Population

Women & Girls, 2011 - 2015

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Foundation Funding for Women & Girls

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

23%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$2.1 Billion out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
21,127 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation $415.4 M
  2. Ford Foundation $263.7 M
  3. NoVo Foundation $158.6 M
  4. Anonymous $137.5 M
  5. The Oak Foundation $77.0 M
  6. National Endowment for Democracy $75.3 M
  7. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $74.7 M
  8. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $61.9 M
  9. American Jewish World Service $51.0 M
  10. Hivos $42.0 M
  11. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation $39.6 M
  12. Tides Foundation $36.9 M
  13. Cordaid $34.6 M
  14. The Global Fund for Women $32.3 M
  15. Nationale Postcode Loterij $30.7 M
  16. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $27.7 M
  17. Foundation for a Just Society $22.4 M
  18. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $21.6 M
  19. Mama Cash $20.3 M
  20. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $20.3 M
  21. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $17.8 M
  22. Human Dignity Foundation $17.6 M
  23. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors $17.1 M
  24. Howard G. Buffett Foundation $15.8 M
  25. Esmee Fairbairn Foundation $14.4 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

26%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$4.8 Billion out of
$18.1 Billion for all rights
18,720 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. Norway $572.0 M
  2. Global Fund $521.8 M
  3. Canada $494.8 M
  4. Sweden $397.1 M
  5. United Kingdom $394.5 M
  6. Spain $347.6 M
  7. European Union Institutions $286.3 M
  8. Netherlands $286.2 M
  9. Australia $217.3 M
  10. Germany $191.6 M
  11. Finland $182.7 M
  12. United States $180.4 M
  13. Ireland $149.6 M
  14. Denmark $103.9 M
  15. Switzerland $85.4 M
  16. Belgium $78.9 M
  17. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $50.1 M
  18. Italy $46.6 M
  19. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $44.6 M
  20. Japan $31.1 M
  21. Korea $24.3 M
  22. Austria $19.2 M
  23. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) $14.0 M
  24. International Development Association $12.8 M
  25. France $8.3 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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Sample Grants

  • Fondo Lunaria Mujer
    Soyla Crew (Colombia)
    To create spaces for young women to discuss gender-based violence in their communities, transform dialogue, and seek empowerment through arts or sports.
  • Both ENDS
    Forest Peoples Programme, based (United Kingdom)
    To work with the Sengwer forest peoples in Kenya, supporting women to share experience of forced evictions, and secure Sengwer rights to collective community land tenure, water, food and healthy environment under Kenya's new constitution.