Grow Power Fund

That’s a great question! The Grow Power Fund grant is invite only. We learn of potential grantees from other staff at Third Wave Fund, current and former grantees, and from our own travels in social justice movement spaces. Because there are not enough programs doing this type of multi-year funding, we are often overwhelmed with letters of interest from potential grantees. Your group is welcome to first review the criteria listed above in the fund description and below in the next question. If you’d like to reach out, please feel free to email rachel@thirdwavefund.org. Please know that we get an overwhelming number of emails. If you don’t get an immediate response, please know it’s because we do not have capacity to address every email directly.

The Grow Power Fund funds emerging, intergenerational youth-led, feminist, queer, and trans reproductive and gender justice movement building organizations. We focus on organizations led by young women, trans, queer and intersex people who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. We focus on funding groups and organizations in regions that are historically underfunded and who have budgets of less than $200,000 USD.  

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Some issue areas we fund: racial and/or economic justice, immigration justice, reproductive justice, HIV/AIDS justice, trans, intersex, gender non conforming, and queer justice, abolitionist/anti-carceral work, anti-imperialist work, and anti-violence work aimed at ending interpersonal and state violence.

Yes! Please reach out to your program officer to see if your group might be eligible for consideration.

You do not need to have a 501(c)3 status, your group can also be a fiscally sponsored project.

​​The Grow Power Fund exists as a resource for reproductive and gender justice activism because of individual contributions from our community. If you are moved by this fund, consider joining hundreds of other community members who give monthly to sustain this resourcing, or give a one-time gift today.