Top Foundation Funders

1. Ford Foundation $100.0 M
2. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $59.4 M
3. Open Society Foundations $49.8 M
4. The California Endowment $20.4 M
5. The Atlantic Philanthropies $18.1 M
6. Public Welfare Foundation $14.1 M
7. NEO Philanthropy $12.5 M
8. Tides Foundation $11.1 M
9. Carnegie Corporation of New York $9.3 M
10. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $8.6 M
11. NoVo Foundation $8.3 M
12. National Endowment for Democracy $7.8 M
13. Marguerite Casey Foundation $7.0 M
14. Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock $5.1 M
15. The Oak Foundation $4.8 M
16. Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund $4.7 M
17. The James Irvine Foundation $4.4 M
18. The San Francisco Foundation $3.9 M
19. The Wal-Mart Foundation $3.7 M
20. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $3.5 M
21. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $3.5 M
22. Wallace H. Coulter Foundation $3.4 M
23. The Kresge Foundation $3.4 M
24. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $3.2 M
25. Surdna Foundation $2.6 M
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

  $145,498,048 (31%)
  1,302 Grants (29%)

• Civic and Political Participation

  $69,872,881 (15%)
  499 Grants (11%)

• Human Rights, General

  $45,630,585 (10%)
  508 Grants (11%)

• Health and Well-being Rights

  $44,603,502 (9%)
  315 Grants (7%)

• Migration and Displacement

  $34,713,564 (7%)
  350 Grants (8%)

• Social and Cultural Rights

  $33,275,260 (7%)
  351 Grants (8%)

• Economic and Labor Rights

  $29,311,249 (6%)
  373 Grants (8%)

• Access to Justice/Equality Before the Law

  $23,348,933 (5%)
  169 Grants (4%)

• Freedom from Violence

  $12,916,555 (3%)
  215 Grants (5%)

• Sexual and Reproductive Rights

  $11,531,718 (2%)
  138 Grants (3%)

• Environmental and Resource Rights

  $10,891,560 (2%)
  189 Grants (4%)

• Expression and Information Rights

  $8,945,697 (2%)
  86 Grants (2%)

• Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

  $498,737 (0%)
  15 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

• Economically Disadvantaged

  $301,224,178 (64%)
  2,485 Grants (55%)

• Migrants & Refugees

  $117,911,994 (25%)
  1,292 Grants (29%)

• Children & Youth

  $104,376,468 (22%)
  882 Grants (20%)

• Women & Girls

  $66,321,252 (14%)
  945 Grants (21%)

• Offenders & Ex-Offenders

  $21,875,203 (5%)
  147 Grants (3%)

• Crime or Abuse Victims

  $14,623,912 (3%)
  290 Grants (6%)

• LGBTQI

  $14,191,978 (3%)
  226 Grants (5%)

• People with Disabilities

  $8,680,681 (2%)
  74 Grants (2%)

• Indigenous Peoples

  $8,326,887 (2%)
  134 Grants (3%)

• People with AIDS

  $3,084,895 (1%)
  41 Grants (1%)

• Substance Abusers

  $1,103,486 (0%)
  15 Grants (0%)

• Human Rights Defenders

  $707,310 (0%)
  23 Grants (1%)

• Sex Workers

  $235,221 (0%)
  8 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.