The Founding Partners · Bloom Swap
Five organizations. Permanent. Whatever they do later.
The Founding Partner designation belongs to the first five organizations to partner with Bloom Swap in 2026–27. Once it is held, it stays on this page for good. The active benefits of the tier are renewed each year; the designation is not.
The designation
A founding partner of a nonprofit program, for good.
Founding Partner is a title Bloom Swap gives to five organizations, once, and keeps.
The first five organizations to take the Founding Partner tier in 2026–27 are Bloom Swap’s Founding Partners. Each is acknowledged on this page permanently, in the same plain form as every acknowledgment Bloom makes: the organization’s name, its locations and its web address. If a Founding Partner renews, the benefits of the tier continue. If it does not, the benefits end with the paid year, and the designation stays exactly where it is.
That is the whole bargain. Bloom Swap is a new program, and the organizations that fund its first years carry more of the risk of something new than anyone who arrives once the racks are full and the calendar is set. The designation records that. It cannot be bought later at any price, and after the fifth organization, the title closes.
What the Founding Partner tier includes, and what it costs, is set out once, on the partner tiers. This page is about the part that lasts.
The Founding Partners
Five places. Announced as signed.
The strip below prints each Founding Partner the day its agreement is signed and its first payment lands. An open place says so.
Founding Partner
Announced as signed.
Founding Partner
Announced as signed.
Founding Partner
Announced as signed.
Founding Partner
Announced as signed.
Founding Partner
Announced as signed.
No name appears here until an organization has signed, paid and approved the wording of its own acknowledgment. Bloom does not list organizations it is talking to, organizations that have expressed interest, or organizations it hopes to sign. Five places are shown because five exist, and each one is filled from the partner record, never typed into this page.
An advisory seat
The Founding Partners Council.
Each Founding Partner holds a seat on an advisory council. It advises; it does not govern.
The Founding Partners Council is an advisory body. It carries no fiduciary duty, no vote on the Board, and no compensation. It convenes twice a year to advise on Bloom Swap’s expansion, the Directory’s business-facing standards, and employer pathways for the people Bloom serves.
The Council exists because the organizations that serve Bloom’s community know things Bloom needs to hear: which cities need a swap next, what a business-facing standard in the Bloom Directory should ask of an employer, and where the people Bloom serves could find good work. A seat is an invitation to say so, twice a year, in the room where those plans are made.
A seat on the Council is not a seat on the Board. Bloom Ministries is governed by its Board of Directors, and no payment of any size buys a place on it or a vote in it. Keeping the two apart protects the Board from a conflict of interest on every question that touches a partner, and it protects a partner from ever being asked to vote on its own sponsorship.
A named fund
The Safe Passage Grant.
The Founding Partner tier funds one complete relocation a year, in the partner’s name.
Part of every Founding Partner payment is set aside for one complete relocation a year through Bloom’s Trans Relocation Fund, from the first conversation to the new front door. Each grant is named for the partner that funds it: the partner’s name, then Safe Passage Grant. The IRS permits a charity to name a fund after a sponsor (Rev. Rul. 77-367), so a named grant is acknowledgment, not advertising.
Relocation at Bloom is a grant, never a loan, and a relocation runs $3,000–$6,000. The grant is made by Bloom through the Relocation Fund, under the same process as every other relocation grant. The partner learns that the year’s relocation was made through the Safe Passage Grant line in its quarterly impact note. It does not choose, meet or learn the name of the person who moved.
FAQ
Questions Founding Partners ask
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What happens if a Founding Partner does not renew?
The designation stays on this page. The active benefits of the tier, including the Council seat and the named grant, end with the paid year.
Does a Council seat give us a say in how Bloom is run?
No. The Council advises on Bloom Swap’s expansion, the Directory’s business-facing standards and employer pathways. It has no vote on the Board, no fiduciary duty and no compensation, and its advice is advice.
Can we choose who the Safe Passage Grant helps?
No. Relocation grants are made by Bloom through the Trans Relocation Fund, under the same process as every other grant. The grant carries your name; the decision stays with Bloom, and the person is never introduced to a sponsor.
Does being a Founding Partner affect a Bloom Directory score?
Never. Partnership does not affect Bloom Certification. Affirmation and Accessibility scores are earned only through independent audit, on the same rubric and schedule as every listing. What recognition is, and is not sets out the line.
Become a Founding Partner
Take one of the five places.
Tell the Chancery about your organization. The reply comes within one business day, with the one-page overview and a time to talk.
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