Strategy

Coalition-building and Collaboration, 2011 - 2015

Building structures and creating opportunities to work more closely and effectively with partners and peers toward shared goals. This includes grants supporting collaborations, partnerships, alliances, movement-building activities, networking, conferences, workshops, trainings, and other interactions with people or organizations as a way to exchange information and achieve shared aims.

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Foundation Funding for Coalition-building and Collaboration

These are partial figures based on a subset of foundations that shared grants data all five years: Read more about our methodology.

5%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$508.4 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
7,046 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. National Endowment for Democracy $80.9 M
  2. Ford Foundation $46.4 M
  3. NoVo Foundation $39.8 M
  4. The Oak Foundation $29.6 M
  5. Anonymous $23.1 M
  6. Freedom House $21.3 M
  7. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $18.6 M
  8. The Atlantic Philanthropies $13.6 M
  9. American Jewish World Service $12.2 M
  10. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $11.5 M
  11. Public Interest Projects $10.9 M
  12. The Global Fund for Women $10.7 M
  13. Tides Foundation $9.8 M
  14. Marguerite Casey Foundation $8.2 M
  15. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $7.3 M
  16. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $7.1 M
  17. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $7.1 M
  18. Hivos $6.2 M
  19. Fund For Global Human Rights $6.2 M
  20. Humanity United $6.2 M
  21. Global Greengrants Fund $5.3 M
  22. The Nathan Cummings Foundation $5.1 M
  23. Foundation for a Just Society $4.7 M
  24. Mama Cash $4.4 M
  25. Human Dignity Foundation $4.4 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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Sample Grants

  • Big Lottery Fund
    Octopus (United Kingdom)
    To bring together Islington's thirteen designated Community Hubs, connecting marginalized communities facing health inequalities to build coalitions to advocate for improved care.
  • Abilis Foundation
    Albania Blind Association
    To participate in the Balkan region's disability conference, an opportunity for organizations to network and share experiences with their countries? disability policies after the fall of Yugoslavia, with the goal of establishing a collaboration network covering Balkan countries.