What We Fund

Selection Criteria

We seek to radically and deliberately redistribute wealth to where it is most needed and can be best leveraged to build power. By power, we mean empowering marginalised and frontline communities by allocating funding where it’s most needed to address systemic injustices, while also aiming to challenge existing power structures that perpetuate inequality and injustice. 

That is why we prioritise applications from grassroots groups which are mainly led by people with direct, lived experience with the issues they work on. The groups we fund usually have annual budgets under €150K and don’t have access to long-term, regular and/or institutional funding. 

We understand power as contextual and relative. We strive to move resources to structurally under-supported and under-resourced regions and groups that challenge colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and imperialism and that are building life-affirming alternatives that actively challenge or work to replace the current system of extractive capitalism. 

In deciding who to fund, we prioritise groups and movements across geographic Europe that have a hard time finding funding elsewhere due to their location, marginalisation, and ways of organising. As such, we strongly encourage groups and organisations from across Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe as well as historically marginalised groups and frontline communities in Northern and Western Europe to apply. 

We also recognize the historic and present impacts of European imperialism and its role in maintaining neocolonial systems of oppression. For this reason we also support European groups that work together with movements based in global majority territories (aka “global south”).

We fund many different forms of activism tackling systems of oppression, whether that be organising, campaigns, community-led mutual aid efforts, direct action, trainings and workshops, media production, general core funding for groups, etc. While we sometimes fund research and cultural projects, it is only when they are led by or with a direct mandate from frontline communities.

We understand that those with lived experience of systems of oppression are best qualified to dismantle these systems. In this regard, we especially welcome applications from groups working on disability justice, racial justice and decolonization, trans-rights, sex workers, rights, intersectional urban commons, class struggles, workers issues, criminal justice reform, intersectional resistance to the far-right, as well as groups who work beyond the boundaries of traditional activism. In all these cases, we prioritise migrant-, frontline communities, Indigenous-  and Roma-led projects as we work together to dismantle systems of oppression and build a more equitable and just future.  

Check out Guerrilla’s grantee profiles to see some spotlighted grantees. If you wish to see the full list of groups funded per year, checkout our respective annual reports.

Need more framing? Check-out this blog article to get a better understanding of our reasoning behind what we fund and where we fund.

Target  Groups

  • Grassroots organisations that organise and mobilise individuals, particularly those from marginalised backgrounds.
  • Movement organisations with a collaborative pan-European orientation particularly those that are addressing relevant issues from a systemic perspective.
  • Individual activists that are central to a specific movement and want to implement a relevant project beyond organisational borders.
  • Organisations and projects that provide structures for learning, communicating, organising & mobilising – online and offline.

What We Don’t Fund

  • For-profit efforts, even if they have a social or political dimension.
  • Religious organisations and political parties.
  • Primarily artistic or academic projects (even if they relate to social movements / activism).
  • Government programmes.
  • Non-profit ventures with annual budgets over €150K.