Issue

Civic and Political Participation, 2011 - 2015

Supporting the right to peaceful assembly and association, voting rights, and full participation in the political process. This category includes grants to promote democracy, citizen political involvement, protection from closing civic space, free and fair elections, gaining access to public officials, and obtaining necessary information to make informed decisions at the polls and in daily public affairs.

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Foundation Funding for Civic and Political Participation

These are partial figures based on a subset of foundations that shared grants data all five years: Read more about our methodology.

8%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$794.2 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
6,810 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. National Endowment for Democracy $225.9 M
  2. Ford Foundation $159.8 M
  3. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $29.1 M
  4. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $24.0 M
  5. Carnegie Corporation of New York $19.7 M
  6. The James Irvine Foundation $19.3 M
  7. Public Interest Projects $18.7 M
  8. Nationale Postcode Loterij $16.9 M
  9. The Atlantic Philanthropies $14.5 M
  10. Marguerite Casey Foundation $14.0 M
  11. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $13.7 M
  12. Tides Foundation $13.0 M
  13. Wallace H. Coulter Foundation $12.7 M
  14. Hivos $10.7 M
  15. Anonymous $10.3 M
  16. NoVo Foundation $9.4 M
  17. Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund $9.0 M
  18. Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock $8.9 M
  19. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $7.1 M
  20. American Jewish World Service $6.9 M
  21. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $6.7 M
  22. The Oak Foundation $6.7 M
  23. Humanity United $6.6 M
  24. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation $6.6 M
  25. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation $6.4 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

15%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$3.3 Billion out of
$22.0 Billion for all rights
11,292 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. United States $1.1 B
  2. Sweden $441.6 M
  3. European Union Institutions $249.4 M
  4. Norway $245.6 M
  5. United Kingdom $235.5 M
  6. Germany $231.9 M
  7. Denmark $211.3 M
  8. Canada $109.7 M
  9. Australia $82.7 M
  10. Finland $70.9 M
  11. Spain $56.1 M
  12. Ireland $43.6 M
  13. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $28.5 M
  14. Japan $28.3 M
  15. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $26.1 M
  16. Switzerland $25.7 M
  17. Netherlands $24.6 M
  18. Belgium $18.2 M
  19. International Development Association $8.0 M
  20. Italy $6.7 M
  21. United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $5.3 M
  22. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) $5.2 M
  23. International Labour Organisation $4.8 M
  24. France $4.0 M
  25. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) $1.8 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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