GRANTEE PARTNERS

Since 2022, we resourced $4.3 million in unrestricted, two-year general operating participatory regrants to cultural strategy organizations across the continental and non-continental United States.

OUR 2024 PARTNERS

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (Bay Area, CA)

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the roles of Two-Spirit people within American Indian/First Nations communities by creating a forum for issue advocacy, wellness, and the spiritual, cultural, and artistic expression of Two-Spirits and Indigiqueers.
Cunamacué (San Francisco/Bay Area, CA)

Cunamacué brings awareness of Peru’s African descendants by sharing their deep cultural history through music and dance. Cunamacué promotes the continuity of Afro-Peruvian culture, representing it as a living, vibrant, and evolving form whose music and dance can be used as a means of contemporary expression.
The Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit (Temecula, CA)

The Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit is dedicated to uplifting Indigenous voices and stories through art, culture, and advocacy efforts through theater, film, and arts and culture workshops.
Omnira Institute (Oakland, CA)

Omnira Institute puts African American history into action. It mounts its own events: Juneteenth, the Black-Eyed Pea Festival, and the African American Day of the Ancestors, while its performing arm, Awon Ohun Omnira, provides cultural expertise at these and other seminal events in the Bay Area Black community.
Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (Long Beach, CA)

Their mission is to amplify the collective wisdom of the Pacific Islands people of Oceania (Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia) through rotating installations and lived experiences. Their purpose is to connect the community to resources and foster intercultural exchanges with appreciation and respect.
Seeds of Ancestral Renewal (Northern CA)

Formed in 2021, the SOAR Siskiyou collective is a group of BIPOC organizers and practitioners that support community health through Traditional Healing Arts, including birthwork, herbalism, and storytelling.

“By supporting our communities in their journeys towards collective care, healing, and well-being, we contribute to a story of resilience, cultural pride, and traditional and community-led approaches to health.”
- Seeds of Ancestral Renewal (SOAR), Siskiyou County

OUR 2023 PARTNERS

Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause (Durham, NC)

BGG2SM is on the vanguard as the only Southern-based Black women-led multidisciplinary project in the menopause and aging landscape, producing a podcast, hosting intergenerational events, and publishing zines.
Micronesia Climate Change Alliance (Guam)

Their mission is to construct the importance of climate change as a threat multiplier to the Pacific Islands. Our network seeks to build urgency and cohesion through local communities and create a resilient model in the face of climate change.
San Anto Cultural Arts (San Antonio, TX)

San Anto Cultural Arts is a San Antonio, TX nonprofit founded in 1993 with the mission to foster human and community development through community-based arts.
Intelligent Mischief (New York)

Intelligent Mischief is a multi-disciplinary creative studio creating art, content, and transformative experiences; unleashing the power of Black imagination to shape the future.
Flowers & Bullets (Tucson, AZ)

Flowers & Bullets reclaim and amplify their cultural roots through sustainability, art, and rebellion to liberate, heal, and empower our community.
Sagan Kotturan CHamoru - Inadahen I Lina'la' Kotturan CHamoru

SKC is a sovereign space that nurtures and sustains Indigenous CHamoru arts and traditional practices, it was created by elder activists who have committed their lives to the liberation of our people and the perpetuation of our cultural survivorship.
Transforming Generations (Saint Paul, MN)

Transforming Generations is a non-profit organization providing support services to victims & survivors of gender-based violence in Hmong and Southeast Asian communities.
Center for Native Futures (Chicago, IL)

The Center for Native Futures is We are a platform for Native and Indigenous Futurists.
Asociación de Documentalista de Puerto Rico, Inc. (Puerto Rico)

ADocPR aims to amplify the reach of their narratives, reaffirming their cultural identity and empowering their communities.
Pegasus Media Project (Dallas, TX)

Pegasus Media Project is a non-profit organization that champions cultural diversity and transformative storytelling in film and media arts, empowering underrepresented communities with comprehensive education, collaborative works, and career pathways.
Undocumented Filmmakers Collective (Detroit, MI)

The Undocumented Filmmakers Collective tackles the systemic inequities that undocumented immigrants face in the field of filmmaking, by centering the expertise of undocumented people not only as sources of stories but more importantly as creators, artists, and primary audiences.
Borderlands Theater (Tucson, AZ)

Borderlands Theater strives to build equitable, joyful, and meaningful collaborations with the local community through innovative theater and responsive cultural programs ingrained in the heritage, narratives, and lived experiences of peoples rooted across the Sonoran Desert.
Decimania Incorporado (Puerto Rico)

Decima is an oral poetic and musical Puerto Rican tradition (part of the Latin American trova genre). Decimania’s work emerges from and is rooted in a context of cultural resistance, using this cultural tradition to help build a cultural movement that promotes inter-generational joy and self-respect among artists and families. [We believe that] art has the power to transform human visions about the various aspects of daily life. Our artists provoke human sensitivity and propose new views of the present.
Mississippi Coalition to End Corporal Punishment (Durant, MS)

The coalition's goal is to empower the citizens of Holmes County. We work to accomplish this by developing and supporting grassroots leaders, community organizers, parents, students, and members of the African American community, as well as community-based organizations in ways that ensure they have the necessary tools/skills of community organizing, advocacy, and activism to increase family engagement, build for meaningful social change, effectively impact local and state policy, family and governance structures, and build stronger/sustainable organizations and communities.
Southern Fried Queer Pride (Atlanta, GA)

Southern Fried Queer Pride (SFQP) is an Atlanta-based (on Muscogee & Cherokee land) organization empowering Black queer and QTPOC-centered communities in the South through the arts.

“I love the Constellations grant because it helped us to live up to its name: CONSTELLATIONS. Instead of a single line of power and responsibility, we are now able to expand our capacity to hold multiple communities and gatherings with a range of needs. Going against the capitalist notion of vertical asset-building, this is more about spreading our roots wide and embracing the many circles of communities that orbit the nucleus of our work."
- Ananya Chatterjea (Artistic Director)

OUR 2022 PARTNERS

ArtChangeUS (New York, NY)

Reversing long-term inequities in arts and culture
Scalawag Magazine (Durham, NC)

Working in solidarity with oppressed communities in the South to disrupt and shift the narratives that keep power and wealth in the hands of the few.
Voices of our Nations Arts Foundation (Miami, FL)

Nurturing Writers of Color Since 1999
Pauli Murray Center (Durham, NC)

The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice lifts up the life and legacy of activist, legal scholar, feminist, poet, and Episcopal priest, the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, in order to address enduring inequities and injustices.
Pu'uhonua Society (Honolulu, HI)

Creating opportunities for Native Hawaiian and Hawai‘i-based artists and cultural practitioners to express themselves and engage with and impact audiences. We support artists and makers who serve as translators/mediators/amplifiers of social justice issues in the community.
Spirit House (Durham, NC)

SpiritHouse uses culture, art and media to support the empowerment and transformation of communities most impacted by poverty, racism, gender inequity, criminalization and mass incarceration; through grassroots programs, cultural organizing and community collaborations.
Generations Indigenous Ways (Interior, SD)

Enhancing the Lakota Culture Through Indigenous Science
Meztli Projects (Los Angeles, CA)

An Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative centering Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles by using arts-based strategies to support, advocate for, and organize to highlight Native and Indigenous Artists and systems-impacted youth.
Femme Frontera (El Paso, TX)

A Latine-led film organization composed of and founded by predominantly women and non-binary filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México.
Comfrey Films (Durham, NC)

A Film Training Program and Production House designed to launch Black trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGNCI*) storytellers into independent filmmaking and to tell stories woven at the intersection of being Black and TGNCI*.
Say Sí (San Antonio, TX)

Igniting the creative power of young people as forces of positive change. We value artists, empower marginalized communities* and advance culture.
Detroit Narrative Agency (Detroit, MI)

Building narrative power in Detroit.
Reforming Arts (Saint Paul, MN)

Providing development opportunities for artists and arts leaders through direct mentorship, workshops, residencies, public events, conferences, statewide initiatives, and more.
TruArtSpeaks (Saint Paul, MN)

Cultivating literacy, leadership, and social justice through the study & application of Spoken Word and Hip Hop culture.
Ananya Dance Theatre (Saint Paul, MN)

An ensemble company of BIPOC women and femme professional dance artists.
Junebug Productions (New Orleans, LA)

Creating and supporting artistic works that question and confront inequitable conditions that have historically impacted the Black community.