Our grantees are addressing a number of social issues impacting the United States.
2025 Grantees
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All The Empty Rooms
John Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions
The issue area: Gun Violence
The film and nonprofit are addressing gun violence in America.
Lowland Kids
First People’s Conservation Council
The issue area: Displacement and the Climate Crisis
Nuns vs. The Vatican
BishopAccountability.org
The issue area: Power-based violence & sexual assault in the Catholic Church
Just Kids
The issue area: Trans youth healthcare
The film and nonprofit are addressing the struggles families are going through to find gender affirming healthcare for their trans children.
Campaign for Southern Equality
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The Librarians
PEN America
The issue area: Book Bans and Intellectual Freedom
The film and nonprofit highlight the brave librarians fighting book bans in their communities.
2024 Grantees
Daughters
2024 Sundance Festival Favorite Award and Audience Award: U.S. Documentary
Peabody Award Winner
The issue area: Mass Incarceration
The film and nonprofit are addressing the impacts of mass incarceration on families.
Girls For A Change
All We Carry
Best Doc Feature, The Indie Awards
The issue area: Immigration
The film and nonprofit are addressing immigrant rights and the asylum seeking process.
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
I’m Your Venus
House Lives Matter
The issue area: LGBTQIA+ Rights
The film and nonprofit are addressing the human rights and dignity of the LGBTQIA+ community, especially the trans and house communities.
Homegrown
The 22nd Century Initiative
The issue area: Political Violence
The film and nonprofit are addressing authoritarian movements and ways to end political violence.
2023 Grantees
Breaking the News
The issue area: Gender Inequality
The film and nonprofit are addressing representation and diversity in mainstream media coverage.
The 19th
Every Body
2023 Emmy Nominated
interACT
The issue area: LGBTQIA+ Rights
The film and nonprofit are addressing the human rights and dignity of people born with intersex traits.
36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime
The issue area: Hate, violence, and extremism
The film and nonprofit are addressing the growing epidemic of hate, Islamophobia, and extremism in America.
Our Three Winners
2022 Grantees
Aftershock
2023 Peabody Award Winner
saveArose Foundation
The issue area: Healthcare
The film and nonprofit are addressing the maternal mortality crisis impacting Black and Brown communities.
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Lakota Nation vs. United States
2024 Emmy Winner for Best Documentary and Outstanding Directing
Lakota People’s Law Project
The issue area: Indigenous Rights
The film and nonprofit are addressing the betrayal of the Lakota Nation and the threat to the sacred Black Hills.
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Refuge
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The issue area: Hate, violence, and extremism
The film and nonprofit are addressing the growing epidemic of hate and extremism in America.
Parents for Peace
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A Woman on the Outside
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Essie Justice Group
The issue area: Mass Incarceration
The film and nonprofit are addressing the impacts of mass incarceration on families.