Empowering Progressive Changemakers
The Sixteen Thirty Fund believes in the power of new ideas, creative partnerships, and emerging leaders to achieve meaningful and lasting solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. We help changemakers maximize their impact by providing operational support that allows them to focus on advancing their core missions.
Our Focus Areas
The Impact We Make
The Sixteen Thirty Fund supports projects across the United States.
2009
Established
50
US States
104
Sponsored Projects
1,400
Grants
500+
Donors
Our Work
The Sixteen Thirty Fund is proud to support hundreds of frontline organizations, including the featured grantees below.
Voting Access and Civic Participation
The Fairness Project
The Fairness Project helps put progressive issues on the ballot to expand health care and win social, racial, and economic justice. Since 2016, their team has won Medicaid expansion, higher wages, paid sick and family leave, and an end to predatory lending at the ballot box in red and purple states.
Fight Climate Change
League of Conservation Voters
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) builds political power for people and the planet. LCV influences policy, holds politicians accountable, and mobilizes communities. LCV has built a powerful national movement with more than 30 state affiliates and grassroots and community organizing programs across the country working for a more just and equitable US democracy, where people—not polluters—determine our future.
Voting Access and Civic Participation
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA)
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), a Sixteen Thirty Fund grantee, is an organization led by changemakers fighting for social, racial, and economic transformation for all Arizonans. They are a member-powered people’s organization created to impact the issues that Latinos face daily, which they achieve through civic participation, voter engagement and other advocacy efforts.
Improving Lives Everyday
How We Help
New nonprofit, public-interest organizations often find it difficult to overcome the procedural, legal, and administrative barriers to getting started. That’s where we come in. We help new public-interest organizations complete the work that is required to get up and running successfully, so that their leaders and staff members can focus more of their time on doing what they are meant to do: working to improve the lives of all Americans.
Our Approach