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Advancing Human Rights

The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking

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  • Years
    • 2011 - 2015
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Strategy

Capacity-building and Technical Assistance, 2011 - 2015

Increasing the sustainability and effectiveness of organizations, networks, or movements through strategic and long-term planning, organizational assessment and development, skills building, the use of outside consultants, and other methods to meet the capacity needs articulated by the grantee.

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Foundation Funding for Capacity-building and Technical Assistance

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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14%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$1.3 Billion out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
9,947 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Ford Foundation $194.9 M
  2. National Endowment for Democracy $180.3 M
  3. The Oak Foundation $74.3 M
  4. NoVo Foundation $71.4 M
  5. The Atlantic Philanthropies $64.5 M
  6. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $50.1 M
  7. Anonymous $48.7 M
  8. American Jewish World Service $40.5 M
  9. The California Endowment $36.3 M
  10. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $31.5 M
  11. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $23.2 M
  12. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $22.2 M
  13. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $19.0 M
  14. Hivos $18.8 M
  15. The Annie E. Casey Foundation $15.9 M
  16. Cordaid $15.8 M
  17. GE Foundation $14.0 M
  18. Tides Foundation $13.8 M
  19. Human Dignity Foundation $13.8 M
  20. The Rockefeller Foundation $13.6 M
  21. Wallace H. Coulter Foundation $13.3 M
  22. Both ENDS $13.0 M
  23. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $11.9 M
  24. Public Welfare Foundation $11.8 M
  25. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation $11.0 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

Trends Snapshot

Trends Analysis Snapshot

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Subset of Foundation Funding by Issue

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Subset of Foundation Funding by Population

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