AGRICULTURE
• Associated Country Women of the World
• AusAID
• Bel Foundation
• Belgian Development Cooperation
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Canadian International Food Security Research Fund
• Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation
• Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs: Netherlands Enterprise Agency
• European Commission: EuropeAid
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
• Japan Fund for Global Environment
• Monsanto Fund
• NextWorldNow Community Investments
• Purely OverSeas Trust
• Roncalli International Foundation
• Seed Foundation
• Swedish International Development Agency
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
• United Kingdom Department for International Development
• World Bank
CONSERVATION
• African Bird Club
• Blue Action Fund
• Club300 Bird Protection
• Crowder-Messersmith Fund
• Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund
• International Elephant Foundation
• Save Our Species
• SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund
• Sophie Danforth Conservation Biology Fund
DISABILITY SERVICES
• Abilis Foundation
• Air France Foundation
• Disability Rights Fund
• Karl Kahane Foundation (KKF)
EDUCATION
• Adobe Event Sponsorship Program
• Air France Corporate Foundation
• Anadarko Petroleum Corporate Giving Program
• Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND)
• atDta Foundation
• AusAID
• Austrian Development Agency
• Belgian Development Cooperation
• Better World Books Literacy and Education in Action Program (LEAP)
• Boeing Company Corporate Giving Program
• Brother’s Brother Foundation
• Cargill Corporate Contributions Program
• Coca-Cola Foundation
• ConocoPhillips Corporate Contributions Program
• Danish Mission Council Development Department
• Dow Chemical Company Foundation
• Drosos Foundation
• Dr. Scholl Foundation
• Dubai Cares
• DuPont Pioneer Giving Program
• Eaton Charitable Fund
• Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Fluor Corporation Contributions Program/Fluor Foundation
• Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
• Ford Foundation
• French Development Agency
• GDF SUEZ Foundation
• Global Fund for Women
• Hilden Charitable Fund
• Hivos
• Husky Corporate Social Responsibility Program
• Irish Aid
• Jephcott Charitable Trust
• King Faisal Foundation
• Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
• New Zealand Aid Programme
• Nippon Foundation
• Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
• Open Society Foundations
• Purely OverSeas Trust
• Qualcomm Corporate Giving
• Robert Bosch Stiftung
• Roche Corporate Giving Program
• Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
• Swedish International Development Agency
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
• UBS Optimus Foundation
• UNFCU Foundation
• United Kingdom Department for International Development
• Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund (VGIF)
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION
• D-Prize
• Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
• Global Innovation Fund
• Global Philanthropy Alliance
• Roddenberry Foundation
ENVIRONMENT
• Africa Climate Change Fund
• Alcoa Foundation
• Coca-Cola Foundation
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
• Global Environment Facility: Small Grants Programme
• Jack Kimmel International Grant Program
• Lush Charity Pot
• Rainforest Fund
• Wallace Global Fund
HEALTH & HIV/AIDS
• African Women’s Development Fund
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
• Cigna Foundation: World of Difference Grants
• Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (Malawi)
• Elton John AIDS Foundation
• Fondation Mérieux
• Ford Foundation
• Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
• Irish Aid
• Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
• Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund
• Stephen Lewis Foundation
• UHAI: The East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative
• U.K. Department for International Development
• United States Agency for International Development
• ViiV Healthcare
• Y+
HUMAN RIGHTS
• Abilis Foundation
• Akiba Uhaki Foundation (restricted to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania)
• Arab Human Rights Fund (restricted to the 22 member countries of the Arab League)
• Disability Rights Fund
• The Fund to End Violence Against Children
• Global Fund for Children
• Lush Charity Pot
• The Other Foundation
• Rainforest Fund
• Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund (VGIF
WOMEN
• ABILIS Foundation
• Action for World Solidarity
• African Women's Development Fund
• Alexia Foundation for World Peace
• Amplify Change
• Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND)
• Arthur B. Schultz Foundation
• Associated Country Women of the World
• AusAID
• Austrian Development Agency
• Belgian Development Cooperation
• Coca-Cola Foundation
• Commonwealth Foundation
• COMO Foundation
• Danida
• Danish Mission Council Development Department
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Dining for Women
• Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Fledgling Fund
• Ford Foundation
• FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund
• Global Fund for Women
• Hilden Charitable Fund
• Hivos
• Indigenous Women’s Fund
• Irish Aid
• Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
• Karl Kahane Foundation (KKF)
• KIOS
• Maypole Fund
• Norwegian Human Rights Fund
• Open Meadows Foundation
• Open Society Foundations
• Pro Victimis Foundation
• Sexual Violence Research Initiative
• Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
• Swedish International Development Agency
• UN Women: UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women
• UNFCU Foundation
• United Nations Democracy Fund
• Urgent Action Fund
• Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund
• Wallace Global Fund
• Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Finding Funding for Projects in Africa
If Your Organization is Based in Africa
If you work for an organization based in Africa, you can identify potential funding sources several ways. Some of the strategies--like combing through a donor database--will be identical to those used by a U.S.-based organization. Other strategies are going to be region specific.
• To find potential sources of funding, the first step is to identify funders that give money to organizations based in Africa. The donors listed to the left have all funded projects based in Africa. The list has been broken into four broad project categories: agriculture, education, HIV/AIDS, and women. To uncover potential funders, begin your research by visiting the websites of each of the donors listed under the category relevant to your work. On the donor websites you should be able to find information about the donor's programmatic interests, the names of past grantees, and information about current funding opportunities.
• A shortcut to identifying potential donors is to find out who is funding other community-based organizations in your geographic area. Starting with the donors who fund projects in your geographic area helps to focus your list of prospective donors.
• Foreign governments often give money directly to national governments in Africa with the stipulation that that money be used to fund community-based projects. In addition to reaching out to other community-based organizations to find out who their funders are, try to meet with government officials to find out about grant mechanisms administered by the government at the local, regional, or national level.
• A regional resource to check out is the African Development Bank (AfDB). Civil society organizations at the community level may have opportunities to participate in AfDB-funded projects.
If Your Organization Is Based in the U.S.
If your organization is headquartered in the U.S. and has 501(c)(3) status, you are in luck. The U.S. philanthropic sector boasts more private foundations than any country in the world and the U.S. government is the single largest donor for international development.
• For U.S. government grants and contracts, head over to
www.grants.gov and
www.fbo.gov respectively.
• For grants from private foundations, you've got choices, some free, some at a price. For free options:
○ You can do a Google
search with your issue + location (i.e. HIV prevention + Tanzania + grant) to see what comes up, (and a lot will, most of it not relevant). It's going to be a slow process to identify potential funders.
○ You can research other U.S.-based organizations doing the kind of work you want to do. Look at their website, read their annual reports, review their Form 990s (annual IRS filings) to see who gave them grants in the last year. Also a slow process, but more precise than using Google.
○ If you have some ideas of potential funders--maybe you've heard the names of foundations that fund in the geographic area where you want to work--you can go to foundation's website. Read about the organizations and projects it's funded recently, look at currently eligibility standards, and review the foundation's Form 990 to see the list of grantees.
• Free options are a good start, but they'll only take you so far. Many of the smaller, family-run foundations do not have websites or produce reports on their past giving. To learn more about these types of foundations, you'll need to buy a subscription to a donor database. The subscriptions range in price from few hundred to a few thousand dollars a year. However, if you're serious about finding funding, you'll need a subscription to at least one database. Two options to consider include:
○ Foundation Center's Foundation Directory Online : Probably the most well known of the donor databases, Foundation Directory Online is run by the Foundation Center. Subscriptions options range from monthly to annual. A monthly subscription, which you can cancel anytime, will cost you $200/month for a single license.
○ Grant Station : Grant Station is one of the most affordable options at $149/year. The Grant Station database includes international funding, which you can sort by subject area as well as geographic (region or country). If you subscribe to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, you will receive access to the database as part of your subscription.
For a list of funding databases and resources head over to the General Resources page.
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