12%
Share of foundation
human rights funding
$445.2 Million out of
$3.7 Billion for all rights
3,293 Grants
Top Foundation Funders
- Ford Foundation $43.8 M
- NoVo Foundation $35.9 M
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation $33.6 M
- Foundation to Promote Open Society $26.3 M
- Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund $15.5 M
- Oak Foundation $14.6 M
- San Francisco Foundation $12.7 M
- Wellspring Philanthropic Fund $12.4 M
- Carnegie Corporation of New York $12.1 M
- James Irvine Foundation $11.7 M
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation $10.9 M
- California Endowment $10.9 M
- JPB Foundation $10.6 M
- Unbound Philanthropy $8.0 M
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $7.5 M
- Wallace H. Coulter Foundation $7.3 M
- Marguerite Casey Foundation $5.6 M
- California Community Foundation $5.4 M
- Comic Relief $5.3 M
- Heising-Simons Foundation $4.6 M
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation $4.3 M
- Laudes Foundation $3.6 M
- Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust $3.4 M
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation $3.3 M
- Foundation for a Just Society $3.2 M
- M = Millions
Bilateral and Multilateral Funding
14%
Share of OECD
human rights funding
$720.6 Million out of
$5.0 Billion for all rights
828 Disbursements
Top Funders
- European Union Institutions $372.6 M
- Sweden $94.9 M
- United Arab Emirates $61.4 M
- Australia $39.3 M
- Germany $37.2 M
- United States $23.1 M
- Switzerland $18.2 M
- Italy $11.5 M
- Netherlands $10.7 M
- Belgium $9.4 M
- Finland $9.3 M
- United Kingdom $7.0 M
- Spain $6.6 M
- Norway $5.7 M
- Korea $3.2 M
- Japan $2.1 M
- Canada $2.1 M
- Austria $1.9 M
- International Labour Organisation $1.6 M
- Iceland $838.0 K
- France $535.4 K
- Central Emergency Response Fund $280.1 K
- Denmark $277.3 K
- Portugal $202.4 K
- Ireland $149.3 K
- M = Millions
Foundation Funding by Region
Asia & Pacific
$10,086,374 (2%)
106 Grants (3%)
Caribbean
$590,926 (0%)
13 Grants (0%)
Eastern Europe, Central Asia, & Russia
$2,331,178 (1%)
74 Grants (2%)
Global Programs
$41,068,917 (9%)
175 Grants (5%)
Latin America & Mexico
$10,943,808 (2%)
150 Grants (5%)
Middle East & North Africa
$15,187,470 (3%)
114 Grants (3%)
North America
$327,984,374 (74%)
2,251 Grants (68%)
Sub-Saharan Africa
$6,968,263 (2%)
83 Grants (3%)
Western Europe
$35,367,076 (8%)
384 Grants (12%)
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
Migration and Displacement
$234,590,068 (53%)
1,948 Grants (59%)Equality Rights and Freedom from Discrimination
$37,613,500 (8%)
298 Grants (9%)Freedom from Violence
$36,696,653 (8%)
207 Grants (6%)Access to Justice/Equality Before the Law
$34,331,117 (8%)
87 Grants (3%)Health and Well-being Rights
$21,253,678 (5%)
200 Grants (6%)Economic and Labor Rights
$20,036,009 (5%)
180 Grants (5%)Environmental and Resource Rights
$9,064,308 (2%)
92 Grants (3%)Civic and Political Participation
$8,975,000 (2%)
17 Grants (1%)Human Rights, General
$4,872,878 (1%)
11 Grants (0%)Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding
$4,382,662 (1%)
68 Grants (2%)Expression and Information Rights
$2,503,016 (1%)
25 Grants (1%)Sexual and Reproductive Rights
$882,492 (0%)
22 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
$79,279,862 (18%)
480 Grants (15%)Children & Youth
$70,480,823 (16%)
402 Grants (12%)Indigenous Peoples
$11,135,285 (3%)
85 Grants (3%)LGBTQI
$9,389,446 (2%)
92 Grants (3%)People with Disabilities
$2,860,594 (1%)
26 Grants (1%)Sex Workers
$746,134 (0%)
14 Grants (0%)Human Rights Defenders
$621,444 (0%)
33 Grants (1%)
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
$188,734,947 (42%)
1,365 Grants (41%)Capacity-building and Technical Assistance
$68,602,060 (15%)
333 Grants (10%)Coalition-building and Collaboration
$66,493,642 (15%)
433 Grants (13%)Grassroots Organizing
$26,594,695 (6%)
209 Grants (6%)Litigation and Legal Aid
$16,784,118 (4%)
136 Grants (4%)Research and Documentation
$14,324,813 (3%)
94 Grants (3%)Media and Technology
$11,113,358 (2%)
113 Grants (3%)Arts and Culture
$6,167,433 (1%)
48 Grants (1%)Security and Resilience
$649,000 (0%)
7 Grants (0%)Scholarships and Travel
$591,813 (0%)
11 Grants (0%)
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.
138 Grants (4%)