The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice

What The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice does

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice is a US-based philanthropic grantmaking organization founded in 2019 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, that operates as a fiscally sponsored project of the Windward Fund. The organization raises capital from approximately 30 institutional and individual donors — including the Bezos Earth Fund, MacKenzie Scott, and the Clara Lionel Foundation — and disburses flexible, multiyear general support grants to a network of approximately 140 grantee partners concentrated in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and the Carolinas, with nearly three quarters of funding flowing to organizations led by Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander women and gender-nonconforming people. The 2025 grantmaking budget is $25 million in flexible multiyear support. Hive Fund's product surface extends beyond core grantmaking to include Healing Justice and Holistic Security supplemental grants, IRA and Solar for All preparation support (including the Northeast Houston IRA Climate Justice Zone), and a Learning Lab knowledge platform that publishes insights from grantee and funder communities.

The organization does not develop or sell proprietary technology, generates no commercial revenue, and operates with a small staff of 1-10 employees. Its go-to-market is direct grantmaking: identifying and cultivating grantee partners through relationship-building, advisory networks, and participatory grantmaking processes, with funding sourced from a curated set of high-profile philanthropic donors rather than from product or service sales. The fiscal sponsorship arrangement with the Windward Fund provides the legal and administrative infrastructure of a 501(c)(3) public charity, allowing Hive Fund to focus its resources on grantmaking, coalition-building, and movement support for climate and gender justice in the US South.

Name

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice

Legal name

Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice (fiscally sponsored project of Windward Fund)

Website

https://hivefund.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Philanthropic Grantmaking and Climate Justice Funding

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental & Climate Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Social Justice & Human Rights Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAN), Grantmaking & Philanthropic Funds (Institutional Donors) (BPADAOAB), International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH)

Keywords

• Climate philanthropy
• Grantmaking services
• Gender justice funding
• Environmental justice grants
• Community foundation

Headquarters

HQ city

Durham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Grants and Donations: The Hive Fund raises funds from nearly 30 donors including foundations, institutional funders, and individual supporters. The organization received significant grants from Bezos Earth Fund ($43 million over 3 years), MacKenzie Scott, and Clara Lionel Foundation. Revenue comes entirely from charitable contributions and grants, not from product or service sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice raises funds from nearly 30 institutional and individual donors and distributes multiyear, general support grants to approximately 140 grantee partner organizations working on climate and gender justice in the US South. Nearly three quarters of funding flows to organizations led by Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander women and gender-nonconforming people. The organization also provides supplemental healing justice grants, federal funding preparation support, and a Learning Lab knowledge platform.

Product overview

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice operates as a philanthropy/grantmaking organization rather than a technology product company. Its primary offerings consist of multi-year general support grants to 140+ climate and gender justice organizations in the US South, supplemented by healing justice grants, federal funding preparation support through IRA zone programs, and the Learning Lab educational resource platform. The organization provides nearly $25 million annually in flexible funding, with a focus on organizations led by women of color and frontline communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Multi-Year General Support Grants Flexible, multi-year general support grants provided to 140+ nonprofit grantee partners primarily in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Nearly three quarters of funding flows to organizations led by Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander women and gender-nonconforming people working on climate, gender, and racial justice.
• Healing Justice and Holistic Security Grants Supplemental grants supporting the wellbeing and security of frontline climate justice leaders and organizations, including support to heal from intergenerational trauma, violence, pollution, and weathering from white supremacy and sexism.
• IRA and Federal Funding Preparation Support Resources and support helping grantee partners prepare for and maximize federal climate funding opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act and other federal programs.
• Learning Lab A knowledge-sharing platform that shares insights, ideas, challenges, and lessons from grantee and funder communities. Includes resources on healing justice, IRA funding, and climate philanthropy practices.
• Solar for All Program Support Supporting grantee partners to access and implement the federal Solar for All program, helping deliver residential and community solar to low-income and disadvantaged communities in the US South.

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Windward FundcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHive Fund is a fiscally sponsored project of the Windward Fund. Windward Fund provides administrative infrastructure, legal status, and operational support for the organization.
• Ananse ConsultingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHive Fund partnered with Ananse Consulting to help expand healing justice and holistic security grantmaking and integrate it more systematically into grantmaking practice.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Windward Fund: Windward Fund is Hive's fiscal sponsor and a pooled philanthropy vehicle supporting movement-aligned projects; directly comparable as a fiscal-sponsorship / regranting infrastructure organization.
• Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation: Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is a Southeast US place-based foundation funding economic and racial justice (Co-Director Melanie Allen previously launched its Energy Equity portfolio); highly comparable regional US South philanthropic footprint.
• Groundswell Fund: Groundswell Fund is a movement-building intermediary that pools philanthropic dollars and re-grants to grassroots groups led by women of color, Indigenous women, and trans people — closely matching Hive's intermediary model and target leadership demographic.
• Thousand Currents: Thousand Currents is a regranting intermediary that channels resources to grassroots groups globally, including climate-justice work; comparable as a pooled-funds-to-frontline-groups model with flexible, multi-year support.
• Movement Generation: Movement Generation focuses on climate justice strategy and capacity-building for frontline organizations, overlapping with Hive's grantee ecosystem in the US South and its integration of climate with racial and economic justice.
• Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice: Astraea is an LGBTQI+ and feminist regranting foundation funding grassroots movements, intersecting Hive's gender justice, racial equity, and frontline-led grantmaking priorities.
• Global Fund for Women: Global Fund for Women supports feminist movements globally; comparable as a regranting intermediary to women-led movements (Senior Manager Chelsea Meacham previously worked there), with overlapping climate-justice focus.
• Ms. Foundation for Women: Ms. Foundation is a national funder of women and girls of color-led organizing, sharing Hive's focus on resourcing frontline women-led movements; overlapping donor base and grantee leaders.

Broad incumbents

• ClimateWorks Foundation: ClimateWorks Foundation is a major global climate philanthropy aggregator that regrants to large climate organizations; comparable as a high-scale climate-philanthropy intermediary, though Hive operates at a more regional/frontline-grassroots tier.

Regional players

• Appalachian Voices: Appalachian Voices is a regional environmental organization working on energy and climate in the Southeast US, overlapping with Hive's US South geography and Atlantic Coast program officer alumni Josh McClenney.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hive-fund

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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