Proteus Fund partners with foundations, individual donors, activists, and other allies to work strategically towards racial, gender, queer, and disability justice and an inclusive, fully-representative democracy. We curate an ecosystem of mutually reinforcing, aligned donor collaboratives and fiscally sponsored projects that deploy a creative array of strategies and tactics to further this vision.
Advancing justice, equity, and an inclusive democracy.
Proteus Fund connects philanthropy to the frontlines of social justice to advance racial, gender, queer, and disability justice, and an inclusive, fully representative democracy.
Proteus Fund operates and pursues its work based on a set of values synergistic with our vision and mission:
Proteus Fund connects philanthropy to the frontlines of social justice to advance, racial gender, queer, and disability justice, and an inclusive, fully representative democracy. To do our work effectively and with deep impact, Proteus Fund creates dynamic relationships between progressive philanthropists, movement leaders, and other allies that go far beyond transactional grantmaking. Our trusted position among funders and field actors as a mission- and values-driven philanthropic intermediary enables us to support – both through collaborative grantmaking and hands-on programmatic efforts – a broad array of strategies to achieve social justice victories. Our donor collaboratives are best-in-class models for bridging responsive philanthropy with cutting-edge social justice organizations and movements and aligning resources with critical needs to create deep and lasting change.
Through fiscal sponsorship, Proteus Fund partners with emerging social justice initiatives and innovative movement leaders — enabling them to focus on growing their impact with the support of a trusted operational partner. Proteus Fund also maintains a curated portfolio of Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). To date, Proteus Fund has distributed more than $290 million in grants and provided other essential tools to support activists, advocates, networks, organizations, and issue-specific campaigns at the local, state, and national level.
Today, Proteus Fund is a $60 million philanthropic organization supporting a total of 33 funds and initiatives with a highly skilled and committed staff of over 90 individuals based across the United States. Proteus Fund has offices in New York City and the metro Boston area.