About Fairness Project
Protect and advance ballot-measure driven policies that improve the lives of working people and defend direct democracy, including campaigns to raise wages, expand healthcare access, stop predatory lending, secure paid leave, and protect reproductive rights.
Focus Areas
ballot measure campaignsminimum wage / living wageMedicaid expansion / health care accessreproductive rightspaid family and medical leaveconsumer protection / predatory lendingprotecting voting rights and direct democracy
Funding Style
direct service / program deliveryproject-specific supportoperational/programmatic funding
Topics
About Fairness Project
The Fairness Project directs large program-services grants to ballot-measure campaigns that change state policy through direct democracy. Its recent awards show a clear pattern: major checks for reproductive-rights campaigns, paired with funding for wage, health care, paid-leave, and voting-related measures. The largest recent grant in the data is $16.4 million to Floridians Protecting Freedom Inc in Miami for program services, followed by $4.45 million to Missourians for Constitutional Freedom in St. Louis. The same campaign areas recur across states, including work on abortion access in Arizona and Nebraska and paid-sick-leave efforts in Nebraska. The foundation also supports ballot-measure infrastructure, not just one-off campaign ads: one of its active programs is the Ballot Measure Leadership Corps, which invests in campaign managers and senior staff to sustain talent between election cycles. Recent grantmaking also reaches organizations working on constitutional amendments, fair elections, and direct-democracy defenses, showing that the funder backs both policy wins and the campaign capacity needed to pursue them. Leadership is listed as Steve Trossman, and the foundation reports national scope.
What Fairness Project Funds
Reproductive rights are a major thread in the grant list. The Fairness Project gave $2.8 million to Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights in Columbus and $2.625 million to Arizona for Abortion Access in Phoenix, indicating repeated support for ballot-measure campaigns in multiple states. Worker-policy campaigns also appear prominently. In 2023, Raise the Wage Nebraska in Omaha received $265,000 for program services, and Better Jobs for Alaska Inc in Anchorage received $1.43 million in 2025. Paid leave is another specific area: Nebraskans for Paid Sick Leave in Omaha appears in the grant list at $125,000 in 2024 and again in 2025. The foundation also backed direct-democracy and election-related work, including $250,000 to South Dakotans for Fair Elections in Huron and $100,000 to Yes on Measure a for Sheriff Accountability in Oakland.
How Fairness Project Gives
Typical grants cluster in the mid-six-figure range, with p25 at $125,000, median at $257,500, and p75 at $500,000. The recent list also includes several much larger campaign awards, showing that the foundation uses both mid-sized and very large program-services grants. Recipients appear across multiple years: Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, Arizona for Abortion Access, Missourians for Healthy Families and Fair Wages, and Nebraskans for Paid Sick Leave all recur in the recent record. The grantmaker is structured around operational and programmatic support rather than individual giving, and its active programs are built for direct campaign partnership and staff development. Unsolicited applications are not accepted in the programs listed.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$26.9M
Total Assets
$4.3M
Total Revenue
$33.3M
Total Expenses
$32.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $125K and $500K, with a median of $258K.
25th Percentile
$125K
Median
$258K
75th Percentile
$500K
Geographic Reach
National13 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in NE.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
STEVE TROSSMAN
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