Philanthropy at the Edge | Riverstyx Foundation T H E R I V E R I S S U E A R E A S C O N T A C T More A BRIDGE TO THE RELINQUISHED PARTS OF SELF AND SOCIETY In Greek mythology the river Styx was the sacred passage which connected the dualities of the world life and death shadow and light conscious and unconscious the Styx was a revered point of transition and source of power for the Gods giving life and taking it away. The River Styx The RiverStyx Foundation is a philanthropicorganizationthat strives to work at this boundary place. Through grantmaking and seeding nonprofits Riverstyx attends to the places in society and our psychologywhich have been relegated to the shadows out of fear ignorance and puritan influence recognizing that which is repressed only festers and breeds pathology in its unnatural separation. The goal is not to rid life of its darkness but rather to reconcile it into our lives to make relationship and to honor both light and dark asnecessarilytwo sides of the same coin.