Population

Indigenous Peoples, 2011 - 2015

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.

Foundation Funding for Indigenous Peoples

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

4%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$373.8 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
4,673 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Ford Foundation $118.2 M
  2. NoVo Foundation $26.6 M
  3. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation $22.8 M
  4. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $19.2 M
  5. Tides Foundation $13.5 M
  6. American Jewish World Service $12.7 M
  7. The Oak Foundation $11.1 M
  8. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $11.1 M
  9. Hivos $8.9 M
  10. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $7.3 M
  11. Mensen met een Missie $6.8 M
  12. Global Greengrants Fund $6.6 M
  13. Bush Foundation $6.1 M
  14. Fund For Global Human Rights $5.8 M
  15. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $5.0 M
  16. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $4.5 M
  17. The California Endowment $4.0 M
  18. National Endowment for Democracy $4.0 M
  19. The Global Fund for Women $3.6 M
  20. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $3.5 M
  21. Silicon Valley Community Foundation $3.2 M
  22. Cordaid $3.2 M
  23. Carnegie Corporation of New York $2.9 M
  24. Kalliopeia Foundation $2.8 M
  25. Foundation for a Just Society $2.7 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

2%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$652.5 Million out of
$30.8 Billion for all rights
3,859 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. Norway $158.8 M
  2. Germany $85.7 M
  3. Sweden $77.7 M
  4. Canada $74.7 M
  5. Spain $64.1 M
  6. United States $49.4 M
  7. Finland $30.5 M
  8. European Union Institutions $30.2 M
  9. Denmark $30.0 M
  10. Global Fund $19.9 M
  11. Switzerland $7.0 M
  12. Australia $6.4 M
  13. Inter-American Development Bank - Special Fund $4.6 M
  14. Austria $3.2 M
  15. Inter-American Development Bank $2.3 M
  16. Ireland $2.0 M
  17. Italy $1.7 M
  18. Netherlands $1.7 M
  19. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $589.1 K
  20. Japan $510.4 K
  21. International Labour Organisation $487.8 K
  22. Belgium $296.6 K
  23. Estonia $255.4 K
  24. United Kingdom $251.8 K
  25. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $20.2 K
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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