18%
Share of foundation
human rights funding
$1.6 Billion out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
5,379 Grants
from 2011 - 2015
Top Foundation Funders
- Nationale Postcode Loterij $471.6 M
- Ford Foundation $146.9 M
- The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation $138.5 M
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $107.8 M
- The Oak Foundation $81.3 M
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $50.8 M
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust $48.7 M
- National Endowment for Democracy $48.6 M
- NoVo Foundation $46.2 M
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $42.4 M
- Open Doors International $30.7 M
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $29.7 M
- Humanity United $22.7 M
- Tides Foundation $20.1 M
- American Jewish World Service $20.1 M
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation $17.4 M
- Howard G. Buffett Foundation $16.2 M
- The Rockefeller Foundation $13.5 M
- The Atlantic Philanthropies $13.4 M
- Hivos $13.2 M
- Freedom House $10.2 M
- ExxonMobil Foundation $10.1 M
- Cordaid $9.7 M
- Arcus Foundation $9.6 M
- Foundation For The Carolinas $9.2 M
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Bilateral and Multilateral Funding
21%
Share of OECD
human rights funding
$5.3 Billion out of
$25.8 Billion for all rights
10,000 Disbursements
Top Funders
- Sweden $920.8 M
- Switzerland $646.4 M
- Norway $547.3 M
- United States $498.9 M
- Italy $481.7 M
- Netherlands $436.5 M
- United Kingdom $284.5 M
- Denmark $233.2 M
- Germany $221.4 M
- European Union Institutions $213.6 M
- Finland $151.3 M
- Australia $109.6 M
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) $95.1 M
- Spain $88.1 M
- Belgium $67.8 M
- France $64.0 M
- International Labour Organisation $51.1 M
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) $48.2 M
- Ireland $43.0 M
- Japan $32.3 M
- Canada $27.0 M
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $23.3 M
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $9.2 M
- Iceland $7.2 M
- World Health Organization (WHO) $6.6 M
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