Top Foundation Funders

1. Comic Relief UK $34.2 M
2. The Oak Foundation $22.2 M
3. Open Society Foundations $12.9 M
4. NoVo Foundation $12.1 M
5. Humanity United $10.5 M
6. Nationale Postcode Loterij $10.2 M
7. American Jewish World Service $7.0 M
8. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $5.1 M
9. Ford Foundation $4.8 M
10. National Endowment for Democracy $3.9 M
11. Bloomberg Philanthropies $3.8 M
12. The Allstate Foundation $3.7 M
13. UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality $3.5 M
14. Mama Cash $3.4 M
15. Human Dignity Foundation $2.7 M
16. Esmee Fairbairn Foundation $2.6 M
17. Hivos $2.5 M
18. Tides Foundation $2.2 M
19. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $2.1 M
20. The Global Fund for Women $2.1 M
21. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $2.0 M
22. Trust for London $1.7 M
23. The PHM Foundation $1.6 M
24. Fund For Global Human Rights $1.4 M
25. Mensen met een Missie $1.2 M
26. M = Millions

Foundation Funding by Region

Region totals include both foundation grants directly to recipients based in the region specified and foundation grants to recipients located in other regions to do work benefiting the region specified. Grants may mention more than one region of benefit and therefore be counted in more than one category.

Foundation Funding by Issue

• Freedom from Violence

  $119,867,319 (65%)
  1,310 Grants (64%)

• Equality Rights and Freedom from Discrimination

  $22,691,785 (12%)
  223 Grants (11%)

• Economic and Labor Rights

  $8,252,488 (4%)
  108 Grants (5%)

• Human Rights, General

  $7,139,901 (4%)
  130 Grants (6%)

• Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

  $6,733,099 (4%)
  51 Grants (2%)

• Health and Well-being Rights

  $5,359,354 (3%)
  45 Grants (2%)

• Education, religion, and culture

  $5,157,378 (3%)
  41 Grants (2%)

• Access to Justice/Equality Before the Law

  $3,189,404 (2%)
  41 Grants (2%)

• Migration and Displacement

  $1,526,462 (1%)
  17 Grants (1%)

• Environmental and Resource Rights

  $1,090,500 (1%)
  37 Grants (2%)

• Sexual and Reproductive Rights

  $980,385 (1%)
  21 Grants (1%)

• Civic and Political Participation

  $937,126 (1%)
  8 Grants (0%)

• Expression and Information Rights

  $882,033 (0%)
  19 Grants (1%)

Issue totals include foundation funding that could be identified as meant to address a specific issue. In order to provide unique totals and avoid double-counting, each foundation grant has been assigned to exactly one issue category within the human rights taxonomy.

Foundation Funding by Intersecting Populations

• Women & Girls

  $96,754,873 (53%)
  1,186 Grants (58%)

• Economically Disadvantaged

  $81,499,134 (44%)
  490 Grants (24%)

• Children & Youth

  $79,387,069 (43%)
  685 Grants (33%)

• Migrants & Refugees

  $21,730,862 (12%)
  255 Grants (12%)

• Ethnic or Racial Minorities

  $14,623,912 (8%)
  290 Grants (14%)

• Offenders & Ex-Offenders

  $8,114,673 (4%)
  103 Grants (5%)

• People with AIDS

  $4,863,922 (3%)
  66 Grants (3%)

• Indigenous Peoples

  $3,385,698 (2%)
  75 Grants (4%)

• People with Disabilities

  $3,266,358 (2%)
  64 Grants (3%)

• Human Rights Defenders

  $3,053,200 (2%)
  116 Grants (6%)

• LGBTQI

  $2,851,516 (2%)
  87 Grants (4%)

• Substance Abusers

  $1,441,938 (1%)
  14 Grants (1%)

• Sex Workers

  $884,494 (0%)
  35 Grants (2%)

In order to show the intersections of multiple population groups, these graphics indicate other population groups supported within funding towards the group highlighted on this page.