FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund

Name

FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund

Legal name

FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund

Website

https://youngfeministfund.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Feminist Grantmaking

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219)

SIC

International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Grantmaking & Philanthropic Funds (Institutional Donors) (BPADAOAB)

Keywords

• Feminist grantmaking
• Youth activism funding
• Participatory grantmaking
• Feminist philanthropy
• Grassroots movement support

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: FRIDA operates as a philanthropic organization that raises funds from institutional donors and individual supporters to provide grants to young feminist organizations. Revenue comes from donations rather than product/service sales.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

FRIDA provides flexible core grants and supplementary funding (capacity building, risk reserve, transition) to young feminist organizations, collectives, and movements in the Global South. Beyond financial resources, FRIDA delivers non-financial support through a two-year Accompaniment Program pairing partners with advisors, an Online Learning Program of webinars, and Regional/Global Convenings. The portfolio serves a network of 300+ grantee partners across six geographic regions.

Product overview

FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund operates as a participatory grantmaking organization that provides flexible funding and support programs to young feminist organizations globally. The portfolio includes Core Grants as the primary funding mechanism, supplemented by Capacity Building Grants, Risk Reserve Grants, and Transition Grants for sustainability. Non-financial support includes the Accompaniment Program pairing partners with advisors, an Online Learning Program through webinars, and Regional/Global Convenings for network building. The 2025 Reverse Call for Applications represents an innovative approach to redistributing power in philanthropy. The organization operates across 6 geographic regions supporting grantee partners through up to 4 years of funding relationships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Core/Principal Grant Flexible core funding provided annually to young feminist organizations, collectives, and movements. Grants can be used for project support (workshops, trainings, transport, food, materials) or general support (staff salaries, office rent, utilities).
• Capacity Building Grant Additional funding of up to US$2,500 available to renewing grantee partners to strengthen organizational capacity, improve skills and competencies, including healing work, security, collective care, advocacy training, or internal policy development.
• Risk Reserve Grant US$2,500 grant provided to renewing or transitioning grantee partners to strengthen capacity to respond to potential emergencies and conduct risk prevention work.
• Transition Grant Final flexible grant provided to grantee partners in their last year to support sustainability during transition out of FRIDA's funding relationship.
• Accompaniment Program A two-year solidarity program pairing grantee partners with an advisor who actively participates in collaborative learning exchange. Partners lead a self-selected project throughout the program period.
• Online Learning Program Series of webinars and online seminars designed exclusively to meet the identified learning needs of the FRIDA community, covering general and regional/thematic topics.
• Regional/Global Convenings Organized regional, international, and thematic meetings to strengthen learning communities among grantee partners, offering opportunities to develop new skills, knowledge, and networks.
• Reverse Call for Applications A reimagined grantmaking mechanism launched in September 2025 that challenges unequal power dynamics in philanthropy by flipping traditional funding models and inviting funders to demonstrate collaborative innovation.
• FRIDA Alumni Community Intergenerational network connecting past and current grantee partners to strengthen bonds and expand the feminist network beyond active funding relationships.

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• Numun FundmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026FRIDA and Numun Fund co-convened a session at the Skoll World Forum 2026 on envisioning a feminist tech resilient future, sharing alternatives, principles and creating safe digital territory for activists.
• Urgent Action Fund for Feminist ActivismmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Co-hosted a session at Women Deliver 2026 on resourcing collective care as essential to movement-building and sustenance in times of crisis.
• The RINGO ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025The RINGO Project conceptualized the reverse call for proposals model that FRIDA adopted for its first Reverse Call for Applications in September 2025, aimed at reimagining philanthropy and challenging power dynamics.
• West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025WACSI co-developed the reverse call for proposals prototype with The RINGO Project, which FRIDA later adopted and implemented for its grantmaking innovation.
• The Doria Feminist FundcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023FRIDA collaborated with The Doria Feminist Fund to form the 'Communities of Collective Care' collaborative group, which developed an advocacy toolkit for resourcing collective care launched at the AWID Forum in December 2024.
• Mongolian Women's Fund (MONES)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Part of the Communities of Collective Care collaborative group working alongside FRIDA and other feminist funds on collective care advocacy and toolkit development.
• TEWAcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Member of the Communities of Collective Care collaborative group focused on advocating for collective care in feminist philanthropy.
• Women's Fund FijicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Collaborated with FRIDA in the Communities of Collective Care group to develop resources and advocacy for collective care practices.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Direct peers

• Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID): AWID was FRIDA's founding partner in 2011 and remains a core ecosystem actor. Directly comparable as a feminist movement-support organization that both convenes and resourced the creation of FRIDA.
• Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism: Global rapid-response feminist fund providing security and crisis grants to activists. Directly comparable to FRIDA as a feminist grantmaker focused on movements in the Global South and co-hosting recent convenings with FRIDA.
• Global Fund for Women: Long-standing international feminist foundation funding women's rights organizations worldwide. Comparable as a peer institutional feminist grantmaker with a global grantee portfolio and thought-leadership role.
• The Doria Feminist Fund: Collaborator with FRIDA on the Communities of Collective Care initiative. Comparable as a small, thematic feminist fund serving grassroots movements with participatory grantmaking.
• Mama Cash: Amsterdam-based feminist fund that is one of the largest international grantmakers specifically supporting women's, girls', trans, and intersex rights movements. Closely comparable mission, participatory grantmaking ethos, and global grantee model.
• Central American Women's Fund (FCAM): Co-founding partner of FRIDA in 2011. Comparable as a regional feminist fund using participatory grantmaking to support women's movements in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Numun Fund: Feminist fund focused on technology and digital infrastructure for movements. Recently co-convened with FRIDA at Skoll 2026, directly comparable as a small participatory feminist grantmaker.

Broad incumbents

• NoVo Foundation: Large private foundation with a dedicated focus on girls, women, and social justice movements. Comparable as an incumbent funder in the same thematic area as FRIDA but with substantially larger scale.
• Open Society Foundations - Women's Rights Program: Large global foundation with significant women's rights and feminist movement-building grantmaking. Comparable as a major incumbent funder overlapping FRIDA's thematic space but with much broader scope and scale.

Regional players

• Women's Fund Asia: Regional feminist fund supporting women's rights movements across Asia. Comparable in mission and participatory model, but focused on a different geography than FRIDA's global scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Instagraminstagram.com/FRIDAFUND
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/frida-the-young-feminist-fund

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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