The Fringe Foundation

Our small, private nonprofit awards annual grants from $5,000 to $20,000 to grassroots, community-led, social justice organizations around the United States. We partner with groups that share our commitment to fighting intersecting forms of social inequality through non-sectarian, non-violent, community-based organizing. Our grant-making work prioritizes

Racial justice

Women’s justice

LGBTQ+ justice

Immigrant justice

Economic & housing justice

Educational justice

Art for justice

Image courtesy of The Freya Project.

Poet Nicole Sealey speaking at a Fringe-funded event in New York City. Image courtesy of Cave Canem and Poets at the End of the World.

Our 501(c)(3) partners range from anti-racism activists and workers’ rights centers to summer youth programs and independent publishers:

SOUTH

Adelante Alabama Workers’ Center (Hoover, AL)

Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (Irondale, AL)

Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative (Camden, AL)

Project Say Something (Florence, AL)

Mitchell-West Center for Social Inclusion at the University of North Alabama (Florence, AL)

Workers’ Dignity (Nashville, TN)

Nashville Freedom School (Nashville, TN)

Mid-South Peace and Justice Center (Memphis, TN)

Miami Workers Center (Miami, FL)

Dream Defenders (FL chapters)

MID-ATLANTIC & NORTHEAST

The Young Women’s Project (Washington, DC)

Bread and Roses Community Fund (Philadelphia, PA)

New Immigrant Community Empowerment (Queens, NY)

Right to the City Alliance (New York, NY)

The Freya Project (New York, NY)

Cave Canem Foundation (Brooklyn, NY)

Kundiman (New York, NY)

Poets at the End of the World (New York, NY)

Fuerza Laboral / Power of Workers (Central Falls, RI)

MIDWEST, WEST, & NATIONWIDE

Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN)

Open Architecture Collaborative (Los Angeles, CA)

Justice Arts Coalition (Nationwide)