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Who can apply: Projects should align with ODW’s clean water and sanitation priorities and be implemented through locally led partners.
About One Day's Wages
One Day’s Wages exists to alleviate extreme poverty by investing in, amplifying, and coming alongside locally led organizations in underserved communities.
Focus Areas
Children's educationFood & farming / global hungerIncome generation / jobs & skillsMaternal & child healthWater & sanitationEmergency reliefClimate resilienceTrafficking prevention & recoverySocial inclusionRefugee resilience
Who They Fund
children (including child victims of sexual violence and child slavery survivors)women and girls (including survivors of violence and women with disabilities)
About One Day's Wages
One Day’s Wages centers grantmaking on locally led work that alleviates extreme poverty, with a mix of emergency response, water and sanitation, education, health, and anti-trafficking support. In 2023, its largest listed grant went to A Breeze of Hope Foundation for healing and justice for child victims of sexual violence, showing a willingness to back survivor-centered work at a substantial scale. Other large awards supported Ukraine emergency relief through Grace Tea and Ukraine relief through World Relief, alongside project funding for rural health, clean water, and child protection. The foundation’s recent grants also point to a consistent preference for organizations working in underserved communities and crisis-affected settings, often through specific projects rather than broad unrestricted support. Its portfolio includes partners serving women and girls with disabilities, children affected by violence or slavery, refugee and conflict-affected populations, and rural communities facing basic needs gaps. The foundation is a public charity with national reach and a grantmaking model built around partnerships with locally led organizations.
What One Day's Wages Funds
Several of One Day’s Wages’ recurring cause areas appear in named project grants. In child protection and survivor recovery, it supported Beyond Borders with $52,733 for “More Than a Survivor: Ending Child Slavery” and Freely in Hope with $39,521 for strengthening support for survivors of violence. In health and basic services, it gave $50,075 to Himalayan Healthcare for “One Home, One Toilet” and $41,145 to Rural Health Care Initiative for mobile health clinics in Sierra Leone. Education is also present through Planting Seeds International’s $43,931 grant for comprehensive early learning centers in Guatemala and Empower Tanzania’s $14,682 grant for the Same Learning Center for underserved students. Food and livelihoods show up as well, including $34,388 to The Adventure Project for helping Kenyan farmers fight the food crisis and $37,980 to Restore Hope for women’s empowerment, economic development, and mental health in rural Liberia.
How One Day's Wages Gives
One Day’s Wages gives in a mid-five-figure range: the typical grant size sits at $30,491 at the 25th percentile, $39,760 at the median, and $52,068 at the 75th percentile. The recent grants list also includes one larger award at $128,956, alongside many grants clustered around $30,000 to $50,000. The foundation operates as a public charity and a regular funder, not a donor-advised fund or program-related investment vehicle. Its active programs indicate a partner-based model, including multi-year growth grants for past partners and one-year grassroots grants for new partners. Several organizations appear only once in the recent-grants list, suggesting a project-by-project pattern rather than repeated annual awards to the same grantees in this dataset.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1M
Total Assets
$538K
Total Revenue
$775K
Total Expenses
$1.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $30K and $52K, with a median of $40K.
25th Percentile
$30K
Median
$40K
75th Percentile
$52K
Geographic Reach
National12 states funded
About 5% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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