12%
Share of foundation
human rights funding
$286.0 Million out of
$2.4 Billion for all rights
2,121 Grants
Top Foundation Funders
- Big Lottery Fund $55.1 M
- Nationale Postcode Loterij $46.2 M
- Comic Relief $38.3 M
- Esmée Fairbairn Foundation $16.8 M
- Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors $16.1 M
- Oak Foundation $15.0 M
- The Tudor Trust $14.2 M
- Bridge House Estates $8.5 M
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation $7.4 M
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust $6.8 M
- The Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress $5.3 M
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust $4.6 M
- Wikimedia Foundation $4.3 M
- The Barrow Cadbury Trust $4.3 M
- Unbound Philanthropy $3.4 M
- National Endowment for Democracy $3.2 M
- Bodossaki Foundation $3.0 M
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $3.0 M
- EEA and Norway Grants $2.8 M
- Human Dignity Foundation $2.5 M
- Carnegie Corporation of New York $2.5 M
- Tides Foundation $2.1 M
- Freedom House $2.0 M
- Stop AIDS Now $1.6 M
- Fund For Global Human Rights $1.3 M
- M = Millions
Key Findings: 2015 Funding
Foundation Funding by Issue
Freedom from Violence
$47,900,353 (17%)
274 Grants (13%)Health and Well-being Rights
$47,365,220 (17%)
372 Grants (18%)Economic and Labor Rights
$41,124,362 (14%)
122 Grants (6%)Environmental and Resource Rights
$33,210,206 (12%)
101 Grants (5%)Equality Rights and Freedom from Discrimination
$32,359,988 (11%)
324 Grants (15%)Migration and Displacement
$18,985,008 (7%)
216 Grants (10%)Human Rights, General
$18,962,786 (7%)
164 Grants (8%)Expression and Information Rights
$9,503,633 (3%)
100 Grants (5%)Civic and Political Participation
$9,368,666 (3%)
69 Grants (3%)Access to Justice/Equality Before the Law
$7,046,195 (2%)
85 Grants (4%)Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding
$1,688,391 (1%)
25 Grants (1%)Sexual and Reproductive Rights
$1,158,332 (0%)
11 Grants (1%)
Issue totals include foundation funding that could be identified as meant to address a specific issue. In order to provide unique totals and avoid double-counting, each foundation grant has been assigned to exactly one issue category within the human rights taxonomy.
Foundation Funding by Population
Children & Youth
$80,879,506 (28%)
617 Grants (29%)Women & Girls
$57,187,711 (20%)
387 Grants (18%)Migrants & Refugees
$41,218,764 (14%)
479 Grants (23%)People with Disabilities
$39,378,257 (14%)
268 Grants (13%)LGBTQI
$6,608,275 (2%)
104 Grants (5%)Indigenous Peoples
$2,139,326 (1%)
14 Grants (1%)Human Rights Defenders
$1,710,119 (1%)
6 Grants (0%)Sex Workers
$1,563,745 (1%)
11 Grants (1%)
Population totals include foundation funding that could be identified as meant to benefit a specific group. Grants may serve multiple populations and would therefore be counted in more than one category.
Foundation Funding by Strategy
Advocacy, Systems Reform and Implementation
$101,803,558 (36%)
827 Grants (39%)Coalition-building and Collaboration
$36,930,731 (13%)
304 Grants (14%)Public Engagement and Awareness-raising
$19,446,527 (7%)
219 Grants (10%)Media and Technology
$17,345,273 (6%)
222 Grants (10%)Capacity-building and Technical Assistance
$16,795,384 (6%)
145 Grants (7%)Arts and Culture
$14,100,554 (5%)
198 Grants (9%)Research and Documentation
$11,182,478 (4%)
96 Grants (5%)Grassroots Organizing
$2,463,955 (1%)
31 Grants (1%)Litigation and Legal Aid
$2,041,883 (1%)
21 Grants (1%)Scholarships and Travel
$211,499 (0%)
25 Grants (1%)
Strategy totals include foundation funding that could be identified as supporting a specific strategy. Grants may employ multiple strategies and would therefore be counted in more than one category.
Sample Grants
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Calala Fondo de Mujeres
Asociación de Mujeres de Guatemala (Spain)
With a scholarship for the participation of Colombian women in exile. -
King Baudouin Foundation
L'essentiel Residential Center
Which aims to integrate disabled adults into an intergenerational community-based setting.
258 Grants (12%)