000	2019	Double Shift Productions

Elephant Crisis Fund

A funding coalition that supports the end the ivory trade. It fosters collaboration, and delivers rapid impact responses on the ground in 31 countries. It funds over 160 projects and works with over 50 partners, including scientists, front-line conservation organizations, and governments who have united behind a common strategy to end international ivory trade.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$200,000	2019	for the Elephant Crisis Fund
Animal Connection	$200,000	2018	general support, $200,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $400,000)
Animal Connection	$200,000	2017	general support, $200,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $400,000)

Equal Justice Initiative

A non-profit committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$15,000	2019	general support
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2018	support for the National Memorial and Legacy Museum

Games For Change

A social impact gaming nonprofit. Harnessing the narrative power of games to inspire action and connect with audiences beyond traditional media, it facilitates the creation and distribution of digital games to further humanitarian and educational efforts; convenes a community of practice; and empowers game creators to drive real-world impact.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Responsive	$35,000	2020	general support, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2020	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2017	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2016	general support

Global Action Project

A New York City-based media-arts organization focused on youth from low-income, new immigrant, and TLGBQ communities. It partners youth with professional artists and educators to develop narrative, non-fiction, and new media works that amplify diverse stories and then use them to educate about and advocate for their communities nationwide.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$25,000	2018	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$25,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$25,000	2016	general support

Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries

A global sanctuary accreditation organization. It sets best practices, facilitates operational and financial support, and promotes collaboration to enhance effectiveness and recognition. In addition to taking a comprehensive approach by setting individualized sanctuary standards for each species, it fields and reviews concerns about facilities. Sanctuaries are required to apply for renewal every 3 years.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$20,000	2019	general support, $20,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $40,000)
Animal Connection	$20,000	2018	general support, $20,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $40,000)
Animal Connection	$20,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$20,000	2016	general support

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

A diverse community of grantmakers working to reshape the way philanthropy operates. Understanding that grantmakers are successful only to the extent that their grantees achieve meaningful results, it promotes strategies and practices that contribute to grantee success.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$7,390	2019	general support, $7,390 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $14,780)
Areas of Exploration	$4,470	2018	general support

Greater Good Science Center

A science center based at UC Berkeley. It provides a bridge between the research community and the general public. Its scholars study the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being and its site provides research-based tools and training to foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Responsive	$25,000	2020	general support for the Greater Good Science Center, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
Areas of Exploration	$50,000	2020	support for the Greater Good Science Center, $50,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Areas of Exploration	$50,000	2019	support for the Greater Good Science Center, $50,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Areas of Exploration	$12,500	2018	to support the work of the Greater Good Science Center and its research fellow(s) to synthesize and analyze scientific research around human empathy, animal empathy, and empathic storytelling; and create an annotated bibliography summarizing the GGSC’s findings and addresses AFGs research questions.

HEART (Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers)

A humane education organization. It offers direct services to impact how youth think about their responsibility to the natural world at no cost in public schools and nonprofits throughout the New York City, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Portland areas. Its approach takes advantage of youth’s natural love and fascination with animals to develop compassion toward not only animals, but also people and the environment.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$50,000	2019	general support, $50,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	general support, $50,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2017	general support, $50,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2017	support for capacity building of HEARTs programs
Animal Connection	$50,000	2016	general support

Houses on the Moon

A New York City theater company helping communities come together by making meaningful connections through the public sharing of untold stories. One project, De Novo, crafted entirely from immigration court transcripts, interviews, and letters, tells the true story of a teenaged boy from Guatemala who faced deportation after fleeing to the U.S. to escape the gang MS-13. He travels over 3,000 miles across the borders of three countries in search of his mother and a better life in the United States.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$25,000	2020	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2019	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$60,000	2018	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$60,000	2017	support for De Novo
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2016	support for gUN COUNTRY

Humane Society International

A global animal protection organization. As the international arm of the Humane Society US, it works globally with national and local governments, other humane organizations, and individual animal protectionists to find practical, culturally sensitive, and longterm solutions to common animal issues. It promotes a global standard of respect and compassion for all animals, including animals in laboratories, animals on farms, companion animals, and wildlife.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2017	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2017	support for International Disaster Relief Fund
Animal Connection	$100,000	2016	general support

Humane Society of the United States

The largest and most effective animal protection organization in the nation. It works to reduce suffering and to create meaningful social change for animals. It advocates for sensible public policies, investigates cruelty, and works to enforce existing laws. It runs public education programs, leads animal disaster relief missions, and provides direct care for thousands of animals nationally.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$250,000	2019	support for Pets for Life, $250,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $750,000)
Animal Connection	$250,000	2018	support for Pets for Life, $250,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $750,000)
Animal Connection	$250,000	2017	support for Pets for Life, $250,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $750,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2017	support for the Disaster Relief Fund
Animal Connection	$250,000	2016	support for Pets for Life

Humane Society Silicon Valley

An animal protection organization in Silicon Valley. This trusted, best-in-class nonprofit shelter offers quality services that treat and rehabilitate animals and shares its best practices across the country with other organizations. It also works toward finding homes for shelter animals, keeping pets in homes, preventing overpopulation, and educating the community about animal welfare to enhance the human-animal bond.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2017	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2016	general support

Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

A museum built around the founding principle: Remember the Past, Transform the Future. It is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Holocaust by honoring the memories of those who were lost and by teaching universal lessons that combat hatred, prejudice and indifference. The new Take a Stand Center is an immersive permanent exhibition with a forward-looking emphasis on multiple areas of social justice and an interactive, holographic Survivor Stories Experience.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2019	general support
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2018	general support

Innocence Project

A national litigation and policy organization that works to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. Through exonerating the wrongly convicted through DNA testing, it exposes systemic defects in the criminal justice system, which holds almost 2.3 million people. The stories of the 350 people exonerated so far have stirred a public awakening and ignited a new justice movement. It is preparing to tackle the system’s deep systematic failures — racial bias, over-reliance on guilty pleas, the lack of accountability for prosecutors, and inadequate public defense systems — through education, advocacy, litigation and research-based reforms.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Good Fight Grants	$50,000	2018	general support

International Storytelling Center

An educational and cultural institution based in Jonesborough, TN. It advocates for the value of storytelling nationwide by providing the knowledge, experience, and tools to help individuals, organizations, and communities tap into the power of their own voices. In conjunction with Harvard Graduate School of Education, it is developing research on the value of storytelling in building communities, furthering education, and resolving conflict.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Responsive	$35,000	2020	general support, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2020	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $225,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $225,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment one of three total grant amount $225,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2016	general support

ITVS

An incubator and presenter of independent films. It partners with filmmakers to bring untold stories to public television and communities around the world. It encourages independent artists to take creative risks and tell complex, character-driven stories that uplift underrepresented voices in order to kindle empathy, combat negative stereotyping, and promote understanding and positive social change.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$500,000	2019	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$500,000	2018	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$500,000	2017	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$250,000	2016	general support

Kids in Need of Defense

An organization that helps immigrant and refugee children who come to the United States without a legal guardian, most of whom are fleeing trafficking, gang violence, or sexual and gender-based violence. They come seeking safety, but find new challenges. KIND helps to ensure that children appearing in immigration court have high quality legal representation and to advance laws, policies, and practices that uphold their right to due process and fundamental fairness. It also works to address the root causes of migration to the United States, including the pervasive violence that forces children without parents and families with young children to embark on a life-threatening journey of thousands of miles to seek safety.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Good Fight Grants	$50,000	2018	general support

Latino Public Broadcasting

A developer, producer, and distributor of non-commercial educational and cultural media that is representative of Latino people or addresses issues of particular interest to Latino Americans. By acting as a minority consortium, it provides a voice to the diverse Latino community on public media throughout the United States.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Capital/Capacity	$75,000	2019	for LPB Transformation Project
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2017	general support

Lion Recovery Fund

A strategic fund that invests in the most innovative and effective projects across Africa to recover lions and restore their habitat. One century ago there were 200,000 lions, today there are likely just over 20,000. It supports both site-based conservation in Africa and campaign strategies that build public, political, and philanthropic will for lion recovery.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$250,000	2019	for the Lion Recovery Fund
Animal Connection	$500,000	2018	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)
Animal Connection	$500,000	2017	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)

Living Room Conversations

An organization that develops and disperses materials to create conversational bridges across issues that divide and separate us. It provides an easy structure for engaging in friendly yet meaningful conversation with those with whom we may not agree. These conversations increase understanding, reveal common ground, and sometimes even allow us to discuss possible solutions. The modern world no longer limits our place for speaking to a physical location and we live our lives in our communities and online: our living room is wherever we find ourselves connecting with others.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$15,000	2020	Living Room Conversations
Responsive	$15,000	2020	Living Room Conversations, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2019	Living Room Conversations
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2018	Living Room Conversations

Magnum Foundation

A documentary photography organization in New York City. Grounded in the premise that stories transform how we see the world, it supports a global network of social justice and human rights focused photographers, fostering diverse visual storytelling projects as a means to raise awareness, awaken empathy, mobilize action, and strengthen society.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2020	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $225,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $225,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment one of three total grant amount $225,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2016	general support

Maiden Voyage Productions

A nonprofit that uses Virtual Reality (VR) stories and project-based curricula to introduce young people to different cultures and engage them in global challenges we all face together. VR has the power to transform peer storytelling into immersive experiences that feel like personal interactions. Maiden Voyage's programs leverage this connection by encouraging the discovery of commonalities through first-person stories and innovative opportunities for learning, cross-cultural exchange and community action.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$30,000	2019	general support

Monterey Bay Aquarium

An ocean wildlife conservation nonprofit. It provides free education programs for more than 80,000 students and educators each year, working to inspire conservation of the ocean. In addition to giving voice to urgent ocean issues and vulnerable ocean species, it also conducts scientific research and runs conservation and education programs involving threatened species, including sea otters, tuna, and sharks.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$200,000	2020	general support, $200,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $600,000)
Family Giving	$100,000	2020	general support
Responsive	$1,000,000	2020	Special Aquarium Fund, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
Capital/Capacity	$1,000,000	2019	2019-2024 Comprehensive Campaign
Family Giving	$100,000	2019	general support
Animal Connection	$200,000	2019	general support, $200,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $600,000)
Animal Connection	$200,000	2018	general support, $200,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $600,000)
Family Giving	$100,000	2018	general support
Animal Connection	$200,000	2016	general support

National Bail Fund Network, Community Justice Exchange

A national project that works with organizers, advocates, and legal providers across the country that are using, or contemplating using, community bail funds as part of efforts to radically change local bail systems and reduce incarceration. The Network was established in September 2016 and is made up of over 40 community bail funds that use the regular payment of bail as well as strategic bail out actions in campaigns to end money bail and pretrial detention in both the criminal legal and immigration detention systems. It is built upon the important work of bail funds assisting individuals attain their freedom while building community capacity and a coordinated advocacy force.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Good Fight Grants	$50,000	2018	general support

National Civil Rights Museum

A museum in Memphis that shares the culture and lessons from the American Civil Rights Movement and explore how this era continues to shape equality and freedom globally. It is located at the former Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Through interactive exhibits, historic collections, dynamic speakers and special events, it offers visitors a chance to walk through history and learn more about a tumultuous and inspiring period of change.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$15,000	2019	general support
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2018	general support

National Museum of the American Indian

A museum with multiple sites that is committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of the Native cultures of the Western Hemisphere—past, present, and future—through partnership with Native peoples and others. The museum works to support the continuance of culture, traditional values, and transitions in contemporary Native life. It offers exhibition galleries and spaces for performances, lectures and symposia, research, education, conservation, and repatriation. Its off-site outreach efforts, often referred to as the "fourth museum," include traveling exhibitions and community programs.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2018	general support

National Public Radio

A national multimedia news organization and radio program producer. Its "Embedded" podcast uses storytelling to offer listeners a chance to visit places and hear voices that might be unreachable otherwise, giving vulnerable people a chance to tell their stories firsthand. Reporters admit when they are scared or confused, helping listeners grow to understand not just what happened, but what it feels like to the people who are there.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$200,000	2018	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2017	support for "Embedded"
First-Person Storytelling	$200,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2016	support for "Embedded"
First-Person Storytelling	$200,000	2016	general support

Native Arts And Cultures Foundation

A Native-led philanthropic organization that promotes the revitalization, appreciation, and perpetuation of Native arts and cultures. It advances Native equity and cultural knowledge, focusing on the power of arts and collaboration to strengthen Native communities and create new paths of progress for American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples in the U.S. The Foundation is continually searching for partnerships and ways to reach communities outside of the Native and indigenous populations and leverage the voices within.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$15,000	2019	general support

Pacific Islanders in Communications

A media organization that works to promote a deeper understanding of and appreciation for Pacific Islander themes, culture, and contemporary issues. A member of the National Minority Consortia, it helps Pacific Islander stories reach national audiences through funding support for productions, training and education, broadcast services, and community outreach.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2020	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2019	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2018	general support

PBS Foundation

An American public broadcasting organization and media content distributor. Its almost 350 member stations reach nearly 100 million people through television and 28 million people online each month, offering the public the opportunity to experience the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; and to take front row seats to world-class drama and performances. Wild Kratts, for example, is a PBS KIDS multi-platform program that takes children around the globe where they encounter wild animals and habitats, and explore natural phenomena and usual creatures. The Kratts engage children and families through a mix of comedy and adventure in order to spark curiosity about science and animals, and build excitement for science.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$200,000	2019	support for Wild Kratts programming, $200,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $400,000)
Animal Connection	$200,000	2018	support for Wild Kratts programming, $200,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $400,000)

PEN America

A nationwide champion of writers and of freedom of expression. Recognizing the written word as a tool of great power and great change, it brings together novelists, journalists, essayists, poets, translators, and more to create a network of advocates to inspire change in America and the world. It encourages discourse, diversity, and the spread of ideas with a focus on ensuring that everyone has the freedom to create, express, share, and access literature.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Responsive	$5,000	2020	Writers' Emergency Fund, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
First-Person Storytelling	$125,000	2019	general support, $125,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $375,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$125,000	2018	general support, $125,000 per year for three years (payment one of three total grant amount $375,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$125,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2016	general support

Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA

A companion animal organization in the Bay Area. It provides educational programs, pet assisted therapy, low-cost and free spay/neuter programs, cruelty investigation, animal adoptions, lost and found, low-cost microchipping and vaccinations, dog obedience training, animal behavior consultations, wildlife care and rehabilitation, foster care, underage kitten care, and pet loss support.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $225,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $225,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2017	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $225,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2016	general support

Pets in Need

A no-kill animal organization in the Bay Area. It rescues dogs and cats from public kill shelters and finds them new homes. In an effort to reduce and ultimately end pet homelessness, it provides free spay and neuter services to the pets of any California resident. It provides mobile surgical and veterinary care to communities with high rates of chronic animal homelessness and abandonment.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Responsive	$10,000	2020	Emergency Assistance Program, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
Family Giving	$25,000	2020	general support
Capital/Capacity	$25,000	2019	to support Palo Alto shelter transition costs
Family Giving	$25,000	2019	general support
Animal Connection	$75,000	2018	general support
Animal Connection	$75,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$50,000	2016	general support

Pets of the Homeless

The only national organization focused on providing emergency care to pets of the homeless population. Believing in the healing power of the human-animal bond, it coordinates pet food donation sites, free wellness clinics, emergency veterinary care, and pet sleeping crate delivery to homeless shelters.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$10,000	2019	general support, $10,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $30,000)
Animal Connection	$10,000	2018	general support, $10,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $30,000)
Animal Connection	$10,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$10,000	2016	general support

Ping Chong + Company

A New York based theater company that brings unheard community voices to the stage that are not often represented in traditional theater settings. It creates works of theater and art that explore the intersections of race, culture, history, and art; it also serves as an artistic incubator for projects and then seeks out producing and presenting partners to extend the range of these projects.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$20,000	2019	general support

RedRover

A companion animal crisis response organization. It works with law enforcement, local agencies, and animal organizations to shelter and care for animals displaced by natural disasters and human cruelty; provides financial assistance and emotional support to owners struggling with economic hardship; and offers educational programming to children to develop empathy and critical thinking skills by exploring the human-animal bond.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$25,000	2019	general support, $25,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $75,000)
Animal Connection	$25,000	2018	general support, $25,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $75,000)
Animal Connection	$20,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$10,000	2016	general support

Rural Area Veterinary Services

A direct care animal organization serving rural and low-income communities across the US and abroad. It sets up temporary field clinics for the care of companion animals and provides community education for continued care. It helps thousands of vulnerable animals a year, offering basic healthcare, surgical care, and urgent care treatment. Its volunteers are veterinary and veterinary technician students, who are given the opportunity to engage in hands on clinic experience.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$50,000	2020	support for San Carlos Outreach Project, $50,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $225,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2019	support for San Carlos Outreach Project, $50,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $225,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	support for San Carlos Outreach Project Equipment/Supplies
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	support for San Carlos Outreach Project, $50,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2017	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $225,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2016	general support

Save the Elephants

A research and conservation organization in Kenya, it works to secure a future for elephants in a rapidly changing world. To battle the current surge in ivory poaching, it identifies the most effective methods and partners to stop poaching, thwart traffickers, and end demand for ivory. As leaders in elephant science, it provides cutting-edge scientific insights into elephant behavior, intelligence, and long-distance migration, and applies them to the long-term challenges of elephant conservation.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$50,000	2019	for Save the Elephants
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2017	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2016	general support

Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom

A nonprofit dedicated to growing relationships between Muslim and Jewish women to fight hate, negative stereotyping and prejudice. Participants come together to engage in dialogue, socialization, social action projects, and activities to expand their knowledge of each other’s practices and beliefs. Chapters emphasize respect to build relationships across religious and cultural divides.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$15,000	2019	general support
Areas of Exploration	$5,000	2018	general support

Smithsonian Latino Center

A Cultural Center, not represented in one physical location, rather it works collaboratively with the Smithsonians' museums and research centers, ensuring that the contributions of the Latino community in the arts, history, national culture and scientific achievement are explored, presented, celebrated and preserved. It supports scholarly research, exhibitions, public and educational programs, web-based content and virtual platforms, and collections and archives. It also manages leadership and professional development programs for Latino youth, emerging scholars and museum professionals.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Family Giving	$500,000	2018	for the Latino Gallery at the National Museum of American History
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2018	general support

Snow Leopard Trust

A snow leopard conservation and research nonprofit in Central Asia. Its community-based conservation programs work to empower people who live in the cat's habitat to help protect their local wildlife and ecosystems. Its research team creates tools and technology to better monitor and study the snow leopard while its networks facilitate the exchange of scientifically sound information to further preservation efforts.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$50,000	2019	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$50,000	2016	general support

Speaking Down Barriers

A team of listeners, healers, artists, researchers, teachers, theologians, and creatives who work together to offer spoken word poetry, transformative dialogue, workshops, and deep listening. Working with communities, organizations, and institutions, it envisions a world where all people can confront and heal the wounds of difference, including race, gender, class, religion, national identity, and sexual orientation. Rather than treating differences as a source of division, it frames them as the source of our collective strength.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$5,000	2018	general support

StoryCenter

A digital storytelling center based in Berkeley that believes listening deeply and sharing stories are tools to build a just and healthy world. It supports storytelling projects in vulnerable Bay Area communities and worldwide; runs workshops for telling and listening to emotionally honest stories; and explores the role of participatory media in social justice and beyond.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$60,000	2020	general support, $60,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $180,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$60,000	2019	general support, $60,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $180,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$60,000	2018	general support, $60,000 per year for three years (payment one of three total grant amount $180,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2016	general support

StoryCorps

A national storytelling organization. It preserves and shares humanity’s stories in order to build connections and create a more just and compassionate world. It provides people across the country the opportunity to record interviews about their lives, pass wisdom from one generation to the next, and leave a legacy for future generations in its archive at the Library of Congress. Through "One Small Step," it asks people with different political viewpoints to record interviews with each other to help people get to know each other as human beings and remember our common humanity.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$500,000	2019	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$500,000	2018	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$500,000	2017	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$500,000	2016	general support

Success Centers

A playwriting project (Each One Reach One) for youth inside detention facilities in the Bay Area. It pairs incarcerated youth with mentors who work with them to write original plays, using non-human characters as metaphorical masks to tell personal stories. The exploration of stories without judgment and the final staged reading in front of an audience of families and community members empower youth to voice their experiences.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$20,000	2018	support for Playwriting and TOTO, $20,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $40,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$20,000	2017	support for Playwriting and TOTO, $20,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $40,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$20,000	2016	support for Playwriting and Dance

Sundance Institute

An institute dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences from the United States and around the world. It connects film, television, new media, and theater artists with audiences to present original voices, inspire new ideas, and create community around independent storytelling. Through mentorship, outreach, community-building, and research to investigate barriers and opportunities for diverse artists, it aims to reach the widest possible array of projects for support across its programs.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$750,000	2019	general support, $750,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,500,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$1,000,000	2018	general support, $1,000,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $2,000,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$1,000,000	2017	general support, $1,000,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $2,000,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$1,000,000	2016	general support

Tenement Museum

A museum that preserves and interprets the history of immigration through the personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side, America's iconic immigrant neighborhood; forges emotional connections between visitors and immigrants past and present; and enhances appreciation for the profound role immigration has played and continues to play in shaping America's evolving national identity.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Responsive	$150,000	2020	general support, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
Areas of Exploration	$25,000	2019	general support
Areas of Exploration	$15,000	2018	general support

The Bias Inside Us, Smithsonian Institution

A Community dialogue project prepared by The Smithsonian Institution. It aims to help people understand and counter their implicit biases and build capacity in communities to convene dialogue that will increase empathy and create more inclusive schools and workplaces. It will uncover the connections between implicit bias and group dynamics, how they can lead to explicit acts of bias and hatred by individuals and whole societies, and what we as individuals can do about it. Selected communities will will work with The Smithsonian alongside community leaders and teachers to develop a customized plan for community initiated programming on these issues. The Smithsonian will then provide the community with a 1,000 sq. ft. temporary exhibition for a pre-determined length of time, free of charge, to be the centerpiece of local activities.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$100,000	2019	support for The Bias Inside Us
Areas of Exploration	$50,000	2018	support for The Bias Inside Us

The Fund for Animals

A nationwide wild animal care and rehabilitation organization. It coordinates and runs national advocacy campaigns, rescue operations, and a network of animal care facilities. Its enclosures are built for minimal human contact and offer room for same-species interaction. It works with abandoned young animals to teach species-specific skills so they can eventually be reintroduced into their natural environments.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$75,000	2016	general support

The Identity Project

A creative intervention that uses documentary storytelling to empower marginalized youth with invaluable opportunities to explore selfhood, identity, and personal power of voice. It invests in empathy building practices that catalyze community-driven social change.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$10,000	2019	The Identity Project

The Jane Goodall Institute

A global community conservation organization that advances the vision and work of Dr. Jane Goodall. Its projects include primate habitat conservation; awareness and education campaigns about the impact of human behavior on primate populations; non-invasive research programs studying chimpanzees and other primates; and various other animal welfare activities. It works to inspire individual action to protect the world we all share, humans and animals alike.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2017	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2016	general support

The Lark

An international theater laboratory based in New York City. It empowers playwrights financially, professionally, and artistically to explore what they choose. It champions voices and perspectives that have been historically misrepresented and under-resourced by the theater field by providing development opportunities, resources, and connections in the theater community.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2016	general support

The Moth

A nonprofit devoted to the art and craft of storytelling. Built on the principle that sharing personal experiences prompts us to see each other's storied complexity, it inspires a worldwide community of courageous storytellers and connects them to compassionate listeners. It uncovers and elevates stories that are often overlooked, reinforcing our shared humanity.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2020	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $300,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2019	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $300,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$70,000	2019	for the Pop Up Porch Pilot
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2018	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $300,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2017	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $300,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2016	general support

The People's Supper Initiative

A program out to prove that a group of thoughtful people who differ from one another – politically, racially, religiously, or generationally – can sit down over a shared meal, go beneath the headlines, and understand the real stories that have shaped who we are. Bridging Suppers are an opportunity to escape our echo chambers and to connect deeply with folks of different backgrounds.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Areas of Exploration	$10,000	2018	general support

The Telling Project

A national performing arts nonprofit that works to deepen understanding of the military and veteran experience. It believes that by building understanding through person-to-person contact in a theater setting, a community can strengthen its connection to its veterans, itself, its place in the nation, and its relationship with the world.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2018	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$50,000	2016	general support and support of Bay Area Expansion if possible

United States Friends of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

A wildlife and wilderness conservation organization in East Africa. Its key programs include anti-poaching initiatives, mobile veterinary units, aerial surveillance teams, habitat protection, and local community education. Its “Orphans' Project” raises orphaned rhinos and elephants with the goal of eventually reintegrating them into the wild.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$50,000	2019	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$75,000	2016	general support

United We Dream Network, Inc.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Good Fight Grants	$50,000	2020	Home Is Here Campaign

Urban Bush Women

A New York City organization that approaches dance from a woman-centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community. Working to create a more equitable balance of power and representation in the dance world, they use their peformances as the message and the medium to bring together diverse audiences across the country through choreography and collaboration.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$75,000	2018	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2016	general support

Utah Film Center

A nonprofit that utilizes the power of film to educate, inspire, and engage audiences, transcending Utah's political, geographic, cultural, and religious boundaries to highlight human experiences from around the world. Each of the Film Center’s programs - film programming, media education, and artist support - uses film to facilitate human connections. It collaborates with various community organizations to promote a diversity of ideas, to provide forums for underrepresented groups, and to develop new audiences for film.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$15,000	2019	general support

Visionmaker Media

A public media organization devoted to empowering and engaging Native People to tell stories. It helps to create programming, preserves tribal media archives, produces classroom tools, and supports contemporary and historic stories. It works to counteract a history of cultural appropriation and negative portrayals to the outside world. It celebrates Native culture, heritage, wisdom, sacred stories, and the storyteller while promoting diversity in cultures, peoples, and programming across the country.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2017	general support
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2016	general support

Voice of Witness

An oral history book series and education program. Believing in the importance of listening to and learning from the firsthand experiences of marginalized communities, it works to advance human rights by amplifying the voices of those impacted by injustice in the United States and globally. Its stories build empathy that fosters critical inquiry into and understanding of seldom-heard stories.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2019	general support, $150,000 in 2019 and $100,000 in 2020 (payment two of two scheduled to be released in 2020, total grant amount $250,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2019	general support, $150,000 in 2019 and $100,000 in 2020 (payment one of two, total grant amount $250,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2018	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $300,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$150,000	2017	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $300,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2016	general support

We Need Diverse Books

A grassroots organization that produces and promotes literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people. It works to put more books featuring diverse characters into the hands of all children through a partnership with Scholastic Book Club. It also focuses on providing books to Title 1 and other schools with large low-income populations.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Responsive	$5,000	2020	Emergency Fund for Diverse Creatives in Children’s Publishing, COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
Areas of Exploration	$15,000	2019	general support
Areas of Exploration	$5,000	2018	general support

Whale and Dolphin Conservation

A global dolphin and whale conservation organization. Over the past 20 years, it has supported over 180 conservation field projects in over 40 countries, spanning all major ocean regions and relevant river basins. It works to create marine protected areas that restrict human activity and thereby encourage dolphin and whale reproduction. With the eventual goal of achieving international recognition of whale and dolphin rights, it is working on research to better understand population estimates, population dynamics, behavioral patterns, and threat mitigation tactics.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$30,000	2019	general support, $30,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $60,000)
Animal Connection	$30,000	2018	general support, $30,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $60,000)
Animal Connection	$30,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$30,000	2016	general support

WildAid

A global media-based poaching awareness program. It reduces the underlying demand for poached animals and animal products through public education and outreach. Its main programs focus on elephants, rhinos, sharks, tigers, mantas, and pangolins -- animals most at-risk for poaching. It also has initiatives targeting the issues surrounding climate change and marine protection.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $300,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$75,000	2016	general support

Wildlife Conservation Network

A global animal protection organization. It provides independent wildlife conservationists with the tools, technical assistance, critical funding, and development support that they need to succeed. Its partners are among the world’s leading independent wildlife conservationists. It supports collaborations with fellow field-based NGOs, community conservancies, governments, and other stakeholders to enact bold systems changes to save endangered wildlife around the world.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$50,000	2019	general support
Animal Connection	$100,000	2019	to support programs of most need
Animal Connection	$50,000	2018	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2018	support for programs of most need, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2017	general support, $50,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $100,000)
Animal Connection	$100,000	2017	support for community conservation programs of most need, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)

Wildmind

A sanctuary for injured, orphaned, or abused wild animals in Half Moon Bay, CA. It provides lifetime care, including quality nutrition, health care, and behavioral enrichment, for over 50 non-releasable wild animals. It also works to inspire curiosity, empathy, and awe in future stewards of the earth through extensive school engagement programs about wild animals.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$60,000	2019	general support, $60,000 per year for three years (payment three of three, total grant amount $180,000)
Animal Connection	$60,000	2018	general support, $60,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $180,000)
Animal Connection	$60,000	2017	general support, $60,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $180,000)
Animal Connection	$50,000	2016	general support

World Animal Protection

A global animal welfare organization. Its goal is to end needless animal suffering. Its programs are specific and varied, including working to end the culling of stray dogs by encouraging sterilization of companion animals; offering support in disaster zones by treating ill and injured animals; and helping local communities create plans to save their animals in the case of a natural disaster. It is currently working with the United Nations to shape Sustainable Development Goals.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $225,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment one of three, total grant amount $225,000)
Animal Connection	$75,000	2017	general support
Animal Connection	$75,000	2016	general support

World Wildlife Fund

A worldwide conservation organization. Its Protecting Ocean Pathways in the Mexican Pacific project is a community conservation program in the Gulf of California. It works to engage local communities as allies in viewing megafauna both as a source of pride and as an economic asset. Through involving citizens in monitoring species and working with communities to model best practices in ecotourism and protected area management, the program works towards the long term goal of building a body of scientific evidence and proven strategies that can be leveraged to protect the Gulf’s marine species and their habitats as they migrate throughout the region.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
Animal Connection	$84,000	2019	for Protecting Ocean Pathways in the Mexican Pacific, $60,600 for year one and $84,000 for year two (payment two of two, total grant amount $144,600)
Animal Connection	$60,600	2018	for Protecting Ocean Pathways in the Mexican Pacific, $60,600 for year one, $84,000 for year two (payment one of two, total grant amount $144,600)
Animal Connection	$25,000	2016	support for Fresh Water program

Youth Speaks

A San Francisco-based youth storytelling and empowerment organization. It creates spaces that challenge youth to find and present their voices through arts education and youth development practices, civic engagement strategies, and artistic presentations. It produces local and national poetry slams, festivals, and readings, alongside a slate of arts-in-education programs.

Giving Areas	Amount	Year	Purpose
First-Person Storytelling	$125,000	2019	general support, $125,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $250,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$125,000	2018	general support, $125,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $250,000)
First-Person Storytelling	$100,000	2017	general support