HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE

Headwaters Foundation for Justice is a Minnesota-based public charity (tax-exempt since the mid-1980s) that invests in grassroots organizing and community-led strategies across Minnesota and neighboring communities. The foundation centers BIPOC-led and community-rooted organizations, using flexible grantmaking, donor-advised giving channels, and capacity-building initiatives to support long-term movement infrastructure. In recent years Headwaters has expanded multi-year and emergency grant programs — including a Justice & Liberation Fund, Rapid Response grantmaking, and The Giving Project — to direct operating support and organizational development resources to groups that are often underfunded by mainstream philanthropy. The foundation operates with a stated emphasis on community decision-making, participatory grant processes, and catalytic funding that meets organizers’ timing and flexibility needs.