Region

Sub-Saharan Africa, 2011 - 2015

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Republic of Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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Foundation Funding for Sub-Saharan Africa

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

12%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$1.2 Billion out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
11,344 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Anonymous $225.4 M
  2. Ford Foundation $104.9 M
  3. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $99.3 M
  4. National Endowment for Democracy $75.9 M
  5. Hivos $52.7 M
  6. American Jewish World Service $52.4 M
  7. Nationale Postcode Loterij $38.4 M
  8. The Atlantic Philanthropies $36.1 M
  9. The Oak Foundation $32.8 M
  10. Humanity United $30.8 M
  11. Cordaid $29.8 M
  12. Segal Family Foundation $28.3 M
  13. Human Dignity Foundation $26.3 M
  14. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $23.6 M
  15. Tides Foundation $21.3 M
  16. Open Doors International $19.3 M
  17. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $19.1 M
  18. NoVo Foundation $18.9 M
  19. Fund For Global Human Rights $17.5 M
  20. Mensen met een Missie $12.4 M
  21. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $11.6 M
  22. African Women's Development Fund $11.3 M
  23. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation $10.0 M
  24. Stop AIDS Now $9.8 M
  25. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $9.4 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

30%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$5.4 Billion out of
$18.1 Billion for all rights
20,088 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. Sweden $761.9 M
  2. European Union Institutions $529.7 M
  3. Canada $522.1 M
  4. Norway $497.0 M
  5. United States $485.9 M
  6. Global Fund $482.6 M
  7. United Kingdom $346.2 M
  8. Denmark $272.1 M
  9. Germany $219.3 M
  10. Finland $180.9 M
  11. Belgium $166.1 M
  12. Ireland $159.6 M
  13. Netherlands $118.4 M
  14. Spain $108.1 M
  15. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $103.8 M
  16. Switzerland $90.5 M
  17. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $66.8 M
  18. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $57.3 M
  19. Italy $31.1 M
  20. Japan $30.0 M
  21. France $26.8 M
  22. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) $23.0 M
  23. United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $22.9 M
  24. International Development Association $20.0 M
  25. Australia $14.0 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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Sample Grants

  • The Nexus Fund
    United Nations Institute for Training & Research (UNITAR) and the West Africa Network (Nigeria)
    For Peacebuilding (WANEP) in Ghana to advance advocacy efforts, capacity-building, and early warning mechanisms to address mass atrocities.
  • Fund For Global Human Rights
    Parole et Action pour le Reveil des Consciences et l'Evolution des Mentalites (Burundi)
    Founded to change attitudes and behaviors that hinder the creation of a peaceful society and sustainable development in Burundi, to audit its organizational finances.