CEO Kevin Walker: We’re Doubling Our Funding for 2025

To continue to stand alongside changemakers, we need to step up this year.

2025 is proving to be a uniquely challenging year for the communities and causes that are central to our mission. But standing firm in the storm, the nonprofits we fund are continuing to lead long-overdue change as they always have—with courage, wisdom, and vision. We need to step up if we’re to continue to stand alongside them.

So, we’ve doubled our budget for funding this year.

The board of directors has already approved this increase as a first step. We know that more challenges are coming, but we don’t know what they are.

We’ll determine the details and how else we’ll support our partners as we listen and learn.

The increase in budget comes with no predesigned criteria. It allows us to be flexible to respond to our partners as we listen to their needs and ideas. We’re also listening and planning for ways to use all our forms of capital—convening, communications, investments, and more—to resource our grant partners and their communities.

I’ll have more to say soon about how we’re stepping up for our nonprofit partners, who have the deepest connections to the communities we serve: Native Americans, communities of color, refugees, immigrants, and people in rural areas.

What we know already is that we will remain true to our North Star, our mission:

We stand alongside changemakers in our region of eight states and 76 Native nations and fund work that leads to racial, social, and economic justice.  

The times call for us to invest more deeply in a just future.

The inspiration for this decision comes from our values: