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Yes, you're reading that right. $127,204.11

We're flummoxed too—and deeply grateful to everyone who has poured their time and effort and money and love into participating in the auction this year, and into the fanworks that will come from it.

If you're curious about how those donations were distributed across the different organizations, here is the breakdown (this breakdown doesn't include employer match donations, which is why the total is a little lower):

Bellingcat: $2,636.19

Congo Leadership Initiative: $2,842

Crips for esims for Gaza: $4,762.60

Disability Law United: $3,835.39

Environmental Integrity Project: $3,712

Fight for the Future Education Fund: $3,108

Freedom to Read Foundation: $7,139.50

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism: $6,473

Hope for Ukraine: $12,613.93

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda: $3,626

Middle East Children's Alliance: $13,572.43

National Network to End Domestic Violence: $4,999.95

Never Again Action: $4,555

News Literacy Project: $3,745.16

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights: $10,072.56

Umbrella: organizations serving vulnerable LGBTQ people

Brave Space Alliance: $2,558

Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $2,636

Sherlock's Homes: $7,780.77

TransFamily Support: $5,387.01

TransQueerPueblo: $2,949

Other local LGBT organizations: $10,696.71 Yes, you're reading that right again. Three orgs AND the cumulative Other local LGBT orgs broke five figures.

We're especially delighted because, for the first time, the umbrella category worked the way we've always hoped it would! As you can see above, significant numbers of people used the umbrella category as a way to connect to an organization local to them.

As we learned through people's comments on the donation form, some people donated to organizations they were already familiar with (and in some cases had already donated to, or even volunteered at); others used this as a reason to learn more about their local organization and support them.

We'll share more about the "other umbrella" donations over the next few weeks—some more detailed stats, as well as the names of some of the local orgs that people donated to—and we'll invite those of you who connected up with local orgs to share your stories. We love that so many people took this chance to support groups working in their own community, and we hope that we can keep that going next year and beyond!

And speaking of the future!

Now is a great time to follow @fth2025fanworks. We'll use that blog to share any auction fanwork that gets posted to tumblr.

We urge you to keep up with the organizations you supported this year (and the others on our list!) Follow them on social media, subscribe to their newsletters, whatever works best for you. It will enable you to keep an eye on the good work you've helped support, and to find out quickly when these orgs need some extra support, financial or otherwise.

And if you're looking out at the world and feeling the itch to do more, here are some possibilities:

Follow @fthaction, the meatspace activism wing of FTH. We relaunched this project in the weeks between the end of signups and the beginning of browsing period, sharing some reading lists, an individualized activism bingo card, and an AMA with activist and organizer Kat Calvin. (We also did a test-flight AMA with ourselves, talking about the auction.) We'll probably need some time to recover from this year's auction, but we'll be back soon with more resources to share, more AMAs, and more tools for exploring all the different forms that meaningful activism can take and for figuring out which ones are right for you.

Organize your own auction! We've put together a detailed playbook that contains that contains as much information and as many resources as we can provide for getting an auction off the ground, including detailed guides. Almost everything in the playbook is fully public; there are a few forms that are access-locked because google has stupid ideas about sharing forms, but we're happy to give you access to those, too: just drop us an email.

Over here at FTH headquarters we are all in need of a long nap. But we'll be back in a couple of weeks, as promised, to share more about the umbrella orgs and to dig back into @fthaction to see what's possible.

@thats-so-rufus | fanfiction | up to E | $5 | 10-20k | details Interested in writing Shuake.

Etonzolo | fan poetry | up to T | $5 | less than 5k | details I adore writing platonic fics, f/f or other saphhic works, rarepairs (including polyam or qprs), a-spec and trans characters, and whump/gore!!

Bleed Peroxide | fanfiction | up to E | $10 | 5-10k | details I love writing whump, or just fics with more hurt than comfort. I like digging into a character’s head and bringing their darker thoughts into the light. Topics such as religious guilt, internalized homophobia, self-injurious behaviors, and eating disorders tend to be what I focus on.

ollie ( @voulezloux) | fanfiction | up to T | $10 | 5-10k | details P4 and P5 games. i’ve played p4 golden and p5 royal and i’m currently chugging along in P3 portable. my fave persona character is akechi and refused to romance anyone in p5r because i couldn’t romance him.

Inkwell1013 | fanfiction | up to M | $5 | less than 5k | details I'm willing to write for Persona 4 or Persona 5. I'm especially fond of Yusuke, Ryuji, Haru, Ann & Futaba (Persona 5) & Chie, Yosuke, Teddie & Rise (Persona 4).

MachineryField | fanfiction | up to E | $5 | 500 words per $5 | details I enjoy writing for any character from Persona 1 or Persona 3, as well as Labrys from the spinoffs. Pairing wise I enjoy Reiji Kido/Eriko Kirshima, Aigis/either Protagonist, and Aigis/Yukari.

Oceantoast | fanfiction | up to E | $5 | less than 5k | details Aigis, Yukari, and Ann Takamaki for Persona. I really like angst, whump and hurt/no comfort.

Kalcifer ( @candidateofloyalty) | fanfiction | up to T | $5 | less than 5k | details I'll write most things, but some particular favorite Persona characters of mine are: Mitsuru, Metis, Minato, Naoto, Futaba, Sumire. I'm primarily a gen and f/f author, I like finding ways that characters' experiences parallel each other and exploring how those affect their relationships, whether in canon or in an AU. Character driven hurt/comfort is probably my most common theme, with fluff and comedy a close second.

aikotters | fanfiction, meta analysis | up to E | $50 | 20-50k | details Makoto/Shinji in persona. Subjects/theme of interest: If in P5, a discussion of crime of the criminal and victim, or the chains of society, or in the case of p3, the weight of grief in many forms.

@eurekatpk | fanfiction | up to M | $20 | 10-20k | details I would be at my strongest writing a story with Pegoryu and/or AnnShiho. I'd be open to writing another Ryuji focused pairing (Ryugoro, Ryukita, Ryuji x Haru), or a Persona 5 Protagonist-centered story (Shuake, Shukita, Shumako).

Tomocum | fanfiction | up to E | $5 | less than 5k | details Stuff I Like: PWP, Breeding kink, First Time Related Fluff (Dates, Confessions, Kisses, Dances etc.), Pining (Mutual or unrequited love), Pregnancy fluff, Kidfic, Fandom AUs, OC/Canon (just please give me information about your OC!)