6%
Share of foundation
human rights funding
$599.3 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
8,352 Grants
from 2011 - 2015
Top Foundation Funders
- Ford Foundation $146.0 M
- National Endowment for Democracy $53.2 M
- The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation $49.8 M
- The Oak Foundation $34.6 M
- Hivos $33.8 M
- Nationale Postcode Loterij $29.9 M
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $26.0 M
- American Jewish World Service $18.3 M
- W. K. Kellogg Foundation $16.0 M
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust $12.2 M
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $11.9 M
- Mensen met een Missie $10.5 M
- Cordaid $9.7 M
- Tides Foundation $8.6 M
- Fund For Global Human Rights $7.8 M
- Global Greengrants Fund $7.8 M
- NoVo Foundation $7.6 M
- The Summit Foundation $7.4 M
- Anonymous $7.2 M
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation $6.8 M
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $6.5 M
- Mama Cash $6.3 M
- Freedom House $6.0 M
- The Global Fund for Women $5.9 M
- Open Doors International $4.2 M
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Bilateral and Multilateral Funding
11%
Share of OECD
human rights funding
$2.8 Billion out of
$25.8 Billion for all rights
17,849 Disbursements
Top Funders
- Spain $538.0 M
- United States $419.2 M
- Germany $320.7 M
- Sweden $319.3 M
- European Union Institutions $272.9 M
- Canada $256.4 M
- Norway $222.5 M
- Global Fund $74.1 M
- Switzerland $57.3 M
- Belgium $57.2 M
- Netherlands $47.4 M
- Finland $47.3 M
- Denmark $38.7 M
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) $28.8 M
- Ireland $26.5 M
- United Kingdom $15.6 M
- Italy $15.3 M
- Inter-American Development Bank - Special Fund $15.1 M
- Inter-American Development Bank $9.9 M
- Austria $9.4 M
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $7.1 M
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $6.7 M
- Luxembourg $3.8 M
- United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) $3.7 M
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) $3.0 M
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