Movement-led. Community-centered.
Kolibri.
provide grants and support for BIPOC-led social movement organizations to promote equity and justice for all people.
We are committed to spending down our assets to promote equity and justice for all people. We come to this work as a multi-racial, multi-class team with lived experiences as survivors of state and interpersonal violence and as people with disabilities, amongst other identities.
ABOUT THE FOUNDATION


EXPLORE What We Do
Funding rooted in relationship.
Traditional philanthropy often leaves out the grassroots organizations that most need funding to create necessary change.
Kolibri Foundation focuses on making our funding both movement and community-led to redistribute wealth, land, and power in an equitable way.
Kolibri Foundation focuses on making our funding both movement and community-led to redistribute wealth, land, and power in an equitable way.
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Strategic Grantmaking rooted in community-identified needs.
Our pillars of grant making include, but are not limited to:
- Alternative systems of safety
- Healing Justice
- Gender and Sexual-Based Violence
- Movement Building
We are especially interested in supporting organizations with a focus on elevating, uplifting, and organizing queer, gender non-conforming, trans, intersex, disability justice, healing and language justice, Indigenous, and working-class communities.
- Alternative systems of safety
- Healing Justice
- Gender and Sexual-Based Violence
- Movement Building
We are especially interested in supporting organizations with a focus on elevating, uplifting, and organizing queer, gender non-conforming, trans, intersex, disability justice, healing and language justice, Indigenous, and working-class communities.
LEARN MORE ABOUT FUNDING

Kolibri Foundation is funding for the people, by the people.
Whether you need funding or resources— we are ready to work intentionally with you. Fill out an application to get started.

Our partners' crucial work informs and impacts our grant making strategies.
Community-led solutions should amplify and honor the leadership and vision of those directly affected. We ground our funding decisions in a deep and genuine trust in our partners to do work that is most needed in their communities.
