Our approach

Thirty Percy the organisation
How we do things is as important as what we do. We use philanthropy as our jumping off point but are not restricted to this. We’re exploring what it means to organise and govern our resources and money differently. Our aspiration is to create an organisation that is designed with feminine lifecycles and leadership at its heart.

Supporting Individual Changemakers
We make direct, unrestricted investments in individuals across different stages of their life cycles—activists, artists, thinkers, dreamers, and social justice practitioners who are daring to imagine and build alternative futures. These are people committed to decolonised practices rooted in Black feminist values, who embrace the shared risks of transformation and the deep interdependence of community. We support those generating new knowledge, nurturing collective care, and cultivating the possibility of liberated ways of living and being—together.

Wealth System Interventions
Thirty Percy began with an inquiry into Reimagining Investment, which led to the creation of our Spiral Investment policy - a vision we’ve not yet been able to implement, as the current architecture of the wealth system simply doesn’t allow it. In response, we’ve developed a series of practical interventions and provocations aimed at the very wealth system we’re inherently connected to and emerged from. Through these efforts, we seek to challenge its enduring logics, reveal alternative possibilities, and explore the role philanthropy can play in building systems rooted in interconnection, shared risk, and shared prosperity.

Fiscal Hosting
Fiscal hosts - in all their forms - offer the potential to bring abundant resources and support to groups and movements, fostering interconnection between funders, hosts, and groups and more adequately situating risk. We’re inquiring into the potential of fiscal hosting as both a transitionary hack - helping unblock money from flowing to where it's needed in the short term - and an example of transformational infrastructure - supporting a shift towards more representative and just governance structures that devolve power, share risk while increasing transparency and accountability. It is part of Thirty Percy’s strategic aim to build values-aligned, anti-racist and appropriate platforms for governing money and appropriate resource distribution that have a life beyond Thirty Percy as an organisation.

Project Inside Out
This is more of an ‘internal’ project - to refine and share a suite of organisational systems, processes, and practices that are equitable, future-ready, and create spaces for collaboration, joy, and possibility. The intention will then be to open-source these, to be picked up by those interested. It is an exercise in integration at the level of the team; providing infrastructure that will enable the team to show up as their whole selves in this work, decolonise our ways of working, and model possibility to others.

For more info on Project Inside Out, please see Lily’s blog.

Decolonisation & anti-racism in practice
Modelling possibility - what would it look like for a funder to step boldly into decolonised ways of funding, being, and advocating? Sharing risk across the team, seeking deep integration of our whole selves as team members in this work. Abundance is not just financial - it’s in our bodies; in our wellbeing; in our time; in decolonised frames and in how we relate to the world. The decolonisation work with JMB is a step into a new ‘possible’ for us as an organisation, team, and culture.
Find out more here: Our journey towards decolonisation & anti-racism work.