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Kolibri Foundation Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 13-4003955. Reported 226 grants totalling $16.8M to 192 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Kolibri Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $47,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $614,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movement for Black Lives | Oakland, CA | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Social Good Fund | Richmond, CA | $710,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc | Green Mountain, NC | $614,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alliance for Global Justice | Tucson, AZ | $575,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Common Counsel Foundation | Oakland, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Griffin Gracy Education | Little Rock, AR | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| M4BL | Lawrenceville, GA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Native American Board | Washington, DC | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors | New York, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Harriet Wild Dreams | Washington, DC | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fundacion De Mujeres | San Juan, PR | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fundacion De Mujeres | San Juan, Puerto Rico | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nat'l Inst Peer Support Harriet's Wildest Dreams | Clinton, MD | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nqttcn | Baltimore, MD | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Restoration | Mt Vernon, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Restorationbirthmark Doula Collective | New Orleans, LA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trans Justice Funding Project | Brooklyn, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Intransitive Tm Inc | Mabelvale, AR | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Star Fund | New York, NY | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepeneurs | Calabasas, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Knights & Orchids Society (tko) | Selma, AL | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Right to the City Alliance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Project South | Atlanta, GA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rockefeller Phil | New York, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southners on New Ground | Atlanta, GA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Strippers United Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Astraea Foundation | New York, NY | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Allied Media Projects | Detroit, MI | $130,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Healing to Action | Chicago, IL | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ohio Voice | Columbus, OH | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tko Society | Selma, AL | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grassroots Asians Rising | San Francisco, CA | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Poder in Action | Phoenix, AZ | $105,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Adalah Justice Project | Glen Carbon, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Capital Tea Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Third World | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Decarceration Collective | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Decarceration Collective Street Youth Rise Up | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Drinking Gourd | Phoenixville, AZ | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Drinking Gourd Reparations Summer | Phoenixville, AZ | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Tree Clinic | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Tree Clinic Relationships Evolving Possibilities | Minneapolis, MN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fathers 4 Justice | Patrington, Hull | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Funders for Justice | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hawai'i Health & Harm | Honolulu, HI | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Healing to Action Nfp | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latinx Therapist Action Network | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc Healthy & Free Tennesee | Memphis, TN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ohio Voiceopawl | Columbus, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Open Collective Fdn | Covina, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Collective Foundationssftx | Covina, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Queer Crescent | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Reparations Summer | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Resist Inc | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Resist Inc Birth Center Equity | Jamaica Plain, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ruckus Society | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Social Justice Fund Northwest | Seattle, WA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Social Justice Fund Nw | Seattle, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern Power Fund | Atlanta, GA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Audre Lorde Project | Brooklyn, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Center for Third World Organizing | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Lighthouse Black Girl Project | Jackson, MS | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Smile Trust | Miami, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Capital Tea Inc | Annapolis, MD | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charleston Good Inc | Charleston, SC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charleston Good Inc Bee Collective | Charleston, SC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Circuito De Innovacion | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Circuito De Innovacion | Cundinamarca | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Colectiva Feminista En Construccion | Bayamon, PR | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Collective Action for Safe Spaces | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawaii Health & Harm Kuana | Honolulu, HI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Healing Together | Oakland, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Healing Together Reclaiming Our Own Transcendence | Oakland, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Idaho Coalition Against | Boise, ID | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Idaho Coalition Against Poder | Boise, ID | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Impact Services Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Impact Services Inc Turtle Mountain Impact | Philadelphia, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Khmer Girls in Action | Long Beach, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mirror Memoirs | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muslims for Just Futures | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Right to the City Alliance Soil | Brooklyn, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social & Environmenttiger's Eye Collective | Calabasas, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social and Environment | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Soil a Transformative Justice Project | Selma, AL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative Snap Co | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soulforce | Abilene, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Turtle Mountain Empowerment Self Defense | Albeuqyerqye, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ujimaa Medics | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Women's Freedom Center | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Solidaire Network Inc | Oakland, CA | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Decolonizing Wealth Project | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Global Action Project | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Groundswell Fund | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Transgender Legal Defense | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Connectnyc | New York, NY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Drinking Gourd Farms | Phoenix, AZ | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Neighborhood Funders Group | Oakland, CA | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Acorn Center | Atlanta, GA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gsp Foundation | Suryaraopet, Vijayawada | $26,788 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Auburn Theo Seminary | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Audrey Guardado | Granada Hills, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bee Collective | Columbus, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Birth Center Equity | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Birthmark Doula Collective | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Feminist Fund | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Circuito De Innovacion | Alpharetta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fundacion De Mujeres | Madrid | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Griffin Gracy Education Center | Little Rock, AR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healthy & Free Tennessee | Madison, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hips | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence | Boise, ID | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Native American Board | Lake Andes, SD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighbor Funder Group | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reclaiming Our Own Transcendence | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Relationships Evolving Possibilites | Saint Paul, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soil (rttc) | Selma, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Asian Soar | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ssftx | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Street Youth Rise Up | Plainfield, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tigers Eye Collective | Reisterstown, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Turtle Mountain Impact Inc | Belcourt, ND | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fundacion Amigos Del Mar | Cartagena, Cartagena | $21,430 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Afroresistance | Bronx, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equity & Transformation | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Justice Committee Inc | Jackson Heights, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Soul Sisters Leadership Collective | Miami, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tamara Taittbx Birth & Progress Collective | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asase Yaa Cultural Art | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Centro Mujer Dominican | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Centro Mujer Dominican | San Juan, PR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centro Mujer Dominican | San Juan, Puerto Rico | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coordinadora Paz | San Juan, Puerto Rico | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Nations Development | Albuquerque, NM | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Racial Justice Now | Silver Spring, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Engine Room | Eagle Heights London, London | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Transgender Awareness | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Transgender Law Center | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Yellowhammer Fund | Birmingham, AL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Global Communication | Great Neck, NY | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Third World Newsreel | New York, NY | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Brava for Women in Art | San Francisco, CA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coordinadora Paz | San Juan, PR | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tides Advocacy | West Hollywood, CA | $10,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Advocates for Youth | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Agitarte | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amigos Del Mar | Ambergris Caye, San Pedro | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barnard Development | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bibleway Community Development | Columbia, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| DC Sisters | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Diverse City Fund | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Famu (iro Foundation) | Tallahassee, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hips | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| In Cultured Community | Great Neck, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lyndon Gray (the Givers Revival) | Abilene, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Macauley Honors College | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Miscellaneous | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Organization for Human Rights and Democracy | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Spot Kc | Kansas City, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Richmond Reproductive | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Street Vendor Project | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We Are Family | North Charleston, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brooklyn Level Up | Brooklyn, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brooklyn Movement Center | Brooklyn, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Generation Seeds | Bethesda, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hispanic Scholars Program | New York, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brava Foundation | Columbis, OH | $5,358 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Migrant Power Fund | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camera News | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chinese Progressive Association | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Common Counsel Fdn | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Every Voice Center | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fuga | Phoenixville, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace in Action | Millburn, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Just Futures | Williamstown, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kofi Osei Williamsasase Yaa Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maracuyeah | Lafayette Hill, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Network of Abortion Funds | Beaverton, OR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network | Baltimore, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Open Architecture Collective | San Francisco, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| People's Church | Fresno, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Repairers of the Breach | Goldsboro, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Revolutionary Emergency Partners | Saint Paul, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sazonblea 2023 Sponsorship | Tucson, AZ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salsa Soul Sisters | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seed Stewards | Easton, MD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shadow Work Media | Brooklyn, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women's March Network | Brooklyn, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Philanthropy New York | New York, NY | $1,900 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Center for Family Philanthropy | Washington, DC | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
24 of 192 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 16%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 68 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 26 | $2,466,900 | $50,000 |
| 2021 | 18 | $1,810,200 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 56 | $4,648,576 | $75,000 |
| 2023 | 50 | $4,152,700 | $75,000 |
| 2024 | 76 | $3,690,000 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 27% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $47,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Kolibri Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1419 V St Nw, Washington, DC, 20009. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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