April 2021

don r
finder
Curated list of progressive donors supporting activists, civil
society organisations and small, informal civil society groups
 CONTENTS
CIVICUS Solidarity Fund 29
Cultural Survival 30
ABOUT THIS DIRECTORY 1
Disability Rights Fund 32
HOW TO USE THIS DIRECTORY 2
Environmental Defender Law Center 33
Glossary of key terms 3
European Cultural Foundation (ECF) 33
List of thematic priorities
Ford Foundation 34
supported by donors in this
directory 4 FRIDA 35

List of target groups supported Global Fund for Children 36

by donors in this directory 5 Global Greengrants Fund 37

AFRICA 6 King Baudouin Foundation United States 38

African Women’s Development Fund 7 Mama Cash 39

Baring Foundation 8 Oak Foundation 40

East African Sexual Health and Rights Open Society Foundations 41

Initiative (UHAI) 9
Prague Civil Society Centre 42
Firelight 10
Red Umbrella Fund 43
Fund for Congolese Women 11
Swift Foundation 44

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KIOS Foundation 12
TechSoup 45
The Other Foundation 13
The Pollination Project 46
Zambian Governance Foundation for
Thousand Currents 47
Civil Society 14
Voice 48
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 15
With and for Girls 49
KIOS Foundation 16
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 50
Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust (NTT) 17
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM) 51
TEWA 18
Fondo Mujeres del Sur (FMS) 52
Women’s Fund Asia 19
Fondo Semillas 53
EUROPE 20
Seattle International Foundation – CAMY Fund 54
AidsFonds 21
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 55
Digital Freedom Fund 22
Alfanar 56
FundAction 23
Support Foundation for Civil Society
GLOBAL 24 (Sivil Toplum icin Destek Vakfi) 57
Access Now 25 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 58
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice 26 Trans Justice Funding Project 59
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation 27 More directories of donors
CIVICUS Crisis Response Fund 28 and grants for civil society 60
 About this directory
Welcome!

CIVICUS curated this directory of donors to help civil society groups, organisations,
movements and individual activists from around the world, especially those in the global
south, who are constantly looking for resources to sustain their work but often face several
barriers to access information on relevant donors and funding opportunities.

This directory lists progressive donors offering funding and non-financial support to civil
society, including small and even informal groups and individual activists. They have agreed to
be featured in this directory.

We have created complete profiles intending to simplify your search for donors that align
with your work and needs. In this process, we had the valuable input from members of the
CIVICUS alliance, which helped us improve our first drafts of the directory. We want to give a
special thanks to Ayomikun Olugbode from the Inspired Youth Network, Nigeria; Bhekumusa
Moyo from Word Smash Poetry, Zambia; Michelle Gallo from Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía,
Trabajo y Familia A.C., Mexico; and Yalkiria Pineda from the Centro Especializado de Atención
a la Mujer, Nicaragua.

< This directory is available in English, French and Spanish, and will be reviewed and updated
annually. Please check our website for updated versions.
>

Disclaimer: The information provided in this directory is current as of the date it was
compiled for publication. Please note that some of this information may be outdated by the
moment you read it. We encourage you to review the donor’s website or contact them to
verify details regarding their funding and support opportunities.

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 How to use this directory
1 Review the donor profiles listed under the specific region where you work and also
review donors listed in the Global chapter. Our list of profiles is organised according
to the region where donors provide support: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Global, Latin
America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa and the United States of
America. Donors in the Global category provide resources to activists worldwide or in
several regions.

2 Check out which donors align with your work and needs. Each profile provides the name
of the donor, a brief description of their work, what countries or regions they support and
their contact information. To help you better identify whether the donors fund individuals
or groups with your characteristics and needs, we added details about the thematic
categories (areas of work) and groups supported by each donor, the types and amounts
of financial and non-financial resources provided, who can apply to the opportunities and
how. Please note that all amounts in this directory are expressed in US dollars.

3 Once you spot one or more donors that could support your work, use their contact

< information and visit their websites or other platforms to see the specific funding
opportunities that you could apply for.
>
4 Sharing is caring! Share this directory with others who may find it useful.

5 Help us improve and grow the directory. If you want to suggest an improvement or
recommend a donor we could add to this list, please email us at [email protected].

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 Glossary of key terms
Core/flexible funding: “Core funding” is financial support that allows organisations to
cover their basic “core” organisational and administrative costs, which are not linked to the
implementation of specific projects. This includes, for example, rent, training, institutional
strengthening and non-staff salaries. “Flexible funding” often refers to the above, but also
to funding that can be allocated with flexibility to project activities, as long as it is used
towards an agreed mission and outcome.

Fiscal sponsor: a tax-exempt entity that sponsors a non-registered group or organisation to

provide them with administrative, accounting, fundraising and legal services for a project.

Invitation-only applications: we use this term to indicate that funding proposals are only
accepted from individuals, organisations or groups invited to apply by the donor or their
chosen partners. In these cases, donors do not offer resources through open, published
calls and do not accept unsolicited proposals.

Published calls: we use this term to indicate that the resources are offered by the
donors through specific published calls for funding proposals or other support. These are
announced periodically, have specific requirements and deadlines for submission.

< Project funding: financial support given for the implementation of a specific set of
activities related to a specific project and within a specific time duration. Project funding is
>
considered to be more restricted than “flexible funding”.

Rapid response funding: financial support that is granted in a short period of time
to support activists’ response to attacks, sudden emergencies, crisis or advocacy
opportunities, and to avoid and mitigate threats.

Registered organisation: organisation duly registered under the relevant legislation of the
jurisdiction in which it is situated.

Seed funding: financial support offered to start/germinate an activity - a research project,

the development of a solution, a social enterprise, among others.

Unregistered organisation: organisation which is not registered under the relevant

legislation of jurisdiction in which it is situated.

Unsolicited proposals accepted: we use this term to indicate that donors accept funding
requests or proposals not linked to a specific published call for proposals issued by
themselves. In this case, donors are usually open to receiving and considering funding
requests and ideas throughout the year.

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 List of thematic priorities supported
by donors in this directory
Civil society action• Civil and political rights
• Artivism • Access to information
• Advocacy and lobbying • Citizen participation
• Campaigning • Digital rights and security
• Civil society strengthening • Freedom of association
• Civic participation • Freedom of expression
• Grassroots/community organising • Freedom of peaceful assembly/
• Leadership development right to protest
• Litigation • Media freedoms
• Protest • Voting rights
• Security and protection
• Volunteering Essential services
• Youth activism • Child and elder care
• Education
Economic, social and • Food security
cultural rights • Health
< • Anti-discrimination
• Children rights
• Water and sanitation >
• Environmental rights Socio-economic and
• Gender-based violence sustainable development
• Human rights • Climate change
• Indigenous people’s rights • Community development
• Labour rights • Economic empowerment
• Land Rights • Environmental protections
• LGBTQI+ rights • Forced migration or displacement
• Rights of persons with disabilities • Local development
• Sexual and reproductive rights • Poverty
• Women’s rights • Rural development/agriculture
• Social entrepreneurship
Peace, justice and
strong institutions
• Democratic practices
• Dialogue and peacebuilding
• Good governance
• Judicial institutions
• Legislative institutions
• State violence
• Transparency and accountability
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 List of target groups supported
by donors in this directory

Activists or groups focused on sexual Human rights defenders

and reproductive rights

Artists & artivists Journalists and other media workers

Climate activists LGBTQI+ activists

Peasants and other people working

Community leaders and organisers in rural areas

Defenders of indigenous people’s rights Persecuted, prosecuted and impris-

oned activists

Defenders of the rights of migrants

Religious, faith-based groups
and/or refugees

Disability rights groups Trade unions

< Environmental human rights defenders Women human rights defenders

>
Ethnic, religious or other minority groups Women’s rights defenders

Groups focused on media freedoms Youth activists

Groups working on children’s rights

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 DONORFINDER
AFRICA
African Women’s Development Fund
ABOUT
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a Pan-African grantmaking
organisation that supports the realisation and fulfilment of African women’s rights
through funding of autonomous women’s organisations on the continent.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Workshops and training
Project funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000 - $50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Advocacy and lobbying • Women human rights defenders
• Civil and political rights

< • Climate change

• Economic empowerment >
• Dialogue and peacebuilding
• Security and protection
• Sexual and reproductive rights

Geographical coverage: Africa

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Unsolicited proposals accepted
• Occasionally support unregistered
organisations

contact details
www.awdf.org [email protected] [email protected] +233/24-2700881

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 DONORFINDER
AFRICA
Baring Foundation
ABOUT
An independent foundation which protects and advances human rights and promotes
inclusion. They use their resources to enable civil society to work with people
experiencing discrimination and disadvantage and to act strategically to tackle the root
causes of injustice and inequality.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding No
Project funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civil society strengthening • LGBTQI+ activists

< • Human rights

• LGBTQI+ rights
>
Geographical coverage: Southern, Eastern and West Africa

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Only by invitation

contact details
www.baringfoundation.org.uk +44/20-7767-1348

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 DONORFINDER
AFRICA
East African Sexual Health and
Rights Initiative (UHAI)
ABOUT
UHAI is an indigenous activist fund that provides flexible, accessible resources to support
civil society activism around issues of sexuality, health and human rights in the East
African region with a specific focus on the rights of sexual minorities. UHAI EASHRI aims
to build a strong, diverse and organised movement for change through grantmaking,
capacity support and convening.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity building
Project funding
Rapid response funds
Seed funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

< focus >

THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• LGBTQI+ rights • Community leaders and organisers
• Sexual and reproductive rights • Human rights defenders
• LGBTQI+ activists
• Women human rights defenders

Geographical coverage: Africa

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Unregistered organisations • Published calls
• Registered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.uhai-eashri.org [email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] +25/472-023-30050

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AFRICA
Firelight
ABOUT
Firelight finds, funds and strengthens catalytic community-based organisations (CBOs)
that are working with their communities to address significant gaps and challenges for
children in southern and eastern Africa. In order to support these organisations, they raise
and strategically invest capital from major foundations, family foundations and individual
philanthropists.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Training, workshops, technical and
Project funding programmatic capacity building,
Seed funding organisational capacity building, systems
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between thinking, participatory learning and action
$15.000-$50.000 and more networking, communities of practice, and
learning and evaluation.

focus
< THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
>
• Community development • Groups working on children’s rights
• Civil society strengthening • Community leaders and organisers
• Economic empowerment • Youth activists
• Education
• Poverty
• Sexual and reproductive rights

Geographical coverage: Africa

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Unregistered organisations • Only by invitation
• Registered organisations

contact details
www.firelightfoundation.org [email protected] +1/831-429-8750

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AFRICA
Fund for Congolese Women
ABOUT
The Fund for Congolese Women was established in 2007 by Julienne Lusenge and a group
of Congolese women to fund Congolese women’s groups that were not able to access
funding through other sources. The idea was to create a proximity fund in order to bridge
the gap between international donors and local women’s initiatives.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Advocacy support, capacity support,
Project funding organisational development support,
• Amounts: under $15.000 linking and learning

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Advocacy and lobbying • Community leaders and organisers
• Civil society strengthening • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups

< • Civic participation

• Climate change
• Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
• Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
>
• Community development or refugees
• Democratic practices • Disability rights groups
• Economic empowerment • Groups working on children’s rights
• Environmental rights • Human rights defenders
• Freedom of peaceful assembly/right • Land rights
to protest • Women human rights defenders
• Gender-based violence • Youth activists
• Rural development/agriculture
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Women’s rights

Geographical coverage: Democratic Republic of Congo

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.ffcrdc.org [email protected] [email protected] +243/82-2221195

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AFRICA
KIOS Foundation
ABOUT
The KIOS Foundation funds the human rights work of civil society in East Africa and South
Asia. Women’s rights and marginalised groups are themes regularly in the centre of their
partners’ work.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity building, networking, security
Project funding building
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Human rights • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• Women’s rights • Human rights defenders
• Women human rights defenders
< Geographical coverage: East Africa and South Asia
>
WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY
• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.kios.fi [email protected] +358/40-9527919

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 DONORFINDER
AFRICA
The Other Foundation
ABOUT
The Other Foundation works to advance equality and freedom in southern Africa, focusing
on sexual orientation and gender identity. It gathers support to defend and advance the
human rights and social inclusion of homosexual and bisexual women and men, as well as
transgender and intersex people in southern Africa by working both as a fundraiser and a
grant maker.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Awards Capacity support, education, training,
Core/flexible funding workshops
Fellowships
Project funding
Rapid response funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000

< focus >

THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• LGBTQI+ rights • LGBTQI+ activists

Geographical coverage: Southern Africa

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.theotherfoundation.org [email protected]

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 DONORFINDER
AFRICA
Zambian Governance Foundation
for Civil Society
ABOUT
Zambian Governance Foundation for Civil Society (ZGF) was established in 2009 to
strengthen the role of civil society in the national development process through grants,
capacity development support and information sharing.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support
• Amounts: under $15.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Community development • Community leaders and organisers
• Democratic practices
• Good governance

< Geographical coverage: Zambia

>
WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY
• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.zgf.org.zm [email protected] [email protected]
+260/211-239 413 +260/0971-252 020

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 ASIA AND
THE PACIFIC

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 DONORFINDER
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
KIOS Foundation
ABOUT
The KIOS Foundation funds the human rights work of civil society in East Africa and South
Asia. Women’s rights and marginalised groups are themes regularly in the centre of their
partners’ work.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity building, networking, security
Project funding building
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Human rights • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• Women’s rights • Human rights defenders

< • Women human rights defenders

>
Geographical coverage: South Asia and East Africa

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.kios.fi [email protected] +358/40-9527919

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 DONORFINDER
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust (NTT)
ABOUT
NTT is the only indigenous grant maker in Sri Lanka, combining human rights and
peace building initiatives throughout the country. As an independent and autonomous
local organisation, NTT has the opportunity to work more flexibly with individuals and
communities at various levels in society, in a variety of geographical settings and on a
wide array of issues.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity building through training,
Fellowships networking, exposure visits and discourse
Project funding building events
Rapid response funding
Seed funding
• Amounts: between $15.000 and $50.000

focus
< THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
>
• Advocacy and lobbying • Disability rights groups
• Artivism • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• Community development • Human rights defenders
• Democratic practices • Women human rights defenders
• Good governance • Youth activists
• Human rights

Geographical coverage: Asia

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.neelan.org [email protected] +94/11-269-0991

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 DONORFINDER
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
TEWA
ABOUT
Tewa’s philosophy is to develop modern philanthropy, both in terms of minimising
social costs incurred in rapid transition, for self-reliant development that is not donor
dependent, and for the empowerment of emerging groups of rural women in Nepal.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity development
Project funding
Rapid response funding
• Amounts: under $15.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civic participation • Community leaders and organisers
• Civil and political rights • Groups working on children’s rights

< • Community development

• Economic empowerment
• Human rights defenders
• Women human rights defenders
>
• Human rights • Youth activists
• Poverty
• Volunteering
• Women’s rights

Geographical coverage: Nepal

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals (only women human rights • Published calls
defenders) • Accept unsolicited proposals (but grants
• Registered organisations are only disbursed twice a year)

contact details
www.tewa.org.np [email protected] +977/1-5229054 +977/1-5229045

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 DONORFINDER
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Women’s Fund Asia
ABOUT
Women’s Fund Asia is a regional women’s fund, committed to supporting women and
trans people-led interventions to enhance and strengthen access to women’s and trans
people’s human rights. It envisions a peaceful and egalitarian region in which women’s
and trans people’s participation, leadership and enjoyment of all their human rights is
ensured and secure.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Advocacy and capacity support, workshops
Fellowships
Project funding
Seed funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
< THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS: >
• Economic empowerment • Disability rights groups
• Environmental protections • Environmental human rights defenders
• Gender-based violence • Human rights defenders
• Human rights • LGBTQI+ activists
• Labour rights • Women human rights defenders
• LGBTQI+ rights
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Women’s rights
• Forced migration or displacement

Geographical coverage: Asia

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.womensfundasia.org [email protected] +94/11-4324541

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 DONORFINDER
EUROPE
AidsFonds
ABOUT
Aidsfonds works towards the end of AIDS in a world where all people affected by HIV/AIDS
have access to prevention, treatment, care and support.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support, technical assistance,
Project funding global lobbying and advocacy, fundraising
Fellowships and workshops
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Community development • Activists or groups focused on sexual and
• Human rights reproductive rights
< • Sexual and reproductive rights
• Women’s rights
• Community leaders and organisers
• Human rights defenders
>
• Journalists and other media workers
• LGBTQI+ activists
• Religious, faith-based groups
• Women’s rights defenders
• Youth activists
• Others: people using drugs and people
living with HIV

Geographical coverage: Europe

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.aidsfonds.org [email protected] +31/20-626-2669

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EUROPE
Digital Freedom Fund
ABOUT
The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation to advance digital rights in Europe.
DFF provides financial support and seeks to catalyse collaboration between digital rights
activists to enable people to exercise their human rights in digital and networked spaces.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Project funding Capacity building, networking, workshops
Seed funding and training
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000 - $50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civil and political rights • Human rights defenders
• Human rights

< • Litigation
>
Geographical coverage: Europe

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.digitalfreedomfund.org [email protected]

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 DONORFINDER
EUROPE
FundAction
ABOUT
FundAction is a new participatory fund, making grants for social transformation, organised
around a community of activists based in Europe to support social movements working
towards a transition to a just and equitable world.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support
Project funding
Rapid response funding
Seed funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:

< • Artivism
• Anti-discrimination
• Community leaders and organisers
• Human rights defenders >
• Civic participation • Persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned
• Community development activists
• Democratic practice • Women human rights defenders
• Digital rights and security
• Good governance
• Economic empowerment
• Education
• Environmental protections
• Forced migration or displacement
• Human rights
• LGBTQI+ rights
• Women’s rights Geographical coverage: Europe
WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY
• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.fundaction.eu [email protected]

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 DONORFINDER
global
Access Now
ABOUT
Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. By
combining direct technical support, comprehensive policy engagement, global advocacy,
grassroots grantmaking and convenings, it fights for human rights in the digital age.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Digital security helpline available twenty-
Project funding four hours a day, seven days a week
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Digital rights and security • Human rights defenders
• Freedom of expression • Journalists and other media workers

< • Human rights

• Media freedoms
• LGBTQI+ activists
• Women human rights defenders
>
Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Only by invitation
• Registered organisations
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.accessnow.org [email protected] [email protected]
+1/888-414-0100

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 DONORFINDER
global
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
ABOUT
Astraea is the only philanthropic organisation working exclusively to advance LBTQI
human rights around the world. They raise and distribute funds to organisations and
initiatives led by and for lesbians and queer women, trans and gender non-conforming
people, intersex people and people of colour. They are committed to racial, economic,
social and gender justice.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity building
Project funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:

< • Human rights

• LGBTQI+ rights
• LGBTQI+ activists
• Women’s rights defenders
>
• Women’s rights

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Unregistered organisations • Published calls
• Registered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.astraeafoundation.org [email protected] +1/212-529-8021

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global
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
ABOUT
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation affirms its founder’s vision of a world in which each
of us is in partnership with the rest of the human race where each individual’s quality of
life is connected to the well-being of the community, both locally and globally.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Not specified
Project funding
• Amounts: $50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civil society strengthening • Community leaders and organisers
• Freedom of association • Children’s rights defenders
• Freedom of peaceful assembly/right • Climate activists

< to protest
• Education
• Environmental human rights defenders
>
• Environmental protections

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Mostly work with partner organisations
• Limited unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.mott.org +1/810-238-5651
i Submit a letter of inquiry form for unsolicited funding requests

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global
CIVICUS Crisis Response Fund
ABOUT
The CIVICUS Crisis Response Fund provides a way for civil society organisations facing new
restrictions on their work to apply for funding for emergency advocacy actions. It provides
small resiliency grants (to forestall imminent threats) and advocacy grants (to address new
restrictions) to national civil society organisations for them to run advocacy or resiliency
activities over a maximum of six months.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Rapid response funding No
• Amounts: under $15.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civil society action • Community leaders and organisers
• Civil and political rights • Human rights defenders

< • Freedom of association

• Freedom of expression
>
• Freedom of peaceful assembly

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations • Accept unsolicited proposals

contact details
www.civicus.org/index.php/what-we-do/defend/crisis-response-fund
[email protected] +27/(0)-11-833-5959

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global
CIVICUS Solidarity Fund
ABOUT
The CIVICUS Solidarity Fund (CSF) is a member-led and member-resourced granting
mechanism accessible to CIVICUS members that normally struggle to access resources
and support due to restrictions in the space where they operate, their organising
characteristics or simply who they are and what they challenge. This includes small
(formal and informal) civil society organisations, individuals, movements and early-stage
social advocates and entrepreneurs that are contributing to transformational impact in
the communities they serve.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding In-kind support, capacity building and
Project funding referrals are provided to selected grantees
• Amounts: under $15.000 along with financial support

focus

< THEMATIC:
• Civil society strengthening
TARGET GROUPS:
• All listed in this directory as long as
>
they are civil society actors who struggle
to access resources and support and are
CIVICUS members

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.civicus.org/index.php/what-we-do/defend/solidarity-fund
[email protected] +27/(0)-11-833-5959

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Cultural Survival
ABOUT
Cultural Survival is an indigenous-led organisation that supports indigenous communities’
self-determination, cultures and political resilience. Their grantmaking supports
indigenous-led grassroots organisations, governments and community groups. The
Community Media fund supports indigenous community radio stations, and the Youth
Fellows programme supports indigenous youth working in media.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Partnering on reporting to international
Fellowships human rights bodies; networking with
Project funding other indigenous people’s organisations;
Rapid response funding workshops; network of indigenous media
• Amounts: under $15.000 and opportunities to access market for
indigenous artists and artisans

focus
< THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
>
• Indigenous people’s rights • Community leaders and organisers
• Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
• Ethnic, religious or other minority groups

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Published calls
• Registered organisations
• Unregistered organisations

contact details

www.culturalsurvival.org Keepers of the Earth: [email protected]

Community Media Grants Funds: [email protected] and [email protected]
Fellowship Funds: [email protected]

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Disability Rights Fund
ABOUT
The Disability Rights Fund is a collaboration between donors and global disability
activists to support disabled persons’ organisations in the developing world to take the
lead in advocating for the human rights and inclusion in development of persons with
disabilities, utilising the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The majority of the Board, Grantmaking
Committee and staff are also people with disabilities.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Project funding Advocacy support, technical assistance,
Rapid response funding workshops and training
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus

< THEMATIC:
• Access to information
TARGET GROUPS:
• Defenders of indigenous people’s rights >
• Advocacy and lobbying • Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
• Anti-discrimination or refugees
• Civil and political rights • Human rights defenders
• Civil society strengthening • Women human rights defenders
• Democratic practices • Youth activists
• Gender-based violence
• Human rights
• Litigation
• Poverty
• Rights of persons with disabilities
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Women’s rights

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Invitation

contact details
www.disabilityrightsfund.org [email protected] +1/617-261-4593

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Environmental Defender Law Center
ABOUT
The Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) is a non-profit organisation that works to
protect the human rights of people in developing countries who are fighting to protect
their environment.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Legal assistance
Project funding
Other: support to cover litigation expenses
for environmental cases of public interest in
national courts in developing countries
• Amounts: under $15.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:

< • Climate change

• Environmental protections
• Community leaders and organisers
• Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
>
• Health • Environmental human rights defenders
• Human rights • Human rights defenders
• Indigenous people’s rights • Persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned
• Land rights activists
• Rural development/agriculture
• Water and sanitation

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.edlc.org/our-work/giving-grants [email protected] +1/406-522-0473

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European Cultural Foundation (ECF)
ABOUT
ECF believes in the power of culture to create an open, inclusive and democratic Europe.
It support cultural initiatives that let it share, experience and imagine Europe, through
grants, exchanges, awards, online platforms and incubator programmes. It connects
people to people, grassroots to policy, and the local to the European.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Advocacy and capacity support
Seed funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Artivism • Artists and artivists

< • Democratic practices

• Good governance
• Community leaders and organisers
• Human rights defenders
>
• Youth activists

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls

contact details
www.culturalfoundation.eu [email protected] +31/(0)20-573-38-68

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Ford Foundation
ABOUT
Around the world, too many people are excluded from the political, economic and social
institutions that shape their lives. Across eight decades, Ford Foundation’s mission has
been to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international
cooperation and advance human achievement.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Networking
Fellowships
Project funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Anti-discrimination • Community leaders and organisers
< • Civil and political rights • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights >
• Civil society strengthening • Human rights defenders
• Climate change • Journalists and other media workers
• Democratic practices • Persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned
• Digital rights and security activists
• Economic empowerment • Women human rights defenders
• Environmental protections • Youth activists
• Freedom of expression
• Good governance
• Human rights
• Labour rights
• Land rights
• Media freedoms
• Rural development/agriculture
• Women’s rights Geographical coverage: Global
WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY
• Individuals • Unsolicited proposals accepted
• Registered organisations
• Unregistered organisations
contact details
www.fordfoundation.org +1/212-573-5000 i Submit an idea
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FRIDA
ABOUT
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund is the only youth-led fund focused exclusively
on supporting global young feminist activism to advance social justice movements
and agendas. FRIDA works closely with young feminist activists all over the world
by providing them with small, flexible grants to advance their movement-building
strategies. FRIDA believes that when young feminist activists are trusted as experts of
their own reality and provided with resources, opportunities, and networks, they are a
powerful force for change.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Advocacy and capacity support,
Fellowships accompaniment programme, additional
Project funding grant opportunities to travel and attend
• Amounts: under $15.000 conferences and/or visit other groups

focus
< THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
>
FRIDA supports a wide range of themes— • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
almost all the ones listed in this directory— as • Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
long as it is requested by a young feminist or refugees
group using a feminist, rights-based approach • Disability rights groups
• Environmental human rights defenders
• Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• LGBTQI+ activists
• Women human rights defenders
• Women’s rights defenders
• Youth activists

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.youngfeministfund.org [email protected]

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Global Fund for Children
ABOUT
The fund works to advance the dignity of children worldwide by making small grants
to innovative community-based organisations working with many of the world’s most
vulnerable children and youth. By providing grassroots organisations with a combination
of flexible cash grants and capacity-building services, the fund helps them achieve their
goals and maximize their impact.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support, workshops, training
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Children’s rights • Groups working on children’s rights

< • Education
• Human rights
• Youth activists
• Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
>
or refugees

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Only by invitation
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.globalfundforchildren.org [email protected] +1/202-331-9003

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Global Greengrants Fund
ABOUT
Global Greengrants Fund mobilises resources for communities worldwide to protect our
shared planet and work toward a more equitable world. The grants support grassroots
solutions to social and environmental challenges under five action areas: climate justice;
right to land, water and resources; local livelihoods; healthy communities and ecosystems;
and women’s environmental action.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support, workshops, training
Rapid response funding
• Amounts: under $15.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Climate change • Community leaders and organisers

< • Environmental protections

• Indigenous people’s rights
• Environmental human rights defenders
• Human rights defenders >
• Women’s rights • Women human rights defenders
• Youth activism

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Not detailed • Only by invitation

contact details
www.greengrants.org [email protected] +1/303-939-9866

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King Baudouin Foundation United States
ABOUT
The King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS) is the leading resource for
philanthropic giving to Europe and Africa. It enables U.S. donors to support their favourite
causes and organisations overseas, and provides European and African non-profits with
cost-effective solutions to raise funds in the United States.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding No
• Amounts: not specified

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
All listed in this directory • Community leaders and organisers
• Environmental human rights defenders
• Ethnic, religious or other minority groups

< • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights

• Defenders of the rights of migrants and/ >
or refugees
• Disability rights groups
• Groups working on children’s rights
• Human rights defenders
• Journalists and other media workers
• LGBTQI+ activists
• Persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned
activists
• Trade unions
• Women human rights defenders
• Youth activists

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Only by invitation
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.kbfus.org [email protected] +1/212-713-7660

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Mama Cash
ABOUT
Mama Cash funds and supports groups that work at local, national and international levels.
Courageous women’s, girls’, trans and intersex people’s human rights organisations worldwide
need funding and supportive networks in order to grow and transform their communities.
Mama Cash mobilises resources from individuals and institutions, makes grants to these self-led,
feminist organisations and helps to build the partnerships and networks needed to successfully
defend and advance women’s, girls’, trans and intersex people’s human rights globally.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Advocacy support, capacity support,
Project funding organisational development support,
Seed funding linking and learning.
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
< THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS: >
• Artivism • Community leaders and organisers
• Civil society strengthening • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• Climate change • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
• Digital rights and security • Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
• Economic empowerment or refugees
• Environmental rights • Disability rights groups
• Freedom of expression • Human rights defenders
• Gender-based violence • Journalists and other media workers
• Indigenous people’s rights • LGBTQI+ activists
• Labour rights • Persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned
• LGBTQI+ rights activists
• Media rights • Women human rights defenders
• Sexual and reproductive rights • Youth activists
• Women’s rights
Geographical coverage: Global
WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY
• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.mamacash.org [email protected] +31/20-5158-700
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Oak Foundation
ABOUT
Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global social and environmental
concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support
Project funding
Seed funding
• Amounts: under $50.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Climate change • Environmental human rights defenders
• Digital rights and security • Groups working on children’s rights
• Environmental protections • Human rights defenders

< • Gender-based violence

• Human rights
• LGBTQI+ activists
• Women human rights defenders
>
• LGBTQI+ rights • Youth activists
• Litigation
• Poverty
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• State violence
• Women’s rights

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Mainly by invitation-only applications
• Unregistered organisations • Occasionally by published calls
• Occasionally accept unsolicited proposals

contact details
www.oakfnd.org [email protected] i Submit a letter of enquiry

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Open Society Foundations
ABOUT
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose
governments are accountable to their citizens. Working with local communities in more
than 120 countries, the Open Society Foundations support justice and human rights,
freedom of expression, and access to public health and education

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Advocacy and capacity support, networking
Fellowships
Project funding
Seed funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus

< THEMATIC:
All listed in this directory
TARGET GROUPS:
• Community leaders and organisers >
• Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
• Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
or refugees
Geographical coverage: Global • Disability rights groups
WHO CAN APPLY • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• Human rights defenders
• Individuals
• Journalists and other media workers
• Registered organisations
• LGBTQI+ activists
• Unregistered organisations
• Persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned
HOW TO APPLY activists
• Published calls • Women human rights defenders
• Unsolicited proposals accepted • Youth activists

contact details
www.opensocietyfoundations.org i Submit a contact form
i Submit a grant inquiry form

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Prague Civil Society Centre
ABOUT
The Centre’s mission is to empower civil society across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central
Asia as a driver for more open, tolerant and democratic societies.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity development, education,
Project funding workshops
Fellowships
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civil society strengthening • Environmental human rights defenders
• Media freedoms • Human rights defenders

< • Journalists and other media workers

• Women human rights defenders >
• Youth activists

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Individuals • Only by invitation
• Registered organisations
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.praguecivilsociety.org [email protected] +420/770-120-840

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Red Umbrella Fund
ABOUT
The Red Umbrella Fund is the first global fund guided by and for sex workers supporting
sex worker-led groups around the world. It believes that change will only be achieved
through strong, collaborative movements of sex workers advocating for their rights, with
the support of their allies.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity building, technical assistance,
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between communications and donor advocacy,
$15.000-$50.000 and more resource mobilisation

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Citizen participation (movement building) • Activists or groups focused on sexual and
• Sexual and reproductive rights reproductive rights

< Geographical coverage: Global >

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY
• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.redumbrellafund.org [email protected] +31/(0)-20-515-8700

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Swift Foundation
ABOUT
Swift Foundation’s mission is to support land and water stewards who protect and defend
biocultural diversity and community-based resilience systems essential to a healthy planet.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support
Project funding
• Amounts: between $15.000-$50.000
and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Environmental protections • Community leaders and organisers
• Democratic practices • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
• Good governance • Environmental human rights defenders

< • Indigenous people’s rights

• Land rights >
• Rural development/agriculture

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Only by invitation
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.swiftfoundation.org [email protected]

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TechSoup
ABOUT
TechSoup’s mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables the design and implementation
of technology solutions for a more equitable planet.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
No Donated and discounted software,
hardware, services and training,
collaboration and peer learning
opportunities

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• TechSoup supports all areas of work, All target groups listed in this directory
focusing on:
• Civil society strengthening

< • Community development

• Digital rights and security
>
• Education

Geographical coverage: Global

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.techsoup.org [email protected]

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The Pollination Project
ABOUT
The Pollination Project seeks to unleash Goodness and expand Compassion all over the
world. It makes worldwide daily seed grants to inspiring social changemakers who are
committed to a world that works for all.
SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Project funding Mentorships, training, hubs, peer-to-peer
Seed funding networking and grantee resources.
• Amounts: under $15.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Artivism • Community leaders and organisers
• Anti-discrimination • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
• Civil and political rights • Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
• Civil society strengthening or refugees
< • Climate change • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups >
• Community development • Groups working on children’s rights
• Democratic practices • Human rights defenders
• Good governance • Journalists and other media workers
• Digital rights and security • LGBTQI+ activists
• Economic empowerment • Persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned
• Environmental protections activists
• Forced migration or displacement • Women human rights defenders
• Freedom of expression • Youth activists
• Gender-based violence
• Good governance
• Health Geographical coverage: Global
• Human rights WHO CAN APPLY
• LGBTQI+ rights
• Individuals
• Media freedoms
• Registered organisations
• Rural development/agriculture
• Unregistered organisations
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Water and sanitation HOW TO APPLY
• Women’s rights • Unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.thepollinationproject.org [email protected]
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Thousand Currents
ABOUT
Thousand Currents funds, connects and walks alongside grassroots groups transforming
their communities. Through its grantmaking programme, Thousand Currents partners with
grassroots groups and social movements – led by women, youth and indigenous peoples in
the global south – that are creating lasting solutions to global challenges and community
self-determination. Through its Philanthropic Partnerships programme, Thousand Currents
works with the philanthropic community to adopt transformative practices that can
dismantle injustice and inequity.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Travel support, capacity support, advocacy
Project funding support, connection with funders,
Rapid response funding invitations to gatherings, connection with
Seed funding other partners
• Amounts: between $15.000-$50.000

< focus >

THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Climate change • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
• Economic empowerment • Environmental human rights defenders
• Food security • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• Peasants and other people working in rural
areas
• Women human rights defenders
• Youth activists

Geographical coverage: Global - specifically Africa, Asia and the Pacific,

Latin America

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Only by invitation
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.thousandcurrents.org [email protected] +1/415-824-8384

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Voice
ABOUT
Voice is an innovative grant facility promoting diversity and inclusion in ten countries in
Africa and Asia. Using the guiding principle of ‘nothing about us without us or now-us!’,
Voice aims to connect thus far unheard voices in efforts to leave no one behind.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Awards Linking and learning
Project funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Anti-discrimination • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• Civil and political rights • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights

< • Human rights

• Indigenous people’s rights
• Disability rights groups
• Human rights defenders >
• LGBTQI+ rights • LGBTQI+ activists
• Rights of persons with disabilities • Women’s rights defenders
• Sexual and reproductive rights • Youth activists
• Women’s rights • Other: sex workers and senior citizens
• Youth activism

Geographical coverage: Voice provides resources to civil society in Kenya,

Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodya and Laos.
Additionally, it has a regional/global funding stream open to other countries as long as
their work is a linked to any of the ten countries listed before.

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations
(via fiscal host)

contact details
www.voice.global [email protected]

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With and for Girls
ABOUT
With and for Girls recognises extraordinary girl-led and girl-centred groups and organisations
around the world through an annual awards process that offers flexible funding alongside
opportunities for collaboration, mentorship, accompaniment and profile raising.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding No
Project funding
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civil and political rights • Community leaders and organisers
• Climate change • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights

< • Community development

• Economic empowerment
• Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
or refugees >
• Education • Disability rights groups
• Environmental protections • Environmental human rights defenders
• Forced migration or displacement • Human rights defenders
• Gender-based violence • LGBTQI+ activists
• Health • Persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned
• Human rights activists
• Indigenous people’s rights • Trade unions
• Labour rights • Women human rights defenders
• LGBTQI+ rights • Youth activists
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Water and sanitation
• Women’s rights Geographical coverage: Global
WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY
• Registered organisations Only by invitation or through a referral
• Unregistered organisations partner who are published on their website
annually

contact details
www.wearepurposeful.org/projects/with-and-for-girls-fund [email protected]

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Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres
(FCAM)
ABOUT
The Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM), based in Nicaragua, works to contribute
to the strengthening of women’s and feminist movements in Central America. Its priority
areas of work are: women’s right to physical and emotional integrity, social and economic
justice for women and the right of women to participate as leaders in the decisions that
affect their lives and their communities.
SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Training, workshops, linking and
Project funding learning opportunities, accompaniment,
• Amounts: under $15.000 organisational strengthening support

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civil society strengthening • Defenders of indigenous people’s rights
< • Civic participation • Environmental defenders >
• Environmental protections • Ethnic, religious or other minority groups
• Forced migration or displacement • LGBTQI+ activists
• Gender-based violence • Women’s rights defenders
• Labour rights • Youth activists
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Women’s rights
• Youth activism

Geographical coverage: Central America

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.fcmujeres.org [email protected] +505/2254-4981 +505/2254-4983

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Fondo Mujeres del Sur (FMS)
ABOUT
Fondo Mujeres del Sur is a sub-regional fund mobilising financial and technical resources
in support of women’s and LGBTQI+ organisations’ initiatives which aim to advance
gender equality and social justice.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Administrative, political and technical
Project funding support
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000 and more

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Economic empowerment • Environmental human rights defenders
• Environmental protections • LGBTQI+ activists

< • Gender-based violence

• Labour rights
• Women human rights defenders
>
• Leadership development
• LGBTQI+ rights
• Rural development/agriculture
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Women’s rights – women’s economic
justice and political participation

Geographical coverage: Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay mainly, but the FMS is
also implementing an initiative throughout Latin America and the Caribbean
WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY
• Registered organisations • Invitation
• Unregistered organisations • Published calls
• Unsolicited proposals

contact details
www.mujeresdelsur.org [email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] Argentina +54/351-4717173 Paraguay +595/981-101822
Uruguay +598/99-132-724

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Fondo Semillas
ABOUT
Fondo Semillas is a non-profit organisation focused on improving women’s lives in Mexico.
It supports women’s groups and organisations. It provides them with economic resources,
capacity building, accompaniment, and also strengthens their abilities, alliance building,
particularly regarding key actors such as donors, and strategic network building in order to
position their work.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support, workshops
Project funding
Rapid response funding
• Amounts: between $15.000-$50.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:

< • Civil and political rights

• Economic empowerment
• Human rights defenders
• LGBTQI+ activists >
• Forced migration or displacement • Women human rights defenders
• Gender-based violence
• Human rights
• Indigenous people’s rights
• Labour rights
• Land rights
• LGBTQI+ rights
• Rural development/agriculture
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Women’s rights

Geographical coverage: Mexico

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.semillas.org.mx [email protected] +55/555-30109 ext. 210

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Seattle International Foundation
– CAMY Fund
ABOUT
The Seattle International Foundation (SIF) champions good governance and equity in
Central America through support for rule of law and the strengthening of civil society. The
CAMY Fund (Central American and Mexico Youth Fund), as a program of the Foundation,
provides financial support and technical assistance to youth movements that stand up for
human rights in Central America and Mexico.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding (based on trust-based Capacity building support tailored to the
philanthropy) needs of grantee partners
Rapid response funding
Other: resources for organisations,
collectives and groups building movements
for systemic social change
• Amounts: between $1.000 – $60.000
< focus
>
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Artivism • Diverse youth activists and youth under
• Civil society strengthening – specifically 35 years old
youth movements
• Rights of persons with disabilities
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Youth activism
Other:
• Collective care
• Justice and gender
• Social justice

Geographical coverage: Central America and Mexico

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations • Through direct invitations

contact details
www.seaif.org www.camyfund.org [email protected]

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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Alfanar
ABOUT
Alfanar is the Arab region’s first venture philanthropy organisation. It is leading a
movement for sustainable change that employs social investment, high-engagement
management support, training, access to networks, and real-time evaluation tools
to enable ambitious social enterprises working in education, youth employment and
women’s economic empowerment to grow their impact within vulnerable communities
while increasing their financial sustainability through self-generated means.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity support, high-engagement
Project funding management support, training on key
Other: grants and zero-interest repayable aspects of social enterprise operation,
grants for aspiring, registered social access to networks, pro bono expert or
enterprises technical support, support to develop
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between real-time performance monitoring and

< $15.000-$50.000 and more evaluation tools

>
focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:
• Civil society strengthening • Defenders of the rights of migrants and/
• Economic empowerment or refugees
• Education • Groups working on children’s rights
• Forced migration or displacement • Women human rights defenders
• Poverty • Youth activists
• Social entrepreneurship
• Women’s rights

Geographical coverage: Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unsolicited proposals accepted

contact details
www.alfanar.org [email protected]

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Support Foundation for Civil Society
(Sivil Toplum icin Destek Vakfi)
ABOUT
The foundation aims to contribute to the culture of strategic giving in Turkey by acting
as a bridge between donors and civil society organisations. It works with donors to
develop funds that will match their priorities with the needs of civil society organisations.
It also implements grant programmes to support small and medium sized grassroots
organisations in their innovative and sustainable approaches that aim to provide solutions
for Turkey’s pressing social problems.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding Capacity building through mentorship and
Project funding pro bono volunteering programmes
• Amounts: under $15.000 / between
$15.000-$50.000

< THEMATIC:
focus
TARGET GROUPS:
>
• Artivism • Groups working on children’s rights
• Civil society strengthening • Human rights defenders
• Civil and political rights • LGBTQI+ activists
• Democratic practices • Women human rights defenders
• Good governance • Youth activists
• Women’s rights

Geographical coverage: Turkey

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls

contact details
www.siviltoplumdestek.org [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Trans Justice Funding Project
ABOUT
The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to
support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people. It centres the leadership
of trans people organising around their experiences with racism, economic injustice,
transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration and other intersecting oppressions.

SUPPORT PROVIDED
Financial: Non-financial:
Core/flexible funding No
Fellowships
Project funding
Seed funding
• Amounts: under $15.000

focus
THEMATIC: TARGET GROUPS:

< • Economic empowerment

• Health
• Community leaders and organisers
• Groups working on children’s rights >
• LGBTQI+ rights • Human rights defenders
• Poverty • LGBTQI+ activists
• Sexual and reproductive rights • Women human rights defenders
• Water and sanitation

Geographical coverage: United States of America

WHO CAN APPLY HOW TO APPLY

• Registered organisations • Published calls
• Unregistered organisations

contact details
www.transjusticefundingproject.org [email protected]
[email protected]

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More directories of donors
and grants for civil society
CIVICUS Explorador:
A database of resources for civil society (Spanish only)
www.civicus.org/explorador

Feminist donor list:

Who can fund my women’s rights organising? (Association for Women’s Rights in
Development, AWID)
www.awid.org/fund-me

Foundation Directory Online:

Database of philanthropic giving (Candid)
www.candid.org/find-funding

Funding resources for community-based organisations in Africa

< (New Field Foundation and Urgent Action Fund Africa) >
www.namati.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Funding-resources-Brochure-UAF-Africa.pdf

FundsforNGOs:
Grants and resources for sustainability
www.fundsforngos.org

Innpactia:
Donor and grant directory for Latin America (Spanish only)
www.innpactia.com

Terra Viva Grants Directory:

Information about grants for agriculture, energy, environment, and natural resources in the
world’s developing countries www.terravivagrants.org/grant-makers

Resources for civil society in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic (CIVICUS)
www.civicus.org/index.php/media-resources/news/blog/4345-resources-for-civil-society-
in-the-midst-of-the-covid-19-pandemic

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