Population

Women & Girls, 2011 - 2015

Human rights funding for women and girls, including transgender people, protects and promotes their equal rights as described in the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women. This funding supports efforts to ensure gender equality, including in owning property, holding elected office, and earning fair wages, and addresses abuses like gender-based violence, sexual assault, and female genital mutilation. It promotes women’s reproductive rights.

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

$8.1 Billion out of
$30.8 Billion for all rights
31,110 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. Sweden $1.1 B
  2. Norway $773.3 M
  3. Canada $747.0 M
  4. United Kingdom $653.2 M
  5. Spain $571.6 M
  6. Global Fund $523.2 M
  7. European Union Institutions $478.5 M
  8. Netherlands $467.2 M
  9. Australia $416.6 M
  10. United States $406.6 M
  11. Finland $353.4 M
  12. Germany $323.7 M
  13. Ireland $180.6 M
  14. Denmark $155.3 M
  15. Switzerland $147.2 M
  16. Japan $142.3 M
  17. Belgium $120.4 M
  18. Italy $91.8 M
  19. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $80.3 M
  20. International Development Association $68.5 M
  21. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $60.2 M
  22. Korea $38.4 M
  23. Austria $31.1 M
  24. France $20.2 M
  25. United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $17.7 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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