Grant or donor capital. No debt, no equity, no loss of decision-making control.
A modest first-year deficit, fully covered by the seed. The owner's $125,000 salary floor is built into the budget from day one.
From launch to implementation — revenue scales as partnerships and retainers compound.
2027 Launch: seed capital bridges the pre-revenue build-out and a modest operating deficit as partnerships ramp. 2028 Implementation: 3 scaled partnerships + 1 incubator cohort + individual clients + returning retainers drive $115K net profit — clearing the owner's salary floor with room.
Three organizational partnerships, a full incubator cohort, individual clients, and the first returning-partner retainers.
Roadmap
Why Fund Us
We are building on the legacy of Black feminist economic thought, which teaches us that our work cannot be funded by the same systems that oppressed us. The traditional grantmaking protocol—with its punitive reporting, restricted overhead caps, and short-term project cycles—often leaves liberatory work underfunded and over-scrutinized.
We are asking for General Operating Support and Unrestricted Donor Gifts because we believe that the people closest to the solution know best how to deploy the resources. We see this funding not as a transaction, but as a redress: a recognition that the wealth gap experienced by Black women founders is a debt owed by a system that historically excluded us from capital.
By funding our delivery capacity directly, you are opting out of the "extraction economy" and opting into a model where 100% of your gift goes toward implementation, not interest. We invite you to be partners in a new standard of philanthropic integrity.
We have intentionally removed debt and equity from this launch phase. In their place, we invite our partners to step into a model of reparative seeding—recognizing that the pay equity gap owes Black women the runway we are asking for today.
Organizations that complete the 12-month Pathway A cycle can transition to a lighter-touch sustained partnership — a quarterly retainer ($3–5K/month) or an annual renewal at roughly half the first-year investment. This creates recurring revenue and deepens the practice over time while preserving capacity for new partners.
As demand exceeds one practitioner's capacity, a train-the-trainer model licenses the framework to contracted associate facilitators who take on overflow organizations. This is the scaling lever for Year 3 and beyond — growth without diluting the practice.
Operations break even by Q3 of Year 2. The $150K seed is fully deployed by end of Year 1. No further grant capital is required to sustain operations — earned revenue covers the owner's $125K salary floor and all operating costs from Year 2 forward.