Daily Featured Foundation - 12/11/25

12/11/2025

Here is today’s featured foundation.

Sociological Initiatives Foundation

Website: http://www.sifoundation.org/

Mission & Purpose: To support social change by linking research to social action. They fund projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, and practices that limit equality in the United States.

Broad Funding Guidelines: This is a niche national funder focused on Social Justice and Language Rights. They do not fund direct services. Instead, they fund Community-Based Research—projects where a nonprofit partners with a researcher to study a problem (like housing discrimination or language barriers) and use that data to advocate for policy change.

Featured Opportunity: Their focus on Language Issues (literacy, language loss, bilingual education policy) is unique. If your organization is working on advocacy for non-English speakers or preserving indigenous languages, this is one of the few foundations specifically dedicated to funding that research and advocacy work.

Recommendation: A social justice advocacy group or a community organization partnering with an academic researcher to study and fight against institutional racism or language discrimination.