Issue

Human Rights, General, 2011 - 2015

Supporting rights not explicitly categorized elsewhere in the taxonomy. Includes core support grants to organizations that focus on multiple human rights issues and grants where the detail provided is insufficient to identify a specific issue focus.

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Foundation Funding for Human Rights, General

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

10%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$949.0 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
5,232 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Nationale Postcode Loterij $300.6 M
  2. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $188.8 M
  3. Ford Foundation $88.6 M
  4. Freedom House $62.4 M
  5. The Atlantic Philanthropies $33.9 M
  6. National Endowment for Democracy $27.5 M
  7. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $26.3 M
  8. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $23.8 M
  9. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $21.9 M
  10. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation $18.8 M
  11. The Oak Foundation $18.4 M
  12. Hivos $16.7 M
  13. Cordaid $16.5 M
  14. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $11.7 M
  15. Silicon Valley Community Foundation $11.6 M
  16. New Israel Fund $11.0 M
  17. The Wunderkinder Foundation $10.7 M
  18. Tides Foundation $10.5 M
  19. The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust $9.1 M
  20. Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock $8.8 M
  21. Esmee Fairbairn Foundation $8.7 M
  22. Yellow Chair Foundation $8.3 M
  23. Marguerite Casey Foundation $8.2 M
  24. The Nathan Cummings Foundation $7.6 M
  25. Proteus Fund $6.9 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

15%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$2.8 Billion out of
$18.1 Billion for all rights
14,493 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. European Union Institutions $598.6 M
  2. Switzerland $440.7 M
  3. Sweden $410.9 M
  4. Norway $185.2 M
  5. Denmark $162.8 M
  6. Netherlands $148.6 M
  7. Spain $90.6 M
  8. United States $87.8 M
  9. Germany $85.6 M
  10. United Kingdom $78.2 M
  11. Belgium $72.0 M
  12. Finland $58.8 M
  13. Australia $56.8 M
  14. France $49.9 M
  15. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) $40.9 M
  16. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $40.6 M
  17. Ireland $31.3 M
  18. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $22.7 M
  19. Canada $21.2 M
  20. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $16.4 M
  21. International Labour Organisation $13.5 M
  22. Italy $8.6 M
  23. Luxembourg $8.1 M
  24. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) $5.5 M
  25. United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $5.0 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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Sample Grants

  • The Ford Foundation
    Mozilla Foundation (United States)
    For the Open Web Fellows program, which builds a professional pipeline of public-interest technologists to increase capacity within civil society organizations, build organizations' digital protection, and utilize new technologies in human rights programming.
  • Yellow Chair Foundation
    American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (United States)
    To realize its strategic goals of defending and promoting equality, liberty, and democracy.