Grants to Fight Racism Drop, Report Says

By Brennen Jensen

Foundation support for nonprofit groups that fight racism is on the decline, according to a report by the Applied Research Center, a public-policy group in Oakland, Calif., that focuses on race and social change.

The center examined the number of grants made by the largest foundations to eliminate "institutional and structural racism through public-policy advocacy, organizing, and movement building." Among the recipients of such grants were the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Mexican