7%
Share of foundation
human rights funding
$685.1 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
9,319 Grants
from 2011 - 2015
Top Foundation Funders
- National Endowment for Democracy $122.7 M
- Ford Foundation $84.4 M
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $76.3 M
- Hivos $31.1 M
- The Oak Foundation $30.3 M
- Open Doors International $26.8 M
- American Jewish World Service $23.2 M
- Human Dignity Foundation $18.9 M
- Anonymous $18.9 M
- Tides Foundation $14.1 M
- Humanity United $13.7 M
- Cordaid $12.0 M
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation $11.8 M
- The Freedom Fund (UK) $11.5 M
- Fund For Global Human Rights $11.0 M
- The Global Fund for Women $10.6 M
- Freedom House $10.5 M
- Mensen met een Missie $10.0 M
- Nationale Postcode Loterij $8.5 M
- The Skoll Foundation $8.3 M
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $7.9 M
- Global Greengrants Fund $6.7 M
- Foundation for a Just Society $6.1 M
- NoVo Foundation $6.0 M
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust $6.0 M
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Bilateral and Multilateral Funding
18%
Share of OECD
human rights funding
$4.7 Billion out of
$25.8 Billion for all rights
19,610 Disbursements
Top Funders
- Australia $658.6 M
- United States $622.4 M
- United Kingdom $491.9 M
- European Union Institutions $416.5 M
- Canada $384.8 M
- Sweden $375.9 M
- Norway $325.3 M
- Germany $267.1 M
- Denmark $231.3 M
- Finland $175.5 M
- Switzerland $128.5 M
- Asian Development Bank Special Funds $91.1 M
- Netherlands $79.8 M
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $73.4 M
- Japan $61.9 M
- Spain $52.6 M
- Belgium $49.3 M
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $45.3 M
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $36.9 M
- Ireland $27.9 M
- Korea $27.6 M
- Italy $25.0 M
- New Zealand $16.9 M
- Luxembourg $14.1 M
- France $11.1 M
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