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2025 Impact and Year In Review
Steadfast in Our Purpose
2025 has been a deeply challenging year for our sector and communities. Shifts in federal policy have threatened vital funding during times when communities of color, immigrants, people with low incomes, and other underserved groups are struggling.
At the same time, many funders have retrenched from supporting organizations on the front lines of serving these communities, pulling back resources and narrowing commitments during a time when they are needed most.
Yet through it all, we have seen profound hope in the visionaries, organizers, and leaders who are meeting this moment with courage, care, and creativity. Throughout 2025, Moore Philanthropy has been part of this movement, moving resources to grassroots organizations that are critical in this moment but often overlooked by philanthropy.
Together with our community partners, clients, and collaborators, our efforts to invest in the health, safety, and care of communities of color globally have only grown stronger.
Read on to learn about our impact and key moments from 2025.
Our Impact
Amidst philanthropic retrenchment, MP has remained steadfast in our purpose, moving $40M directly in grants to 200+ community-based organizations and managing $60M in contributed revenue. We have also seen these partners and 14 fiscally sponsored projects continue to lead bigger and bolder efforts to protect the health, safety, and justice in community. And through our Donor-Advised Funds, donors have been able to move resources where they are most urgently needed.
Our Partners
Our partners power our efforts to protect the health, safety, and care of community. From our fiscally sponsored projects to donor-advised funds, below we highlight some of our changemakers, leaders, and organizations leading the way in meeting this moment.
Giving Infrastructure Fund
The Giving Infrastructure Fund is a collaborative fund that builds financial resilience for racial equity organizations with the power of everyday givers. The Fund awarded $400,000 grants over two years to 8 grantee partners that are creating tools, systems, and capacities that enable organizations to engage, cultivate, and sustain support from everyday givers.
The Mental Health Storytelling Initiative
The Mental Health Storytelling Initiative harnesses the power of storytelling to transform how mental health is seen, understood, and prioritized in our cultural narrative. The initiative unites a groundbreaking alliance of 70+ organizations, from major studios and production companies to leading mental health organizations, working collaboratively to ensure mental health stories are told with authenticity, nuance, and impact.
Behavioral Health Tech Impact
Behavioral Health Tech Impact (BHT Impact) accelerates youth-focused behavioral health innovators across the industry. BHT Impact supports leaders within non-profits, youth, families, communities, start-ups, providers, and more with the knowledge, access, and opportunities they need to accelerate their innovations and create sustainable impact.
KOOL Fund
The Kayode Oluseun Okunoren Legacy (KOOL) Fund is dedicated to partner, advocate and provide education and screening in populations disproportionately impacted by the early onset of colorectal cancer. The Fund also aims to provide financial assistance to young adults who are currently fighting colon cancer.
The President’s Young Professionals Program
The President’s Young Professionals Program (PYPP), supported by partners including MP, graduated its 11th cohort of fellows. This marked another milestone in Liberia’s effort to cultivate ethical, skilled young leaders for public service by recruiting, training, and placing emerging professionals across ministries and agencies.
The Black Resilience in Colorado Fund
The Black Resilience in Colorado Fund (BRIC) marked its five-year anniversary, and has raised over $9 million to help Black-led and Black-serving nonprofit organizations thrive. A Building Power Champions Fund Grantee, BRIC has supported over 400 organizations that are leading powerful initiatives around health, housing, youth development, racial justice, and more.
Meeting the Moment: From Conversation to Mobilization
At a time when many institutions are retreating, Moore Philanthropy has consistently pushed the sector to act with clarity, courage, and urgency, moving resources to communities and frontline leaders when it matters most. Through global conversations, media, and podcasts, our leadership has helped funders confront structural barriers, rethink who philanthropy is for, and align investment with justice. We challenge philanthropy to move beyond caution and toward accountability and shared power, making the case that philanthropy is a calling that requires moving investments to the frontlines. Below are some of the moments that reflect this work in action.
Global Philanthropy Forum Leaders Summit
In March, our Founder and Managing Director, Yvonne Moore, participated in a powerful conversation, “Paving the Future of Philanthropy with Bold Women at the Helm,” at the Global Philanthropy Forum Leaders Summit on how women and underrepresented groups are challenging the status quo, redefining philanthropy—not just how money is given, but who benefits and to what end.
Skoll World Forum
At World Skoll Forum in April, Yvonne moderated a session, “Investing in African and Black-Owned and Led Businesses: Fostering Connections and Multiplying Impact,” that dived into how to move from scarcity to sustained investment in Black and African-owned enterprises. This session identified systemic barriers while offering solutions rooted in trust-based funding and accountability.
The Power of Intentionality in Times of Crisis and Transformation
In May, the Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group (AGAG) led The Power of Intentionality in Times of Crisis and Transformation, a virtual conversation alongside our Founder and AGAG Advisory Board Member, Yvonne, and other philanthropic leaders on the use of intentional practices to guide grantmakers through times of transformation, offering valuable lessons for today’s philanthropic landscape.
Yvonne Recognized on Black Women Give Back List
For Black Philanthropy Month, Yvonne was recognized on the 2025 Black Women Give Back List, joining nine other extraordinary philanthropic leaders from across the global Black diaspora who embody community-centered philanthropy at its best.
Golden Handcuffs and Sacred Callings Podcast
Yvonne was interviewed on an episode of Black Philanthropy: Our Stories – A Simuel + Murray Podcast, where she discussed the “golden handcuffs” that keep many leaders from taking bold action. Together with host Michelle Renee Jackson, MDiv, Yvonne opened up about the ancestral legacy that fuels her work and why philanthropy must be a calling.
Yvonne Featured on Inspired Money Podcast
In October, Yvonne joined philanthropic leaders on the Inspired Money Podcast to discuss how to give with purpose, covering topics including Donor Advised Funds, due diligence tips, and weaving generosity into lifelong financial plans.
Alliance Magazine Letter to the Editor
MP’s Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Monica T. Brown, shared why fiscal sponsorship must be rooted in trust, transparency, and accountability in a letter to the editor for Alliance Magazine.
Ignite Community Power
Moore Philanthropy gathered our closest friends, colleagues, partners, and donors to discuss how we are resourcing frontline organizations, reversing the underinvestment in communities of color, and advancing our Ignite Community Power Campaign, an effort to provide unrestricted, multi-year support that fuels bold, systemic solutions and lasting pathways to equity and justice.
Looking Ahead
More than ever, philanthropy must invest deeply and intentionally in the changemakers and organizations closest to communities. Whether you are a donor, organization, or community leader, MP is here to help you do just that. As we look ahead, there are many ways to partner with us to stay grounded in your vision, scale your impact, and move resources toward justice.
Ignite Community Power
Through the Ignite Community Power Campaign, MP works to reverse chronic underinvestment in communities of color by providing unrestricted, multi-year support to organizations serving Black, Brown, and Native communities across historically underfunded regions. Your contributions ignite community power and ensure that grassroots leaders have the resources they need to protect the health, safety, and care of their community. Make a donation.
Move With Us
Our communities needs us. We can help you move money to the frontlines and support communities often overlooked by philanthropy. Move with us, and introduce us to aligned funders; collaborate with us through advisory; move resources through a DAF; or launch or scale initiatives through fiscal sponsorship or fund management. Reach out to us.
Thank you for forging ahead with us and investing in grassroots power when communities need it most. We wish you a happy and healthy holiday season, and look forward to continuing to invest in communities of color and support changemakers on the frontlines of justice.