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A.J. Muste Foundation

provides grants, sponsorships, and educational resources to hundreds of grassroots projects around the world. We fund innovative organizing, often with seed funds that give a necessary boost to bold ideas.

Ways we support

Organizing Grants

Funds grassroots activist projects prioritizing those with small budgets and little access to mainstream funding.

Apply January 2026

Rapid Response Grants

These grants are for the immediate and/or emergency needs of groups involved in grassroots nonviolent activism.

Apply First Week every Month

Fiscal Sponsorship

Enables organizations to receive tax-deductible contributions for work related to social justice education and activism.

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“The War on Protest” by Adam Federman

Stay up-to-date on legal threats protesters may face in the US.

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Grantee: Climate Defiance

organizes nonviolent direct actions to elevate climate change to be a top-three political issue in American politics, ending fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters, and ending sacrifice zones and usher in a just transition for those most impacted

Grantee: Partners 4 Palestine

supports full national rights, self-determination and security for Palestinians based on International law and UN resolutions. They organize through increasing public awareness, promoting dialogue, supporting nonviolent BDS, and more.

Grantee: Back from the Brink

is a grassroots coalition managing a national campaign to mobilize the public and build the political will needed to prevent nuclear war and fundamentally change nuclear weapons policy in the United States.

Over 50 years of impact

Grantees

$3.2 Million

Granted