Groundswell is not funding new organizations in 2025.
Due to restructuring, our team is determining the best way to approach Groundswell’s next phase of grantmaking, and we appreciate your patience as we finalize the details.
We hope to share updates later in the year for the Groundswell of 2026 and beyond, including funding availability, application timelines, and eligibility criteria.
Groundswell’s Catalyst Fund resources the nation’s strongest reproductive justice (RJ) organizing led by women of color, low-income women, transgender, and gender-expansive people. The Catalyst Fund supports grassroots organizing efforts to advance reproductive justice policy and systems change.
By centering efforts led by women of color, Catalyst supports work led by low-income white women, transgender, and gender-expansive people, who together make up the constituencies that experience the greatest reproductive health disparities and the most significant barriers to reproductive freedom in the U.S.
The Catalyst Fund supports organizations that are using grassroots organizing to advance reproductive justice policy and systems change.
The Catalyst Fund supports several grassroots organizations and POC-led abortion funds on the frontlines in Texas after the passage of SB 8—a law that bans abortion after 6 weeks and puts a $10,000 minimum bounty on the heads of anyone deemed to be helping someone access abortion care.
Image courtesy of National Network of Abortion Funds
Catalyst awards grants directly to grassroots organizations, including matching grants designed to bolster organizations’ efforts to raise new money from other sources. Particular attention is paid to organizations building cross-movement alliances between reproductive justice efforts and other social justice organizations, including labor, environmental and economic justice.
Catalyst also awards matching grants to public foundations and women’s funds who make grants to organizations led by women of color and transgender people of color.
Catalyst grantees are the main participants in Groundswell’s two flagship capacity-building programs, the Integrated Voter Engagement Program and the Grassroots Organizing Institute, which aim to boost the grassroots power of the field.