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.

Grants

Grantees

FISCAL YEAR 2022

OVERVIEW

$4,338,041

Total Amount Given

206 GROUPS

Awarded

$117 — $75,000

Range of Grant Amounts

FY22

Arts, Culture, & Media

AirGo Radio

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

AlMosaic

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

alt_Chicago

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

The Center for International Performance and Exhibition dba HotHouse

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

ChiResists

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

Chicago Art Department (CAD)

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

Chicago Palestine Film Festival

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

Cicero Independiente

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

CIRCA Pintig

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

City Bricks: Report Card Project

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

Community Film Workshop of Chicago

Year Awarded

Arts, Culture, & Media

El Griot and Areito Project

Year Awarded

Building a World Without Police & Prisons