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

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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.

125 grants matching “ensure · $50.3M

  • $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
  • $1.4M

    Neighborhood Funders Group · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Core support grant for lift to ensure the equitable implementation of federal industrial policy investments

  • $960,000

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    Tie-off 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

  • $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
  • $355,000

    Global Greengrants Fund · Boulder, CO · 2024

    To help ensure sustainability of global grassroots organizations and movements as they recover from the pandemic and challenge the root causes of environmental and social crises

  • $325,000

    Amnesty International Limited · 2024

    Core support for amnesty tech to advocate for and ensure that rapid technological advancements do not undermine fundamental human rights

  • $300,000

    Accountability Counsel · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To ensure chinese financial institutions develop strong accountability mechanisms and to engage impact investors on issues of community accountability

  • $300,000

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

    Core support to ensure the implementation of federal projects reaches marginalized communities

  • $300,000

    More Perfect Union Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    Core support to ensure that working people are seen and heard in media coverage and public debates.

  • $275,000

    National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2024

    Core support for the work and family program to advance policies to ensure broad coverage of all workers with portable universal benefits and inclusive robust labor standards such as paid leave and paid sick days

  • $250,000

    The London School of Economics and Political Science · 2024

    Core support for the launch of lse's presidential discretionary fund to enable sustained excellence through an inclusive and diverse community, extending school impact and reach, and to ensure a sustainable future

  • $250,000

    La Mama Experimental Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for capital campaign to renovate lamama's flagship theater facilities at 74a east 4th street to expand its service to community and ensure organizational sustainability for future generations

  • $250,000

    Nuffield Foundation · 2024

    Core support for the ada lovelace institute to ensure that data and ai work for people and society, representing the public good in ethical and legal debates around the development of data-driven technologies

  • $225,000

    Network of European Foundations · 2024

    Core support for the european artificial intelligence fund, to expand philanthropic investment in civil society organizations working to ensure that ai governance advances equity, fairness and diversity as well as democ read all
  • $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

    Activating Change · Wilmington, DE · 2024

    For the "promoting the voices of people with disabilities" program to ensure that the voices of self-advocates and people with disabilities are included in the solutions to violence, criminalization, and incarceration

  • $200,000

    Friends of the Earth · Washington, DC · 2024

    To encourage agro-commodity financiers to develop and implement policies promoting more sustainable business practices by companies in the sector and ensuring investments are free from deforestation and human rights abu read all
  • $200,000

    Georgia Strategic Alliance for New Directions and Unified Policies · Atlanta, GA · 2024

    Core support for southern worker power to ensure worker security, dignity, and fair value for all work undertaken.

  • $200,000

    Institute for Policy Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

    Core support for the worker justice program to support organizing of low-wage workers and improved public- and private-sector policies that protect them and ensure living wages and benefits

  • $158,973

    Society for Labour and Development · 2024

    To train women informal economy workers in garment sector and relevant stakeholders in the garment supply chain for ensuring decent work, safety, and dignity at the workplace

  • $158,000

    Women'S Environment and Development Organization (Wedo) · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Core support to strengthen and amplify the engagement of the women's major group in ensuring that goal 5 of the sdgs remain a priority in the implementation of the sdgs and summit of the future

  • $150,000

    American Foundation for the Blind · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the public policy and research institute to generate knowledge and technology policy analysis, particularly around ai and workplace technologies, to ensure people who are blind or have low vision have e read all
  • $150,000

    Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Core support for the detroit community technology projects equitable internet initiative to ensure that more detroit residents have the ability to leverage digital technologies for social and economic development

  • $150,000

    Women'S Refugee Commission · New York, NY · 2024

    Tie-off core support for the migrant rights and justice program to promote policies that ensure the safety and well-being of migrant women, families, and unaccompanied children seeking protection

  • $150,000

    National Employment Law Project · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support to federal and state policy work that ensures that gig workers have the key labor protections that ensure security and flexibility.

  • $150,000

    Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice · Queens, NY · 2024

    Tie-off core support to build the collective civic power, voice, and leadership of the salon workforce to ensure the rights of workers to a healthy, safe, and just workplace

  • $150,000

    The Giving Back Fund · Boston, MA · 2024

    Core support for the coalition of feminists for social change to advance feminist and women-centered strategies to end violence against women and girls and to ensure that womens perspectives and agency remain at the for read all
  • $150,000

    Association On Higher Education and Disability · Huntersville, NC · 2024

    Core support for docs with disabilities to ensure medicine remains an equal opportunity profession

  • $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
  • $145,205

    Homenet South Asia Trust · 2024

    To build capacities of home-based workers and deepen their meaningful engagement with community, market, and government stakeholders, for ensuring their economic empowerment, decent work, and safety and security at the read all
  • $134,000

    Lawyers for Human Rights · 2024

    Core support for the environmental rights program to protect the rights of mining affected communities; ensure adequate compliance; and promote respect for human rights among corporates in the extractives space

  • $130,000

    Restless Development Tanzania · 2024

    Core support for youth and feminist advocates to raise awareness of the significance of preserving indigenous seeds to achieve self-sufficiency, ensure food security, conserve biodiversity, and enhance resilience to cli read all
  • $125,000

    Partnership On Ai To Benefit People and Society · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To ensure workers have a voice in shaping artificial intelligence progress by supporting innovations and pilots that emerge in pai's ai and shared prosperity initiative (aispi).

  • $100,000

    International Commission for Labor Rights · New York, NY · 2024

    Support to the international alliance of app-based care transport workers global federation of grassroots driver organizations to ensure that the voices of drivers globally are reflected in the new ilo standards for pla read all
  • $100,000

    American Academy of Arts and Sciences · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Core support for the presidential priorities fund to ensure the academys programmatic momentum is maintained throughout the presidential transition process

  • $100,000

    William J Brennan Jr Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support for the liberty & national security programs research and policy work to ensure the us national security system uses technology in a way that respects individual rights and the rule of lawparticularly for i read all
  • $99,574

    The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights · Chicago, IL · 2024

    For advocacy, litigation, and technical assistance efforts to ensure that immigrant children with disabilities in federal custody have the opportunity to seek protection in a manner tailored to their specific needs and read all
  • $86,805

    Sao Paulo Pro-Indian Commission · 2024

    To strengthen quilombolas and traditional communities in the region of oriximina and obidos-pa to discuss mining issues, considering the context of global just energy transition and to ensure proper consultation and par read all
  • $56,606

    Consumer Unity and Trust Society · 2024

    For research and stakeholder engagement to explore alternate models of economic growth, inclusive finance and worker welfare to ensure an equitable and inclusive post-pandemic recovery in india

  • $56,000

    The Youth Congress · 2024

    A tie-off grant to support the youth congress's youth engagement project and ensure sustainability

  • $50,000

    Fundacion Universidad De San Andres · 2024

    To establish model rules of evidence standards for argentina's criminal legal systems (provincial and federal) to ensure consistency, transparency, and accuracy in fact-finding in criminal cases

  • $50,000

    Fractured Atlas Productions · Scarsdale, NY · 2024

    For invisible giants to increase online visibility of people with disabilities worldwide, promote more inclusive societal narratives, and ensure website accessibility through universal design.

  • $50,000

    The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute · New York, NY · 2024

    Core support toward serving the public good and ensuring a more equitable and sustainable future, and developing industrial policies.

  • $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

  • $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
  • $1.5M

    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
  • $1.4M

    Global Greengrants Fund · Boulder, CO · 2023

    To help ensure sustainability of global grassroots organizations and movements as they recover from the pandemic and challenge the root causes of environmental and social crises

  • $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
  • $650,000

    Ujima the National Center On Violence Against Women · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support to co-develop the us national action plan on gender based violence by centering the communities most impacted and ensuring community driven efforts to shape gbv strategies

  • $600,000

    More Perfect Union Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support to ensure that working people are seen and heard in media coverage and public debates

  • $555,000

    National Employment Law Project · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support to federal and state policy work that ensures that gig workers have the key labor protections that ensure security and flexibility.

  • $500,000

    Highlander Research and Education Center · New Market, TN · 2023

    Core support to build the capacity of labor and community organizing to ensure that workers and communities shape their lives and workplaces

  • $300,000

    Accountability Counsel · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To ensure chinese financial institutions develop strong accountability mechanisms and to engage impact investors on issues of community accountability

  • $300,000

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

    Core support to ensure the implementation of federal projects reaches marginalized communities

  • $275,000

    National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support for the work and family program to advance policies to ensure broad coverage of all workers with portable universal benefits and inclusive robust labor standards such as paid leave and paid sick days

  • $250,000

    Amnesty International Limited · 2023

    Core support for amnesty tech to advocate for and ensure that rapid technological advancements do not undermine fundamental human rights

  • $220,000

    Friends of the Earth · Washington, DC · 2023

    To encourage agro-commodity financiers to develop and implement policies promoting more sustainable business practices by companies in the sector and ensuring investments are free from deforestation and human rights abu read all
  • $200,000

    The Giving Back Fund · Boston, MA · 2023

    Core support for the coalition of feminists for social change to advance feminist and women-centered strategies to end violence against women and girls and to ensure that womens perspectives and agency remain at the for read all
  • $200,000

    Institute for Policy Studies · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support for the worker justice program to support organizing of low-wage workers and improved public- and private-sector policies that protect them and ensure living wages and benefits

  • $200,000

    The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support toward serving the public good and ensuring a more equitable and sustainable future, and developing industrial policies.

  • $200,000

    Georgia Strategic Alliance for New Directions and Unified Policies · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Core support for southern worker power to ensure worker security, dignity, and fair value for all work undertaken.

  • $200,000

    Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Core support for the national immigrant justice center to ensure access to justice and human rights protections for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers

  • $200,000

    Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023

    Core support for the detroit community technology projects equitable internet initiative to ensure that more detroit residents have the ability to leverage digital technologies for social and economic development

  • $167,000

    Native American Rights Fund · Boulder, CO · 2023

    One-time core support to ensure legislative districts properly and fully recognize and represent native american communities

  • $160,000

    Activating Change · Wilmington, DE · 2023

    For the "promoting the voices of people with disabilities" program to ensure that the voices of self-advocates and people with disabilities are included in the solutions to violence, criminalization, and incarceration

  • $150,000

    Women'S Refugee Commission · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support for the migrant rights and justice program to promote policies that ensure the safety and well-being of migrant women, families, and unaccompanied children seeking protection

  • $150,000

    Jaringan Kerja Penyelamat Hutan Riau · 2023

    To conduct research and provide educational materials to ensure natural resource companies uphold global and national sustainability and social responsibility standards

  • $133,334

    Lawyers for Human Rights · 2023

    Core support for the environmental rights program to protect the rights of mining affected communities; ensure adequate compliance; and promote respect for human rights among corporates in the extractives space

  • $125,000

    Partnership On Ai To Benefit People and Society · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To ensure workers have a voice in influencing artificial intelligence progress by supporting innovations and pilots that emerge in pai's ai and shared prosperity initiative (aispi).

  • $125,000

    Association On Higher Education and Disability · Huntersville, NC · 2023

    Core support for docswithdisabilities to ensure medicine remains an equal opportunity profession

  • $125,000

    Network of European Foundations · 2023

    Core support for the european artificial intelligence fund, to expand philanthropic investment in civil society organizations working to ensure that ai governance advances equity, fairness and diversity as well as democ read all
  • $100,000

    Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice · Queens, NY · 2023

    Core support to build the collective civic power, voice, and leadership of the salon workforce to ensure the rights of workers to a healthy, safe, and just workplace

  • $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

    Stichting Greenpeace Mena · 2023

    To support the climate justice camp 2023, bringing together youth from the global south with a particular focus on mena to ensure youth voices are heard in cop28

  • $100,000

    The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights · Chicago, IL · 2023

    For advocacy, litigation, and technical assistance efforts to ensure that immigrant children with disabilities in federal custody have the opportunity to seek protection in a manner tailored to their specific needs and read all
  • $100,000

    William J Brennan Jr Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2023

    Core support for the liberty & national security programs research and policy work to ensure the us national security system uses technology in a way that respects individual rights and the rule of lawparticularly for i read all
  • $86,805

    Sao Paulo Pro-Indian Commission · 2023

    To strengthen quilombolas and traditional communities in the region of oriximina and obidos-pa to discuss mining issues, considering the context of global just energy transition and to ensure proper consultation and par read all
  • $75,000

    Latin America Working Group Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

    Core support to engage u.s. Policymakers, civil society organizations and individuals in central american to fight corruption, protect human rights, ensure the safety of human rights defenders and end impunity, with an read all
  • $70,000

    Economic Justice Network of the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Souther · 2023

    To ensure civil society participation, learning and coordination at the 2023 and 2024 alternative mining indaba

  • $68,606

    Consumer Unity and Trust Society · 2023

    For research and stakeholder engagement to explore alternate models of economic growth, inclusive finance and worker welfare to ensure an equitable and inclusive post-pandemic recovery in india

  • $50,000

    Self-Reliant Initiative Through Joint Action · 2023

    To raise awareness and engagement among youth in elite institutions of higher education about the challenges in ensuring farmer livelihoods and the role of civil society organizations in addressing rural poverty

  • $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
  • $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
  • $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

    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

  • $1.5M

    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
  • $1.4M

    Global Greengrants Fund · Boulder, CO · 2022

    To help ensure sustainability of global grassroots organizations and movements as they recover from the pandemic and challenge the root causes of environmental and social crises

  • $600,000

    New America Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for the open technology institute, which brings together advocates, researchers, and technologists to ensure equitable access to open and secure digital communications technologies

  • $600,000

    Ujima the National Center On Violence Against Women · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support to co-develop the us national action plan on gender based violence by centering the communities most impacted and ensuring community driven efforts to shape gbv strategies

  • $500,000

    Good Nation Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for nyc speaks to partner with community organizations and philanthropy to ensure that the people's priorities shape the incoming mayoral administration

  • $500,000

    Documental Ambulante Ac · 2022

    For a reserve fund to build organizational resiliency and financial sustainability to ensure the ability to foster the transformative potential of non-fiction media and build a more critical, engaged, just, and particip read all
  • $390,000

    Activating Change · Wilmington, DE · 2022

    For the promoting the voices of people with disabilities program to ensure that the voices of self-advocates and people with disabilities are included in the solutions to violence, criminalization, and incarceration

  • $300,000

    Amnesty International Limited · 2022

    Core support for amnesty tech to advocate for and ensure that rapid technological advancements do not undermine fundamental human rights

  • $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
  • $275,000

    National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for the work and family program to advance policies to ensure broad coverage of all workers with portable universal benefits and inclusive robust labor standards such as paid leave and paid sick days

  • $225,000

    Friends of the Earth · Washington, DC · 2022

    To encourage agro-commodity financiers to develop and implement policies promoting more sustainable business practices by companies in the sector and ensuring investments are free from deforestation and human rights abu read all
  • $200,000

    Center for American Progress · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for the women's health and rights program to ensure that all women, have the rights, resources and agency to make decisions about their bodies by influencing the public conversation through policy advocacy, read all
  • $200,000

    Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022

    Core support for the detroit community technology project's equitable internet initiative to ensure that more detroit residents have the ability to leverage digital technologies for social and economic development

  • $200,000

    Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights · Chicago, IL · 2022

    Core support for the national immigrant justice center to ensure access to justice and human rights protections for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers

  • $200,000

    Institute for Policy Studies · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for the worker justice program to organize low-wage workers for improved public- and private-sector policies that protect them and ensure living wages and benefits

  • $191,523

    Institute of Rural Management Anand · 2022

    To generate knowledge on farmer distress, state interventions and role of civil society organizations in ensuring living incomes for farmers in india

  • $175,000

    Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center · Denver, CO · 2022

    Core support for the immigration detention accountability project to protect the constitutional and civil rights of immigrants in detention and to ensure immigrants have adequate care and are not discriminated on the ba read all
  • $167,000

    Native American Rights Fund · Boulder, CO · 2022

    One-time core support to ensure legislative districts properly and fully recognize and represent native american communities

  • $150,000

    Self-Reliant Initiative Through Joint Action · 2022

    To raise awareness and engagement among youth in elite institutions of higher education about the challenges in ensuring farmer livelihoods and the role of civil society organizations in addressing rural poverty

  • $150,000

    Association Sherpa · 2022

    To ensure european corporate compliance with measures to identify risks and prevent human rights and environmental abuses in supply chains

  • $150,000

    Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    One time core support for all voting is local to build local infrastructure in states to work with election officials, ensure elections are administered fairly and barriers do not prevent voting

  • $150,000

    Women'S Refugee Commission · New York, NY · 2022

    Core support for the migrant rights and justice program to promote policies that ensure the safety and well-being of migrant women, families, and unaccompanied children seeking protection

  • $134,000

    Quilombos National Association for Cooperation - Negra Anastacia · 2022

    To strengthen the quilombola participation, particularly of women and youth, in the reconstruction of public policies related to land rights, food sovereignty and health, ensuring protection to social leaders defenders read all
  • $133,333

    Lawyers for Human Rights · 2022

    Core support for the environmental rights program to protect the rights of mining affected communities; ensure adequate compliance; and promote respect for human rights among corporates in the extractives space

  • $133,000

    Giving Back Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    Core support for the coalition of feminists for social change to advance feminist and women-centered strategies to end violence against women and girls and to ensure that womens perspectives and agency remain at the for read all
  • $125,000

    Association On Higher Education and Disability · Huntersville, NC · 2022

    Core support for docswithdisabilities to ensure medicine remains an equal opportunity profession

  • $125,000

    Partnership On Ai To Benefit People and Society · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To ensure workers have a voice in influencing artificial intelligence progress by supporting innovations and pilots that emerge in pai's ai and shared prosperity initiative (aispi).

  • $100,000

    Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support for initiatives in response to the workers' voice summit, that ensure that all workers, regardless of their status, have equal rights to labor protections

  • $100,000

    Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights · Chicago, IL · 2022

    For advocacy, litigation, and technical assistance efforts to ensure that immigrant children with disabilities in federal custody have the opportunity to seek protection in a manner tailored to their specific needs and read all
  • $100,000

    Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2022

    To support the cop27 indigenous pavilion and to ensure it is accessible and inclusive for all participants

  • $100,000

    Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice · Queens, NY · 2022

    Core support to build the collective civic power, voice, and leadership of the salon workforce to ensure the rights of workers to a healthy, safe, and just workplace.

  • $86,807

    Sao Paulo Pro-Indian Commission · 2022

    To strengthen quilombolas and traditional communities in the region of oriximina and obidos-pa to discuss mining issues, considering the context of global just energy transition and to ensure proper consultation and par read all
  • $75,000

    Latin America Working Group Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    Core support to engage u.s. Policymakers, civil society organizations and individuals in central american to fight corruption, protect human rights, ensure the safety of human rights defenders and end impunity, with an read all
  • $74,788

    Consumer Unity and Trust Society · 2022

    For research and stakeholder engagement to explore alternate models of economic growth, inclusive finance and worker welfare to ensure an equitable and inclusive post-pandemic recovery in india

  • $70,000

    Economic Justice Network of the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Souther · 2022

    To ensure civil society participation, learning and coordination at the 2023 and 2024 alternative mining indaba

  • $50,000

    Public Policy and Education Fund of New York · Albany, NY · 2022

    Core support for the new york budget justice campaign to ensure relief and recovery for communities across new york state, especially hardest-hit communities of color

  • $50,000

    National Network of Abortion Funds · Beaverton, OR · 2022

    Core support to access reproductive care (arc-se) to provide funding and logistical support to ensure southerners receive safe and compassionate reproductive care including abortion services

  • $50,000

    Southern Africa Resource Watch · 2022

    For the justice for miners campaign to ensure adequate access to compensation for mining affected communities and workers in southern africa

  • $50,000

    Stichting Greenpeace Mena · 2022

    Supporting capacity building of youth activists to ensure impactful engagement in leading change for climate justice

  • $25,000

    Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice · Queens, NY · 2022

    Core support to build the collective civic power, voice, and leadership of the salon workforce to ensure the rights of workers to a healthy, safe, and just workplace.

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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