Mission Moving Mountains

What Mission Moving Mountains does

Moving Mountains, Inc. (dba Mission Moving Mountains) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit founded in 2022 by Kabzuag Vaj, a 20- to 25-year veteran of the gender justice movement and former Co-Executive Director of Freedom Inc. and Freedom Action Now. The organization is headquartered in Wisconsin (Dane County) and operates a 26-acre retreat and learning center — Dia Legacy, housed in a wholly-owned real estate subsidiary (Dia Legacy, LLC) — that includes a single-family home, detached garage, barn with electricity, and farmland zoned for nonprofit community use and small-scale farming. It is a member of the Move to End Violence cohort and NoVo Foundation's 10-year plan to end gender-based violence.

The organization delivers a portfolio of five core programs targeting movement leaders and social justice organizations. The Ascent Fellowship is a paid fellowship for longtime frontline gender justice leaders — particularly Queer and gender-expansive BIPOC individuals — focused on radical rest, healing, and leadership transition. Dia Legacy provides affordable sanctuary space, food justice programming, and community wellness services on the Dane County property. The Movement Incubator: Love Projects offers fiscal management and sponsorship services to grassroots movements and individual leaders at a 7% fee. Organizational and Leadership Development provides nonprofit management consulting, technical assistance, executive coaching, and fundraising support to social justice organizations led by BIPOC LGBTQI+ leaders. Global Movement Building connects feminist organizations across local, national, and international geographies, including a planned international fellowship with an initial cohort of 3-5 leaders.

The business model is a hybrid of philanthropic funding and fee-for-service. Recurring revenue comes primarily from the 7% fiscal sponsorship fee on the Movement Incubator, supplemented by grants (implied through the NoVo Foundation / Move to End Violence cohort affiliation) and fellowship stipends. Pricing and grant amounts are not publicly disclosed. The organization employs 5 people and is governed by a four-person board (Kabzuag Vaj, M Adam, Chhaya Chhoum, and Pheng Thao). There is no proprietary technology platform, no mobile application, and no AI/ML infrastructure — all services are human-delivered. The go-to-market motion is community-led, relying on personal networks, movement-based outreach, and word-of-mouth within the social justice ecosystem rather than paid marketing channels.

Name

Mission Moving Mountains

Legal name

Moving Mountains, Inc.

Website

https://movingmountains.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Moving Mountains, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2022 that supports longtime gender justice movement leaders — particularly Queer and gender-expansive BIPOC leaders — through fellowship programs, fiscal sponsorship, nonprofit consulting, and a 26-acre retreat center in Dane County, Wisconsin.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Social Justice and Movement Building Services

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Holistic & Alternative Therapy Retreats (Naturopathy, Energy Work) (THAGAMAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Mountain & Wilderness Lodges (THAAAHAE)

Keywords

• Fiscal sponsorship services
• Nonprofit leadership development
• Feminist movement building
• Social justice consulting
• Rest and healing fellowships

Headquarters

HQ city

Madison area

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Fiscal Sponsorship Services: Fiduciary oversight and fiscal management for grassroots movements, organizations, and individual leaders at 7% fee

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Mission Moving Mountains is a 501(c)(3) feminist movement hub that provides fellowships, fiscal sponsorship, leadership coaching, organizational consulting, and physical retreat space to support women, girls, Queer, Trans, gender nonconforming, and gender expansive BIPOC leaders and social justice organizations. Its core deliverables include the Ascent Fellowship (paid rest and healing fellowships), Dia Legacy (a 26-acre retreat and food justice center), Movement Incubator: Love Projects (fiscal sponsorship at a 7% fee), Organizational & Leadership Development (nonprofit consulting and coaching), and Global Movement Building (international feminist network facilitation).

Product overview

Mission Moving Mountains is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit feminist organization offering a portfolio of interconnected programs designed to build collective power and achieve gender justice. The core offerings include the Ascent Fellowship (providing radical rest and healing resources for movement leaders), Dia Legacy (a retreat center and food justice initiative on 26 acres of land), the Movement Incubator: Love Projects (fiscal sponsorship and incubation for social justice initiatives), Organizational and Leadership Development (nonprofit consulting services), and Global Movement Building (international feminist network building). Together, these programs provide space, resources, and support for women, girls, Queer, Trans, gender nonconforming, and gender expansive BIPOC leaders to reflect, create, organize, and achieve gender justice.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ascent Fellowship A paid fellowship program providing longtime frontline gender justice leaders, particularly Queer and gender expansive BIPOC leaders, with resources for radical rest, healing, and enrichment to sustain social justice movements and support leadership transitions.
• Dia Legacy A retreat and learning center operated on a 26-acre property in Dane County, Wisconsin, focused on food justice, community wellness, and radical rest as human rights; provides affordable sanctuary and community wellness services for movement leaders and BIPOC communities.
• Movement Incubator: Love Projects A hub that supports social justice leaders in designing and incubating solution-oriented love projects addressing root causes of oppression, offering fiscal management and sponsorship services at a 7% fee for grassroots movements and individual leaders.
• Organizational and Leadership Development Nonprofit management consulting services providing technical assistance, program development, fundraising support, executive leadership coaching, and work culture shift support for social justice organizations led by BIPOC LGBTQI+ leaders.
• Global Movement Building A program connecting grassroots feminist organizations across the world to share strategies and resources, organizing cross-organizational learning opportunities and an international fellowship program with an initial cohort of 3-5 leaders.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Building Our Future: A Community CampaigncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization that organized the first Global Hmong Women's Summit. Moving Mountains plans to organize similar opportunities for grassroots leaders and organizations to visit and learn from each other through this partnership.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Forward Together: A national movement building organization advancing gender, racial, and reproductive justice through leadership development, narrative work, and base-building — directly comparable in mission and approach to Moving Mountains' movement hub model.
• SONG (Southerners on New Ground): A Southern-based LGBTQI regional organizing and movement building organization serving queer and trans people of color — directly comparable in building movement power for QT/GNC BIPOC communities.
• Third Wave Fund: A youth-led feminist fund that resourcing gender justice movement organizations and leaders, particularly those led by and for young people of color and queer communities — closely comparable in fiscal sponsorship-style grantmaking and movement leader support.
• Mama Cash: The oldest international feminist fund, supporting bold, risky, and often unconventional initiatives led by women, girls, trans people, and intersex people — directly comparable in international feminist movement resourcing.
• Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice: An international feminist foundation funding LGBTQI movements globally with a focus on movement building, leadership, and intersectional grantmaking — directly comparable in serving QT/GNC BIPOC movement leaders.
• INCITE!: A national network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and support movement building — directly comparable in mission, constituency, and movement hub approach for BIPOC feminist leaders.

Broad incumbents

• Ms. Foundation for Women: A longstanding national women's foundation funding gender justice organizations and movement leaders — broadly comparable as a much larger, more established feminist funder with overlapping constituency.
• Tides Foundation: A major fiscal sponsor and philanthropic intermediary that provides fiscal sponsorship and grantmaking services — broadly comparable as a much larger incumbent providing similar 7%-style fiscal sponsorship infrastructure.
• Fractured Atlas: A large nonprofit fiscal sponsor serving artists and small organizations — broadly comparable as an established fiscal sponsorship provider, though serving a different creator community.

Regional players

• Women's Foundation of Minnesota: A regional foundation funding gender equity work in Minnesota — comparable in focus area and mission, though geographically adjacent rather than overlapping with Moving Mountains' Wisconsin and broader footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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