Our Organizing Grant cycle is currently closed.
Check back in May to see when the next cycle will open.
A.J. Muste Foundation
provides grants, sponsorships, and educational resources to hundreds of grassroots projects around the world. We fund innovative organizing, often with seed funds that give a necessary boost to bold ideas.
Ways we support
Organizing Grants
Funds grassroots activist projects prioritizing those with small budgets and little access to mainstream funding.
Rapid Response Grants
These grants are for the immediate and/or emergency needs of groups involved in grassroots nonviolent activism.
Fiscal Sponsorship
Enables organizations to receive tax-deductible contributions for work related to social justice education and activism.
“The War on Protest” by Adam Federman
Stay up-to-date on legal threats protesters may face in the US.
Grantee: Climate Defiance
organizes nonviolent direct actions to elevate climate change to be a top-three political issue in American politics, ending fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters, and ending sacrifice zones and usher in a just transition for those most impacted
Grantee: Partners 4 Palestine
supports full national rights, self-determination and security for Palestinians based on International law and UN resolutions. They organize through increasing public awareness, promoting dialogue, supporting nonviolent BDS, and more.
Grantee: Back from the Brink
is a grassroots coalition managing a national campaign to mobilize the public and build the political will needed to prevent nuclear war and fundamentally change nuclear weapons policy in the United States.