About Solidago Foundation
Support innovative and effective grassroots organizing across social, racial, and environmental justice movements, and strengthen civic empowerment to build a more just and durable democracy.
Focus Areas
Voter engagementVoting rightsVoter protectionDemocracy reformClimate and environmental justiceInclusive economiesResource generationWorker's voices / worker organizingGrassroots organizingLeadership development
Funding Style
general operating / unrestricted supportprogrammatic support (program implementation funding)project-specific / time-limited support
About Solidago Foundation
Solidago Foundation’s largest recent grant was $1,475,233 to Circle for Justice Innovations Inc in Brooklyn for general operating support. That award fits a broader pattern of backing grassroots organizations through unrestricted, programmatic, and project support across democracy, climate and environmental justice, inclusive economies, resource generation, and worker organizing. The foundation’s recent grants also show repeated support for groups working in battleground states and for national networks that amplify local organizing. Among the clearest signals in the recent grants are multiple awards to Blueprint in Durham, including $150,000 in 2023 and 2024 for programmatic support and additional project support in 2025. Solidago also backed People’s Action Institute in Chicago with $100,000 in both 2023 and 2024, reflecting continued support for national organizing infrastructure. Its work is not limited to one issue lane: the foundation’s docket structure includes voting rights protection, climate and environmental justice, inclusive economies, resource generation, and workers’ voices.
What Solidago Foundation Funds
In civic empowerment and democracy work, Solidago funded Arizona Democracy Resource Center in Phoenix with $90,000 in 2023 and again in 2024 for programmatic support. It also gave Common Cause in Raleigh $50,000 in 2025 for project support, showing use of both recurring and time-limited grants in the voting-rights space. Worker organizing is another clear area. Georgia 9to5 in Atlanta received $50,000 in 2023 and 2024 for programmatic support, while Black Male Initiative Georgia in Atlanta received $35,000 in 2025 for general operating support C3 work. The foundation also supports climate and environmental justice. Spirit in Action in Asheville received $50,000 in 2023 and 2024 for programmatic support, and California Coalition for Women Prisoners in Oakland received $50,000 in 2023 and 2024 for programmatic support.
How Solidago Foundation Gives
Solidago’s typical grant size is flat: the p25, median, and p75 are all $25,000. The recent grants list shows a mix of one-time awards and repeated support to the same organizations across multiple years, including 2023, 2024, and 2025. The foundation gives through a regular funder structure, with docket-based and program-area grantmaking, and it also makes program-related investments. Its grants include general operating support, programmatic support, project support, and lobbying-eligible support. Unsolicited applications are not accepted in the active program areas listed.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2.1M
Total Assets
$2M
Total Revenue
$2.9M
Total Expenses
$3.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $25K and $25K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$25K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
National22 states funded
About 5% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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