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The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking

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Sub-Saharan Africa, 2011 - 2015

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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.
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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

31%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$9.7 Billion out of
$30.8 Billion for all rights
31,671 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. European Union Institutions $1.7 B
  2. Sweden $1.5 B
  3. United States $889.5 M
  4. Canada $764.9 M
  5. Norway $708.9 M
  6. United Kingdom $576.5 M
  7. Global Fund $485.9 M
  8. Denmark $468.1 M
  9. Germany $427.6 M
  10. Finland $279.0 M
  11. Belgium $261.0 M
  12. Ireland $213.3 M
  13. Netherlands $205.4 M
  14. Spain $177.9 M
  15. Switzerland $173.6 M
  16. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $158.6 M
  17. Italy $137.4 M
  18. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $103.8 M
  19. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $80.2 M
  20. International Development Association $64.3 M
  21. France $48.4 M
  22. Japan $43.6 M
  23. United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $35.0 M
  24. Australia $31.6 M
  25. Austria $26.2 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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Subset of Foundation Funding by Issue

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Subset of Foundation Funding by Population

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Subset of Foundation Funding by Strategy

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