Roots & Wings supports the remarkable work of hundreds of nonprofit organizations seeking to build healthier, stronger, and safer futures for children and families. Our approach to grantmaking is rooted in trust that our grantee partners’ connection to the communities they support gives them perspective and expertise that funders rarely achieve. We know the services our partners provide are integral to overcoming inequity and building a world where all families and children can reach their full potential. We also know those same organizations are consistently over-worked and under-resourced.
We think funders can, and must, work harder to reduce the burdens foundations have historically imposed on nonprofits. To help our partners stay focused on their mission, we strive to minimize distractions like complicated grant processes, lengthy applications, evaluation requirements, detailed grant reporting, and more. You can learn more about our trust-based principles on our approach page.
We invite you to explore the diverse mix of nonprofit organizations Roots & Wings is supporting by searching below. Our grants database is searchable by program or location. For more details about our grantmaking visit our Candid page. If you are inspired by the remarkable work our grantee partners are doing, consider supporting them directly.
Saving lives in the world’s most remote communities.
Delivering exceptional civil legal services and structural change advocacy, free of cost, to those most in need.
Empowering survivors of sexual violence and trafficking.
Working together to provide and promote a healthier community.
Liberating land for the benefit of historically marginalized populations at the lowest incomes possible, preserving urban space for community use, and creating deeply and permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for those typically exploited by the housing market.
Providing open access to quality higher education that fosters lifelong learning and success within our communities.
Ensuring that every school will be a thriving school that prepares every student to graduate ready for college, career and community.
Ensuring that every school will be a thriving school that prepares every student to graduate ready for college, career and community.
Providing free and equitable access to cultural and educational experiences.
Supporting the education of every child by raising private funds, awarding grants, developing community partnerships, and advocating for Madison’s public schools.
Supporting the education of every child by raising private funds, awarding grants, developing community partnerships, and advocating for Madison’s public schools.
Delivering culturally, linguistically diverse books and literacy learning reinforcement programs to underserved children engaging them in literacy activities designed to create a love of learning and reinforce skills young readers need.
Developing programming and services to fill gaps in access to healthcare and housing in the Madison area.
Addressing the mental health and well-being of BIPOC families.
Strengthening families, promoting literacy, and providing neighborhood-based model health care.
Improving the quality of life of people, communities and our planet by sourcing and directly delivering surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world.
Leading the way to a healthier you and a healthier community through service, teaching, discovery and teamwork.
Redefining exceptional service through compassionate care to our neighbors.
Providing compassionate and progressive care, improving the health and wellness of the community, and going beyond expectations in healthcare today and always.
Providing accessible, quality primary and related health care services to Milwaukee residents, with our continuing emphasis on medically-underserved families and individuals.
Providing dental care to the low-income and homeless populations of Dane County, Wisconsin.
Transforming the way pediatric healthcare is delivered by maximizing opportunities to promote strong parent-child relationships and early childhood development within everyday healthcare interactions.
Bringing services to individuals, families, and communities that improve health and wellness while advancing health equity and eliminating health disparities.
Strengthening the Milwaukee community and increase the well-being of its residents by providing free and charitable health care services, social services, counseling, emergency assistance, educational and job-training programs.
Empowering, inspiring and enriching the lives of justice-impacted individuals by bringing together customized community resources, supportive service providers, and second-chance employers both pre-release and post-release to maximize positive impact and successful reentry.
Providing access to quality, comprehensive and compassionate health care to the underserved in our community.
Providing education, support, and advocacy for people affected by mental illness in Dane County.
Focusing on strengthening Black families to create a stronger Madison for all.
Providing comprehensive health care to families and individuals who have difficulty accessing care, respond with sensitivity to the needs of our culturally diverse patients, and advocate and work with others to improve the overall health status of the communities we serve.
Building healthy communities – one neighbor at a time – through patient-centered healthcare, regardless of income or current state of wellness.
Fighting to aid children in poverty and end childhood hunger.
North by Northeast Community Health Center (NxNE) is the only clinic in Oregon devoted to Black/African American health. We exist to improve health outcomes and advance health equity by providing primary care services and health education and promotion focused on the Black/African American community.
Responding to the health care needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove=ing barriers to wellness.
Delivering high quality health services with compassion, dignity, and respect to all, regardless of income, gender identity, or immigration status.
Joining together to create a more humane and sustainable world, one tiny idea at a time.
Working together to provide excellence in health care.
Providing greater access to high quality medical care and keeping our communities healthy through an integrated care system that respects the diversity of our communities and addresses both the health needs and unique factors that shape them.
Seeding a new model of public education that ensures young children are on track to succeed in a college or career preparatory program from birth through high school graduation.
Understanding and serving with compassion the health and wellness needs of low income, uninsured residents of Walworth County.
Connecting rights to resources through ensuring that northwest Wisconsin women have abortion access through financial assistance.
