Our supporters

openDemocracy.net is published by openDemocracy Limited, a UK-registered company (#03855274).

We are extremely grateful for the generous support of foundations, editorial partners and individuals. See below for a list of our supporters and partners covering the period 2020.

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You can support openDemocracy with charitable grants and gifts to the openDemocracy programme of openTrust, a UK-registered charity (#1086404).

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Financial highlights

In 2021 we received £2.96m in income

And we spent £3.02m

Who funded us in 2021

Foundations that gave us grants

Oak Foundation: $1,000,000 over 36 months for journalism exposing the backlash against women’s and LGBTIQ rights, influencing laws, policies and public opinion; and to increase the capacity of women and LGBTIQ journalists working in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Eurasia.

Luminate: $650,000 over 24 months for investigative journalism that promotes democratic debate; to build and deepen openDemocracy’s impact on strengthening civic society and defending civil and human rights; to increase openDemocracy’s readership and promote wider engagement.

Open Society Foundations: $600,000 over 24 months to support openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project.

openTrust, supported by Foundation for a Just Society: $200,000 over 12 months to support openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project.

openTrust, supported by Partners for a New Economy: £150,000 over 24 months to support openDemocracy’s ourEconomy project.

openTrust, supported by Ford Foundation: $110,000 over 12 months to expand coverage of the Venezuelan crisis by openDemocracy’s democraciaAbierta project.

Humanity United: $200,000 over 24 months to support openDemocracy’s Beyond Trafficking and Slavery project.

Open Society Foundations: $160,000 over 24 months to support openDemocracy’s oDR project.

openTrust, supported by Lund Trust: £50,000 over 9 months to support openDemocracy’s oDR project.

Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust: £65,199 over 12 months to support openDemocracy’s work on the use (and abuse) of extraordinary COVID-19 powers by governments and corporations.

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: £57,316 over 12 months to strengthen the right to information and demand more transparent and accountable governance.

Neo Philanthropy, supported by Wallace Global Fund: $50,000 over 12 months to develop openDemocracy’s Documenting the Resistance initiative.

openTrust, supported by David and Elaine Potter Foundation: £40,000 over 12 months for openDemocracy’s core functions.

openTrust, supported by Rockefeller Brothers Fund: $45,000 over 12 months for openDemocracy’s core functions.

Robert Gavron Charitable Trust: £25,000 for general support.

Open Society Foundations: $25,000 over seven months to enrich public awareness and debate around the climate crisis and constitutional reforms in Chile by openDemocracy’s democraciaAbierta project.

Robert Gavron Charitable Trust: £25,000 for general support.

The Network for Social Change: £19,192 over 18 months for work on government accountability and transparency.

Fritt Ord: £10,000 over 12 months to support openDemocracy’s oDR project.

The Social Change Nest: £5,000 over six months to develop media assets on lobbying of the UK government by the oil and gas industry.

Fritt Ord: £8,487 over 12 months to support openDemocracy’s North Africa, West Asia project.

Editorial partnerships

Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration, Ryerson University, as a partner in our Migration Futures project: $20,000 over 12 months.

Common Action Forum, to cover elections and fake news, with a particular emphasis on Brazil’s presidential elections in 2022: €6,000 over 6 months.

BRaVE (Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism and Polarisation) and GREASE (Radicalisation, Secularism and the Governance of Religion: European and Asian Perspectives), European University Institute, as a partner in our Global Extremes project: €10,000 over 10 months.

Maastricht University, participating in the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Information Project ‘Spreading and Relating EU Affairs Beyond the EU Institutions’ (RELAY), as a partner in our Technology and Democracy project: €3,500 for a flexible period.

Individuals and their foundations who gave us £5,000 or more each

• Charles Chadwyck-Healey
• Cobalt Trust
• David Elstein
• The Hauser-Raspe Foundation
• Hollick Family Foundation
• Kate Gavron
• Laura Kinsella Foundation
• Tinsley Charitable Trust

Individuals who gave us less than £5,000 each

These supporters generously gave us £485,512 in total.

For details of our supporters for 2012-20, please follow this link

You can also find our accounts on the Companies House website