Laura, you are not alone. I've read several articles about people in Europe who are working on this. In addition to the Catholic church, they include old financial institutions, foundations, and corporations whose capital was derived directly from slavery.
As you know, in capitalist economies money makes money, meaning, that slavery derived capital is still making money for these institutions, families, and corporations. That is the reason, I try to mention this every chance I get.
The idea that taxpayers should pay reparations for slavery, is a marketing scheme promoted by the uber-wealthy to divert public/taxpayer attention to the obvious source of reparations, which is slavery derived capital that is still earning money for the uber-wealthy - instead of the people who earned it.
While I've done zero research on this, I have not personally encountered a foundation, established by, managed by or controlled by black, Latino or Asian people. A lot of non-profit funding comes from huge white foundations (e.g. the Hewlett Packard Foundation in California and Harvard Universities Endowment). These white foundations manage capital, and distribute the return on investments to various non-profit groups, and individuals, that they consider worthy. Obviously, white foundations take cover behind a 'token' board member or two. If the word 'token' is offensive, I apologize, but that is what it is.
Inasmuch as my work in land-use involved people from all walks of life, I had to learn how to write grants that enabled us to fund work, that would not be fundable if grant applications were not carefully crafted. IOW, a bit of trickery, or what I considered necessary dishonesty, was necessary
For example, I wrote a grant for a small farming community of Sikhs. This community did not generate much tax revenue, so county officials had cut costs, by having all the trees and plants removed from all their public spaces, including streets and parking lots, in that entire community. If I'd been honest, and written grants based on what I just told you, we never would have received funding.
To get funding to re-plant trees, I designed a grant application as a demonstration project for urban forestry. Not only did we get foundation funding, but county officials bought into the idea of urban forestry as an "investment" that would generate "future tax revenue" for county government.
I mention all this for a reason. In the guise of charity, foundation's maintain "white' power." I'm sorry, but when it comes to interacting with "others" even the most well intentioned white people are offensive - including me. As a result, I've experienced the loss of super activists, organizers and volunteers of colour too many times to count.
Establishing foundations, helps generate reliable funding for the work of activists, organizers, volunteers and non-profits
I recommend people in the minority consider looking into one for themselves. To that end, I recommend Community foundations which manage capital funds for numerous, large, medium and small foundations within their geographic spheres. Collectively, the capital investments are huge. To grow that capital, community foundations help individuals, groups, families, non-profits, schools, etc. establish and maintain control of their own foundations. To my knowledge Community Foundations exist all around the country.
Anywho, that's my thoughts for the day. :)
