Issue

Migration and Displacement, 2011 - 2015

Supporting the right to free movement within a country and to leave and return, asylum in other countries from persecution, and nationality and the freedom to change it. This category includes support for refugees to leave their own countries and migrate to other countries of their choice, and aid to refugees who have been forced from their area or country of origin.

Foundation Funding for Migration and Displacement

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

5%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$510.8 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
3,812 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Ford Foundation $122.2 M
  2. Nationale Postcode Loterij $73.8 M
  3. Public Interest Projects $46.7 M
  4. Carnegie Corporation of New York $41.6 M
  5. The Atlantic Philanthropies $37.4 M
  6. Unbound Philanthropy $23.9 M
  7. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $20.6 M
  8. The Oak Foundation $18.2 M
  9. Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund $15.7 M
  10. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $12.7 M
  11. Silicon Valley Community Foundation $11.5 M
  12. The James Irvine Foundation $8.8 M
  13. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $7.1 M
  14. Marguerite Casey Foundation $7.0 M
  15. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $5.9 M
  16. Tides Foundation $5.0 M
  17. Esmee Fairbairn Foundation $4.3 M
  18. Anonymous $4.1 M
  19. NoVo Foundation $3.8 M
  20. The Barrow Cadbury Trust $3.8 M
  21. Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust $3.4 M
  22. Moriah Fund $2.9 M
  23. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $2.9 M
  24. The San Francisco Foundation $2.9 M
  25. Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock $2.7 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

6%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$2.3 Billion out of
$36.6 Billion for all rights
2,580 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. European Union Institutions $1.5 B
  2. United States $180.2 M
  3. Norway $165.4 M
  4. Germany $75.2 M
  5. Australia $63.0 M
  6. United Arab Emirates $52.2 M
  7. Italy $37.2 M
  8. Canada $36.2 M
  9. Sweden $34.8 M
  10. Switzerland $34.5 M
  11. United Kingdom $33.3 M
  12. Spain $24.0 M
  13. Japan $14.7 M
  14. Belgium $12.5 M
  15. Denmark $10.9 M
  16. France $10.9 M
  17. International Labour Organisation $8.9 M
  18. Korea $4.6 M
  19. Netherlands $3.3 M
  20. OPEC Fund for International Development $3.1 M
  21. Finland $3.1 M
  22. Austria $2.9 M
  23. Ireland $2.4 M
  24. Iceland $1.4 M
  25. United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $1.0 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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