Top Funders

1. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation $30.0 M
2. Oak Foundation $14.9 M
3. Ford Foundation $7.7 M
4. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $6.8 M
5. Tides Foundation $5.3 M
6. Fund For Global Human Rights $4.5 M
7. Alliance for Open Society International $2.9 M
8. NoVo Foundation $2.8 M
9. NEO Philanthropy $1.9 M
10. Proteus Fund $1.8 M
11. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria $1.7 M
12. Foundation to Promote Open Society $1.2 M
13. Public Welfare Foundation $1.0 M
14. American Jewish World Service - Donor Advised Funds $995.0 K
15. Unbound Philanthropy $978.4 K
16. EEA and Norway Grants $874.0 K
17. Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund $802.5 K
18. Dietel Partners $729.0 K
19. New Israel Foundation $726.4 K
20. Esmée Fairbairn Foundation $573.3 K
21. National Endowment for Democracy $553.0 K
22. Bill and Susan Oberndorf Foundation $500.0 K
23. Colcom Foundation $500.0 K
24. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $430.0 K
25. Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation $400.0 K
26. M = Millions

Regional Focus

Regional focus includes grants going directly to recipients in the region specified and to recipients located in other regions for activities focused on the region specified.

Issue Focus

• Expression and Information Rights

  $30,773,758 (32%)
  10 Grants (2%)

• Access to Justice/Equality Before the Law

  $15,441,760 (16%)
  137 Grants (22%)

• Freedom from Violence

  $12,981,966 (13%)
  153 Grants (24%)

• Environmental and Resource Rights

  $7,717,292 (8%)
  89 Grants (14%)

• Migration and Displacement

  $6,242,226 (6%)
  44 Grants (7%)

• Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

  $5,879,350 (6%)
  23 Grants (4%)

• Social and Cultural Rights

  $3,707,829 (4%)
  51 Grants (8%)

• Health and Well-being Rights

  $3,461,493 (4%)
  22 Grants (3%)

• Equality Rights and Freedom from Discrimination

  $3,135,447 (3%)
  37 Grants (6%)

• Human Rights, General

  $2,462,327 (3%)
  20 Grants (3%)

• Civic and Political Participation

  $1,857,890 (2%)
  15 Grants (2%)

• Economic and Labor Rights

  $1,677,373 (2%)
  26 Grants (4%)

• Sexual and Reproductive Rights

  $1,115,710 (1%)
  10 Grants (2%)

Population Focus

• Migrants & Refugees

  $10,023,312 (10%)
  76 Grants (12%)

• Children & Youth

  $8,253,467 (9%)
  74 Grants (12%)

• Women & Girls

  $6,366,658 (7%)
  153 Grants (24%)

• Indigenous Peoples

  $5,073,546 (5%)
  61 Grants (10%)

• LGBTQI

  $3,892,832 (4%)
  69 Grants (11%)

• People with Disabilities

  $1,370,412 (1%)
  19 Grants (3%)

• Human Rights Defenders

  $492,736 (1%)
  58 Grants (9%)

• Sex Workers

  $108,459 (0%)
  6 Grants (1%)

Population Focus includes funding explicitly targeted to benefit specific groups and only illustrates those accounting for the largest shares of grant dollars or grants. See Methodology for details on how regional focus and population focus were determined and limitations.

Sample Grants

• TASO Foundation supported Molaogli Development Group in Georgia's self-help group of ethnic Azerbaijani women and youth mobilized for social activism in the Muslim community to establish a community resource center and advocate for women's rights in collaboration with regional legal clinics.
• Urgent Action Fund - Africa supported A Common Future - Cameroon in Cameroon to pursue litigation against five agents in Bamenda for trafficking girls to Kuwait for forced labor and sexual exploitation.