Letter From Our Executive Director

Dear Chinook Fund Community,

This past year has marked both a transition and a grounding for Chinook Fund. I stepped into the role of Executive Director with profound respect for the radical legacy that has shaped this organization and immense gratitude for the leadership that carried us here. Chinook Fund has long been a home for courageous giving, collective care, and trust-based philanthropy. I am honored to steward this work alongside a community that believes grassroots movements are not only worthy of investment, but essential to our collective future.

In a moment defined by political backlash, economic uncertainty, and ongoing harm to our communities, Chinook Fund has remained grounded in what we know to be true. When movements are resourced with trust and flexibility, they build power that lasts. This year we continued to move resources to grassroots groups organizing across Colorado, with a sustained focus on BIPOC-led movements advancing racial, economic, disability, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ justice. Through the Giving Project and the Another World is Possible rapid response fund, we doubled our grantmaking, moving $462,000 to 62 organizations committed to long-term, local power building.

At the heart of Chinook Fund is a simple and radical belief: relationships are our greatest strength. They are how we practice accountability, how we move through conflict, and how we imagine beyond what currently exists.