Funding search · EIN 131684331 · New York, NY

The Ford Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

10,731
grants reported
$2.35B
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$120,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

coregiftmatchingstrengtheninginstitutionaljusticerightssocial

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • General and core support for social justice advocacy organizations
  • Immigrant justice, civil rights, and racial equity movement infrastructure
  • Gender and reproductive equity, feminist funds, LGBTQI+ organizations
  • Worker power, anti-monopoly, economic mobility, and criminal justice reform
  • Public interest technology, digital rights, and investigative journalism
  • Arts and culture with an equity frame, including Detroit and regional initiatives

Typical grant

Median grant is $120,000 with the middle half between $50,000 and $250,000, so most of the 10,731 grants are modest institutional support checks. The seven-figure and eight-figure awards go almost entirely to pooled funds, funder collaboratives, and national anchor institutions such as Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Blue Meridian, ACLU, and NAACP LDF. Repeat giving is heavy: the same organizations appear across years, and several receive two separate grants in a single year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • GENERAL SUPPORT AND CORE SUPPORT FOR INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
  • CORE SUPPORT
  • INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
  • MOVEMENT
  • GLOBAL SOUTH
  • NARRATIVE

Positioning adjacent work

  • Frame the ask as core support for institutional strengthening, not a discrete project budget line.
  • Connect research to a named funded theme: worker organizing, public interest technology, gender equity, or narrative change.
  • Ask $100,000 to $250,000 for a first relationship; seven figures goes to pooled funds and anchors.
  • Emphasize movement partners and Global South collaborators rather than academic outputs alone.

Worth knowing: Money concentrates hard in New York and Washington DC, with California, Massachusetts, and Detroit next, and Detroit giving reflects long-standing Ford commitments there. A small set of intermediaries, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, New Venture Fund, NEO Philanthropy, and Proteus, absorb the largest checks and regrant them, so the practical route in is often through a collaborative Ford already funds rather than direct.

132 grants matching “effectiveness · $41.6M

  • $1.0M

    Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2024

    Core support for the confederacy transformation agenda to reshape the culture and leadership ethos and build the resilience of its partners and offices in the global south, to be more effective and innovative in the fig read all
  • $705,500

    Leadership Effectiveness Accountability and Professionalism Africa · 2024

    Core support for the nigeria youth futures fund to support youth leadership and activism in nigeria

  • $700,000

    Kamara Strategies Limited · 2024

    To strengthen the capacity of donors and stakeholders within the civil society ecosystem and foster networks within regional resource hubs through access to specialists in support of risk mitigation strategies to improv read all
  • $680,000

    Climate and Land Use Alliance Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To ensure indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and local communities have secure land and resource rights; build resilient, well networked, and effective organizations; and contribute to global forest management, conse read all
  • $542,620

    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for effective implementation of policies and programs on gender-based violence and of gender-responsive budgeting at the local level, as well as strengthening the organizations relevance, resource base, and read all
  • $500,000

    Grantmakers for Effective Organizations · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support

  • $450,000

    Center for Effective Philanthropy · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    General support

  • $400,000

    Canadian Shareholder Association for Research and Education · 2024

    Core support for the development of a research, strategy, and capital markets hub in the global south that would help enhance the capacity of grassroots workers campaigns to effectively develop and deploy capital strate read all
  • $333,333

    Witness · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for training and technical assistance to civil society organizations, activists, social justice leaders, and citizens focusing on latin america to use audiovisual and tech tools safely, ethically, and effec read all
  • $325,000

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2024

    Core support for a scalable, networked approach that integrates affordable housing, preservation, and effective services and supports while influencing systems to provide asset-building opportunities for low-income detr read all
  • $300,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Core support for the youth first justice collaborative to support state groups and youth leadership networks that build campaigns to close youth prisons and redirect resources toward effective community based services a read all
  • $290,000

    National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Core support to advance effective violence reduction strategies at the state and local jurisdictional levels

  • $250,000

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    Core support for the emerging lgbtq leaders of color fund to support and strengthen the social justice leadership of lgbtq young people of color and make movements more inclusive and effective

  • $250,000

    New York University · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the leonard n. Stern school of business for the stern center for business and human rights project entitled, the effects of social media and emerging technologies on democratic inclusion and civic parti read all
  • $250,000

    Vital Strategies · New York, NY · 2024

    Support for the overdose prevention program to strengthen support for harm reduction strategies and services and increase the capacity of state and local government to advance effective approaches to the overdose crisis read all
  • $250,000

    Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Core support for gender funders colab to build a stronger, connected, courageous, and effective philanthropic sector that fosters a better resourced and more effective ecosystem of organizations and movements that advan read all
  • $240,000

    International Treatment Preparedness Coalition · 2024

    Core support for the global public investment network (gpin) to build a global network to bring about a more just and effective international public financing arrangement for common needs

  • $224,641

    International Center for Research On Women · 2024

    To lead a research and learning initiative on effective programming for ensuring economic and social empowerment of women informal economy workers

  • $200,000

    482forward · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Core support for the detroit city appointments project steering committee to support effective and diverse candidates for public service

  • $200,000

    Diplofoundation · 2024

    For supporting the effective participation of global majority-based civil society organizations in global technology governance processes

  • $200,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the fund for shared insight funder collaborative for grantmaking to stimulate and foster a more open and effective philanthropic sector, as a sidecar funder

  • $200,000

    Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Core support for an equitable intermediaries project to build the capacity of equity-focused fiscal sponsors to provide more effective and responsive services to their sponsee organizations

  • $196,830

    University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2024

    For the forests & livelihoods assessment, research, and engagement (flare) network to develop effective inclusive, and policy-relevant engagement and communications

  • $185,000

    Disclosure 2 Film Llc · Malibu, CA · 2024

    For production of the documentary "disclosure 2," to explore the reversal in us media's reporting on trans issues, delving into its effects on trans lives and questioning how this shift occurred

  • $179,439

    The Yp Foundation · 2024

    Core support to consolidate and disseminate learnings from diverse youth leadership development models, and promote effective participation and leadership of young people for gender equality

  • $150,000

    Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024

    Core support for projecting innovative budget estimates that focus on distributional impacts, long-term policy effects and redesigning the current scoring infrastructure

  • $150,000

    Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Core support for the michigan justice fund, a funder collaborative that seeks to advance effective and equitable justice and community safety policy and practice in the state of michigan

  • $150,000

    Association for Women'S Rights in Development · 2024

    Core support to design and implement an effective, inclusive and participatory process to co-create the launch of the global alliance for sustainable feminist movements

  • $146,666

    Samarthan - Centre for Development Support (Scds) · 2024

    To mobilize farm communities to ensure implementation of entitlement programs and enable gram panchayats to support effective implementation of key farm policies and for covid mitigation strategies in select districts i read all
  • $140,987

    Samerth Charitable Trust · 2024

    To facilitate effective participation by the tribal communities in development programs focusing on climate resilient livelihoods through capacity building and technical support in select districts in chhattisgarh

  • $125,000

    Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership · Boston, MA · 2024

    Core support for its nyc office towards transforming communities by equipping nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and sustainable

  • $125,000

    Centro De Culturas Indigenas Del Peru · 2024

    Core support for enlace continental de mujeres indigenas de las americas to strengthen indigenous and young women's actions to prevent, eradicate and respond in a comprehensive, relevant, and effective way to violence a read all
  • $100,000

    The Institute of Development Studies (UK) · 2024

    For research and learning at the intersections of just transitions, to build more effective, better-connected spaces for engagement for marginalized voices in resource rich global south countries

  • $100,000

    Partnership for Safety and Justice · Portland, OR · 2024

    Core support for the health justice and recovery alliance to help oregon create an effective public health approach in oregon for addiction and drug use

  • $100,000

    Leading Young · 2024

    Strengthening value-based leadership development to improve the effectiveness of young legislators for ethical, transparent, and accountable governance at national and local levels in kenya

  • $100,000

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · 2024

    Core support to undertake gbv research to better assess effective prevention models that integrate the perspective of survivors and practitioners from the global south

  • $100,000

    Center for Effective Philanthropy · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    For research on grantees' experiences with intermediaries

  • $100,000

    Green Advocates International · 2024

    Core support for the environmental rights legal framework coalition to create effective frameworks for protection of environmental human rights defenders in africa

  • $100,000

    The Bank Information Center · Washington, DC · 2024

    To encourage multilateral development banks to adopt and apply effective safeguards on land rights, disability, and social inclusion

  • $75,000

    Muyi Salon Bv (Dba Muyi Film) · 2024

    For development and production of the trilogy of films, "butterfly effects," to explore the experiences of climate refugees

  • $75,000

    Proteus Fund · Waltham, MA · 2024

    Core support for reframe for mentorship and fellowship programming to effectively reshape narratives that enable inequality

  • $25,000

    The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Core support for the "ethics, opportunity & challenges: how journalists can use ai effectively and ethically in the newsroom" panel conversation

  • $10,000

    United Nations · New York, NY · 2024

    Tie-off to establish and provide technical assistance for an international anti-corruption mechanism in honduras to strengthen the ability of its justice system and institutions to fight corruption and impunity effectiv read all
  • $3,000

    Center for Effective Philanthropy · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Matching gift

  • $1.1M

    Kamara Strategies Limited · 2023

    To strengthen the capacity of donors and stakeholders within the civil society ecosystem and foster networks within regional resource hubs through access to specialists in support of risk mitigation strategies to improv read all
  • $1.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support for the climate emergency collaboration group's global recovery collective to establish an intermediary fund to promote a more equitable and effective global financial infrastructure

  • $1.0M

    Canadian Shareholder Association for Research and Education · 2023

    Core support for the development of a research, strategy, and capital markets hub in the global south that would help enhance the capacity of grassroots workers campaigns to effectively develop and deploy capital strate read all
  • $815,000

    Climate and Land Use Alliance Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To ensure indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and local communities have secure land and resource rights; build resilient, well networked, and effective organizations; and contribute to global forest management, conse read all
  • $500,000

    Center for Effective Philanthropy · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    General support and project support for research on the effects of large, unrestricted gifts on nonprofits

  • $500,000

    Leadership Effectiveness Accountability and Professionalism Africa · 2023

    Core support for the nigeria youth futures fund to support youth leadership and activism in nigeria

  • $400,000

    Grantmakers for Effective Organizations · Washington, DC · 2023

    General support

  • $375,000

    Partnership for Public Service · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support for the modern government strategy for modernizing government work that delivers equitable services and effective outcomes to the public

  • $333,334

    Witness · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    Core support for training and technical assistance to civil society organizations, activists, social justice leaders, and citizens focusing on latin america to use audiovisual and tech tools safely, ethically, and effec read all
  • $325,000

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2023

    Core support for a scalable, networked approach that integrates affordable housing, preservation, and effective services and supports while influencing systems to provide asset-building opportunities for low-income detr read all
  • $300,000

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    Core support for the emerging lgbtq leaders of color fund to support and strengthen the social justice leadership of lgbtq young people of color and make movements more inclusive and effective

  • $300,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support for the youth first justice collaborative to support state groups and youth leadership networks that build campaigns to close youth prisons and redirect resources toward effective community based services a read all
  • $250,000

    Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2023

    Core support for gender funders collab to build a stronger, connected, courageous, and effective philanthropic sector that fosters a better resourced and more effective ecosystem of organizations and movements that adva read all
  • $250,000

    Vital Strategies · New York, NY · 2023

    Support for vital strategies' overdose prevention work in kentucky that strengthens support for harm reduction strategies and services and increases the capacity of state and local government to advance effective approa read all
  • $240,000

    Bretton Woods Committee · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support for the working group on multilateral reform to undertake analytical work to consider how the multilateral system needs to be strengthened and reformed to operate on width and scale to be effective in the n read all
  • $240,000

    International Treatment Preparedness Coalition · 2023

    Core support for the global public investment network (gpin) to build a global network to bring about a more just and effective international public financing arrangement for common needs

  • $200,000

    Partnership for Safety and Justice · Portland, OR · 2023

    Core support for the health justice and recovery alliance to help oregon create an effective public health approach in oregon for addiction and drug use

  • $178,170

    University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2023

    For the forests & livelihoods assessment, research, and engagement (flare) network to develop effective inclusive, and policy-relevant engagement and communications

  • $150,000

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support for the beeck center as they work to coordinate effective networks and field building activities for public interest technology and modernized public service delivery

  • $150,000

    National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform · Oakland, CA · 2023

    Core support to advance effective violence reduction strategies at the state and local jurisdictional levels

  • $141,000

    The Institute of Development Studies (UK) · 2023

    For research and learning at the intersections of just transitions, to build more effective, better-connected spaces for engagement for marginalized voices in resource rich global south countries

  • $136,000

    United Nations · New York, NY · 2023

    To establish and provide technical assistance for an international anti-corruption mechanism in honduras to strengthen the ability of its justice system and institutions to fight corruption and impunity effectively

  • $135,567

    Samerth Charitable Trust · 2023

    To foster more effective policy implementation to increase incomes from non-timber forest produce and farming, and for covid-19 relief, for marginalized communities in five blocks of chhattisgarh state

  • $125,000

    Centro De Culturas Indigenas Del Peru · 2023

    Core support for enlace continental de mujeres indigenas de las americas to strengthen indigenous and young women's actions to prevent, eradicate and respond in a comprehensive, relevant, and effective way to violence a read all
  • $125,000

    Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership · Boston, MA · 2023

    Core support for its nyc office towards transforming communities by equipping nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and sustainable

  • $100,000

    The Bridgespan Group · Boston, MA · 2023

    For the pay what it takes- india project to study true indirect cost of ngos with the aim to strengthen their organizational effectiveness and create funder awareness

  • $100,000

    Leading Young · 2023

    Strengthening value-based leadership development to improve the effectiveness of young legislators for ethical, transparent, and accountable governance at national and local levels in kenya

  • $100,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support for the fund for shared insight funder collaborative for grantmaking to stimulate and foster a more open and effective philanthropic sector, as a sidecar funder

  • $100,000

    Foundation for Ecological Security · 2023

    For grantmaking and technical assistance to enable civil society organizations to work with the government to ensure living incomes for farmers by effectively implementing the mgnrega in rajasthan, and mitigating covid read all
  • $100,000

    The Bank Information Center · Washington, DC · 2023

    To encourage multilateral development banks to adopt and apply effective safeguards on land rights, disability, and social inclusion

  • $86,666

    Action for Social Advancement (Asa) · 2023

    For effective implementation of the state government's policy on farmer producer organizations in collaboration with csos to enable higher incomes for farmers in odisha and covid mitigation for farmer communities in mad read all
  • $78,481

    Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society · 2023

    To organize and assist forest dependent-communities in vidarbha, maharashtra to implement more effective policies and market interventions to raise their incomes from farm and forest produce

  • $50,000

    Citoyens Actifs Pour La Justice Sociale · 2023

    To foster a strong youth voice and social movements for an effective and transparent revenue management in the senegalese extractive sector

  • $50,000

    Project On Organizing Development Education and Research Ltd · New York, NY · 2023

    For a documentary series examining private sector corruption & the climate crisis in mexico in order to educate diverse audiences about the phenomenon of state capture by private economic interests and its effect on dem read all
  • $50,000

    Project On Organizing Development Education and Research Ltd · New York, NY · 2023

    To support a campaign on a documentary series examining private sector corruption, state capture and environmental crisis in mexico, and its effect on democracy, the planet, and human rights

  • $50,000

    Young Members of County Assemblies Association of Kenya · 2023

    Enhance the capacity of the kenya young members of the county assembly to strengthen their leadership capacity to improve their effectiveness in championing ethical, transparent, and accountable leadership that is respo read all
  • $46,504

    Pragati Abhiyan · 2023

    For strengthening partnerships of civil society organizations with the state government on effective implementation of the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act in maharashtra

  • $40,000

    London Business School · 2023

    Project support to research the effect of diversity and inclusion on firm performance

  • $33,534

    Samarthan - Centre for Development Support (Scds) · 2023

    To mobilize farm communities to ensure implementation of entitlement programs and enable gram panchayats to support effective implementation of key farm policies and for covid mitigation strategies in select districts i read all
  • $28,400

    St Francis Xavier University · 2023

    To design innovative participatory tools for measuring womens vulnerability in the informal employment sector and the protective effects of member-based organizations for womens economic empowerment

  • $10,000

    Centro Regional De Empresas Y Emprendimientos Responsables (Creer) · 2023

    For effective human rights due diligence and addressing the challenges of public policy and business practice in order to achieve a just transition during the closure of mines

  • $3,000

    Center for Effective Philanthropy · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    Matching gift

  • $9.8M

    Climate and Land Use Alliance Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To ensure indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and local communities have secure land and resource rights; build resilient, well networked, and effective organizations; and contribute to global forest management, conse read all
  • $1.0M

    Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2022

    Core support for the confederacy transformation agenda to reshape the culture and leadership ethos and build the resilience of its partners and offices in the global south, to be more effective and innovative in the fig read all
  • $525,000

    Center for Effective Philanthropy · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    General support and project support for research on the effects of large, multi-year gifts on nonprofits

  • $520,500

    Yayasan Penabulu · 2022

    To strengthen the effective engagement of women, youth and other vulnerable groups in sustainable natural resources management in indonesia

  • $402,000

    Global Partners Digital Limited · 2022

    To promote effective civil society engagement in global internet-related policy debates and processes, particularly with groups from the global south

  • $400,000

    Grantmakers for Effective Organizations · Washington, DC · 2022

    General support

  • $400,000

    Leadership Effectiveness Accountability and Professionalism Africa · 2022

    Core support for the nigeria youth futures fund to support youth leadership and activism in nigeria

  • $400,000

    Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2022

    Core support for an equitable intermediaries project to build the capacity of equity-focused fiscal sponsors to provide more effective and responsive services to their sponsee organizations

  • $377,000

    Actionaid International Foundation Nigeria Ltdgte · 2022

    For technical and institutional strengthening support to sub-national feminist organizations to effectively prevent and reduce violence against women and girls in nigeria

  • $375,000

    Partnership for Public Service · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for the modern government strategy for modernizing government work that delivers equitable services and effective outcomes to the public

  • $350,000

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for the beeck center as they work to coordinate effective networks and field building activities for public interest technology and modernized public service delivery

  • $350,000

    Third World Network - Africa · 2022

    General support for advocacy on the extractives sector, tax, domestic resource mobilization, trade, investment, and gender equity in africa and for core support for institutional strengthening to improve the organizatio read all
  • $350,000

    Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2022

    Core support for the michigan justice fund, a funder collaborative that seeks to advance effective and equitable justice policy in the state of michigan

  • $325,000

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2022

    Core support for a scalable, networked approach that integrates affordable housing, preservation, and effective services and supports while influencing systems to provide asset-building opportunities for low-income detr read all
  • $300,000

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    Core support for the emerging lgbtq leaders of color fund to support and strengthen the social justice leadership of lgbtq young people of color and make movements more inclusive and effective

  • $300,000

    Burness Communications · Bethesda, MD · 2022

    To implement a strategic media plan and provide communications assistance to indigenous and afro-descendant and other community organizations to promote community land and forestry rights as effective climate change and read all
  • $293,994

    Foundation for Ecological Security · 2022

    For grantmaking and technical assistance to enable civil society organizations to work with the government to ensure living incomes for farmers by effectively implementing the mgnrega in rajasthan, and mitigating covid read all
  • $250,000

    Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2022

    Core support for gender funders colab to build a stronger, connected, courageous, and effective philanthropic sector that fosters a better resourced and more effective ecosystem of organizations and movements that advan read all
  • $250,000

    Association for Women'S Rights in Development · 2022

    Core support to design and implement an effective, inclusive and participatory process to co-create the launch of the global alliance for sustainable feminist movements

  • $250,000

    Vital Strategies · New York, NY · 2022

    Support for vital strategies' overdose prevention work in kentucky that strengthens support for harm reduction strategies and services and increases the capacity of state and local government to advance effective approa read all
  • $250,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for the fund for shared insight funder collaborative for grantmaking to stimulate and foster a more open and effective philanthropic sector

  • $247,500

    Accountability Counsel · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To improve the accountability system tied to impact investment and chinese overseas financial flows so that recipient communities' grievances are more effectively and fairly addressed

  • $225,000

    Leadership Effectiveness Accountability and Professionalism Africa · 2022

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $200,000

    Associacao Paranaense De Cultura (Pontificia Universidade Catolica Do Paran · 2022

    For the observatory of consultation protocols to analise the legal effects of indigenous, quilombolas and other traditional communities protocols and the right to free, prior and informed consent related to collective l read all
  • $200,000

    Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2022

    Core support for human rights funders network to advance human rights worldwide through more effective, equitable, and open philanthropy

  • $175,000

    Centro De Culturas Indigenas Del Peru · 2022

    Core support for enlace continental de mujeres indigenas de las americas to strengthen indigenous and young women's actions to prevent, eradicate and respond in a comprehensive, relevant, and effective way to violence a read all
  • $170,500

    Centro Regional De Empresas Y Emprendimientos Responsables (Creer) · 2022

    For effective human rights due diligence and addressing the challenges of public policy and business practice in order to achieve a just transition during the closure of mines

  • $159,000

    Institute of Development Studies (UK) · 2022

    For research and learning at the intersections of just transitions, to build more effective, better-connected spaces for engagement for marginalized voices in resource rich global south countries

  • $150,000

    Justice Research Institute Ltdgte · 2022

    To strengthen the capacity of the nigerian police and federal capital territory sexual and gender-based violence response team to effectively respond to violence against women and girls in nigeria

  • $150,000

    Center for Justice and International Law · Washington, DC · 2022

    To establish an effective, transparent and representative inter-american human rights system through a multi-dimensional strategy to strengthen civil society and academia's engagement with the organization of american s read all
  • $150,000

    Center for American Progress · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for the disability rights program to convene advocates at the intersection of disability and reproductive rights and justice to develop an aligned platform and effective narrative and communications strategy

  • $125,000

    Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership · Boston, MA · 2022

    Core support for its nyc office towards transforming communities by equipping nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and sustainable

  • $123,334

    Action for Social Advancement (Asa) · 2022

    For effective implementation of the state government's policy on farmer producer organizations in collaboration with csos to enable higher incomes for farmers in odisha and covid mitigation for farmer communities in mad read all
  • $100,000

    Bank Information Center · Washington, DC · 2022

    To encourage multilateral development banks to adopt and apply effective safeguards on land rights, disability, and social inclusion

  • $100,000

    Universidad Catolica Andres Bello · 2022

    Core support for capacity strengthening, and project support for advocacy strategies to counter the negative effects of closing civic spaces and to increase awareness of the vulnerable population affected by the socio-e read all
  • $100,000

    Grand Valley State University · Allendale Charter Town, MI · 2022

    Core support for the dorothy a. Johnson center for philanthropy to bridge research and practice to support effective philanthropy

  • $100,000

    Leading Young · 2022

    Strengthening value-based leadership development to improve the effectiveness of young legislators for ethical, transparent, and accountable governance at national and local levels in kenya

  • $86,597

    Samerth Charitable Trust · 2022

    To foster more effective policy implementation to increase incomes from non-timber forest produce and farming, and for covid-19 relief, for marginalized communities in five blocks of chhattisgarh state

  • $76,667

    Pragati Abhiyan · 2022

    For strengthening partnerships of civil society organizations with the state government on effective implementation of the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act in maharashtra

  • $53,456

    Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society · 2022

    To organize and assist forest dependent-communities in vidarbha, maharashtra to implement more effective policies and market interventions to raise their incomes from farm and forest produce

  • $50,000

    Centro De Estudios De Guatemala · 2022

    To foster effective collaboration among civil society organizations in order to advance democracy and defend human rights in guatemala

  • $50,000

    Impact Justice · Oakland, CA · 2022

    For research to explore the prevalence of untreated childhood trauma among men who commit violent crimes in order to better inform and shape policies that effectively meet their rehabilitative needs

  • $50,000

    Citoyens Actifs Pour La Justice Sociale · 2022

    To foster a strong youth voice and social movements for an effective and transparent revenue management in the senegalese extractive sector

  • $50,000

    Canadian Shareholder Association for Research and Education · 2022

    Project support to explore the development of a research, strategy, and capital markets hub that would help enhance the capacity of grassroots workers campaigns in the global south to effectively develop and deploy capi read all
  • $40,000

    County Governance Watch · 2022

    Enhancing county government's effectiveness and transparency in exposing and ending corruption

  • $37,691

    St Francis Xavier University · 2022

    To design innovative participatory tools for measuring womens vulnerability in the informal employment sector and the protective effects of member-based organizations for womens economic empowerment

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors56 grants · $69.4M
  • New Venture Fund125 grants · $62.4M
  • Blue Meridian Partners4 grants · $48.5M
  • Neo Philanthropy61 grants · $25.4M
  • Foundation for Detroit'S Future3 grants · $25.0M
  • Borealis Philanthropy24 grants · $15.1M
  • Climate and Land Use Alliance Llc8 grants · $13.3M
  • Proteus Fund40 grants · $12.6M
  • Amalgamated Charitable Foundation30 grants · $11.8M
  • Oxfam America16 grants · $11.4M

Giving over time

$769.9M
2022
$734.7M
2023
$843.5M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 10,731 grants.

  • $18.7M

    Blue Meridian Partners · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support for the justice and mobility fund to accelerate economic mobility through criminal justice reforms for people with convictions and incarceration histories

  • $16.9M

    Blue Meridian Partners · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for the justice and mobility fund to accelerate economic mobility through criminal justice reforms for people with convictions and incarceration histories

  • $15.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the abundant futures fund (formerly, the new immigration fund), a national funder collaborative to engage new donors and significantly increase funding for immigration issues and the immigrant justice m read all
  • $12.7M

    Blue Meridian Partners · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the justice and mobility fund to accelerate economic mobility through criminal justice reforms for people with convictions and incarceration histories

  • $10.6M

    National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the ford fellowships program for predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships

  • $10.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for the reproductive health and women's rights collaborative

  • $9.8M

    Climate and Land Use Alliance Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To ensure indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and local communities have secure land and resource rights; build resilient, well networked, and effective organizations; and contribute to global forest management, conse read all
  • $8.3M

    Foundation for Detroit'S Future · Detroit, MI · 2024

    For the detroit institute of arts settlement project to expedite detroit's bankruptcy settlement, assist in honoring pension commitments and preserve the institutes collection for public benefit

  • $8.3M

    Foundation for Detroit'S Future · Detroit, MI · 2023

    For the detroit institute of arts settlement project to expedite detroit's bankruptcy settlement, assist in honoring pension commitments and preserve the institutes collection for public benefit

  • $8.3M

    Foundation for Detroit'S Future · Detroit, MI · 2022

    For the detroit institute of arts settlement project to expedite detroit's bankruptcy settlement, assist in honoring pension commitments and preserve the institutes collection for public benefit

  • $5.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the collaborative for gender and reproductive equity

  • $5.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support for the collaborative for gender and reproductive equity

  • $5.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for the new immigration fund, a national funder collaborative to engage new donors and significantly increase funding for immigration issues and the immigrant justice movement

  • $5.0M

    Yayasan Keanekaragaman Hayati Indonesia · 2022

    For an endowment fund for civil society strengthening in indonesia as part of developing sustainable and resilient financial infrastructure in the global south

  • $3.5M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for the international fund for public interest media to bridge to a new paradigm of journalism by improving the health of media ecosystems and promoting equality, social justice, and civic participation

  • $3.4M

    Henry Ford Health System · Detroit, MI · 2024

    General support

  • $3.4M

    Henry Ford Health System · Detroit, MI · 2023

    General support

  • $3.3M

    Drug Policy Alliance · New York, NY · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $3.2M

    American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $3.0M

    Equality Fund · 2024

    General support

  • $3.0M

    The Global Fund for Women · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Core support for the launch of the black feminist fund, an unprecedented philanthropic initiative bridging black feminist resources to black feminist organizing around the world to strengthen their sustainability and re read all
  • $3.0M

    Equality Fund · 2023

    General support

  • $3.0M

    The Global Fund for Women · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Core support for the launch of the black feminist fund, an unprecedented philanthropic initiative bridging black feminist resources to black feminist organizing around the world to strengthen their sustainability and re read all
  • $3.0M

    Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $3.0M

    Equality Fund · 2022

    General support

  • $3.0M

    Global Fund for Women · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Core support for the launch of the black feminist fund, an unprecedented philanthropic initiative bridging black feminist resources to black feminist organizing around the world to strengthen their sustainability and re read all
  • $3.0M

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the administration of the public interest technology infrastructure fund, to continue cross-foundation strategic collaboration and grantmaking to strengthen the field of public interest technology

  • $3.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for the creation of the international resource for impact and storytelling (iris), an external donor collaborative supporting a global-south moving-image storytelling network, narrative analysis and shared read all
  • $2.7M

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support to implement governance, management, strategies, grantmaking, and learning for the global network for social justice and digital resilience

  • $2.6M

    Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism · Oakland, CA · 2023

    Core support for the sister funds collective care program to build sustainable and scalable regional and global infrastructures that support the resilience, wellbeing, and safety of women and lbtqi+ defenders and their read all
  • $2.5M

    National Employment Law Project · New York, NY · 2022

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.5M

    Me Too International · Atlanta, GA · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.5M

    Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Springfield, MA · 2024

    Core support for america's cultural treasures regional initiative in massachusetts, creative futures initiative: towards a just + equitable arts field, to support local arts and cultural activities

  • $2.5M

    Ms Training Centre for Development Cooperation · 2024

    Core support for fight inequality alliance's work with national movements in over 40 countries across asia, africa, europe and latin america and the caribbean that are connected globally

  • $2.5M

    B Lab Company · Berwyn, PA · 2023

    General support and for core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.5M

    B Lab Company · Berwyn, PA · 2022

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.5M

    Family Values at Work a Multi-State Consortium · Milwaukee, WI · 2022

    General support and core support for capacity building.

  • $2.5M

    Rockwood Leadership Institute · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General support and core support for organizational strengthening

  • $2.4M

    Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio · New York, NY · 2022

    General support and core support for technical assistance

  • $2.4M

    Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd · New York, NY · 2022

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.4M

    Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Winstonsalem, NC · 2024

    For the deep south/emerging social justice infrastructure strategic grantmaking program

  • $2.4M

    Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Winstonsalem, NC · 2023

    For the deep south/emerging social justice infrastructure strategic grantmaking program

  • $2.3M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the four freedoms fund to strengthen the capacity of the immigrant justice movement to ensure all immigrants, regardless of status, have dignity, power to shape change, and agency to determine their lif read all
  • $2.3M

    Upturn · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.3M

    Center for Reproductive Rights · New York, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $2.2M

    Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.2M

    Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Winstonsalem, NC · 2022

    For the deep south/emerging social justice infrastructure strategic grantmaking program

  • $2.1M

    Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2023

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.1M

    Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Core support for the sister funds collective care program to build sustainable and scalable regional and global infrastructures that support the resilience, wellbeing, and safety of women and lbtqi+ defenders and their read all
  • $2.1M

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    For the administration of the public interest technology infrastructure fund, to continue cross-foundation strategic collaboration and grantmaking to strengthen the field of public interest technology

  • $2.1M

    International Trade Union Confederation · 2023

    To promote equal and equitable participation of women and equity seeking groups in leadership, and in economic, social, civic and cultural life

  • $2.0M

    Urgent Action Fund for Women'S Human Rights · Oakland, CA · 2022

    Core support for the sister funds collective care program to build sustainable and scalable regional and global infrastructures that support the resilience, wellbeing, and safety of women and lbtqi+ defenders and their read all
  • $2.0M

    American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024

    Core support for the center for journalism and democracy to help strengthen americas democracy by training and supporting generations of black journalists in the field of investigative journalism

  • $2.0M

    Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2024

    For the climate media collaborative for economic justice and community rights to leverage strategic communications and campaigns capacity

  • $2.0M

    United States Artists · Chicago, IL · 2024

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Yayasan Solidaritas Dana Nusantara · 2024

    For a direct funding mechanism to support indigenous peoples and local communities' initiatives in protecting and managing their territories, their environment and their agrarian resources, and for endowment support

  • $2.0M

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    Core support to the racial equity in journalism fund, a donor collaborative to assist and strengthen people of color-led and -serving media institutions, particularly around civic news coverage and core support for fund read all
  • $2.0M

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    Core support for the racial equity in philanthropy fund to ensure funders are provided with the incentive and means to embrace racial equity in their operations and grantmaking

  • $2.0M

    Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.0M

    Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation · Washington, DC · 2023

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.0M

    Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support for the administration of the civic (re)solve education fund, to center public interest technology as an approach across the fund's investment strategy

  • $2.0M

    Internationella Insamlingsstiftelsen for Land Och Skogsrattigheter · 2023

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.0M

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    Core support for the racial equity in philanthropy fund to ensure funders are provided with the incentive and means to embrace racial equity in their operations and grantmaking

  • $2.0M

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    Core support to the racial equity in journalism fund, a donor collaborative to assist and strengthen people of color-led and -serving media institutions, particularly around civic news coverage and core support for fund read all
  • $2.0M

    California Community Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    Core support for the amerca's cultural treasures initiative (los angeles)

  • $2.0M

    Capital B News · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Edison Institute Inc Dba the Henry Ford · Dearborn, MI · 2022

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2022

    Core support for the cdo fund that provides support for community development organizations that engage in economic and community development, organizing, resident engagement, and social service projects that empowers d read all
  • $2.0M

    Houston Arts Alliance · Houston, TX · 2022

    Core support for the america's cultural treasures initiative (houston)

  • $2.0M

    International Center for Not-for-Profit Law · Washington, DC · 2022

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $2.0M

    International Labor Rights Forum · Washington, DC · 2022

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $2.0M

    National Domestic Workers Alliance · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for caring across generations to work towards a reality where all people can live and age with dignity, and core support for institutional strengthening of caring across generations

  • $2.0M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for the four freedoms fund to strengthen the capacity of the immigrant justice movement to ensure all immigrants, regardless of status, have dignity, power to shape change, and agency to determine their lif read all
  • $2.0M

    Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2022

    For the climate media collaborative for economic justice and community rights to leverage strategic communications and campaigns capacity

  • $1.9M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support for the four freedoms fund to strengthen the capacity of the immigrant justice movement to ensure all immigrants, regardless of status, have dignity, power to shape change, and agency to determine their lif read all
  • $1.8M

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Core support to implement governance, management, strategies, grantmaking, and learning for the global network for social justice and digital resilience

  • $1.8M

    Movement Alliance Project · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $1.8M

    Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $1.8M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the pop culture collaborative, a donor collaborative and learning community transforming narratives about black and indigenous peoples, people of color, immigrants, refugees, and muslims; and core suppo read all
  • $1.8M

    International Labor Rights Forum · Washington, DC · 2023

    General support

  • $1.8M

    National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    General support and for core support for institutional strengthening

  • $1.8M

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    General support for asian american advancing justice-asian law caucus and core support for institutional strengthening of the asian american justice affiliation

  • $1.8M

    Howard University · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for the center for journalism and democracy to help strengthen americas democracy by training and supporting generations of black journalists in the field of investigative journalism

  • $1.7M

    Center for Law and Social Policy · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $1.7M

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2024

    Core support for the cdo fund for community development organizations that engage in economic and community development, organizing, resident engagement, and social service projects that empower detroiters

  • $1.7M

    Way To Rise · Washington, DC · 2024

    Core support for the valiente fund to generate and organize donors, build year-round civic engagement programs focused on people of color, women, and young people, and strengthen state social justice infrastructure

  • $1.7M

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2023

    Core support for the cdo fund for community development organizations that engage in economic and community development, organizing, resident engagement, and social service projects that empower detroiters

  • $1.7M

    Way To Rise · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support for the valiente fund to generate and organize donors, build year-round civic engagement programs focused on people of color, women, and young people, and strengthen state social justice infrastructure

  • $1.7M

    Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022

    Core support for the obama presidential center capital campaign

  • $1.7M

    American University of Beirut · 2024

    To support the regionalization of the non-governmental organizations initiative (ngoi) and the set up of an institutional strengthening and capacity building program for civil society in the mena region.

  • $1.6M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support for the collective future fund to create a future where all girls and women, cis, transgender, and gender non-conforming, can live, learn, and work with safety and dignity

  • $1.6M

    Groundswell Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023

    For strengthening trans and reproductive justice organizations that are led by women of color, low-income women, and transgender people to build power and create meaningful collaboration in service of gender justice in read all
  • $1.6M

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening of the asian american justice affiliation

  • $1.6M

    Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2023

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $1.6M

    Fund for Global Human Rights · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $1.6M

    Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $1.6M

    Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General support and core support for institutional strengthening

  • $1.6M

    Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Core support for the obama presidential center capital campaign

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