After the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020, it seemed that the struggle against anti-Black racism in Germany was receiving more attention and more support from the state. Simultaneously, however, the resurgence of nationalist sympathies and right-leaning political movements around the world in recent years has shown that support for diversity is increasingly and severely threatened. Public funding priorities also seem increasingly to tend in this direction and, as a result, initiatives for issues such as eradicating anti-Black racism must argue for their relevance more than ever when it comes to state funding. Yet it’s not just their relevance that’s being questioned. Directly after the CDU victory in the February 2025 election, the party submitted a ‘minor interpellation’ (Kleine Anfrage) to the German Bundestag on the ‘political neutrality of state-funded organizations’, in which left-oriented NGOs were accused of representing a ‘shadow structure’ that ‘conducts politics indirectly by means of state finances’. In doing so, the CDU likely set the tone for a future policy direction that puts civil society stakeholders under suspicion and challenges their legitimacy. How should initiatives that rely on state funding react to this development? What might approaches look like that forgo public funding? Can they operate more independently? What accomplishments of recent years cannot simply be reversed?