Strategy

Media and Technology, 2011 - 2015

Using information and communications technologies, including television, radio, publications, and online media to advance human rights work and messaging.

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Foundation Funding for Media and Technology

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

8%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$784.5 Million out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
6,840 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Ford Foundation $182.1 M
  2. National Endowment for Democracy $101.8 M
  3. The California Endowment $44.7 M
  4. NoVo Foundation $30.0 M
  5. Nationale Postcode Loterij $29.4 M
  6. Hivos $25.0 M
  7. The Oak Foundation $23.5 M
  8. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $20.9 M
  9. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $20.4 M
  10. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $18.5 M
  11. Howard G. Buffett Foundation $16.2 M
  12. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation $15.7 M
  13. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $14.6 M
  14. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $14.0 M
  15. The Atlantic Philanthropies $13.9 M
  16. Tides Foundation $13.5 M
  17. Humanity United $11.2 M
  18. American Jewish World Service $9.5 M
  19. Proteus Fund $9.5 M
  20. Foundation For The Carolinas $9.0 M
  21. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $8.9 M
  22. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation $7.4 M
  23. Anonymous $6.8 M
  24. The Skoll Foundation $5.3 M
  25. The Nathan Cummings Foundation $5.2 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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Sample Grants

  • The Skoll Foundation
    Videre Est Credere (United Kingdom)
    A global network that equips communities in hard-to-access areas with cameras, technology and training, to scale its efforts to train partners on best practices in human rights abuse documentation.
  • Channel Foundation
    Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, an autonomous program of the International Civil Society Action Network (United States)
    To build the capacity of women's groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan to promote the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (UNSCR 1325 and 1820) through radio and video production trainings.