Black Lives Matter Global Network
Oakland, CA · EIN 82-4862489. Reported 74 grants totalling $25.4M to 63 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Black Lives Matter Global Network, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 8% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $200,000. Half of what it reported fell between $188,093 and $500,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $2,300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love Not Blood Campaign | San Jose, CA | $2,702,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Living Through Giving Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $2,300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Michael Od Brown We Love Our Sons & Daughters Foundation | Florissant, MO | $1,500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Team Blackbird LLC | West Hollywood, CA | $1,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oakland & the World Enterprises Inc | Oakland, CA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Higher Heights Home Care Inc | Lithonia, GA | $920,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | Detroit, MI | $900,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Black Power | Los Angeles, CA | $800,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Third World Organizing | Oakland, CA | $533,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Bend Black Empowerment Fund Inc | South Bend, IN | $505,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Black Lives Matter DC Ico Grassroots DC | Washington, DC | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Building Audacity | Boston, MA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cangress | Los Angeles, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Services Unlimited | Los Angeles, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Food Chain Workers Alliance Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Memphis Artists for Change | Memphis, TN | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Movement Alliance Project | Philadelphia, PA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| One Love Global Inc | Lansing, MI | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center | Boulder, CO | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Highlander Research & Education Center Inc | New Market, TN | $400,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St James Infirmary | Las Vegas, NV | $400,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tamir Rice Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering | Birmingham, AL | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $297,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Trayvon Martin Foundation Inc | Miami Gardens, FL | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Alliance for Global Justice | Tucson, AZ | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Anti Police-Terror Project Inc | Oakland, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arts Business Collaborative Inc | Elmhurst, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Audre Lorde Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| BYP100 Education Fund | Springfield, IL | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Center on Halsted | Chicago, IL | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Equity and Transformation | Berwyn, IL | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat & Historical Center | Little Rock, AR | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Haitian Bridge Alliance | San Diego, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| House of Tulip | New Orleans, LA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| I Am Sac Foundation Inc | Sacramento, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Institute for Peer Support | Tucson, AZ | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oscar Grant Foundation | Castro Valley, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans | San Diego, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Reuniting of African Descendants | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Elmos Village | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Takeaction Minnesota Education Fund | St Paul, MN | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The George Floyd Memorial Foundation Inc | Charlotte, NC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trans Justice Housing Project Inc | Atlanta, GA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trans United Fund | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project Ico Justice Now | Oakland, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Transgender Law Center | Oakland, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trustafrica | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chinese Progressive Association | Oakland, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fii - National | Concord, CA | $93,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Aid & Development Corporation | Decatur, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Black Lives Matter Nwi Gary Ico Christ United Methodist Church | Gary, IN | $68,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Black Justice Coalitionaction Fund Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waco Theater Center | N Hollywood, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party | Garden City, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Committee to Support the Los Angeles Equity Fund Initiative | Oakland, CA | $49,999 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hollywood Cares Foundation Inc | Encino, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wayfinder Foundation | St Petersburg, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Global Exchange | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Voice Buffalo Inc | Buffalo, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
6 of 63 (10%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Living Through Giving Foundation
TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO EDUCATE AND SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES - Love Not Blood Campaign
TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES - Committee to Support the Los Angeles Equity Fund Initiative
TO SUPPORT A BALLOT INITIATIVE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 50 of 63 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 48 | $18.0M | $200,000 |
| 2021 | 12 | $4,250,777 | $200,000 |
| 2022 | 9 | $638,882 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 5 | $2,522,500 | $702,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
52% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $200,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Black Lives Matter Global Network's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 4 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 248 3RD St 305, Oakland, CA, 94607.
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