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; sustainable agriculture rights; the right to water and sanitation; and the right to share in and determine the distribution of lands, territories, and resources. This category captures grants to protect natural resources from overdevelopment, destruction, or adulteration and to address climate change.

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

9%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$2.7 Billion out of
$30.8 Billion for all rights
8,155 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. Canada $438.9 M
  2. Sweden $388.4 M
  3. United States $304.6 M
  4. Norway $224.6 M
  5. Finland $209.8 M
  6. European Union Institutions $196.4 M
  7. Germany $181.1 M
  8. Spain $135.0 M
  9. Ireland $120.8 M
  10. Switzerland $107.5 M
  11. United Kingdom $101.0 M
  12. Denmark $87.6 M
  13. Belgium $60.3 M
  14. Asian Development Bank $22.0 M
  15. Australia $19.2 M
  16. International Development Association $16.1 M
  17. Netherlands $10.7 M
  18. Inter-American Development Bank - Special Fund $6.8 M
  19. Global Environment Facility $6.4 M
  20. Italy $5.6 M
  21. France $4.3 M
  22. Austria $3.9 M
  23. Inter-American Development Bank $3.3 M
  24. Korea $2.2 M
  25. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $1.6 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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