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FISCAL YEAR 2022

OVERVIEW

$4,338,041

Total Amount Given

206 GROUPS

Awarded

$117 — $75,000

Range of Grant Amounts

FY22

Crossroads Fund is proud to announce that in fiscal year 2022 (FY22), we gave out $4,338,041 to 206 groups working for social change. In FY22, grant amounts ranged from $117 to $75,000. Unless otherwise noted, grants are for general operating support. Although the following list categorizes grantees based on one primary focus, grantees’ work is rarely limited to a single issue area. Most work across issues and prioritize the multiple needs of their diverse constituents. A notation after the grantee description indicates from which grant fund(s) they received funding. Funds include the Seed Fund (SF), Technical Assistance Fund (TA), Youth Fund for Social Change (YF), 501(c)(4) nonprofits (C4), and the Critical Response Fund (CRF), which provides rapid response grants to organizations working on issues that arise due to urgent political and social moments. Some organizations also received grants through the Capacity Building Initiative (CBI), a collaborative program that supports organizational growth and development. Grantees also received funding from our Partner Funds (PF), which include pooled funds and donor-advised funds:
    • Anti-Surveillance Network (Anti-Surveillance), a network of technologists and community organizers working to hold government and corporations accountable for their use of technology and data;
    • Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund (CRJPF), a funders collaborative housed at Crossroads Fund that supports Black-led community organizing and ally-led groups addressing anti-Blackness;
    • Eleuterio Fund (Eleuterio), which supports community-based arts, education, peace activism, and reproductive rights;
    • GRAM Fund (GRAM), which supports women and girls, rights for Arab Americans, and youth projects;
    • James Thindwa Grassroots Organizing Fund, which supports an annual event and project in honor of the late activist James Thindwa;
    • Monica George and Kyle Johnson Fund (MK Fund), which supports community organizing in Chicago;
    • Monica Cosby Fund, which supports community-based organizations working towards a society less reliant on the criminal legal system by creating alternative systems of care;
  • Women’s Voices Fund, a project of Women & Children First Bookstore, helps sustain and develop an ongoing program series focused on women’s lives, ideas, and work;
  • Anonymous donors
We also list the awards we grant at our annual benefit, Seeds of Change, by name. They are the Donald F. Erickson Synapses Award, the Lynda J. Tipton Memorial Award for Social Justice, and the Ron Sable Award for Activism.

Arts, Culture, & Media

AirGo Radio

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund

AirGo Radio

AirGo Radio is a weekly podcast and movement media hub that reshapes the culture of Chicago for the more liberatory and creative. Through conversations with movement workers, artists, rappers, poets, musicians, organizers, and changemakers, AirGo puts reimaginers in conversation and creates a dialogue-based archive of creative communities and social movements. The CRJPF grant aided in the production of Help This Garden Grow, a documentary podcast exploring the story of Hazel Johnson, a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side, who founded the People for Community Recovery to address the toxic industrial pollution that was killing the families of her community.

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AlMosaic

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

AlMosaic

AlMosaic provides support, access, and exposure for artists in immigrant and Arab Muslim communities. They challenge social misconceptions in the creative field, promote equal access to the arts, and strengthen movement work through art collectives, youth programs, and workshops.

Arts, Culture, & Media

alt_Chicago

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

alt_Chicago

alt_Chicago is an artist-led organization dedicated to revitalizing communities through art and culture. alt_Chicago provides an alternative to the dominant cultural narrative, manifesting new opportunities in a time of need on the South and West Sides of Chicago.

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The Center for International Performance and Exhibition dba HotHouse

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

The Center for International Performance and Exhibition dba HotHouse

The Center for International Performance and Exhibition dba HotHouse presents performances, exhibitions, and cultural events that build diverse audiences, foster international exchange, and support grassroots development and social justice activism.

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Arts, Culture, & Media

ChiResists

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

ChiResists

ChiResists uses creativity, media, cultural/popular education and direct action to spark conversation, demand justice and uplift the power of Black, Brown and Indigenous communities. A recent offering includes Joyful Resistance: The People’s Choir, which is a BIPOC community space for joyful activation and joyful resistance to create new music.

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Chicago Art Department (CAD)

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

Chicago Art Department (CAD)

Chicago Art Department (CAD) provides socially minded artists with equitable and accessible space to grow their practice. Through residencies, think-tank programs, community events, and contemporary exhibitions, CAD creates a space for artists to question the city we live in. Their project, “Seeds in My Pocket,” brought together artists, activists, and organizers like Sam Kirk and Alexei Young to highlight stories from Little Village and North Lawndale.

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Chicago Palestine Film Festival

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

Chicago Palestine Film Festival

The Chicago Palestine Film Festival (CPFF) exhibits and promotes art and films to spur productive conversations about the Palestinian culture and the diaspora. CPFF is the world’s longest consecutive-running Palestinian film festival. They have screened over 250 films and offer a space that is open, critical, and reflective of the culture, experience, and vision of the filmmakers and artists.

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Cicero Independiente

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

Cicero Independiente

Cicero Independiente is a independent news outlet providing accurate reporting of Cicero, a suburb of Chicago. They connect residents to important resources and information and equip residents with journalism skills to engage in local democracy. This year their fellowship is focused on creating a bilingual photojournalism program to investigate environmental justice issues in Cicero, like unexpected tree removals and access to water bill assistance for low-income residents.

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CIRCA Pintig

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

CIRCA Pintig

CIRCA Pintig educates, mobilizes, and organizes community members, primarily Asian immigrants and their families, through performing arts and community-centered intergenerational programs and services. Their work focuses on community engagement to debunk the model minority myth and producing a new play that tells the story of four multiracial families impacted by gun violence.

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Arts, Culture, & Media

City Bricks: Report Card Project

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Technical Assistance Fund

City Bricks: Report Card Project

City Bricks: Report Card Project is a civic art project consisting of public murals and a documentary film that explores racial wealth inequality and building community power in Chicago’s West and South Sides to address poverty. A Technical Assistance Fund grant supported a website redesign, program evaluation, and community screenings.

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Community Film Workshop of Chicago

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Seed Fund

Community Film Workshop of Chicago

Community Film Workshop of Chicago (CFWC) provides training, access, and support to independent media artists on Chicago’s South Side. CFWC offers the tools for people of color, youth and women to uplift social issues, counter narratives, and transform their communities.

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El Griot and Areito Project

Year Awarded

2022

  • Year Awarded

    2022

  • Award Category

    Arts, Culture, & Media

  • Grant Fund

    Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund

El Griot and Areito Project

El Griot and Areito Project decolonizes history by centering Black, Indigenous, and people of color’s stories of resistance and liberation to reclaim stories, healing, and carrying cultural wealth forward for future generations. El Griot and Areito is co-creating a curriculum about the Young Lords’ history and organizing a Young Lords Liberation Summer Camp.

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