3%
Share of foundation
human rights funding
$71.3 Million out of
$2.3 Billion for all rights
1,274 Grants
Top Foundation Funders
- Ford Foundation $16.5 M
- Arcus Foundation $6.4 M
- Hivos $6.1 M
- Open Society Foundations $5.2 M
- Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund $4.7 M
- Gill Foundation $4.6 M
- American Jewish World Service $3.7 M
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $1.9 M
- Proteus Fund $1.7 M
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust $1.4 M
- The Oak Foundation $1.4 M
- The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice $1.2 M
- Mama Cash $1.2 M
- The Global Fund for Women $1.1 M
- NoVo Foundation $1.0 M
- The California Endowment $926.5 K
- Dreilinden, GmbH $892.4 K
- Weingart Foundation $825.0 K
- Fund For Global Human Rights $748.6 K
- The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation $731.7 K
- David Bohnett Foundation $664.8 K
- The James Irvine Foundation $545.0 K
- Colonel (IL) James N. Pritzker Charitable Distribution Fund $530.0 K
- The Atlantic Philanthropies $500.0 K
- EEA and Norway Grants $467.7 K
- M = Millions
Bilateral and Multilateral Funding
1%
Share of OECD
human rights funding
$40.5 Million out of
$3.7 Billion for all rights
117 Disbursements
Top Funders
- Global Fund $19.5 M
- Sweden $13.1 M
- Norway $4.4 M
- European Union Institutions $1.0 M
- United States $878.9 K
- Finland $418.6 K
- Germany $287.7 K
- Netherlands $264.4 K
- Spain $229.7 K
- United Kingdom $186.2 K
- Canada $113.4 K
- Switzerland $27.0 K
- Iceland $14.9 K
- Slovenia $8.9 K
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $47
- M = Millions
Foundation Funding by Region
Asia & Pacific
$6,490,443 (9%)
108 Grants (8%)
Caribbean
$694,137 (1%)
33 Grants (3%)
Eastern Europe, Central Asia, & Russia
$3,416,580 (5%)
93 Grants (7%)
Global Programs
$5,917,012 (8%)
51 Grants (4%)
Latin America & Mexico
$3,881,696 (5%)
149 Grants (12%)
Middle East & North Africa
$1,481,939 (2%)
33 Grants (3%)
North America
$42,363,018 (59%)
614 Grants (48%)
Sub-Saharan Africa
$6,167,063 (9%)
163 Grants (13%)
Western Europe
$2,837,815 (4%)
49 Grants (4%)
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
$31,198,388 (44%)
613 Grants (48%)Health and Well-being Rights
$9,857,088 (14%)
136 Grants (11%)Access to Justice/Equality Before the Law
$4,162,819 (6%)
37 Grants (3%)Sexual and Reproductive Rights
$3,117,750 (4%)
92 Grants (7%)Civic and Political Participation
$2,786,601 (4%)
38 Grants (3%)Freedom from Violence
$2,758,423 (4%)
111 Grants (9%)Economic and Labor Rights
$2,607,582 (4%)
39 Grants (3%)Migration and Displacement
$1,964,594 (3%)
47 Grants (4%)Human Rights, General
$1,389,347 (2%)
23 Grants (2%)Expression and Information Rights
$1,163,164 (2%)
18 Grants (1%)Environmental and Resource Rights
$341,586 (0%)
9 Grants (1%)Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding
$164,376 (0%)
4 Grants (0%)
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
$10,036,213 (14%)
281 Grants (22%)Children & Youth
$9,453,433 (13%)
202 Grants (16%)Migrants & Refugees
$4,090,178 (6%)
92 Grants (7%)People with Disabilities
$2,019,951 (3%)
37 Grants (3%)Sex Workers
$1,557,441 (2%)
38 Grants (3%)Indigenous Peoples
$746,945 (1%)
33 Grants (3%)Human Rights Defenders
$417,013 (1%)
34 Grants (3%)
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
Advocacy, Systems Reform and Implementation
$20,561,370 (29%)
309 Grants (24%)Media and Technology
$8,589,441 (12%)
123 Grants (10%)Capacity-building and Technical Assistance
$8,482,210 (12%)
135 Grants (11%)Research and Documentation
$7,061,891 (10%)
90 Grants (7%)Coalition-building and Collaboration
$4,232,758 (6%)
153 Grants (12%)Arts and Culture
$2,906,793 (4%)
75 Grants (6%)Grassroots Organizing
$2,490,775 (3%)
71 Grants (6%)Litigation and Legal Aid
$1,852,349 (3%)
27 Grants (2%)Security and Resilience
$260,109 (0%)
4 Grants (0%)Scholarships and Travel
$51,570 (0%)
7 Grants (1%)
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.
107 Grants (8%)