Population

Indigenous Peoples, 2018

Human rights funding for Indigenous Peoples protects and promotes their individual and collective rights as described in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This funding supports work to eliminate abuses, including forced assimilation and relocation, raise awareness of historic injustices, and secure land and resource rights. It funds Indigenous Peoples’ cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and language, and respects their free, prior, and inform consent on matters that affect them.

5%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$188.0 Million out of
$3.7 Billion for all rights
1,702 Grants

Top Foundation Funders

  1. NoVo Foundation $49.2 M
  2. Ford Foundation $24.6 M
  3. Tides Foundation $12.6 M
  4. W.K. Kellogg Foundation $9.6 M
  5. Bush Foundation $6.6 M
  6. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation $5.7 M
  7. Oak Foundation $5.5 M
  8. Mulago Foundation $5.1 M
  9. Global Greengrants Fund $4.2 M
  10. Tamalpais Trust $3.3 M
  11. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation $3.2 M
  12. American Jewish World Service $2.9 M
  13. Kendeda Fund $2.5 M
  14. Foundation to Promote Open Society $2.2 M
  15. New York Community Trust $2.0 M
  16. Climate Justice Resilience Fund $1.9 M
  17. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $1.8 M
  18. Both ENDS Foundation $1.7 M
  19. Foundation for a Just Society $1.6 M
  20. International Indigenous Women's Forum $1.4 M
  21. Schmidt Family Foundation $1.3 M
  22. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $1.2 M
  23. Wallace H. Coulter Foundation $1.2 M
  24. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $1.2 M
  25. Meyer Memorial Trust $1.2 M
  26. M = Millions

Funding for Intersectional Organizing

Key Findings

Key Findings:
2018 Funding

Key Findings

Foundation Funding by Region

Asia & Pacific

$13,923,514 (7%)
281 Grants (17%)

Caribbean

$271,864 (0%)
7 Grants (0%)

Eastern Europe, Central Asia, & Russia

$525,000 (0%)
7 Grants (0%)

Global Programs

$24,878,063 (13%)
103 Grants (6%)

Latin America & Mexico

$62,862,687 (33%)
609 Grants (36%)

Middle East & North Africa

$4,343,652 (2%)
13 Grants (1%)

North America

$85,338,093 (45%)
467 Grants (27%)

Sub-Saharan Africa

$8,251,802 (4%)
229 Grants (13%)

Western Europe

$1,524,340 (1%)
15 Grants (1%)

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

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

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.

Foundation Funding by Strategy

Strategy totals include foundation funding that could be identified as supporting a specific strategy. Grants may employ multiple strategies and would therefore be counted in more than one category.