Population

Ethnic or Racial Minorities, 2012

26%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$471.0 Million out of
$1.8 Billion for all rights
4,510 Grants

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

Key Findings:
2012 Funding

Key Findings

Foundation Funding by Region

Asia & Pacific

$18,623,684 (4%)
274 Grants (6%)

Caribbean

$2,114,951 (0%)
21 Grants (0%)

Eastern Europe, Central Asia, & Russia

$9,461,399 (2%)
223 Grants (5%)

Global Programs

$21,976,392 (5%)
133 Grants (3%)

Latin America & Mexico

$14,457,082 (3%)
160 Grants (4%)

Middle East & North Africa

$6,250,897 (1%)
144 Grants (3%)

North America

$379,229,749 (81%)
3,208 Grants (71%)

Sub-Saharan Africa

$8,788,354 (2%)
131 Grants (3%)

Western Europe

$16,981,221 (4%)
255 Grants (6%)

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.