About Groundswell Fund
Groundswell Fund directs resources to grassroots movements led by women of color and transgender and gender-expansive people of color to build bodily autonomy, civic power, and long-term organizational capacity—with a core focus on reproductive justice, birth justice, and movement infrastructure.
Focus Areas
Reproductive justiceBirth justiceRacial and gender justiceClimate justiceTrans and gender-expansive justiceCommunity care and mutual aidIntegrated voter engagement / civic participation
Who They Fund
unspecified / not provided
Funding Style
programmatic supportproject-restricted fundingdirect service funding
About Groundswell Fund
A $727,056 program-support grant to Miss MajorAlex L Lee TGIJP in San Francisco, CA stands out in Groundswell Fund’s recent giving and reflects its focus on grassroots movements led by women of color and transgender and gender-expansive people of color. The fund directs money into reproductive justice, birth justice, and movement infrastructure, with grantmaking that also reaches racial and gender justice, climate justice, and integrated voter engagement. Recent support includes repeated funding for organizations such as Movement Strategy Center in Oakland, CA and Take in Birmingham, AL, showing sustained attention to movement-building work across multiple years. The foundation’s active programs also point to a layered strategy: rapid response for urgent needs, capacity support for grantees, and dedicated funds for reproductive justice, birth justice, and Black trans-led organizing. Its leadership is listed as Yamani Hernandez, and the foundation operates as a regular funder rather than a DAF.
What Groundswell Fund Funds
In reproductive justice, Groundswell Fund gave $383,000 in 2023 to Commonsense Childbirth Inc in Winter Garden, FL and $257,500 in 2025 to Women with a Vision in New Orleans, LA for program support. Birth justice appears as a separate funding lane: the foundation awarded $262,500 in 2025 to Commonsense Childbirth Inc and $220,000 in 2024 to the same organization. It also invests in racial and gender justice through grants such as $335,000 in 2024 to National Asian Pacific Women in Chicago, IL and $235,000 in 2023 to Sister Song Inc in Atlanta, GA. Civic power shows up in grants to Women Engaged in Atlanta, GA and Forward Together in Oakland, CA, both listed among recent program-support awards.
How Groundswell Fund Gives
Typical grants cluster around a median of $50,000, with a lower quartile of $15,000 and an upper quartile of $100,000. The recent list also shows much larger program-support awards, indicating that some relationships are scaled well above the median. Grants recur across years for several recipients, including Movement Strategy Center, Take, Commonsense Childbirth Inc, Bold Futures NM, Women with a Vision, Allied Media Projects, and Mujeres Unidas y Activas. Groundswell Fund is a regular funder and gives nationally across the United States. Several active streams are unsolicited=false, while the Black Trans Fund is listed as accepting unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$11.8M
Total Assets
$25.4M
Total Revenue
$13.3M
Total Expenses
$22.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $15K and $100K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$15K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$100K
Geographic Reach
National43 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Yamani Hernandez
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