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Advancing Human Rights

The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking

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Research and Documentation, 2011 - 2015

Engaging in basic and applied research, documentation of human rights abuses, monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding.

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Foundation Funding for Research and Documentation

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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11%
Share of foundation
human rights funding

$1.0 Billion out of
$9.4 Billion for all rights
6,881 Grants
from 2011 - 2015

Top Foundation Funders

  1. Ford Foundation $263.7 M
  2. National Endowment for Democracy $83.3 M
  3. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $69.0 M
  4. The Atlantic Philanthropies $55.7 M
  5. The Oak Foundation $49.9 M
  6. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $45.7 M
  7. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $44.3 M
  8. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $43.2 M
  9. NoVo Foundation $40.2 M
  10. Anonymous $29.5 M
  11. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $28.1 M
  12. The Sigrid Rausing Trust $20.0 M
  13. The California Endowment $18.0 M
  14. American Jewish World Service $17.5 M
  15. The Rockefeller Foundation $17.0 M
  16. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation $10.8 M
  17. Humanity United $9.0 M
  18. Public Welfare Foundation $8.7 M
  19. Hivos $8.6 M
  20. Fund For Global Human Rights $8.6 M
  21. The Annie E. Casey Foundation $8.5 M
  22. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $7.4 M
  23. Carnegie Corporation of New York $7.3 M
  24. Tides Foundation $6.8 M
  25. Global Greengrants Fund $6.7 M
  26. M = Millions
    B = Billions

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