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Our Grantees

The Lodestar Foundation – Comprehensive List of Grantees

501cTECH – Tech Impact
92nd Street Y Alliance for Audience
A New Leaf
Academy for Systemic Change – Sustainability Institute*
Act One
Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits
Alliance Publishing Trust
American Friends of Forum 2000
Anti-Defamation League Arizona
Arizona Coalition to End Homelessness
Arizona College Scholarship Foundation
Arizona Community Foundation
Arizona Educational Foundation
Arizona Foundation for Women
Arizona Grantmakers Forum
Arizona Housing Coalition
Arizona InterFaith Movement
Arizona School for the Arts
Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University
Arizona Women’s Board
Arizona Women’s Education & Employment (AWEE)
Arizona’s Children Association
Arkansas Food Bank
Association for Children with Down Syndrome (ACDS) – Community Mainstreaming Associates (CMA)*
Association of Fundraising Professionals Advancement Northwest
ASU Foundation
Barksdale Threatre – Theatre IV*
Barrow Neurological Foundation
Belle Center of Chicago – Aspire*
Bend the Arc – The Disability Opportunity Fund*
Better World Fund
BHCare – Lower Naugatuck Valley Parent Child Resource Center*
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Arizona
Big Brothers, Big Sisters Metro Chicago – Big Brothers, Big Sisters Lake County*
Bikkurim – Joshua Venture Group – PresenTense – Upstart Bay Area*
BoardSource
Bolder Giving
Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation – Lung Cancer Alliance*
Boston Harbor Association – Boston Harbor Island Alliance*
Boundless Readers – Working In The Schools*
Breakthrough Charter Schools*
Bridge Alliance Education Fund
Brit Tzedek v’Shalom
Brophy College Preparatory
Canadian Federation for Sexual Health – Action Canada for Population and Development –
Canadians for Choice*
Cancer Support Community
Cancer Support Community Arizona
Cancer Support Community Philadelphia – Gilda’s Club Delaware Valley*
Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy – Pacolet Area Conservancy*
Casa Eperanza – People Assisting the Homeless*
Center for Investigative Reporting
Center for Native Ecosystems
Center for Popular Democracy – Leadership Center for the Common Good*
Center for Working families – New Hope Enterprises*
Central Arizona Shelter Services
Change the Equation*
Charities Aid Foundation America
Chicago Cares – WomenOnCall*
Chicago Cultural Alliance – Audience Architects – Arts & Business Council of Chicago*
Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers – Cabrini Green Legal Aid*
Child and Family Rhode Island – East Bay Community Action Program*
Childhaven – Renton Area Youth & Family Services – Art with Heart*
Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem – SciWorks
Children’s Action Alliance
Children’s Museum of Phoenix
Chris4Life – Colon Cancer Alliance*
Christopher House
Circle the City
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Inc.
Coalition Against Child Abuse and Neglect – Coalition Against Domestic Violence*
Coalition for Integrity
Collaboration Reading Partners – Mission Learning Center*
College Success Arizona
Concord Regional VNA
Connecticut CASA – CASA Southern*
Cottonwood Institute Council on Foundations
CP Rochester – Happiness House*
Crisis Nursery
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation – The V Foundation*
Dance Theater Workshop – Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company*
Day Spring – Community Living*
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance – The Balanced Mind*
District of Columbia International Charter School*
East Bay Asian Youth Center – Oakland Asian Students Educational Services*
East Meets West – Blue Planet Network*
EastWest Institute
Elderserve – Guardiacare*
Emergency Fund – Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness Coalition*
Envision Unlimited – Neumann Family Services*
Everybody Wins – Hartford/LA/Miami/ Minneapolis*
Experience Matters
Exponent Philanthropy
Fair Trade USA – Social Accountability International*
Family & Children First
Fielding University – Prescott College
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Foundation Center
FQHC – IPA Collaboration*
Fractured Atlas – Future of Music Coalition Exploration*
Girl Scouts Council, Arizona Cactus-Pine Chapter
Global Leadership Foundation (USA)
Good Shepherd Services – Groundwork*
Gotham Schools – Colorado Education News*
Great Hearts Academies
Greater Phoenix Youth at Risk
GreatNonprofits
Habitat for Humanity Seattle/South King County – Habitat for Humanity East King County*
HAblar Para Integrar (HA.P.I)
Hazon – Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Centre*
Historic Germantown Preserved
Homeward Bound
Housing First – St. Vincent de Paul Society of Juneau*
Housing Vermont – Northern New England Housing Investment Fund*
Human Services Council of New York City
I Have a Dream Foundation*
Institute for Nonprofit Practice – New Sector Alliance*
Institute for Philanthropy
Internews Network
Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh
Jewish Guild for the Blind – National Association for Parents with Children with Visual Impairments*
John Jay College Foundation
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Junior Achievement of Arizona
Just Vision
Justice Project
K2 Adventures Foundation
Kids Included Together – All Kids, Inc.*
Korean American Resource & Cultural Center – Korean American Community Services*
Lake County Residential Development Corporation – Affordable Housing Corporation of Lake County*
Lakeview Action Coalition – Organization of the NorthEast*
Learning Matters – Editorial Projects in Education*
Literacy Coalition of Central Texas – English at Work*
Literacy Connects
Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey*
Local First Arizona Foundation
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) – Phoenix
Low Income Investment Fund – Stewards of Affordable Housing – National Affordable Housing Trust*
Maine Maritime Museum – Portland Harbor Museum*
MacPhail Center for Music – Madeline Island Chamber Music*
MAP for Nonprofits – Nonprofits Assistance Fund*
Marklund – Center for Exceptional Care*
MatchingDonors.com
MCE Social Capital
Mile High Community Loan Fund – Funding Partners for Housing Solutions*
Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration
Montessori Leaders Collaborative*
Multi-Agency Alliance for Children
National Council of Nonprofits
National Crime Victim Law Institute
National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Inc.
NECHAMA Jewish Response to Disaster – Jewish Disaster Response Corps *
Neighborhood Housing Services of Freeport – Rockford Area Affordable Housing Coalition*
New Global Citizens
New Hope Center – SouthStar*
New Mexico Community Foundation
New York City Small College*
New York Merger, Acquisition and Collaboration Fund
New York State Afterschool Network – AfterSchool Works! New York*
Northwoods Community Health Center – Lakes Community Health Center*
O’Connor House
Olive Crest – Youth for Christ*
One Hen – America SCORES Boston*
Opportunity Nation – America’s Promise Alliance*
Opportunity on Deck – Courage League Sports
Our Family Services – New Beginnings for Women and Children*
P S Arts
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development Environment and Security
PCI-Media Impact – Media for Health*
PEN America – PEN Center USA*
People Assisting The Homeless – Casa Esperanza*
Person-to-Person – Christian Community Action*
Philadelphia Foundation
Philanthropy Together
Phoenix Lodestar Day Resource Center
Phoenix Symphony
Phoenix Symphony – Ballet Arizona
Protect Democracy
Race Forward – The Center for Social Inclusion*
Re:Gender – International Center for Research on Women*
Rebuild Resources – Project for Pride in Living*
Regional Arts & Culture Council – Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington*
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Represent.Us Education Fund
Rhode Island Historical Society
Rivanna Conservation Society – StreamWatch*
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Rochester Nonprofit Consortium*
Rush Hour Concerts – International Music Foundation*
Sacramento Philharmonic – Sacramento Opera*
Samuel Dorsky Museum – Woodstock Artists*
San Diego Foundation – International Community Foundation
Sandra Day O’Connor Institute
SeaChange Capital Partners
Second Nature – Crane Institute of Sustainability*
Service Year Alliance
Social Venture Partners Arizona
Social Venture Partners International
Sojourner Center
Southern California Grantmakers
Southwest Human Development
St. Louis Arc – The Belle Center*
Stand for Families Free of Violence
Stand Up Ideas
Support Center – Partners in Philanthropy*
Support My Club
Synergos Institute
Tanenbaum
Tanglewood Park
Taproot Foundation – Common Impact*
Teach for America
Teach for America – Phoenix
Techbridge Girls – Expanding Your Horizons*
Teen Lifeline
Teen Services Sonoma (TSS) – Boys and Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley (BGCSV)*
Tesseract Research Center, Inc.
The Actors Fund of America – Career Transition for Dancers*
The Bell Foundation
The Children’s Aid Society – Edwin Gould Academy*
The Greater New Haven Community Loan Fund – The Connecticut Housing Investment Fund –
The Community Capital Fund*
The London Community Foundation – North West London Community Foundation*
The New York Jewish Week – 70 Faces Media*
The Nonprofit Centers Network
The Philadelphia Foundation
The Philanthropy Workshop
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare – Planetree – The Arnold P. Gold Foundation*
The Synergos Institute
The Wellness Community
Third Sector New England
TPW West
Trends Charitable Fund
UMOM New Day Centers
United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Rochester Area
United States Association for UNHCR
United Way of Battle Creek – Greater Kalamazoo United Way*
United Way of Cambridge – United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo*
United Way of Toronto – United Way of Greater York Region*
Uniting Against Lung Cancer – Lung Cancer Research Foundation*
University of Arizona Foundation
Valley of the Sun United Way
Vantage Group – Mosaic*
Visiting Nurses Association of Omaha – Easter Seals of Nebraska*
VSA Florida
Walden Theatre – Blue Apple Players*
Wellness Community – Gilda’s Club Worldwide*
West Wisconsin – Kinnickinnic River – Bayfield Region Conservancy*
Western North Carolina Alliance – Environmental & Conservation Organization – The Jackson-Macon
Conservation Alliance*
Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation – Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin*
Women Thrive Worldwide
Women’s Law – National Network to End Domestic Violence*
Women’s Sports Foundation – Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative*
YAI – Healing Arts Initiative*
Year Up
SeaChange-Lodestar Fund for Nonprofit Collaboration*

Acumen Fund
Adoption Coalition of Texas
Aid to Adoption of Special Kids
Alliance for Audience
Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits
American Diabetes Association
American Humanics
American Jewish World Service, Inc.
Americans For Peace Now
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
Arizona Art Share
Arizona Autism Coalition
Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest
Arizona Character Education Foundation
Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Arizona Coalition for Tomorrow Charitable Fund
Arizona Coalition to End Homelessness
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Arizona Community Foundation
Arizona Educational Foundation
Arizona Grantmakers Forum
Arizona Humane Society
Arizona Jewish Theatre Company
Arizona Kidney Foundation
Arizona Osteoporosis Coalition
Arizona PIRG Education Fund
Arizona Quest for Kids
Arizona Rural Development Council
Arizona School Choice Trust
Arizona Science Center
Arizona State University Foundation
Arizona Women’s Board
Arizona Women’s Education & Employment, Inc.
Arizonans for Cultural Development
Arizona’s Children Association
Arizona’s Children Association – Yuma
Ashoka
Association of Arizona Food Banks
Association of Fundraising Professionals, Greater Arizona Chapter
Association of Small Foundations
ASU College of Public Programs
ASU Foundation
ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation
ASU Lodestar Mediation Clinic
Audubon Arizona
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Boy Scouts of America – Grand Canyon Council
Breast Cancer Coalition
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids
Business Volunteers for the Arts
Camp Fire Council of Greater Arizona
Cancer Support Community – Arizona
Cato Institute
Center Against Sexual Assault
Center for Public Interest Research, Inc.
Center for the Future of Arizona
Central Arizona Shelter Services
Childhelp USA National Headquarters
Children’s Action Alliance
Children’s Museum of Phoenix
Christ Church Lutheran School
Christ Lutheran School Advancing the Ministry
CI, Inc.
Circle the City
Citizen Legislators Caucus Foundation
Citizens in Charge
City of Biddeford
Clean Elections Institute, Inc.
Community Bicycle Center
Community Information & Referral, Inc.
Community Legal Services
Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees
Community Voice Mail National Federation
Council for Jews with Special Needs
Craigslist Foundation
Crisis Nursery
Cumberland College
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action
Disaster Tracking Recovery Assistance Center
Early Care and Education Research Fund
Earth University Foundation
EastWest Institute
Education Development Center
Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse
Eurasia Foundation
Experience Matters Consortium
Feed More
Fight Night Foundation, Inc.
Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade
Florence Crittenton Services of Arizona
Florence Immigration & Refugee Rights Project
Fresh Start Women’s Foundation
Fuping Development Institute
Georgetown University
Give 2 Asia
GLF Global Leadership Foundation
Global Leadership Foundation (USA)
Global Youth Action Network
Goodwill Industries of Central Arizona
Graduate! Philadelphia
Gulf Coast Consortia
HandsOn Greater Phoenix
Heard Museum
Helping Hands Housing Services
Herberger Theater Center
Homebase Youth Services, Inc.
Homelessness & Hunger Funders Collaborative
Homeward Bound
Hon Kachina Council
Hospice of the Valley
Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership
Human Development Foundation
Human Services Campus, L.L.C.
Infant Toddler Mental Health Coalition of Arizona
Initiative and Referendum Institute
Institute for Philanthropy
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Internews Network
Jewish Family & Children Services
Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix
Jews United For Justice, Inc.
Junior Achievement of Arizona
KAET-TV Channel 8
Laveen Community Council
Leadership Workshops Foundation for Youth
Leave a Legacy
Link Media
Lodestar Day Resource Center
Macdonald Center
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Maricopa Council on Youth Sports and Physical Activity
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mission of Mercy
Museum of Nature and Science
National Conference for Community and Justice
National Kidney Foundation of Arizona
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Neighborhood Day
National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers
Native American Connections, Inc.
Network for Good
New Directions Institute
New School for the Arts
Nonprofit Innovation
Non-Profit Partners, Inc.
Northern Arizona University Foundation
NPower Arizona
One World Youth Project
Oregon Trout
Orpheum Theater Foundation
Ottawa University
Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation
Phoenix Community Alliance
Phoenix Hebrew Academy
Phoenix Neighborhood Development Collaborative
Phoenix Revitalization Corporation
Phoenix Symphony
Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona
Pravah
Project Challenge
PULSE (formerly Portfolio Data Management System)
Rubin Museum of Art
Scottsdale Cultural Council
SeaChange-Lodestar Fund for Nonprofit Collaboration
Silent Witness, Inc.
Social Venture Partners Arizona
Social Venture Partners International
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
South Central Phoenix Health Coalition
Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center
Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS
Southwest District Kiwanis Foundation
Southwest Human Development
Summer Youth Program Fund
Teach for America
Teen Lifeline, Inc.
The Community Forum
The Eurasia Foundation
The Philanthropy Workshop
The Pluralism Fund
The Samaritan Foundation
The Synergos Institute
The Wellness Community
Tides Foundation
Tomales Bay Institute
TPW Energy Collaborative
TPW West
Tucson Centers for Women and Children
U.S. Term Limits
United Methodist Outreach Ministries
Universal Education Foundation
Valley Leadership
Valley of the Sun Habitat for Humanity
Valley of the Sun United Way
Vermont Family Network
Volunteer Center of Maricopa County
Volunteer Center of Pinal County
Volunteer Center of Tucson
Wealth & Giving Forum
Westside Children’s Center
Westside Infant-Family Network
Whispering Hope Ranch
William Marsh Rice University
Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Women Living Free
Women’s Funding Network
YMCA of Greater Toledo
YMCA/JCC of Toledo
Youth Re:Action Corps
Zing Foundation

Abraham Fund Initiatives
Alliance for Middle East Peace
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish World Service
Anti-Defamation League of Phoenix
Arizona InterFaith Movement
Ben Gurion University of The Negev
Brit Tzedek v’Shalom
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Phoenix
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Florence Immigration & Refugee Rights Project
Friends of the IPCRI
Hand in Hand
Herberger Theater Center
High Atlas Foundation
Hillel at Arizona State University
Hospice of the Valley
Israel Policy Forum
J Street Education Fund
Jewish Community Association
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix
Jewish Community Services of South Florida
Jewish Family and Children’s Service
Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix
Jewish National Fund
Kids4Peace International
Kivel Care Center
National Center of Afro American Artists
National Conference for Community and Justice
New America Foundation
Peace Works Foundation
Progressive Jewish Alliance
Seeds of Peace
Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
Temple Chai
Temple Emanuel
Temple Solel
Temple Solel of Northern San Diego County
The Education for Employment Foundation
U.S. Middle East Project
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Valley Beit Midrash
Valley Beit Midrash/Seymour Sacks Lecture Fund
Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center
Whispering Hope Ranch Foundation