Open Society Institute

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $38.0M

  Central European University · New York, NY · 2024

  To provide general support

• $32.0M

  Central European University · New York, NY · 2024

  To provide general support

• $12.5M

  Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2024

  To provide general support

• $5.0M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  To advance open societies and inclusive democracies in politics and governance by hosting and supporting the establishment of the women's political leadership fund, a fiscally-sponsored project of the grantee

• $5.0M

  Media Development Investment Fund · New York, NY · 2024

  To provide general support

• $3.0M

  The Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To support the foundations efforts to scale up their international programs and in particular, obama foundation leaders, scholars and fellows programs

• $2.8M

  Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2024

  To support bard college's center for civic engagement as the new administrative hub for the open society university network's operations

• $2.0M

  Aspiration · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To ensure effective enforcement of social media accountability rules during the 2024 eu elections in order to reduce and mitigate the spread of disinformation

• $2.0M

  Reset Tech · Washington Dc, DC · 2024

  To support the grantees work in protecting public safety, fundamental rights and election integrity by encouraging effective enforcement of the digital services act

• $1.5M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  To support the international fund for public interest media to seed new revenue streams for public interest media in the global south

• $1.5M

  Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2024

  To allow the grantee to manage a travel and learning fund for individuals and organizations to participate in convenings, exchanges, education, global learning, conducting research, and travel

• $1.4M

  Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To support the asia empowerment fund for civil society groups advancing democratic governance

• $1.3M

  International Development Economics Associates · 2024

  To provide general support

• $1.2M

  Access Now · New York City, NY · 2024

  To provide general support

• $1.0M

  Transparentem · New York, NY · 2024

  To provide general support

• $1.0M

  Brac USA · New York, NY · 2024

  To support brac usa's ultra poor graduation initiative, which aims to mobilize governments globally to scale graduation and economic inclusion programs through government social protection systems

• $1.0M

  Global Citizen · New York, NY · 2024

  To support global citizens programmatic work to increase development finance and improve global governance for the global south

• $1.0M

  Climate Vulnerable Forum · 2024

  To provide general support

• $1.0M

  Dignity Alliance International · 2024

  To provide general support

• $999,500

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  To support the climate emergency collaboration group, a project of the grantee, and its work on global financial architecture reform through building an effective global ecosystem of civil society, political and technic…

• $930,000

  Freedom Voices Network · 2024

  To provide general support

• $750,000

  Black Equity Organisation · 2024

  To provide general support

• $737,059

  Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2024

  To provide funding for training osun faculty in best practices for liberal arts & sciences instruction

• $691,250

  We Are Purposeful Ltd · 2024

  To set up a fund that resources and amplifies the critical contributions of girls and gender expansive young people working to reclaim democracy and counter authoritarianism, in and beyond the generation equality forum …

• $690,000

  International Partnership for Human Rights (Iphr) · 2024

  To provide general support

• $600,000

  Chatham House · 2024

  To support two think tank convenings on reimagining global governance and to provide programmatic support to advance the grantees work on the environment, multilateralism, the advancement of democracy, and security, pea…

• $590,000

  The Institute for Public Policy Research · 2024

  To provide general support

• $572,987

  Uplift Afghanistan Fund · Westlake Village, CA · 2024

  To provide general support

• $557,535

  Lapis Middle East and Africa Fz Llc · 2024

  To improve access to basic education for unserved/underserved children in afghanistan, amid discriminatory education and other policies against women and girls

• $500,000

  The One Campaign · Washington, DC · 2024

  To support the grantee's programmatic work on development policy and financing for the global south

• $500,000

  Balanced Economy Project · 2024

  To provide general support

• $500,000

  Frida the Young Feminist Fund · 2024

  To provide general support

• $500,000

  Earthrights International · Washington, DC · 2024

  To provide general support

• $450,000

  Slycan Trust Ev · 2024

  To provide general support

• $450,000

  Escr-Net (International Network for Economic Soci · New York, NY · 2024

  To provide general support

• $400,000

  Asia Democracy Network · 2024

  To provide general support

• $400,000

  European Network Against Racism (Enar) Aisbl · 2024

  To provide general support

• $400,000

  Global Solutions Initiative Foundation Ggmbh · 2024

  To provide general support

• $400,000

  Joffe Charitable Trust Cio · 2024

  To provide general support

• $350,000

  United Nations Development Programme · New York, NY · 2024

  To support brazils effort to fight hunger, poverty, and inequality through an alignment of financial systems with the sustainable development goals

• $350,000

  Odi · 2024

  To support the grantees work on multilateral development bank funding for developing countries

• $350,000

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  To support the future of rights and governance program to curate a collaborative action-research process that addresses the current challenges of global governance

• $343,725

  Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the Universit · 2024

  To support a program of scholarly inquiry into economics and social sciences at university of oxford's blavatnik school of government

• $319,299

  Open Society Foundation for Albania · 2024

  To support humanitarian relief efforts for displaced afghans evacuated to albania

• $300,000

  Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Foru · 2024

  To provide general support

• $300,000

  Stichting Nlnet · 2024

  To support the open social media fund to contribute to an open information society, and a healthier and more responsible technology space as a whole by enhancing the ecosystem of open and decentralized social media

• $300,000

  International Center for Not-for-Profit Law · Washington, DC · 2024

  To provide general support

• $300,000

  Alliance Publishing Trust · 2024

  To provide general support

• $300,000

  Stichting Victim Advocates International · 2024

  To provide general support

• $300,000

  Tax Justice Network · 2024

  To provide general support

• $300,000

  Myriad USA · New York, NY · 2024

  Matching gift program

• $300,000

  The Rights Practice · 2024

  To provide general support

• $282,465

  International Civil Society Action Network · Washington, DC · 2024

  To provide general support

• $280,000

  Peri Support Fund · Amherst, MA · 2024

  To support research on progressive reforms of the international financial architecture

• $280,000

  United Nations Development Programme · New York, NY · 2024

  To support the grantee's work on advancing sustainable financing through the g20

• $260,000

  British Future · 2024

  To provide general support

• $258,709

  Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2024

  To support a travel and learning fund for individuals and organization within media, technology and civil society to increase the effectiveness of their work and benefit for the public

• $250,000

  National Conference On Citizenship · Washington, DC · 2024

  To support the design of healthy digital public spaces which are key to open societies, that foster cohesion and connection within and across marginalized communities

• $250,000

  Business & Human Rights Resource Centre US Ltd · New York, NY · 2024

  To provide general support.

• $250,000

  International Economic Association · 2024

  To create more equitable representation of women in economics

• $235,000

  Suara Inisiatif Sdn Bhd (Suaram) · 2024

  To provide general support

• $230,983

  Alliance for Open Society International · New York, NY · 2024

  To provide an in-kind grant of personnel and general services in support of the grantee's charitable operations

• $225,000

  Ceres · Boston, MA · 2024

  Matching gift program

• $225,000

  Schwab Charitable Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Matching gift program

• $225,000

  Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Warwick, RI · 2024

  Matching gift program

• $205,000

  Media Legal Defence Initiative · 2024

  To provide general support

• $200,000

  Institute for State Effectiveness · Washington, DC · 2024

  To support research, technical assistance, and policy analysis in order to consolidate and inform global efforts related to ukraine's recovery and reconstruction

• $200,000

  Dalberg Catalyst · Washington, DC · 2024

  To provide general support

• $200,000

  E Armah · New York, NY · 2024

  To develop a multimedia digital village as an ecosystem to bring transformational solidarity, healing, and light to the grievance-focused masculinity spaces on the internet

• $200,000

  Collective Campaign for Peace (Cocap) · 2024

  To provide general support

• $182,500

  Associazione Per Gli Studi Giuridici Sull'Immigraz · 2024

  To provide general support

• $180,000

  Myanmar Now · 2024

  To provide general support

• $160,000

  Eastern Circles · 2024

  To provide general support

• $150,000

  Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rig · Washington, DC · 2024

  To provide general support

• $150,000

  Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice · Helena, MT · 2024

  To support the grantee's fiscally sponsored project known as the coalition for an international criminal court to challenge double standards in international justice

• $150,000

  International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and in · 2024

  To provide general support

• $150,000

  Superrr Lab Sl Ggmbh · 2024

  To provide general support

• $150,000

  Fundacion Ideas Para La Paz · 2024

  To provide general support

• $140,000

  A Kwabena Frimpong · New York, NY · 2024

  To create a multimedia anthology to educate and build public will for the demand for reparations across the black diaspora

• $140,000

  K Powell · New York, NY · 2024

  To produce a film, educational materials, and impact campaign, to educate the public about black masculinity, gender, mental health, and build intersectional solidarity

• $140,000

  J Phelan · New York, NY · 2024

  To create educational narratives and materials on racial justice and civic engagement and to widely disseminate these to the public via social media

• $137,500

  Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the human rights funders network, a fiscally sponsored project of the grantee, to promote and transform human rights philanthropy, with a focus on diversity and intersectionality

• $134,000

  Fond De Dotation Assa Traore · 2024

  To provide general support

• $130,000

  British Refugee Council · 2024

  To support the grantee's work to achieve refugee rights in the uk

• $125,000

  Jx Fund Ggmbh · 2024

  To provide general support

• $125,000

  Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation · 2024

  To provide general support

• $120,000

  Safe Passage International · 2024

  To provide general support

• $110,000

  Ideas Policy Research Berhad · 2024

  To provide general support

• $110,000

  Justica Global · 2024

  To enhance international solidarity among human rights defenders operating in contexts of institutional violence and military conflict

• $105,000

  University of Exeter · 2024

  To support research into misinformation and harmful content within the mastodon ecosystem to protect users including marginalised communities, by evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches to content moderatio…

• $100,000

  Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago · 2024

  To provide general support

• $100,000

  European Center for Constitutional and Human Right · 2024

  To provide general support

• $100,000

  Taiwan Association for Human Rights · 2024

  To provide general support

• $100,000

  Norwegian Helsinki Committee · 2024

  To provide general support

• $100,000

  Casimir Pulaski Foundation · 2024

  To produce and disseminate research and educational materials to support ukraine's european integration, foster european union and ukraine relations and address the eu accession concerns and challenges for strengthening…

• $100,000

  Vitsche Ev · 2024

  To provide general support

• $100,000

  Instituto De Defensa Legal (Idl) · 2024

  To support idl reporteros ongoing public-interest journalism investigations and legal defence and protection for their work

• $100,000

  International Rivers Network · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To strengthen community rights and river protection in the mekong and salween basins

• $100,000

  Stichting Victim Advocates International · 2024

  To support rohingya communities in seeking social media platform accountability

• $100,000

  Leadership Conference Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  To support the international coalition of people of african descent (icpad) as a platform for participation of afro-descendant organizations for the un decade for people of african descent, with the aim to combat discri…