About Channel Foundation
Channel Foundation prioritizes feminist, women-led, and gender-justice movements worldwide while maintaining a meaningful local civic investment in Seattle housing/land stewardship. Their international portfolio funds women’s human rights, women with disabilities, peacebuilding and feminist funding intermediaries and fiscal sponsors, often supporting groups repeatedly over time. Grants tend to be operational or program support and frequently routed through collaborative funds and fiscal sponsors to strengthen movement infrastructure.
Focus Areas
Global feminist funds and movement infrastructure (e.g., fiscal sponsors and collaborative funding for women’s movements)Women’s human rights and leadership development in the Global South (regional networks, training, advocacy)Women with disabilities and inclusive gender justice programmingWomen-led peacebuilding and conflict resolution (including efforts to end specific conflicts)Local land trust and community-affordable housing in Seattle (transfer and stewardship of property)
Who They Fund
women and girls in conflict or displacement contexts (refugees, internally displaced)
About Channel Foundation
Channel Foundation’s most distinctive pattern is its mix of global feminist grantmaking and a single large local land transfer: $1,547,281 to Homestead Community Land Trust for the transfer of Benson East LLC interest. Beyond that Seattle transaction, the foundation consistently backs women’s human rights, feminist leadership, and movement infrastructure through grants that often support general operations, fiscal sponsorship, and collaborative funds. Recent awards show a strong reliance on $50,000 grants to organizations working on women’s rights, peacebuilding, reproductive justice, and protections for women human rights defenders. The foundation’s portfolio also includes recurring support for organizations serving women with disabilities, LBQ women, and women’s rights advocates in regional and global networks. Grantees such as Women Enabled International, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, and Frida Young Feminist Fund point to a grantmaker that funds both advocacy and the institutions that hold feminist movements together. Seattle-based giving appears alongside international partnerships, but the center of gravity is movement support across multiple regions, not a single local program area.
What Channel Foundation Funds
Women’s human rights and feminist movement infrastructure are the clearest throughline in Channel Foundation’s grantmaking. It gave $50,000 to Women’s Link Worldwide for general operating support and another $50,000 to Intrn'l Womns Rghts Actn Watch Asia Pac for general operating support, both of which fit its focus on legal equality, advocacy, and regional organizing. The foundation also funds work on women with disabilities. A $50,000 grant to Disability Rights Fund Inc supported women with disabilities, aligning with its emphasis on inclusive gender justice. In peacebuilding, Channel provided $50,000 to the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders and $50,000 to Women Cross Dmz for ending the Korean War, showing support for women’s participation in conflict resolution. For reproductive rights and rights defense, the foundation backed Global Press Institute, Purposeful, and Women Human Rights Defenders in the MENA region through Feminists in Swana, all at $50,000 levels and mainly as operating support or thematic advocacy funding.
How Channel Foundation Gives
Channel Foundation’s typical grant size is tightly clustered: p25 is $30,000, while both the median and p75 are $50,000. That pattern matches a portfolio built around standardized grants rather than highly variable award sizes. The recent list also shows repeated support for the same organizations across multiple years, including Consorcio Oaxaca, Fundo Elas, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, Front Line USA Foundation, and Women Win Foundation Inc. The foundation is a regular funder rather than a DAF, makes no program-related investments, and does not fund individuals. Its public materials describe direct grants by invitation only for many of its programs, while one partner fund, the Global Resilience Fund, accepts unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$575K
Total Assets
$14.5M
Total Revenue
$2M
Total Expenses
$916K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $30K and $50K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$30K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$50K
Geographic Reach
National11 states funded
About 6% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Channel Foundation Funds
Top 10 recipient countries by grant volume for Channel Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 87 | $4.9M | 70.7% |
| 2 | Canada | 7 |
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