About Us

Our goals are ambitious and challenging. You wouldn’t want anything less.

Ploughshares Fund is engaged in an aggressive strategy to seize the unprecedented opportunities before us to achieve a safe, secure, nuclear weapon-free world.  Combining high-level advocacy, an enhanced grantmaking capacity and our own expertise, we are helping to fundamentally change nuclear weapons policy.

Ploughshares Fund is the largest grantmaking foundation in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to security and peace funding.  For more than 25 years we have identified and supported the smartest people with the best ideas for preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons and building stability in regions where nuclear weapons may be factors.

Ploughshares Fund is a public 501(c)(3) foundation that pools contributions from individuals, families and foundations. 

These contributions fund policy initiatives that are:

• Promoting the elimination of nuclear weapons
• Reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism
• Preventing the emergence of new nuclear states
• Building regional peace and stability
• Reducing the threats from ballistic missiles
• Preventing the weaponization of space

Our grants enable individual experts and key institutions here and abroad to:

• Produce pivotal independent analyses
• Inform and influence decision makers
• Build a bipartisan legislative consensus for eliminating nuclear weapons
• Expand the public’s knowledge and catalyze public support

Learn more about the people and initiatives we have supported!