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Advancing Human Rights

The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking

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Human Rights, General, 2011 - 2015

Supporting rights not explicitly categorized elsewhere in the taxonomy. This category 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.
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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

$4.6 Billion out of
$30.8 Billion for all rights
22,081 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. European Union Institutions $1.0 B
  2. Switzerland $754.0 M
  3. Sweden $567.8 M
  4. Norway $266.8 M
  5. United States $261.2 M
  6. Denmark $249.7 M
  7. Netherlands $207.6 M
  8. Germany $174.1 M
  9. Spain $139.4 M
  10. United Kingdom $119.9 M
  11. Australia $103.9 M
  12. Belgium $95.5 M
  13. France $73.7 M
  14. Finland $63.8 M
  15. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $59.3 M
  16. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) $58.6 M
  17. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $54.9 M
  18. United Arab Emirates $53.2 M
  19. Ireland $52.8 M
  20. Canada $50.3 M
  21. International Labour Organisation $34.1 M
  22. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $24.8 M
  23. Italy $17.3 M
  24. Luxembourg $11.4 M
  25. United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $11.3 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Trends Blog Series

Relevant Posts

  • Data at the Intersections: Advancing Environmental and Climate Justice Using a Human Rights Lens
  • Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals: Are the SDGs living up to their promise to leave no one behind?
View the entire blog series

Trends Snapshot

Trends Analysis Snapshot

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