Issue

Environmental and Resource Rights, 2011 - 2015

Supporting the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. This includes the rights of indigenous, marginalized, or any other communities to the unspoiled natural resources that enable survival, including land, water, air, plants, animals, and energy; the right to share in and determine the distribution of lands, territories, and resources; and the right to protect these natural resources from overdevelopment, destruction, or adulteration.

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Foundation Funding for Environmental and Resource Rights

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

7%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$686.9 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
7,915 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Nationale Postcode Loterij $136.5 M
  2. Foundation For The Carolinas $101.5 M
  3. Ford Foundation $80.9 M
  4. American Jewish World Service $23.6 M
  5. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation $22.8 M
  6. Anonymous $22.7 M
  7. Global Greengrants Fund $22.1 M
  8. NoVo Foundation $17.8 M
  9. Tides Foundation $17.6 M
  10. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $14.7 M
  11. Both ENDS $14.6 M
  12. The Oak Foundation $14.4 M
  13. National Endowment for Democracy $13.3 M
  14. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $9.6 M
  15. Hivos $9.4 M
  16. The Kresge Foundation $9.1 M
  17. Cordaid $8.7 M
  18. Fund For Global Human Rights $8.3 M
  19. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $7.3 M
  20. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $6.1 M
  21. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $5.4 M
  22. Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock $5.0 M
  23. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $5.0 M
  24. Dietel Partners $4.8 M
  25. The Rockefeller Foundation $4.7 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

8%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$1.5 Billion out of
$18.1 Billion for all rights
4,828 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. Canada $348.1 M
  2. Norway $157.9 M
  3. Sweden $157.6 M
  4. United States $142.0 M
  5. Ireland $114.0 M
  6. Finland $107.5 M
  7. European Union Institutions $91.1 M
  8. Spain $76.9 M
  9. Switzerland $67.6 M
  10. Germany $66.7 M
  11. Denmark $58.5 M
  12. United Kingdom $42.2 M
  13. Belgium $36.6 M
  14. International Development Association $16.1 M
  15. Australia $10.9 M
  16. Inter-American Development Bank - Special Fund $6.8 M
  17. Global Environment Facility $4.2 M
  18. Netherlands $3.5 M
  19. Austria $1.9 M
  20. Italy $1.8 M
  21. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $1.5 M
  22. Korea $1.4 M
  23. Asian Development Bank Special Funds $1.2 M
  24. New Zealand $499.0 K
  25. Iceland $489.2 K
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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Sample Grants

  • Ford Foundation
    Global Justice (Brazil)
    To develop and implement strategies to monitor and address human rights violations committed in conjunction with extractive industries and the 2016 Olympic Games.
  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
    Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) (United States)
    Which convenes former energy regulators and more traditional environmental advocates to promote sustainable, low-carbon power sector development in the USA, China, India, Europe, and Latin America.