The California Endowment has announced a five-year, $4 million grant to the D5 Coalition a group of national and regional organizations working to make organized philanthropy in the United States more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

Awarded through the endowment's Equity and Diversity program, the grant will help the coalition of sixteen organizations generate more diverse and inclusive foundation leadership, strengthen the work of diverse donors and population-focused funds, develop relevant policies and practices for foundations, and track philanthropy's progress with respect to diversity.

With support from the endowment and other philanthropies including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Marguerite Casey, Robert Wood Johnson, Prudential, Rockefeller, and W.K. Kellogg foundations, the coalition will work to unify what it sees as sporadic and isolated attempts to promote diversity in American philanthropy.