New Breath Foundation

About New Breath Foundation

New Breath Foundation centers grassroots AANHPI organizations working with people harmed by incarceration, deportation, and violence in the United States. A defining feature of the foundation’s grantmaking is its use of the We Got Us Fund, a donor-advised fund at the East Bay Community Foundation that backs grassroots AANHPI groups and prioritizes organizations with annual budgets under $1 million, including volunteer-run groups under $100,000. The foundation also supports an annual New Breath Fund for organizations aligned with its three pillars: Hope and Healing, Keeping Families Together, and Movement Building. Its recent grants show a strong pattern of support for community-rooted infrastructure as well as direct program work. Large grants to the East Bay Community Foundation through We Got Us account for the biggest awards in the record, while many other grants sit at a standard level of $20,000 or $15,000. Across the recent list, recipients include Asian Health Services, Chinese for Affirmative Action Fbo Asian Refugees United, and the Samoan Community Development Center Fbo Pasifika Urban Roots, showing attention to AANHPI communities, immigrant defense, family reunification, and cross-racial solidarity. The foundation’s giving is regionally focused within the United States, with California appearing frequently in the recipient list.

What New Breath Foundation Funds

In AANHPI community organizing, New Breath Foundation gave $20,000 to Asian American Resource Workshop for agency mission, and $15,000 to Asian Solidarity Collective Pilipino Workers Center for agency mission. Those grants point to support for grassroots organizing and community-led advocacy. For immigrant and refugee defense, the foundation awarded $20,000 to Chinese for Affirmative Action Fbo Asian Refugees United for agency mission and $20,000 to Instituto Lab Fbo Arizona Aanhpi for Equity for agency mission. It also gave $15,000 to Mekong Inc for agency mission, extending support to organizations serving immigrant communities. The foundation’s anti-violence and healing-related work appears in grants such as $12,707 to Allied Media Projects Survived & Punished for agency mission and $20,000 to Transforming Generations for agency mission. These awards fit its stated pillars around hope and healing, keeping families together, and movement building.

How New Breath Foundation Gives