100%
Share of foundation
human rights funding
$1.8 Billion out of
$1.8 Billion for all rights
18,924 Grants
Top Funders
- Open Society Foundations $262.2 M
- Ford Foundation $214.6 M
- W. K. Kellogg Foundation $85.8 M
- Comic Relief UK $80.4 M
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $80.2 M
- National Endowment for Democracy $78.4 M
- The Atlantic Philanthropies $70.4 M
- The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation $64.5 M
- The Oak Foundation $53.5 M
- NoVo Foundation $44.9 M
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $44.1 M
- Tides Foundation $32.6 M
- American Jewish World Service $29.4 M
- Hivos $29.2 M
- Nationale Postcode Loterij $27.9 M
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust $27.9 M
- Freedom House $26.5 M
- The California Endowment $25.4 M
- Public Welfare Foundation $22.5 M
- NEO Philanthropy $19.2 M
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $18.7 M
- UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality $17.4 M
- Humanity United $17.3 M
- Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund $13.5 M
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation $12.4 M
- M = Millions
Bilateral and Multilateral Funding
100%
Share of OECD
human rights funding
$3.4 Billion out of
$3.4 Billion for all rights
13,094 Disbursements
Top Funders
- United States $535.3 M
- Sweden $431.5 M
- European Union Institutions $332.2 M
- Norway $306.8 M
- Canada $255.7 M
- United Kingdom $172.0 M
- Germany $169.9 M
- Switzerland $152.4 M
- Global Fund $148.5 M
- Denmark $147.7 M
- Netherlands $124.6 M
- Spain $120.9 M
- Australia $110.5 M
- Belgium $79.8 M
- Finland $62.4 M
- Japan $41.6 M
- Asian Development Bank Special Funds $38.8 M
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $38.5 M
- Ireland $37.7 M
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) $25.6 M
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $16.8 M
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) $13.9 M
- France $12.1 M
- Austria $7.0 M
- United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $6.6 M
- M = Millions
Regional Focus
Asia & Pacific
$141,085,005 (8%)
2,105 Grants (11%)
Caribbean
$17,250,913 (1%)
242 Grants (1%)
Eastern Europe, Central Asia, & Russia
$78,722,667 (4%)
1,533 Grants (8%)
Global Programs
$257,718,989 (14%)
1,322 Grants (7%)
Latin America & Mexico
$132,421,692 (7%)
1,892 Grants (10%)
Middle East & North Africa
$55,871,567 (3%)
834 Grants (4%)
North America
$821,286,477 (45%)
7,580 Grants (40%)
Sub-Saharan Africa
$237,240,643 (13%)
2,648 Grants (14%)
Western Europe
$110,292,934 (6%)
1,153 Grants (6%)
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
Equality Rights and Freedom from Discrimination
$436,717,080 (24%)
4,538 Grants (24%)Human Rights, General
$267,883,772 (15%)
3,136 Grants (17%)Sexual and Reproductive Rights
$163,403,956 (9%)
860 Grants (5%)Health and Well-being Rights
$140,853,220 (8%)
1,343 Grants (7%)Freedom from Violence
$140,165,430 (8%)
1,512 Grants (8%)Civic and Political Participation
$98,414,991 (5%)
816 Grants (4%)Economic and Labor Rights
$97,735,817 (5%)
1,235 Grants (7%)Access to Justice/Equality Before the Law
$97,675,871 (5%)
823 Grants (4%)Expression and Information Rights
$90,969,548 (5%)
988 Grants (5%)Environmental and Resource Rights
$87,348,716 (5%)
1,495 Grants (8%)Migration and Displacement
$71,538,479 (4%)
746 Grants (4%)Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding
$16,270,257 (1%)
123 Grants (1%)
Population Focus
Economically Disadvantaged
$742,594,556 (41%)
5,511 Grants (29%)Women & Girls
$473,010,028 (26%)
5,191 Grants (27%)Ethnic or Racial Minorities
$471,038,289 (26%)
4,510 Grants (24%)Children & Youth
$376,690,393 (21%)
3,534 Grants (19%)Migrants & Refugees
$192,048,171 (11%)
2,234 Grants (12%)Crime or Abuse Victims
$183,807,234 (10%)
2,051 Grants (11%)Offenders & Ex-Offenders
$89,203,861 (5%)
723 Grants (4%)LGBTQI
$88,781,044 (5%)
1,585 Grants (8%)Indigenous Peoples
$68,160,198 (4%)
978 Grants (5%)People with Disabilities
$53,751,673 (3%)
916 Grants (5%)People with AIDS
$46,849,471 (3%)
664 Grants (4%)Substance Abusers
$18,936,336 (1%)
189 Grants (1%)Human Rights Defenders
$11,192,178 (1%)
339 Grants (2%)Sex Workers
$5,991,054 (0%)
179 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.
1,309 Grants (7%)