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Advancing Human Rights

The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking

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Eastern Europe, Central Asia, & Russia, 2011 - 2015

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

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Foundation Funding for Eastern Europe, Central Asia, & Russia

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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2%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$226.3 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
3,782 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. National Endowment for Democracy $98.1 M
  2. The Oak Foundation $47.9 M
  3. Nationale Postcode Loterij $13.3 M
  4. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $11.6 M
  5. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $7.4 M
  6. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $6.6 M
  7. The Global Fund for Women $4.6 M
  8. The Coca-Cola Foundation $3.0 M
  9. Mama Cash $2.7 M
  10. Tides Foundation $2.6 M
  11. Rockefeller Brothers Fund $2.5 M
  12. King Baudouin Foundation $1.8 M
  13. Abilis Foundation $1.8 M
  14. Hivos $1.5 M
  15. NoVo Foundation $1.3 M
  16. Global Fund for Children $1.2 M
  17. The Nduna Foundation $1.2 M
  18. Cordaid $1.1 M
  19. Carnegie Corporation of New York $1.0 M
  20. Klarman Family Foundation $1.0 M
  21. Ukrainian Women's Fund $997.5 K
  22. The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice $961.0 K
  23. Human Dignity Foundation $900.0 K
  24. Global Greengrants Fund $754.9 K
  25. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation $700.0 K
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

7%
Share of OECD
human rights funding

$2.1 Billion out of
$30.8 Billion for all rights
11,497 Disbursements

Top Funders

  1. European Union Institutions $615.0 M
  2. United States $449.4 M
  3. Sweden $262.3 M
  4. Norway $146.2 M
  5. Germany $116.8 M
  6. Switzerland $92.9 M
  7. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) $85.7 M
  8. Canada $70.6 M
  9. Denmark $48.6 M
  10. United Kingdom $39.3 M
  11. Global Fund $27.4 M
  12. Finland $27.1 M
  13. Netherlands $26.3 M
  14. Austria $19.5 M
  15. International Development Association $13.8 M
  16. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $12.3 M
  17. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $7.5 M
  18. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $7.5 M
  19. Italy $6.0 M
  20. Poland $5.5 M
  21. Asian Development Bank $4.8 M
  22. Czech Republic $4.3 M
  23. Spain $3.7 M
  24. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) $3.0 M
  25. Estonia $2.7 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Trends Snapshot

Trends Analysis Snapshot

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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