Headwaters Foundation for Justice

Headwaters Foundation for Justice (HFJ) is a Minneapolis-based community foundation that invests in grassroots organizing across Minnesota. We do this through grantmaking programs that support organizations and groups on the front lines of social change. Each of our programs invite people from the community to learn about and lead our grantmaking work. Since 1984, HFJ has believed that the people who directly experience society’s injustices are exactly the people who know the way to collective liberation. We fund a variety of groups, and we prioritize funding groups that are led by and for Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color. 

Our mission is to amplify the power of community to advance equity and justice. 

We know that the journey toward justice, systems change, and liberation takes time and needs resources. Your gift to HFJ is a community investment and an expression of solidarity. Our donors are active supporters of a new vision for philanthropy—one that centers Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color across Minnesota. Thank you for being a part of this work with us.