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Advancing Human Rights

The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking

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  • Years
    • 2011 - 2015
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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 to support coalitions, networks, pooled funds, and other mechanisms for exchanging information and achieving 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.
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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

Trends Snapshot

Trends Analysis Snapshot

Subset of Foundation Funding by Region

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Subset of Foundation Funding by Issue

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Subset of Foundation Funding by Population

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