Funding search · Open Society Institute · grants
Open Society Institute: all 2,134 grants
Largest first · $637.6M across 2022–2024 · back to the overview
- $91,000
C Jacqueline Fairbanks · New York, NY · 2024
To educate native indigenous people and strengthen concepts of justice through an indigenous peacemaking lens
- $91,000
W M Burney-Scott · New York, NY · 2024
To curate a multidisciplinary initiative and educate the public on reproductive justice, radical black feminism, gender liberation and pathways to normalizing menopause and aging for marginalized black populations
- $90,000
European Public Law Organization · 2024
To provide general support
- $90,000
Education Fund of the American Center for Internat · Washington, DC · 2023
To support workers and worker rights organizations in the platform economy in georgia and central asia through training and education
- $90,000
Public Citizen Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the development of the digital trade alliance, a global group of digital and consumer groups that aims to defend and promote digital rights in trade agreements
- $87,500
Lis-Marie Alvarado · Miami, FL · 2022
To conduct community organizing work to end child immigrant detention and to provide art healing workshops to children who have been impacted by detention and are still living with the threat of deportation
- $87,164
A a · 2022
To produce an international artistic cooperation project between theater workers and social actors to educate the public and document an alternative history of migration in the arab region, while dismantling harmful "cr… read allTo produce an international artistic cooperation project between theater workers and social actors to educate the public and document an alternative history of migration in the arab region, while dismantling harmful "crisis" narratives and advancing public dialogue around the disappearance and fragmentation of public space less
- $87,000
Fundacion Para La Educacion Superior Y El Desarrol · 2023
To provide general support
- $87,000
The George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the institute for european, russian and eurasian studies' fellowship to one eurasia journalist that will receive professional development and training in order to build up their public policy expertise, resea… read allTo support the institute for european, russian and eurasian studies' fellowship to one eurasia journalist that will receive professional development and training in order to build up their public policy expertise, research ability, and communications skills less
- $85,910
Iprobono · 2022
To provide comprehensive care and emergency assistance to afghan evacuees in the region
- $85,000
B Rosenberg · New York, NY · 2024
To use public facing humor writing to educate a broad audience about u.s. Foreign policy to increase civic participation
- $85,000
E Shaw · New York, NY · 2024
To support the grantees work to institutionalize dynamic and lasting partnerships between local elected leadership and philanthropic organizations to leverage resources in order to advance shared priorities of improving… read allTo support the grantees work to institutionalize dynamic and lasting partnerships between local elected leadership and philanthropic organizations to leverage resources in order to advance shared priorities of improving quality of place, quality of life, and increasing opportunity for vulnerable communities less
- $85,000
H Gym · New York, NY · 2024
To elevate public education as a key engine of democracy by developing models for narrative storytelling and building the capacity of leaders and grassroots voices working in the public school systems
- $85,000
J Wise · New York, NY · 2024
To analyze programs and policies around the inflation reduction act to publicize interventions that accelerate mobilization of private capital and public financing into projects in marginalized communities
- $83,955
Pj Raval · Austin, TX · 2022
To produce a docuseries to radically reframe the immigrant experience and educate the public about the culture of incarceration in america, through the lives and work of artists participating in a trans-national, trans-… read allTo produce a docuseries to radically reframe the immigrant experience and educate the public about the culture of incarceration in america, through the lives and work of artists participating in a trans-national, trans-media work less
- $83,870
Marwa Taha Elhaj Adam · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
- $83,862
May Jeong · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To write a book to educate the public about the conditions that lead people to engage in sex work and how their lives are affected by engaging in this work
- $83,855
Stichting Digital Freedom Fund · 2022
To design a decolonising programme for the digital rights field
- $83,500
Lam Thuy Vo · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To write articles and educate the public about the nexus between gentrification and over-policing
- $83,334
Focus On the Global South · 2023
To provide general support
- $83,333
Focus On the Global South · 2024
To provide general support
- $82,000
L Maria Rhodes · New York, NY · 2024
To train educators to connect undocumented students with legal representation and to write letters to judges for students with charges to be in school instead of in jail pre-trial
- $82,000
The Engine Room · New York, NY · 2023
To explore alternative social media platforms that better address the needs and challenges of vulnerable communities in majority world contexts
- $81,500
Carlos Menchaca · Socorro, TX · 2023
To collect and share stories from current migrants who are seeking asylum at the southern border with the aim to impact local, state and federal policy makers
- $81,500
Jennifer Kates · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To develop accessible models for nonprofit and movement organizations to effectively utilize the potential of local government to improve material conditions and build power for marginalized communities, as well as cont… read allTo develop accessible models for nonprofit and movement organizations to effectively utilize the potential of local government to improve material conditions and build power for marginalized communities, as well as contribute to a broader understanding of how cities can lead in strengthening democracy, remedying inequality, and advancing social progress less
- $81,500
Mike Bonin · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To help new officials in southern california build the capacity and infrastructure to make lasting progress in the key areas of housing justice, policing and criminal justice, and transit equity through a combination of… read allTo help new officials in southern california build the capacity and infrastructure to make lasting progress in the key areas of housing justice, policing and criminal justice, and transit equity through a combination of trainings, convenings and communications less
- $81,500
Montina Cole · Washington, DC · 2023
To create an advocacy toolkit for incorporating black histories in federal energy regulatory commission (ferc) environmental review processes to help demonstrate cumulative harm to black environmental justice communitie… read allTo create an advocacy toolkit for incorporating black histories in federal energy regulatory commission (ferc) environmental review processes to help demonstrate cumulative harm to black environmental justice communities threatened with proposed polluting gas pipeline infrastructure less
- $81,500
Ivonne Roman · Princeton, NJ · 2022
To work towards increasing representation of women in policing
- $81,500
Josh Wallack · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To develop an implementation guide for states and localities that plan to begin or expand early care and education programs
- $81,500
Laura Wood · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To promote voter participation and civic engagement and combat disinformation about elections
- $81,500
Michelle Maziar · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To activate organizations, journalists, and advocates to inform local-level decision making on covid response so that marginalized communities can receive the benefits they deserve
- $81,500
Raquel Castaeda-Lpez · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support the well-being and capacity of black, indigenous, and immigrant women of color after being elected to office
- $81,500
Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins · Washington, DC · 2022
To advance community center projects, racial equity practices, and climate resilience principles that promote economic opportunity for all
- $80,000
Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation · Washington, DC · 2024
To develop a body of hubs for the defense of the right to protest through knowledge-sharing, solution building and cross-regional exchange
- $80,000
Autonomia Alapitvany · 2022
To provide general support
- $80,000
Transnational Institute (Tni) · 2022
To promote narrative change for the realisation of universal public services and public economies as the foundations of just and resilient societies
- $80,000
Transparency International Czech Republic · 2022
To provide general support
- $79,830
Ligue Des Droits Humains · 2024
To support education and training programs to reduce police abuses in belgium
- $78,500
Christina Hollenback · Syracuse, NY · 2023
To educate the public and grow a cohort of capital investors to stop prison financing and build investment vehicles to fund community-controlled public safety and vital infrastructure
- $78,500
Virginia Pauline Rogers · Jackson, MS · 2023
To train, educate and organize incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families about the family reunification process that is currently in place across the state of mississippi to influence change … read allTo train, educate and organize incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families about the family reunification process that is currently in place across the state of mississippi to influence change to the child welfare system less
- $76,025
Alliance for Open Society International · New York, NY · 2023
To provide an in-kind grant of personnel and general services valued at 76,025.46 usd in support of the grantee's charitable operations
- $75,401
K P P · Duram, NC · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
- $75,000
C Menchaca · New York, NY · 2024
To collect and share stories from current migrants who are seeking asylum at the southern border with the aim to impact local, state and federal policy makers
- $75,000
E Louise Tulli · New York, NY · 2024
To ensure broad implementation of the department of homeland securitys deferred action for immigrant workers in the labor disputes process
- $75,000
Institute of Economic Administrative and Accounti · 2024
To provide research about fiscal policy and its implications for society and the economy to policy-makers, civil society organizations, and citizens
- $75,000
J L Kates · New York, NY · 2024
To develop accessible models for nonprofit and movement organizations to effectively utilize the potential of local government to improve material conditions and build power for marginalized communities, as well as cont… read allTo develop accessible models for nonprofit and movement organizations to effectively utilize the potential of local government to improve material conditions and build power for marginalized communities, as well as contribute to a broader understanding of how cities can lead in strengthening democracy, remedying inequality, and advancing social progress less
- $75,000
M J Bonin · New York, NY · 2024
To help new officials in southern california build the capacity and infrastructure to make lasting progress in the key areas of housing justice, policing and criminal justice, and transit equity through a combination of… read allTo help new officials in southern california build the capacity and infrastructure to make lasting progress in the key areas of housing justice, policing and criminal justice, and transit equity through a combination of trainings, convenings and communications less
- $75,000
M M Cole · New York, NY · 2024
To create an advocacy toolkit for incorporating black histories in federal energy regulatory commission (ferc) environmental review processes to help demonstrate cumulative harm to black environmental justice communitie… read allTo create an advocacy toolkit for incorporating black histories in federal energy regulatory commission (ferc) environmental review processes to help demonstrate cumulative harm to black environmental justice communities threatened with proposed polluting gas pipeline infrastructure less
- $75,000
M S Chen · New York, NY · 2024
To strengthen community-based organization capacity to create a more democratic, inclusive, equitable government, in which the people most impacted by income inequality and structural racism have a role inside governmen… read allTo strengthen community-based organization capacity to create a more democratic, inclusive, equitable government, in which the people most impacted by income inequality and structural racism have a role inside government to implement policy and budgetary solutions less
- $75,000
T Habash · New York, NY · 2024
To develop a toolkit and guidelines to protect academic freedom from external influences to foster a more inclusive democracy
- $75,000
Ukraine House in Denmark · 2024
To provide general support
- $75,000
Institute of Economic Administrative and Accounti · 2023
To provide research about fiscal policy and its implications for society and the economy to policy-makers, civil society organizations, and citizens
- $75,000
Ivonne Roman · Princeton, NJ · 2023
To work towards increasing representation of women in policing
- $75,000
Josh Wallack · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To develop an implementation guide for states and localities that plan to begin or expand early care and education programs
- $75,000
Laura Wood · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To promote voter participation and civic engagement and combat disinformation about elections
- $75,000
Michelle Maziar · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To activate organizations, journalists, and advocates to inform local-level decision making on covid response so that marginalized communities can receive the benefits they deserve
- $75,000
Miya Saika Chen · Oakland, CA · 2023
To strengthen community-based organization capacity to create a more democratic, inclusive, equitable government, in which the people most impacted by income inequality and structural racism have a role inside governmen… read allTo strengthen community-based organization capacity to create a more democratic, inclusive, equitable government, in which the people most impacted by income inequality and structural racism have a role inside government to implement policy and budgetary solutions less
- $75,000
Raquel Castaneda-Lopez · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support the well-being and capacity of black, indigenous, and immigrant women of color after being elected to office
- $75,000
Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins · Washington, DC · 2023
To advance community center projects, racial equity practices, and climate resilience principles that promote economic opportunity for all
- $75,000
Thai Volunteer Service Foundation · 2023
To provide general support
- $75,000
International Commission of Jurists · 2022
To address the issues of corporate abuse of human rights in special economic zones (sezs) in southeast asia
- $75,000
International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and in · 2022
To provide general support
- $75,000
New York Taxi Workers Alliance · New York, NY · 2022
To support the grantee's program, international alliance of app-based transport workers, to improve employment protections and bolster the labor rights of workers in the digital economy
- $75,000
Thai Volunteer Service Foundation · 2022
To provide general support
- $75,000
The New School · New York, NY · 2022
To support academic activities of the new university in exile consortium that foster a sense of intellectual community
- $75,000
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural · 2022
To improve the effectiveness of education financing in the arab region post-covid by promoting better and more transparent education sector data
- $74,704
Ideas Policy Research Berhad · 2022
To produce rigorous research and analysis on key economic challenges for timor leste
- $73,620
Fatma Othman Mobarak Awadalla · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
- $72,617
Nada Mohamed Ahmed Shafik Bahgat · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
- $71,500
Ana Paula Barreto · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support black women-led policy analysis and leadership development in the us and brazil
- $71,500
Glenn Magpantay · Jackson Heights, NY · 2022
To create a publicly accessible curriculum to help build a sustainable queer asian community supporting a more inclusive, robust racial justice movement
- $71,500
Kyshun Webster · New Orleans, LA · 2022
To develop a market-based solution to the caregiving crisis by ensuring low wage workers are able to receive their existing salary when taking time off for emergency caregiving
- $71,500
Loira Limbal · Bronx, NY · 2022
To support the outreach and engagement campaign around the film, through the night, which seeks to examine the systemic undervaluing of care work in the united states performed largely by women of color
- $71,500
Octaviana Trujillo · Tucson, AZ · 2022
To create a publicly accessible toolkit to protect and maintain access of native american/indigenous peoples to sacred indigenous sites at the us-mexico border
- $71,500
Sahar Aziz · Westfield, NJ · 2022
To support research and convenings by a diverse set of academics and advocates seeking to better understand and combat racialized national security narratives that disproportionately impact communities of color
- $71,500
Tamara Toles O'Laughlin · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support women of color led environmental justice efforts through leadership development, strategic consulting, and narrative interventions
- $71,500
Zachary Norris · Oakland, CA · 2022
To write a book and produce a set of other written materials that will examine and offer solutions to the root causes and impact of family separation within communities of color
- $70,300
D Small · New York, NY · 2024
To educate and to reform local police departments by reimagining public safety
- $70,300
E Kennedy · New York, NY · 2024
To unite research, education and community outreach to inspect how and why deportees to el salvador and honduras are harmed and why this happens, with a focus on youth, indigenous and garifuna communities, the lgbtqi+ p… read allTo unite research, education and community outreach to inspect how and why deportees to el salvador and honduras are harmed and why this happens, with a focus on youth, indigenous and garifuna communities, the lgbtqi+ population and sexual and gender-based violence survivors less
- $70,300
G Anthony Morton · New York, NY · 2024
To educate and establish an initiative that elevates the vast expanse of black narratives and fosters the transformation of black people as artists and art subjects
- $70,300
K Charlinda Davis · New York, NY · 2024
To conduct a research study which explores the needs and experiences of pregnant people who have been incarcerated, in order to inform and advance a wider gender-based violence, reproductive justice, and criminal justic… read allTo conduct a research study which explores the needs and experiences of pregnant people who have been incarcerated, in order to inform and advance a wider gender-based violence, reproductive justice, and criminal justice reform policy agenda less
- $70,300
L Thompson · New York, NY · 2024
To craft a dynamic community archive of the groundbreaking efforts of louisianas advocates and visionaries who paved the way for criminal justice reform in louisiana
- $70,300
T Mwale · New York, NY · 2024
To explore how technology can be used to advance new solutions to achieve community accountability, repair harm and manifest justice within the united states, brazil and the united kingdom
- $70,000
A Gallardo · New York, NY · 2024
To cultivate new donors wishing to resource intersectional racial and gender justice work, training trans leaders on navigating philanthropy and, mobilizing new dollars to bipoc trans movement building
- $70,000
Amnesty International Limited · 2024
To support rohingya communities in seeking social media platform accountability
- $70,000
C Thomas · New York, NY · 2024
To develop a film festival taking place inside san quintin state prison curated by bipoc and system impacted people
- $70,000
D Rajendra · New York, NY · 2024
To create a research and convening project designed to shore up and institutionalize the robust jewish participation in the multi-issue, multiethnic grassroots efforts to make multiracial democracy a reality in the unit… read allTo create a research and convening project designed to shore up and institutionalize the robust jewish participation in the multi-issue, multiethnic grassroots efforts to make multiracial democracy a reality in the united states less
- $70,000
Foxglove Legal Community Interest Company · 2024
To provide general support
- $70,000
HIV Legal Network Rseau Juridique Vih · 2024
To provide general support
- $70,000
Pms · New York, NY · 2024
To produce research and educational materials to educate the public about the hindu nationalism movement and its impact on civic engagement in the united states
- $70,000
R Thomas · New York, NY · 2024
To develop a film festival taking place inside san quintin state prison curated by bipoc and system impacted people
- $70,000
Sr · New York, NY · 2024
To produce a film and accompanying materials to educate the public about the hindu nationalism movement and its impact on civic engagement in the united states
- $70,000
Balanced Economy Project · 2023
To provide general support
- $70,000
Latin American Network for Economic and Social Rig · 2023
To provide general support
- $70,000
New America Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To advance data-driven internet policy solutions that are grounded in human rights standards
- $68,650
Adriana Paz Ramirez · 2022
To research on the domestic workers movement in latin america
- $66,667
D Paula · New York, NY · 2024
To develop quilombo-escola an arts and education project that supports afro-brazilian artists and fosters community collaboration and exchanges with art, the environment, and ancestral and traditional knowledge rooted i… read allTo develop quilombo-escola an arts and education project that supports afro-brazilian artists and fosters community collaboration and exchanges with art, the environment, and ancestral and traditional knowledge rooted in a quilombo perspective less
- $65,500
Tiheba Bain · Bridgeport, CT · 2022
To build a coalition of diverse women to boldly use their voices and lived experience to educate the public about the discrimination facing women living with violent convictions and to reduce the recidivism rate for thi… read allTo build a coalition of diverse women to boldly use their voices and lived experience to educate the public about the discrimination facing women living with violent convictions and to reduce the recidivism rate for this particular set of women less
- $65,000
A Boundaoui · New York, NY · 2024
To produce an exhibition and accompanying film and materials to educate the public on government surveillance programs that targeted muslim populations across the united states
- $65,000
A Maria Archila · New York, NY · 2024
To address the deep levels of alienation and exclusion and foster belonging in underserved latinx communities across the us by cataloging and disseminating best practices of leading latinx peoples organizations

