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Advancing Human Rights

The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking

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Arts and Culture, 2011 - 2015

Supporting the creation, showing, and/or dissemination of artistic works, including film, theater, dance, music, or visual arts, relating to human rights issues.

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Foundation Funding for Arts and Culture

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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3%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$255.6 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
3,232 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Ford Foundation $45.6 M
  2. Hivos $13.2 M
  3. Nationale Postcode Loterij $13.1 M
  4. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $12.4 M
  5. Tides Foundation $12.2 M
  6. NoVo Foundation $11.9 M
  7. National Endowment for Democracy $11.1 M
  8. The Nathan Cummings Foundation $8.2 M
  9. John Templeton Foundation $8.1 M
  10. Esmee Fairbairn Foundation $8.1 M
  11. The Oak Foundation $6.7 M
  12. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $6.1 M
  13. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $5.3 M
  14. The Wallace Foundation $4.7 M
  15. The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta $4.7 M
  16. Anonymous $4.0 M
  17. The Skoll Foundation $3.8 M
  18. The Rockefeller Foundation $3.5 M
  19. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $3.4 M
  20. The Atlantic Philanthropies $2.2 M
  21. Robert W. Woodruff Foundation $2.0 M
  22. Humanity United $1.8 M
  23. Arcus Foundation $1.8 M
  24. The Kresge Foundation $1.8 M
  25. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $1.7 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Trends Snapshot

Trends Analysis Snapshot

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