In 2025, we navigated a volatile year defined by heightened uncertainty. Moments of disruption tested not only bold ideas, but the infrastructure that sustains them. In response, our focus was clear: stay grounded in our mission, move with urgency and care, and partner closely with those doing critical work on the front lines.
Throughout the year, Panorama served as a steady, trusted partner to changemakers working across interconnected issue areas. Through grantmaking, collaboratives, strategic consulting, and operations support, we helped partners stabilize, adapt, and advance solutions when the path forward was anything but predictable. From rapid-response funds to field-shaping research, knowledge sharing, and global convenings, we supported action in the moment while keeping long-term systems change firmly in view.
This work is possible because of trust. Trust from partners who rely on us to absorb complexity so they can stay focused on mission. Trust from funders who look to Panorama to steward resources with care and purpose. And trust from our board and staff, who bring deep expertise, creativity, and commitment to everything we do. I am deeply grateful to the partners, collaborators, funders, and team members who make this work possible.
As we look ahead, we cannot control political or philanthropic winds, but we can connect the dots and build steady structures around the people doing the work. That is what Panorama will continue to do – architecting social change alongside our partners, strengthening the conditions for impact that lasts, and building toward a more equitable and sustainable world.
Leaders come to us with big ideas. Through radical collaboration, audacious thinking, and bold action, we design the blueprints, align the right partners, and build the infrastructure required to translate ideas to outcomes.
Our model is grounded in the belief that complex challenges are solved faster and more sustainably when diverse actors work together with shared purpose and clear structure.
We maximize social impact by partnering with visionary leaders to co-develop solutions that change systems.
We envision an equitable and sustainable world where all people thrive.
See the big picture and examine all angles.
Maintain trust and strive for excellence.
Collaborate and foster meaningful relationships.
Act boldly and create a ripple effect.
Turning bold ideas into action requires the right structures, trusted relationships, and momentum. In 2025, Panorama worked alongside leaders across issue areas and geographies to drive social change through strategic partnerships, fiscal sponsorship, and targeted funding. These numbers reflect the reach and impact of that work.
In 2025, Panorama and our partners awarded:
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Where resources flow reflects both need and opportunity. In 2025, our funding reached partners across regions, supporting work shaped by local context and global urgency.
Where resources are directed shapes what becomes possible. Our 2025 funding reflected a deliberate focus on issue areas where partners are driving urgent and lasting change.
The Panorama Fund’s Maternal Health Equity Initiative—launched in 2024 through reinvestment of Panorama Strategy’s profits—supports nonprofits advancing maternal health and birth equity in underserved communities across the United States. In 2025, we renewed investments in our five inaugural partners for a second year.
Source: Perinatal Support Washington websiteTotal awarded in 2025
In general operating support to each of these five orgs
Panorama staff live their commitment to social impact through the work they do every day on behalf of our partners, as well as through our employee-led giving and volunteer program, Panorama Gives Back. In 2025, staff came together to direct support to 95 organizations working on issues they care deeply about.
Organizations supported in 2025, including:
Times of disruption test not only ideas, but also the infrastructure that supports them. Panorama exists to meet these moments, providing stability, flexibility, and partnership when organizations need it most. Our platform sustains mission and accelerates impact across funds and collaboratives, strategic consulting, and operational support.
Panorama Global acts as a grantmaking springboard for partners seeking to respond quickly while keeping long-term impact in view.
When the U.S. government abruptly froze foreign assistance in January 2025, frontline organizations around the world were left scrambling. Health clinics, food security programs, and community-based initiatives faced sudden funding gaps—threatening hard-won progress and putting lives at risk.
Panorama Global did not wait.
In partnership with Unlock Aid and other collaborators, Panorama helped launch the Foreign Aid Bridge Fund—an emergency financing mechanism designed to move quickly when traditional aid flows stalled. While many funders paused to assess the situation, Panorama leveraged its existing systems and trusted relationships to mobilize resources immediately.
Facilitating the Fund’s grantmaking, Panorama oversaw the rapid review and disbursement of more than $2 million raised from 350+ donors. Within weeks, 40+ organizations across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean received flexible funding to sustain essential services, retain staff, and continue serving their communities.
The results were immediate. Essential programs remained operational, staff stayed in place, and vulnerable communities continued receiving critical support. The Fund also sparked broader momentum. Shortly after it launched, additional funds emerged to support other regions and issue areas affected by the freeze.
The Foreign Aid Bridge Fund exemplifies Panorama’s commitment to bold, effective solutions, pairing strategic coordination with rapid action to protect progress. When global development momentum was at risk, Panorama helped ensure it did not stall.
Read this Q&A with Unlock Aid’s Co-Executive Director Amanda Arch on how the Fund came together, what it revealed about the future of global development, and the builders leading the way.
Share this case studyIn 2025, the rapidly shifting political landscape included rising political violence and explicit attacks on women of color. These conditions made it even harder for women in the United States to aspire to elected office and compounded longstanding structural barriers to public leadership.
In response, The Ascend Fund at Panorama Global doubled down on its commitment to support women leaders. In 2025, Ascend awarded $550,000 in new and renewed grants to partners—including Asian American Women’s Political Initiative, Latinas Represent, and We Are The League—while sustaining support for a broader cohort advancing gender parity in politics.
Ascend also convened a six-month series of monthly community sessions for the 12 organizational partners in our 2024 grantee partner cohort. These gatherings created trusted spaces for peer learning, safety strategy exchange, and collective problem solving during a period of heightened volatility for work advancing women’s political leadership.
The Ascend Fund is pursuing a two-pronged strategy: deploying one-year catalytic grants to grassroots organizations in underfunded regions of the country, while expanding support for 501(c)(3) infrastructure initiatives and cross-organizational networks that can sustain cross-movement work. Through this evolving approach, Ascend is not only meeting the moment, but strengthening the long-term infrastructure needed for women of color to lead and for our democracy to thrive.
For funders interested in supporting creative and responsive approaches to building women’s political power across the United States, Panorama offers targeted recommendations in this blog, Democracy Can't Wait: Five Priorities for Women's Political Leadership, and in this post-election analysis, Unfinished Business: Systemic Barriers for Women in the 2024 Election.
As the 2026 midterm cycle approaches, the importance of strengthening women’s political representation is clearer than ever. Learn more about The Ascend Fund and join us in supporting partners building the future of our democracy.
Share this case studyChildhood sexual abuse is widespread, under-reported, and preventable, yet it remains dramatically underfunded relative to its scale and long-term harm. The Safe Childhoods Initiative (SCI) was established in 2025 by Panorama Global and a group of leading philanthropic funders committed to making the world safer for children by accelerating the end of childhood sexual violence.
SCI works with philanthropists and foundations to identify where resources can do the most good—especially where survivor-led and survivor-informed organizations are driving change—and to translate concern into practical, well-structured support for the people and programs working to prevent abuse and support healing.
In 2025, SCI successfully advanced high-impact work, facilitating collaborative funding conversations among major donors and developing practical tools to accelerate decision-making and co-funding. SCI’s work is actively shifting philanthropic attention from episodic scandals to sustained prevention and measurable impact for children and young people.
Source: Safe Childhoods Initiative website
Share this case studyClimate change is one of the most significant global health threats of our time, with profound implications for women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The Resilience Fund for Climate & Women’s Health (formerly the Climate x SRHR Collaborative), is bringing long-overlooked connections between climate, gender, and health into sharper focus—identifying ways to finance, measure, and scale climate-resilient SRHR interventions.
In 2025, Panorama facilitated donor collaboration and directed resources to the regions most affected by climate change. We convened a 120-member donor community of practice, supported advocates’ participation in five major global convenings, and disbursed more than $500,000 in funding to local organizations in low- and middle-income countries working at this critical nexus.
Panorama also helped strengthen the field by connecting partners, publishing practical resources—including a Funder’s Starter Guide—and hosting a series of webinars that elevated emerging evidence and insights.
This momentum culminated at the 2025 International Conference on Family Planning, where Panorama co-hosted the workshop, “From Bogotá to Belém: SRHR as a Catalyst for Climate Justice.” Bringing together advocates, climate negotiators, youth leaders, Indigenous voices, disability allies, and policymakers, the convening led to The Bogota-Belem Declaration, a co-authored statement of shared commitments and a collective call to advance climate-aware SRHR action worldwide.
Watch the recordings and stay up to date with the ongoing series, here.
Share this case studyPanorama Strategy partners with organizations to clarify direction, strengthen decision‑making, and translate strategy into action.
Affordable housing can be a powerful platform for advancing health equity when paired with intentional investment in resident well-being. Panorama Strategy partnered with MidPen Housing, steward of affordable housing communities that serve nearly 22,000 residents across 12 counties in Northern California, to design investment pathways that expand access to care, strengthen well-being, and ensure residents have the resources they need to thrive.
Through a multi-layered engagement process—including resident focus groups, surveys, interviews with frontline staff and leadership, and interactive workshops—the Panorama Strategy team grounded the strategy in lived experience and operational insight. We also consulted community health experts to identify promising, evidence-informed models. The result was a multi-year investment plan prioritizing community-driven initiatives and aligned with MidPen’s long-standing commitment to resident services. Formally approved by organizational leadership, the plan represents a multi-million-dollar commitment over the next six years to improve resource access and address priority health needs across MidPen communities.
Panorama Strategy is now supporting implementation, including operationalizing two new grant programs that direct resources to high-impact, resident-informed solutions, and a Mobile Dental Care program and a Food Security program that respond to resident needs. This partnership reflects MidPen’s leadership in recognizing housing as a foundation for health—and backing that vision with sustained, meaningful investment.
Share this case studyGlobal health is at an inflection point. Declining development assistance, shifting political priorities, and a more complex geopolitical landscape are placing long-standing systems of international cooperation under strain. At the same time, this disruption presents an opportunity to rethink how global health architecture can better serve countries and communities in a rapidly changing world.
To help shape this moment, Wellcome commissioned five Regional Dialogues to explore priorities and pathways for reform. The Europe and North America Regional Dialogue—co-led by Panorama Strategy and SEEK Development—brought together leaders from government, civil society, philanthropy, multilateral institutions, and academia. Through stakeholder consultations, a joint survey, and an in-person convening on the sidelines of the World Health Summit, participants examined gaps in the current system, identified urgent areas for reform, and explored how actors in Europe and North America can advance a more coherent and equitable approach to global health.
The resulting report synthesizes these insights and outlines practical pathways for change. As global health stakeholders reconsider how to collaborate in a shifting environment, this dialogue provides a timely foundation—and a call to build a more sustainable, inclusive architecture that delivers healthier futures for all.
Photo courtesy of Wellcome (2025)
Share this case studyAs climate change intensifies, frontline communities face disproportionate risks—from extreme heat and flooding to housing instability and displacement. Climate Resilient Communities (CRC) works to ensure that residents shape and lead equitable, locally driven solutions that deliver tangible improvements in people’s lives.
To support CRC’s next phase of growth, Panorama Strategy partnered with the organization to co-design its 2026–2028 Strategic Plan, focusing on strengthening infrastructure, advancing equity-centered climate strategies, and sustaining long-term community impact. Over five months, we worked with CRC’s board, staff, and community partners to align on priorities rooted in organizational values and community voice. Through a comprehensive ecosystem scan, stakeholder input, and in-person strategy sessions to assess opportunities, this engagement clarified strategic direction, and built consensus around a shared path forward. The result: an actionable roadmap to guide CRC’s growth while reinforcing its commitment to unity, resilience, and justice.
Photo courtesy of Climate Resilient Communities
Share this case studyPanorama Global provides the infrastructure—fiscal sponsorship, human resources, financial planning, risk management, and compliance—to enable partners to stay resilient, focused, and ready to build lasting change.
In the current climate of widespread disinformation and polarization, independent journalism is essential to keeping people informed, supporting democracy, and fostering vibrant communities. Panorama is proud to support partners dedicated to this important work.
By investing in community-based journalism, The Fund for Alternative Journalism provides support for critical investigative reporting; for hiring and retaining writers and editors who cover public-interest beats like education, housing, criminal justice, and the environment; and for hosting and promoting educational events.
The Fund initially supported two leading alternative-weeklies, Seattle’s The Stranger and its sister publication, the Portland Mercury. In 2025, the Fund received almost $5 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Allen Family Philanthropies, GRACE Communications Foundation, and other philanthropists, as well as from readers. In August, it acquired a third paper, the Chicago Reader, and it plans to continue expanding its reach and support of other publications throughout 2026.
The Fund’s vision is to build self-sustaining alternative-weekly media outlets that connect people to arts, culture, politics, and civic life.
Panorama Global's fiscal sponsorship ensures proper use of charitable donations while saving the Fund the expense and administrative burden of creating and managing a new 501(c)(3) entity.
Share this case studyThe Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GA) is a strategic alliance of more than two dozen philanthropic foundations committed to shifting food and agriculture systems toward greater sustainability, security, and equity. GA believes in the urgency of transforming global food systems, and in the power of working together and with others to effect positive change.
In July 2025, due to the sudden closure of its fiscal sponsor, GA moved to Panorama Global. The rapidly facilitated, large-scale transition to Panorama’s comprehensive services effectively merged a long-standing initiative into a new operational home. While the condensed timeline was challenging, Panorama and GA worked from a shared commitment to impact, helping to preserve critical partnerships, secure staff continuity, and ensure minimal interruption to programmatic momentum.
Panorama provides GA with strategic organizational infrastructure and ongoing collaboration. GA’s success in a new operational environment shows what’s possible when fiscal sponsorship is approached as a true partnership. Despite the unexpected transition, GA continued to advance significant work, driving impact through its strategic convenings, publications, and partnerships around the world.
Share this case studyCommunity Health Impact Coalition (CHIC) was one of Panorama Global’s first fiscally sponsored projects, partnering with us in 2019. It has since become one of the largest: it now has 18 employees worldwide and collaborates with thousands of community health workers (CHWs) and dozens of health organizations in 60+ countries. CHIC’s advocacy efforts have successfully mobilized public health experts, grassroots organizers, and civil society across the globe in support of professional community health workers (proCHWs).
CHIC’s mission is to make proCHWs the norm worldwide by changing guidelines, funding, and policy. To do this, CHIC uses three interconnected tactics—Research, Advocate, and Activate—and seeks to ensure that all CHWs are salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied. At the World Health Assembly in May, CHIC hosted Transforming Healthcare: Integrating professional CHWs into healthcare systems in one term, with Johnson & Johnson. The conversation featured Dr. Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Millicent Miruka, a community health worker delivering frontline care in Kenya, on what it takes to make professional CHWs the norm.
Panorama is excited to celebrate CHIC’s two awards: the Schwab Foundation’s 2025 Collective Social Innovator Award, and the Skoll Award for Social Innovation in 2025, which recognized and elevated the innovative work CHIC has done as a field catalyst to impact health system design.
Panorama’s fiscal sponsorship has allowed CHIC to house its operations within Panorama’s platform while zeroing in on impact, leveraging its network, and seeking opportunities for expansion. For projects like CHIC, fiscal sponsorship provides a chance to build critical infrastructure while exploring different social impact models to best meet its goals.
Dr. Madeleine Ballard and Margaret Odera collect the Skoll Award for Social Innovation on behalf of CHIC.
Share this case studyPRO Health, Climate & AI is a multi-institutional research project forged by collaboration across diverse science specialties, all focused on leveraging complex machine learning and AI to understand the implications of the climate crisis for public health. The project is focused on creating an epidemiological AI model and knowledge base that links specific elements of climate change to projections of their impact on life- and health-span for individuals and their communities.
PRO spent 2025 assembling a project team, establishing the vision for their product, and developing the scientific methods for the work. They are full steam ahead in 2026, and plan to launch a public website that engages civic and academic experts and advocates across the climate and public health space. It will be exciting to see what they accomplish in the coming year.
- Matt Willis, MD MPH, Chief Scientist, PRO Climate and Health Initiative
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In 2025, Panorama’s thought leadership, research publications, masterclasses, and guides offered data-driven insight and actionable learning for philanthropists and practitioners alike.
In June 2025, Panorama founder and CEO Gabrielle Fitzgerald guest edited Alliance Magazine’s special issue on big bets. She co-authored an article with Ashif Shaikh, CEO of People’s Courage International, spotlighting how unrestricted gifts can operate today within a turbulent funding landscape.
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Panorama Global’s Collaborative Learning from Impact Philanthropy initiative analyzes and shares learnings from across the field of impact philanthropy. We examine MacKenzie Scott’s giving and its effects on nonprofits to help shift norms and practices that advance social change.
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In 2025, Panorama curated and produced seven expert-led videos that offer practical insights and real-world examples on how to lead with clarity, plan strategically, and turn moments of opportunity into lasting impact.
In 2025, Panorama published three guides intended to help funders align their resources with their values and move from intent to impact.
Through in-person and virtual convenings, Panorama brings leaders together to turn dialogue into coordinated action. By sharing knowledge and building relationships, these spaces help align strategies, surface new ideas, and shape approaches to complex challenges across sectors.
In February 2025, The Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Community Fund joined more than 600 advocates, policymakers, funders, and technical experts at the Noncommunicable Diseases Alliance (NCDA) Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. The global gathering focused on advancing action on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including T1D.
The Forum marked the first in-person convening of T1D Community Fund grantee partners, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, and Panorama staff. Together, they began aligning strategies ahead of the United Nations General Assembly high-level meetings on NCDs in September 2025.
Panorama Global supported travel for 30 grantee partner organizations from 23 countries to attend the Forum, to strengthen collective advocacy and elevate the global conversation on NCDs and T1D. The T1D Community Fund hosted a pre-conference workshop, Collaborate for Change: Advancing T1D Advocacy, bringing together partners to share strategies, build connections, and strengthen the collective voice of the T1D community.
The Forum provided a powerful platform to advance urgent action and elevate diverse perspectives, including grassroots leaders from The T1D Community Fund. Grantee partners shared their experiences, connected with donors and NGOs, and strengthened the networks needed to influence decision-makers at the highest levels. Panorama captured highlights and attendee insights in this blog.
Underscoring the power of collaboration, partner organizations co-developed this Global Call to Action. Grantees continued to use it throughout 2025 as an advocacy tool to engage their local governments and advocate for the needs of people living with T1D in low- and middle-income countries—helping ensure that T1D remains central to the NCD agenda.
Partners from The T1D Community Fund, Helmsley Charitable Trust, NCD Alliance pose for a group photo after the T1D pre-conference
Share this spotlightPanorama Global’s Fiscal Sponsorship facilitated four partner convenings in 2025, enabling important knowledge sharing through conversations on risk management, funder engagement, global operations, and more.
In January, anticipating a year of massive change, Panorama Global convened over 20 sponsored projects to explore two critical topics: the potential impacts of federal policy changes on the nonprofit and legal landscape, and strategies for resilience amidst uncertainty. Headlined by attorney Andrew Schulz of Adler & Colvin and consultant Blair Franklin of Alight Alchemy, the event reinforced the importance of proactive planning and collective care in the current social impact landscape.
In April, the team hosted a webinar featuring Jen Risher of #HalfMyDAF, for partners to learn about donor advised funds (DAFs) and #HalfMyDAF’s matching grant program.
A virtual open forum in June sparked candid conversation, fostered peer learning, and strengthened community. Much of the conversation focused on the challenges of working globally—especially around payments, compliance, and security—amid shifting philanthropic and political dynamics. A recurring theme: how to stay mission-aligned in a politicized climate.
On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly’s Climate Week in New York in September, Panorama Global hosted a private lunch that brought together funders, grantees, and sponsored partners from all over the world for a valuable in-person connection.
Funders, grantees, and sponsored partners from across the world gathered for a private lunch before the Leadership Forum
Share this spotlightIn September, more than 200 attendees joined Panorama for its second Leadership Forum on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week.
The world’s most complex and pressing challenges demand collaboration, trust, and bold thinking. We are grateful to our staff and partners who worked together to achieve positive results in 2025. Panorama remains committed to designing and building with partners, sustaining momentum, and architecting solutions that last.
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