Inatai Foundation

In 2022, the Foundation continued to provide resources, primarily in the form of unrestricted grant funding, to organizations and communities doing powerful work to build power and advance racial justice in Washington and beyond. In total, Inatai made more nearly 700 grants and contributions to nearly 500 unique recipients. The Foundation continued to provide community learning grants to help the Foundation learn how the Foundation can support the solutions that different organizations are creating to dismantle systemic barriers and foster health and wealth in Washington communities. The Foundation provided system, power, and action grants to support organizations that are working to ensure public policy, public institutions, and public funding are accountable to communities throughout Washington. The Foundation continued funding sponsorships to support community and culturally specific gatherings, meetings, conferences, and fundraisers. The Foundation sponsors events that gather people to celebrate, take collective action, and make progress toward justice and equity in Washington. The Foundation granted collaborations grants to partner with values aligned foundations and some government entities. The Foundation provided equitable response and recovery funds to support community-based organizations' response to the covid-19 pandemic, its disproportionate effects on people of color, efforts to advocate for a more just and equitable recovery. The Foundation provided beyond Washington grants. These grants sustained support for anti-racist, people centered organizing, electoral engagement, and action that is led by organizations, leaders, and networks outside of Washington and that benefits all people who live in Washington. The Foundation granted shaping opportunities to explore emerging and consistent thematic areas of community interest, including immigration justice, civil rights enforcement, legal advocacy, and assets and ownership. The Foundation granted campaigns, litigation, issues, and policy grants to resource impact litigation, public policy research, and public awareness and issue campaigns that advance community power and racial justice. The Foundation granted technical assistance grants to develop community assets such as community connection, financial resources, organizational capacity, and influence among decision makers. The Foundation granted narrative grants for community and legacy newsrooms whose reporting holds government, businesses, and other systems and institutions accountable.