Top Foundation Funders

1. Open Society Foundations $10.5 M
2. Comic Relief UK $5.5 M
3. The Atlantic Philanthropies $3.8 M
4. The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation $2.5 M
5. Disability Rights Fund $2.5 M
6. The Oak Foundation $2.4 M
7. The California Endowment $1.9 M
8. American Jewish World Service $1.7 M
9. Trust for London $1.6 M
10. The Foundation for Civil Society $1.6 M
11. Abilis Foundation $1.5 M
12. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation $1.2 M
13. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $1.2 M
14. Tides Foundation $1.1 M
15. The Melville Charitable Trust $900.1 K
16. The Henry Smith Charity $867.0 K
17. GE Foundation $692.1 K
18. The Global Fund for Women $630.7 K
19. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $586.3 K
20. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK) $494.4 K
21. Ford Foundation $479.3 K
22. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $463.0 K
23. Public Welfare Foundation $455.0 K
24. NoVo Foundation $450.0 K
25. The Kresge Foundation $360.0 K
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

• Equality Rights and Freedom from Discrimination

  $19,748,620 (37%)
  264 Grants (29%)

• Human Rights, General

  $10,449,610 (19%)
  275 Grants (30%)

• Health and Well-being Rights

  $10,021,704 (19%)
  107 Grants (12%)

• Social and Cultural Rights

  $5,146,821 (10%)
  73 Grants (8%)

• Access to Justice/Equality Before the Law

  $3,018,065 (6%)
  28 Grants (3%)

• Economic and Labor Rights

  $2,093,702 (4%)
  89 Grants (10%)

• Freedom from Violence

  $1,637,587 (3%)
  35 Grants (4%)

• Migration and Displacement

  $554,000 (1%)
  5 Grants (1%)

• Sexual and Reproductive Rights

  $523,485 (1%)
  12 Grants (1%)

• Civic and Political Participation

  $288,356 (1%)
  11 Grants (1%)

• Environmental and Resource Rights

  $140,420 (0%)
  11 Grants (1%)

• Expression and Information Rights

  $129,303 (0%)
  6 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

• Economically Disadvantaged

  $19,067,377 (35%)
  170 Grants (19%)

• Children & Youth

  $12,402,191 (23%)
  224 Grants (24%)

• Ethnic or Racial Minorities

  $8,680,681 (16%)
  74 Grants (8%)

• Women & Girls

  $5,618,754 (10%)
  152 Grants (17%)

• Crime or Abuse Victims

  $3,266,358 (6%)
  64 Grants (7%)

• Offenders & Ex-Offenders

  $2,856,591 (5%)
  25 Grants (3%)

• Migrants & Refugees

  $1,760,687 (3%)
  34 Grants (4%)

• People with AIDS

  $1,307,498 (2%)
  15 Grants (2%)

• LGBTQI

  $1,020,197 (2%)
  25 Grants (3%)

• Substance Abusers

  $831,184 (2%)
  11 Grants (1%)

• Human Rights Defenders

  $288,610 (1%)
  5 Grants (1%)

• Indigenous Peoples

  $278,700 (1%)
  9 Grants (1%)

• Sex Workers

  $8,000 (0%)
  1 Grants (0%)

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.