Neighborhood Funders Group organizes philanthropy so that Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities and low-income communities thrive.
Neighborhood Funders Group’s grantmaking is built around pooled, intermediary vehicles rather than direct awards to individual nonprofits. Its recent funding is dominated by support for the Amplify Fund, the SWO Fund, and LIFT Fund grantmaking, with additional work through Rural Strategies and national grantmaking. The repeated recipient in the recent-grants list is Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, which appears as the regranting hub for those programs. The foundation’s programs point to a field-building role: they fund organizing infrastructure, funder education, and community-led strategies tied to racial justice, economic justice, gender justice, disability justice, climate justice, and community power building. That pattern is visible in grants for Amplify Fund grantmaking, support for NFG/LIFT’s SWO Fund, and national grantmaking. The recent data also shows Rural Strategies support, which extends the organization’s work to rural organizing and base-building. Across the grants list, the structure is less about one-off project checks than about sustaining funds that regrant onward. That makes Neighborhood Funders Group a funder to read as a platform for movement-oriented philanthropy, especially where BIPOC-led and low-income communities are the intended beneficiaries.
In place-based organizing, Neighborhood Funders Group gave $4,350,000 to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation for SWO grantmaking and $2,783,501 for the Amplify Fund Grantmaking Fund. Those grants show a strong emphasis on pooled vehicles that can move money into community-led work. Their rural strategy is also explicit. In 2023, they gave $70,500 to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation to support Rural Strategies’ grantmaking, followed by a $7,000 grant in 2025 to support the Rural Strategies Fund. That line of funding connects the foundation to rural organizing and infrastructure. The national side of the portfolio appears in a $1,000,000 grant for National Grantmaking, along with a $375,000 grant and a $363,500 grant in 2023 for LIFT Fund’s national grantmaking. Taken together, the data shows support for intermediary funds, rural movement work, and broader national grantmaking infrastructure.
Typical grant size is large: the p25 is $186,375, the median is $477,500, and the p75 is $1,272,500. The recent-grants list is dominated by repeated support to the same intermediary recipient over multiple years, indicating a recurring funding pattern rather than isolated awards. As a Pure DAF Provider, Neighborhood Funders Group operates through a donor-advised fund structure, and the listed grants are all made to organizations rather than individuals. No unsolicited application pathway is shown in the active programs except for the New York Rural Organizing Portfolio, which is marked as accepting unsolicited submissions.
$21.6M
$31.4M
$17.3M
$17.5M
Most grants fall between $186K and $1.3M, with a median of $478K.
25th Percentile
$186K
Median
$478K
75th Percentile
$1.3M
About 0% of grants go to recipients in DC.
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The grant record is highly concentrated in Washington, DC: the recent list shows Amalgamated Charitable Foundation there as the recipient on all 20 listed grants, and DC is the top state by grant count. Even so, the foundation’s giving scope is regional rather than local to California, and 0% of grants go to recipients in the HQ state of CA. The recipient-country distribution is entirely domestic, with 20 grants in the US and none outside the country.
The foundation supports organizing infrastructure, philanthropic practice reform, rural organizing, community ownership in development, and funder education. Its stated focus areas also include racial justice, economic justice, gender justice, disability justice, climate justice, community power building, and grantmaking to BIPOC-led organizations.
No. The foundation is marked as not funding individuals, and the recent grants list shows organizational recipients rather than individual grantees.
The distribution is relatively large: p25 is $186,375, median grant size is $477,500, and p75 is $1,272,500. That suggests the foundation primarily operates with sizable program and intermediary grants.
The recent grants are concentrated in a single recipient, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, which appears on every listed grant. Those awards support multiple NFG programs, including SWO, Amplify, LIFT, Rural Strategies, and national grantmaking.
Only one active program in the data is marked as accepting unsolicited submissions: the New York Rural Organizing Portfolio under IRSG. The other listed programs are marked as not accepting unsolicited requests.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $4,350,000 | 2025 | Grant to support SWO grantmaking |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $2,783,501 | 2025 | Grant to support Amplify Fund Grantmaking Fund |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 | 2025 | Grant to support National Grantmaking |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $650,000 | 2025 | Grant to support NFG/Lift's Grantmaking Fund |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $600,000 | 2025 | Grant to support NFG/LIFT's SWO Fund |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $515,000 | 2025 | Amplify Fund Re-Grant |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2025 | IRSG Re-Grant |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $7,000 | 2025 | Grant to support Rural Strategies Fund |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $3,386,551 | 2024 | Grant to support NFG/Lift's SWO Fund |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $2,820,000 | 2024 | Regrant to Amalgamated for Amplify Funds 2023 program |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $1,030,000 | 2024 | Regrant to Amalgamated for LIFT Funds 2023 program |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $580,000 | 2024 | Regrant to Amalgamated for Amplify Funds 2023 program |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $225,000 | 2024 | Regrant to Amalgamated for LIFT Funds 2023 program. |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 2024 | House US |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $2,000,000 | 2023 | To support Amplify Fund's Grantmaking |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $800,000 | 2023 | To support Amplify Fund's Grantmaking |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $375,000 | 2023 | To support LIFT Fund's National grantmaking |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $363,500 | 2023 | To support LIFT Fund's National grantmaking |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $70,500 | 2023 | To support Rural Strategies' Grantmaking |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2023 | To support Rural Strategies' Grantmaking |
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$4,350,000Grant to support SWO grantmaking
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$2,783,501Grant to support Amplify Fund Grantmaking Fund
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$1,000,000Grant to support National Grantmaking
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$650,000Grant to support NFG/Lift's Grantmaking Fund
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$600,000Grant to support NFG/LIFT's SWO Fund
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$515,000Amplify Fund Re-Grant
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$25,000IRSG Re-Grant
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$7,000Grant to support Rural Strategies Fund
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$3,386,551Grant to support NFG/Lift's SWO Fund
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$2,820,000Regrant to Amalgamated for Amplify Funds 2023 program
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$1,030,000Regrant to Amalgamated for LIFT Funds 2023 program
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$580,000Regrant to Amalgamated for Amplify Funds 2023 program
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$225,000Regrant to Amalgamated for LIFT Funds 2023 program.
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$10,000House US
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$2,000,000To support Amplify Fund's Grantmaking
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$800,000To support Amplify Fund's Grantmaking
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$375,000To support LIFT Fund's National grantmaking
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$363,500To support LIFT Fund's National grantmaking
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$70,500To support Rural Strategies' Grantmaking
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
$50,000To support Rural Strategies' Grantmaking