Who funded us from 2012 to 2021
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.
2020
Foundations that gave us grants
£1,000 - £10,000
Laura Kinsella Foundation
Neo Philanthropy, supported by Hidden Leaf Foundation
openTrust, supported by Hopewell Fund
openTrust, supported by Network for Social Change
The Fritt Ord Foundation
£20,000 - £30,000
openTrust, supported by Partners for a New Economy
Roddick Foundation
£30,000 - £40,000
The Baring Foundation
Neo Philanthropy, supported by Wallace Global Fund
£40,000 - £60,000
Neo Philanthropy, supported by Humanity United
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
Tides Foundation
Open Society Policy Centre
£60,000 - £80,000
NESTA
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
openTrust, supported by The David and Elaine Potter Foundation
£80,000 - £100,000
openTrust, supported by The Legal Education Foundation
£100,000+
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
openTrust, supported by Ford Foundation
Luminate
Oak Foundation
openTrust
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Foundation Open Society Institute
Non-profit organisations that gave us grants
£1,000 - £10,000
Association for Women's Rights in Development
Civicus
Bath University
£10,000 - £20,000
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Editorial partnerships
CMES/Lund University
Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right
European University Institute
Foxglove
Ryerson University
2018 and 2019
Grant funding
Avaaz Foundation
Bertha Foundation
Heinrich Boll
IPAS
Laura Kinsella Foundation
MENA Investigative Fund
Network for Social Change
Omidyar Network
Open Society Policy Centre
openGlobal Rights
The Baring Foundation
The David & Elaine Potter Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
Wemove.eu
World Forum for Democracy
Partnerships
CMES/Lund University
Countering the Radical Right
European University Institute (GREASE)
King's College London
Network for Social Change
PLAAS, University of the Western Cape
2016 and 2017
Grant funding
Association for Women's Rights in Development
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Civil Society
Democracy and Media Foundation
European Cultural Foundation
European Social Research Council
Ford Foundation
Friends Provident
The Fritt Ord Foundation
Hermann and Pamela Hauser-Raspe
Hidden Leaf Foundation
Mulberry Trust
Novo/Tides Foundation
Open Society Institute
PERT
Rockefeller Brothers
Stichting Adessium
The David & Elaine Potter Foundation
The Oak Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
World Forum for Democracy
Partnerships
AWID & Mama Cash
Barcelona Institute of Global Health
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) & International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations (INCLO)
Fundacion Avina
Goldsmiths, University of London
Insitut Barcelona D'Estudis Internacionals
London School of Economics and Political Science
PLAAS, University of the Western Cape
Royal Holloway University of London
Transnational Institute (TNI)
United Nations University-GCM
University College London, European Institute
Westminster Foundation For Democracy
World Forum for Democracy
2012 to 2015
Grant funding
Andrew Wainwright Trust
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Bertha Foundation
Betterworld
Compton Foundation
David and Elaine Potter Foundation
Eric Abraham Fund
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Flora Family Foundation
Ford Foundation
Foundation to Promote Open Society
The Fritt Ord Foundation
Hauser Raspe Foundation
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Hidden Leaf Foundation
HIVOS
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University
Jas Fund
Johnson Trust
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
Joukowsky Family Foundation
Kallopeia Foundation
Lipman-Miliband Trust
Lush
Marmot Trust
Mulberry Trust
National Endowment for Democracy
Network for Social Change
New Field Foundation
NOREF
Norwegian MFA
NoVo Foundation
Oak Foundation
Open Society Foundation
Open Society Initiative for Europe
Robert Bosch Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Roddick Foundation
Tedworth Charitable Trust
The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust
Tinsley Foundation
Partnerships
Avaaz Foundation
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
CEELBAS
Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, Argentina
Fundación Foro del Sur, Argentina
Fundación ideas para la Paz, Colombia
Goldsmiths College
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis internacionals
International Center for Nonviolent Conflict
King’s College London
National Coalition for Independent Action
The Open University
United Nations University-GCM
University College, London
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
University of Minnesota
University of Nottingham
University of Sheffield
University of Warwick
University of West England
Westminster Foundation for Democracy
World Forum for Democracy