Trusts, foundations and funds
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Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action. RAN uses hard-hitting markets campaigns to align the policies of...
Grantmakers Without Borders
Grant makers Without Borders (GWB) is a collaborative project of the International Donors' Dialogue and the International Working Group of the National Network of Grant makers. They are a network of trustees and staff of public and private foundations as well as individual donors. GWB also...
Oak Foundation
The Oak Foundation is a group of charitable and philanthropic organisations formally established in 1998 in Geneva. The Foundation gives grants to not-for-profit organisations that address issues as environment and child abuse, housing and homelessness, human rights, issues affecting women and...
Triodos Bank
Triodos Bank is one of the world's leading sustainable banks. Triodos connect savers and investors who want to change the world for the better with entrepreneurs and sustainable companies doing just that. We are the only specialist bank to offer integrated lending and investment opportunities in an...
Sobell Foundation
Sobell Foundation provides grants for humanitarian causes such as assistance to the elderly, education and help to the homeless in the UK, Israel and the former USSR.
George Faile Foundation
The George Faile Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation established initially to provide financial support, and spiritual and medical assistance for the Baptist Medical Center in Nalerigu, Ghana. The aim is to provide this for similar institutions in third world countries across the...
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development is a foundation with objectives for sustainable improvement in quality of life and reduction of poverty and social inequalities in developing countries. They aim to achieve this through the research and spread information on issues of sustainable...
Big Lottery Fund (BIG)
Big Lottery Fund (BIG), funded by the UK lottery, provides funds for community projects that improve the quality of life for those who are most needy and at greatest disadvantage in society. BIG supports projects in the UK or UK charities working overseas. No emergency aid is given and the Fund...
Rwanda Development Trust (RDT)
Rwanda Development Trust was established to relieve the hardship and the distress of Rwandese people by financially assisting development projects initiated inside Rwanda. Special regard is given to the development of education and health by the expansion and encouragement of self-help activities.
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme, operated out of the Kazakhstan office of the Eurasia Foundation (EF), assists selected of local partners in the improvement of the education system. EF does not currently operate in Uzbekistan. From 1994 to 2006, EF maintained an office in Tashkent, where...
Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS)
Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) is a global network to strengthen philanthropy and a culture of giving through mutual learning and support, knowledge sharing and professional development among its participants.
United States International Grantmaking (USIG)
The United States International Grantmaking (USIG) project facilitates effective and responsible international grantmaking by US foundations. It explains complex legal requirements in understandable terms, works toward revision of burdensome or ambiguous IRS regulations governing giving abroad,...
German Federal Foreign Office
Grants to fund humanitarian emergency relief efforts are available from the German government. Some criteria are listed on the site, but as a general rule these grants are only available to the extent that they will be used to rescue lives, and to keep those at risk alive e.g. following natural...
Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR)
Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) supports the development of regional community foundations and uses seed funding and challenge grants to move regional development project funding into a more dynamic context. FRRR aims to promote for the public benefit rural and regional renewal,...
Adelaide City Council
Adelaide City Council provides financial support to organisations, groups and clubs that contribute to community development, cultural, recreational and sporting life in the City. Adelaide City Council also seeks to provide limited funding to city-based, non-profit community groups and...
International Community Foundation
International Community Foundation is a public charity working to foster lasting philanthropy to benefit under-served communities in Mexico and Latin America. With over 70% of International Community Foundation's recent grantmaking benefiting charitable causes along the Baja California peninsula,...
Glaser Foundation
The Glaser Progress Foundation awards grants to non-profit, tax-exempt organisations certified under Section 501(c)(3) by the Internal Revenue Service. In general the Foundation awards grants to established organisations with a national focus, strong history of success and recognised leadership...
Henry M Jackson Foundation
The Henry M Jackson Foundation seeks to promote dialogue between the academic and policy worlds, between the public and private sectors, and between citizens and their government. It offers a human rights grants program primarily to Russia, seeking to make a lasting contribution by assisting groups...
Virtual Foundation
The Virtual Foundation is an online philanthropy programme that supports grassroots initiatives around the world. Carefully screened, community improvement projects (range $100 - $5000) run by NGOs are in the fields of environment, health and sustainable development. These projects can then be...
Izumi Foundation
The Izumi Foundation seeks to address the root causes of human suffering. Its mission (within the framework of the goals of Shinny-En USA), is to alleviate human suffering through improved health care. The Foundation is particularly interested in helping the poorest and the most vulnerable members...