The work of Arcus Foundation grantees affects the lives of millions around the world. Read our most recent grant announcements for the Social Justice and Great Apes & Gibbons programs, see all announcements, or search below by program, year, or location to view grants awarded since 2007. (Some organizations are excluded from this list due to security concerns.)
Aaranyak
26 months of funding for multi-dimensional approaches to the conservation of the western hoolock gibbon in the Kamlang-Namdapha landscape along the India-Myanmar border.
Amount:
$100,000
Year:
2022
Location:
Guwahati, India
African Wildlife Foundation
Two years of support to improve bonobo conservation through collaboration and community engagement in Democratic Republic of the Congo's Lomako-Yokokala Faunal Reserve.
Amount:
$600,000
Year:
2022
Location:
Washington, DC
Agroecology Fund
Fifteen months of funding to build understanding of how agroecological food systems, which take into account the biological and cultural diversity of the surrounding landscape, can help achieve rights-based, locally led conservation of endangered apes and their habitats in the Congo Basin.
Amount:
$100,000
Year:
2022
Location:
Boulder, CO
Alliance GSAC
One year of funding to strengthen the capacity and leadership skills of eight Central African civil society organizations in their efforts to improve great ape conservation among the forests of the Congo Basin.
Amount:
$100,000
Year:
2022
Location:
Yaounde, Cameroon
American Museum of Natural History
Two years of funding for a research and capacity-building program at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) to monitor and mitigate the impacts of climate change on endangered gibbons in Southeast Asia.
Amount:
$200,000
Year:
2022
Location:
New York, NY
AMICUS
Four years of funding to assist people who need to change their name and gender on official identity documents and for documentation of violence and discrimination in Mexico.
Amount:
$200,000
Year:
2022
Location:
León, Mexico
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Three years of funding for the Intersex Human Rights Fund to support organizations working to secure protections, increase safety, and promote inclusion for intersex people.
Amount:
$300,000
Year:
2022
Location:
New York, NY
Be Slavery Free
One year of funding for the Chocolate Scorecard initiative to help ensure the chocolate and cocoa industry strengthens its social and environmental impact through effective tracking of indicators linked to poverty, human rights, and ecosystem degradation.
Amount:
$100,000
Year:
2022
Location:
Castle Hill, Australia
Borealis Philanthropy
One year of funding to the Emerging LGBTQ Leaders of Color (ELLC) Fund to support LGBTQ and BIPOC organizations advancing reproductive justice in the U.S. following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which had established that the constitutional right to privacy protects the choice to have an abortion.
Amount:
$50,000
Year:
2022
Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Borealis Philanthropy
One year of funding to the Fund for Trans Generations (FTG) for grants, technical assistance, and mentorship to dozens of grassroots U.S. organizations working to build a future in which trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people can live freely and without fear.
Amount:
$750,000
Year:
2022
Location:
Minneapolis, MN
