The International Human Rights Funders Group and Foundation Center recently published Advancing Human Rights: Update on Global Foundation Grantmaking, a report analyzing the who, what, where, and how of human rights philanthropy. The latest update provides an increasingly robust data set on human rights grantmaking around the world. The 729 foundations included in this edition made over 20,600 grants to 12,888 organizations in 2014 in support of human rights, spanning over 50 countries and eight major world regions. This fourth annual report explores 2014 human rights grantmaking by funder, region, issue, population, and strategy. To provide a more complete picture of giving for human rights, this report also includes data on bilateral and multilateral aid. The full report is available here.
Source: Democracy Digest