Women’s Catalytic Fund

We believe in the power of women to drive social change

The Women’s Catalytic Fund is a giving circle that puts resources into the hands of people with bold visions working to end gender-based inequity and fundamentally change the systems that perpetuate it.

The Women’s Catalytic Fund administers two rounds of grants per year. Typically, these are one-time $15,000 grants to CA-based nonprofits with budgets under $1million. 

Applications for our Fall grant cycle will open later this year. In the meantime, for information about applying, please review the Request For Proposal from our most recent grant cycle: https://www.ebcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WCF-RFP-Spring-2023.pdf

Interested in participating?

Women’s Catalytic Fund Grantees:
Spring 2019 – Spring 2023

Spring 2023

• Xa Kako Dile: Xa Kako Dile: (XKD:; pronounced “Ha-ka-ko-dee-lay:” Water Through Meadow in Northern Pomo) is an Indigenous, women-led organization co-created in connection with ancestral Pomo lands to center traditional ecological knowledge, heal the land, and build community resilience through culture, food, medicine and education. The WCF’s grant will support XKD’s Indigenous Women’s Healing Circles program for local Indigenous women in Mendocino County.
• Feed Black Futures: Inspired by the mutual aid model of oppressed people supporting each other when the government fails, Feed Black Futures (FBF) addresses Black economic and health inequity by building Black food sovereignty. The WCF grant will support FBF’s core program work to buy Black regenerative farms’ produce, eggs, and chicken and give it to Black mamas/caregivers and their families facing food insecurity amidst Covid-19 and the criminal system targeting them or loved ones.
• Birthland Midwifery: Birthland is a midwifery center that provides a unique and holistic approach to maternal care. It is a model that was founded by a black midwife with a commitment to having an impact on black maternal health experiences. The Birthland model prioritizes financially accessible birth options, culturally relevant and congruent care, and provider sustainability. The practice has evolved into a perinatal wellness collective of dynamic birthworkers. Through one shared physical space midwives, a lactation consultant, doulas, midwifery students, and a variety of educators collaborate to ignite the vision for a perinatal wellness hub for the East Bay.

Fall 2022

• Restore 180
• Naka Dance Theater
• Brown Boi Project
• Transformative In-Prison Workgroup

Spring 2022

Fall 2021

• Recognize Violence, Change Culture (RVCC)
• Orange County Justice Fund
• CHAN-BOF for Peace Collaborative

Spring 2021

• Native Sister’s Circle
• Kitchen Table Advisors
• Legal Link
• Asian Pacific Self-Development and Residential Association (APSARA)

Fall 2020

Due to the challenging issues of 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic and mounting pressure for racial, social and environmental justice, the Women’s Catalytic Fund used the Fall 2020 grant cycle to provide one-time supplemental grants of $10,000 to ten of our prior grantees.

Spring 2020

• Total Empowerment Life Coaching
• Justice Now
• Oakland Bloom
• Black LGTBQ + Migrant Project (BLMP)

Fall 2019

• California Coalition for Women Prisoners: #MeToo Behind Bars Documentation Project
• The Radical Monarchs: Radical Alumni Program
• Safe Return Project: Re-investing in Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls
• ACT for Women and Girls: Truth to Power ACTion Team

Spring 2019

• Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance
• California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
• Esq. Apprentice
• Mamacitas Cafe

Gallery: WCF Grantees