2019 at a glance

Mama Cash gave

157
grants

to
144
women’s, girls', trans and intersex
people’s groups & women’s funds

in
67

countries
worldwide


for a total of
6009450

Mama Cash called on women in all their diversity to demand the right to lead the life they want and deserve. Thank you to our awesome feminist friends for sharing your stories, reaching more than 10 million people in our #MyBodyIsMine campaign.

Sex workers' rights activist Georgina Orellano was featured in our #MyBodyIsMine campaign. Photo: Mandy Brander
Brazilian graffiti artist Panmela Castro created an artwork on the window for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam for our Feminist Festival.
Asociación Mujeres Con Voz in the Basque Country.

Grantmaking and
Accompaniment

Feminist activism is happening worldwide! That is what we have learned from Mama Cash’s grant applications showing the need for a community of funders to enable this incredible work. With support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery, we continued our CreatEquality funding for feminist initiatives at the crossroads of art and activism. In Mexico, Reinas Chulas use cabaret as a political stance and a way to push for positive change, while an international collective of sex workers combat stigma and stereotypes about them by touring cities with their Sex Workers Opera.

 

Grants per portfolio

20
Body
19
Money- Environmental Justice
22
Money-Labour Rights
27
Voice
22
Women's Funds
7
Opportunity
10
Accompaniment
30
Red Umbrella Fund

Amounts per portfolio

17%
1044225
Body
10%
557225
Money-Environmental Justice
11%
702000
Money- Labour Rights
14%
840000
Voice
28%
1696000
Women's Funds
1%
50000
Opportunity
5%
285000
Accompaniment
14%
835000
Red Umbrella Fund

At Mama Cash we like to walk the talk, so we’ve been working to bring our practice more in line with our values by exploring different methods for collective decision making. As a result, we are moving towards participatory grantmaking for all our portfolios.

Women’s Funds

Mama Cash continued to boost the feminist funding ecosystem through support to women’s funds and their partners. A recent study commissioned by Mama Cash shows the specific contribution of women’s funds to the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) – a five-year strategic partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It demonstrates the key role of women’s funds in providing the flexibility to adapt and respond to the needs of women most impacted by the climate crisis on a local level, and relationships and credibility to engage in lobbying and advocacy at the regional and national levels.

 

Hamsada Radio in Afghanistan
Coletivo de Mulheres Regional Transamazonica e Xingu
Trans Mreža Balkan
Climate change hits women harder. We explain how in this animation.

Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of our times and it is also a feminist issue. Although everyone is affected, women are usually the most impacted by its consequences. We developed this animation to show how this works, and created a video that tells a story of indigenous women in the Amazon.

Influencing the
Donor Community

We use our knowledge, experience, visibility and credibility within the donor community to leverage more and better funding for women’s, girls’, trans and intersex people’s rights groups. Within our Count Me In! partnership, we successfully advocated for a more inclusive EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, which aims to end gender-based violence, ensuring access to funding for smaller women’s rights organisations, particularly those working on contested issues or with marginalised groups.

Mama Cash continues to proudly lead the Count Me In! consortium, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, supporting women’s civil society groups to lobby and advocate for gender equality and women’s human rights, and making their voices heard in every arena where decisions are being made that affect their lives.

2019 Financials

Our Income

8%
1300780
Individuals
17%
2720023
Private foundations
15%
2450775
Third parties (Dutch Postcode Lottery)
31%
5002088
Governments
3%
417658
Other income
26%
4255000
Income for CMI! partners
a total income of
16146324

Our Expenditures

59%
9032180
Core strategies
28%
4255000
Expenditure for CMI! partners
4%
634256
Management and administration
10%
1461780
Income acquisition costs
total expenditures of
15383216

The bulk of the difference between income and expenditures is due to multi-year donations received in 2019.

We work for a just and equal society. Activists who stand up for women’s, girls’, trans and intersex people’s rights across the globe have the energy, vision and ambition to achieve this. What they tend to lack is money. Your support helps fill this gap and gets us closer to our goal each day. We know that feminist activism works. Thank you for believing in our work and supporting us in making change possible.

All figures in this document are based on preliminary financial reports and have not been audited. Find out more about Mama Cash’s work in 2019 and read our audited financial statement in April at www.mamacash.org/annualreport