How We Work

The North Fund identifies and evaluates applications from leaders engaged in important missions, educational initiatives and campaigns that seek to expand equity and improve the quality of life for people and communities across the United States.

Protecting Democracy

Protecting Democracy

North Fund projects secure, protect, and defend the voting rights of all Americans by fighting against voter suppression, ensuring all votes are counted, and supporting improvements to our voting systems.

Fighting Inequality

Fighting Inequality

We believe everyone in America deserves an economy that works for their families. North Fund projects support organizations that advance economic opportunity, promote affordable education, housing, and health care, and advocate for specific policies like paid family and medical leave that help ensure economic security for all.

Advancing Equity

Advancing Equity

North Fund projects seek to accelerate progress towards racial and gender equality across the United States, providing support to innovative organizations working on local, state, and federal policy, civic engagement that translates the voices of women and people of color into significant, durable policies, and laws that secure rights for all people.

Protecting Democracy

Protecting Democracy

North Fund projects secure, protect, and defend the voting rights of all Americans by fighting against voter suppression, ensuring all votes are counted, and supporting improvements to our voting systems.

Fighting Inequality

Fighting Inequality

We believe everyone in America deserves an economy that works for their families. North Fund projects support organizations that advance economic opportunity, promote affordable education, housing, and health care, and advocate for specific policies like paid family and medical leave that help ensure economic security for all.

Advancing Equity

Advancing Equity

North Fund projects seek to accelerate progress towards racial and gender equality across the United States, providing support to innovative organizations working on local, state, and federal policy, civic engagement that translates the voices of women and people of color into significant, durable policies, and laws that secure rights for all people.

Our Projects

Our projects use a variety of tactics to uplift communities and create real and lasting change across the country. For example, the North Fund supports projects that build effective, efficient, and powerful ballot initiative campaigns. We also support advocacy campaigns designed to policy wins that lead to sustainable, long-term impact.

In 2020, our fiscally sponsored projects supported eight ballot initiatives, including successful efforts to expand Medicaid in Missouri, to legalize marijuana in Montana, and to establish a paid family leave program in Colorado. We also fiscally sponsored advocacy efforts in support of a federal paid leave policy as well as an effort to ensure full representation to the more than 700,000 residents who live in the District of Columbia.

For more information about our work, read our 2023 Form 990 here.