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
- Nationale Postcode Loterij $136.5 M
- Foundation For The Carolinas $101.5 M
- Ford Foundation $80.9 M
- American Jewish World Service $23.6 M
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation $22.8 M
- Anonymous $22.7 M
- Global Greengrants Fund $22.1 M
- NoVo Foundation $17.8 M
- Tides Foundation $17.6 M
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $14.7 M
- Both ENDS $14.6 M
- The Oak Foundation $14.4 M
- National Endowment for Democracy $13.3 M
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust $9.6 M
- Hivos $9.4 M
- The Kresge Foundation $9.1 M
- Cordaid $8.7 M
- Fund For Global Human Rights $8.3 M
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $7.3 M
- W. K. Kellogg Foundation $6.1 M
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $5.4 M
- Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock $5.0 M
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $5.0 M
- Dietel Partners $4.8 M
- The Rockefeller Foundation $4.7 M
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Bilateral and Multilateral Funding
9%
Share of OECD
human rights funding
$2.7 Billion out of
$30.8 Billion for all rights
8,155 Disbursements
Top Funders
- Canada $438.9 M
- Sweden $388.4 M
- United States $304.6 M
- Norway $224.6 M
- Finland $209.8 M
- European Union Institutions $196.4 M
- Germany $181.1 M
- Spain $135.0 M
- Ireland $120.8 M
- Switzerland $107.5 M
- United Kingdom $101.0 M
- Denmark $87.6 M
- Belgium $60.3 M
- Asian Development Bank $22.0 M
- Australia $19.2 M
- International Development Association $16.1 M
- Netherlands $10.7 M
- Inter-American Development Bank - Special Fund $6.8 M
- Global Environment Facility $6.4 M
- Italy $5.6 M
- France $4.3 M
- Austria $3.9 M
- Inter-American Development Bank $3.3 M
- Korea $2.2 M
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $1.6 M
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