We’re Opening Up
New Paths
for Philanthropy.
What We Do
Our approach helps nonprofits and donors make a lasting impact.
We open doors
to better resources
We give nonprofits access to the people, places, and things they need to work more effectively and expand their reach, instead of just connecting them to donors with open wallets.
We open new possibilities
through collaboration
Our process enables nonprofits to work together and share their experiences, as opposed to working alone and straining their limited resources.
We’re open to hearing
what nonprofits have to say
We focus on listening to nonprofits and their leaders so we can understand what they need to make an impact, rather than telling them what they should do.
We open up a nonprofit’s
capacity for growth
By tying our funding to long-term partnerships more than yearly program support, we become part of a nonprofit’s process to support their decisions on how to serve their communities.
We’re open to making
a future impact
We prefer investing in a vision over insisting on immediate results, so everyone involved can focus on the impact they set out to make.
We’re open to
working with you
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Magic Cabinet Cohorts
Explore the Cohorts – Learn more about the nonprofits that make up the 18 active Cohorts and their capacity-building journey with Magic Cabinet.
Click any nonprofit logo to visit their unique Cohort page.
2019 Bay Area Cohorts
2020 Bay Area Cohorts
2020 Puget Sound Cohorts
2021 Bay Area Cohorts
2021 Puget Sound Cohorts
2022 Bay Area Cohorts
2022 Puget Sound Cohorts
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Our Mission
Magic Cabinet champions communities’ work by partnering with nonprofits and other philanthropists to achieve the nonprofits’ missions. We do this by providing long-term capacity-building grants, access to peer networks, and advocating for the broader adoption of collaborative, trust-based philanthropic practice.
Our Vision
About Us
Over the past 10 years, we’ve worked closely with nonprofits to identify what helps them work best. This first-hand experience has given us a clear vision of how to reimagine and deploy a new type of philanthropy that helps nonprofits and donors change and impact their communities together more effectively.
Join Us
We want the nonprofit community and their donors to profit from our experiences.
By helping individual and institutional donors recognize the way they give is just as important as the amount they give when it comes to making the most of their efforts.
By providing more nonprofits with the organizational resources and relationships they need today, so they can realize their full potential—and impact—tomorrow.
By showing the world how we can make a bigger difference in people’s lives when we’re open to a different type of philanthropy.
