"Organization name","Area of work","Geographic focus",Year,"Amount committed (US$)","Funding purpose","Investment Description"
"Agência Pública","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2024,750550,"General Funding Grant","This 36-month General Operating grant seeks to support Agência Pública's institutional development in different fronts (strategic, fundraising, and branding) as well as support transnational investigations from a Global Majority perspective, a seed editorial project to enable a more Global footprint for the organisation."
"Amalgamated Charitable Foundation","Participation & Dissent",Global,2024,1250000,Other,"This is a core general operating grant to the Black Feminist Fund, an organisation that works to meaningfully resource black feminist movements globally. We aim to support their grantmaking activities, centred on Black feminist movements, especially in Africa and Latin America. We also wish to substantially advance their work to support movements in challenging the use of technology by authoritarian and corporate actors, as well as those creating technologies that build visions of a future that are more affirming of Black lives. Additionally, this flexible support from Luminate should enable the BFF to move towards their goal of becoming independent from its fiscal sponsor. This is a collaboration between the Global Programmes, Latin America and Africa teams."
"Amnesty International","Participation & Dissent",Global,2024,350000,"Project Agreement","This is a project agreement to advance Amnesty Tech's strategy, which combines research, advocacy, campaigning, creative communications, human rights education, and strategic litigation against governments and tech companies."
Archivi.ng,"Information Ecosystems",Africa,2024,160000,"Project Agreement","A two-year project agreement with Archivi.ng to support the continuation of the organization’s work around utilizing advanced technology to ensure easy access to historical information, stimulating debate around key themes, and ultimately contributing to a healthy information ecosystem."
"Association for Progressive Communications (APC)","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2024,505000,"Project Grant","This grant will resource APC to connect organisations in Asia working on Big Tech accountability and enable knowledge exchange and sharing of work and strategies. A portion will also be used to provide fiscal sponsorship for the setting up of the organisation What to Fix."
"Atlantic Council","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,565000,"Program Grant","The Atlantic Council?s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center (AALAC) broadens understanding of regional transformations while demonstrating why Latin America and the Caribbean matter for the world. This grant specifically supports their work on Colombia."
"Bersih Malaysia","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,220000,"Project Agreement","This grant supports Bersih in seeking institutional reforms and to create common narratives and unite civil society and the public behind a common cause."
"BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,325380,Other,"BEUC is the umbrella group for 46 independent consumer organisations from 32 countries. BEUC's main role is to represent them to the EU institutions and defend the interests of European consumers. The BEUC acronym originates from the organisation's French name, ?Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs?."
"Big Cabal","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2024,300000,"Project Agreement","A two-year grant to Big Cabal Media's Citizen by Zikoko to expand its digital platforms, increasing accessibility for citizens to engage with governance issues and decision-making processes around AI and digital rights in Nigeria."
"Boston Center for Latin America","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2024,300000,"Project Agreement","This is a two-year project agreement aimed at supporting the Boston Center for Latin America in its efforts with the entertainment industry in Mexico. The goal is to tackle stereotypes and harmful narratives related to depictions of women and LGBT+ characters in popular series and movies."
BudgIT,"Information Ecosystems",Africa,2024,500000,"General Funding Grant","A two-year core operating grant to BudgIT to support the continuation of the organisation's work around ensuring easy access to accurate information and building an ecosystem of social change driver working with advanced technologies to improve availability of and access to accurate information."
"Campaign on Digital Ethics South Africa (CODE SA)","Participation & Dissent",Global,2024,320000,"Project Agreement","This is a grant to the Campaign on Digital Ethics South Africa (CODE-SA) to enhance tech accountability, counter disinformation, and empower individuals and communities to take control of their digital lives."
"Catapult Film Fund","Information Ecosystems",Global,2024,350000,"Project Agreement","This 2-year project will enable Catapult to support the development of stories that showcase the impact of social media and technology on society."
"Centre for Democracy and Technology (CDT)","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,8800,Other,"CDT Europe advocates for the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights in European tech law and policy."
"Centro de Mujeres Afrocostarricenses","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,225000,"Project Agreement","This 24-month project aims to support Centro de Mujeres Afrocostarricenses by 1) creating training and exchange programs for Black women leaders in Latin America, 2) conducting research on the political participation of Black women in the region, 3) developing and launching communication campaigns to promote the rights agendas of Afro-descendant women, and 4) contributing to the institutional strengthening of the organization."
"Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística (CLIP)","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2024,395000,"Project Grant","Supporting CLIP in achieving their institutional objective of fostering public debate and delivering high-quality transnational information to advocates of the public good. Specifically, the grant aims to support the following work streams: Cross-Border Investigations and Editorial Support, Tech Development for Enhanced Journalism Efficiency and Data Processing, Community Development, and the Crossborder Big Tech Investigation Workshop."
"Diversas y Juntas","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,400000,"Project Agreement","This project agreement with Aúna aims to promote and support women's political participation in Mexico."
"Doc Society","Information Ecosystems",Global,2024,480625,"Project Agreement","Grant to Doc Society to identify the most promising narratives being made globally on the theme of ‘tech & democracy,’ and to support and bring together issue experts, campaigners, and creatives to explore and better communicate the impacts of big tech on society."
"East West Management Institute","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2024,150000,Other,"This grant will support a convening regarding digital technology, human rights and social justice in Malaysia and projects and initiatives that emerge from that process."
Ekō,"Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,800000,Other,"To support this global movement of more than 22 million people that are committed to curbing corporate power."
"EU DisinfoLab","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,200000,Other,"The funding will support EU DisinfoLab's research, investigative and advocacy work that seeks to detect, tackle and prevent disinformation."
"European Digital Rights (EDRi)","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,25000,Other,"This project grant will support the ""Tech & Society Summit"" - a one day conference in Brussels in October 2024 hosted by 41 non-profit organisations to exchange with European policymakers on technology's impact on society, democracy, and the planet."
"Extituto - Política Abierta","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,260000,"General Funding Grant","This grant to Extituto aims to build upon its previous efforts in Colombia by continuing to train and support emerging leaders through the Occupy Politics program and encouraging the implementation of transparency, collaboration, and citizen involvement strategies via the Inhabiting Politics program, ultimately strengthening public institutions."
"Five Arts Centre","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,115000,"Project Agreement","This grant will enable Five Arts Centre to continue its pioneering work in the arts and cultural ecosystem that has contributed to the building of a more inclusive Malaysia."
Foxglove,"Information Ecosystems",Global,2024,129000,Other,"This project funding supports Foxglove to challenge Big Tech monopolies through policy, litigation, and campaigning interventions."
"Gatefield Impact Foundation","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2024,160000,"Project Agreement","A two-year grant to Gatefield towards their efforts to stimulate civic awareness and action on tech accountability in Nigeria."
"Global Dialogue","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,50000,Other,"Ariadne is a European peer-to-peer network of more than 600 funders and philanthropists who support social change and human rights. This one year project grant will support the coordination, convening, and growth of Ariadne's 'Tech and Society' funder community, a sub-group of funders working on issues related to tech accountability and social justice."
"Global Dialogue","Participation & Dissent",Global,2024,100000,"Project Agreement","This is a grant to support Civic Futures, FICS' flagship initiative, building a diverse ecosystem of funders, CSOs and movements to push back against the 'security playbook', with a focus on the use of information technologies to surveil and censor actors perceived to be a threat to the state and its interests."
"Hadis Foundation","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2024,210000,"General Funding Grant","A two-year core grant to Hadis Initiative to support the continuation of the organisation's work to circumvent the prevalent factors of cultural barriers and skill gaps that impede access to, adoption of and ethical use of emerging advanced technologies."
"Haki Africa","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2024,220000,"General Funding Grant","Core funding to support HAKI Africa's work in enhancing civic participation of underrepresented groups at the Coastal region of Kenya."
"Haki Yetu","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2024,150000,"General Funding Grant","The goal of this grant is to support HAKI Yetu advance meaningful civic and political participation among Kenyans, especially young people and women living in the coastal region of Kenya."
"Hashtag Generation","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2024,200000,"General Funding Grant","In Sri Lanka, tech platforms have been exploited and weaponised by a range of actors for ethno-political gain. This project will investigate the role of tech platforms on election outcomes, and the impact it has on generating fear and inciting violence against minorities and oppositional voices. The project will also focus on advocacy for tech platforms to do more to remove bad actors and harmful/dangerous content."
"Indonesian Institute for Independent Judiciary (LeIP)","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,200000,"Project Agreement","A project grant to enhance the Court and Judges' expertise on Freedom of Expression online and to carry out research on protection of data privacy in the judicial system."
"Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,467000,"Project Grant","This 32-month grant will support ILSB by training diverse women leaders, equipping women in politics to promote gender equality, and fostering partnerships to protect civic space in Mexico."
"Instituto de Referência Negra Peregum","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,450000,"Project Agreement","This agreement aims at supporting Peregum in preparing leaders of the BIPOC movement for democratic participation."
"Instituto Incube","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2024,500000,"Project Agreement","This pilot funding initiative seeks to establish a Public Interest Journalism Fund in Brazil, aimed at supporting public interest media, combating disinformation, and strengthening democracy through collaborative donor and civil society efforts."
"Instituto Incube","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2024,250000,Other,"This is a seed 24-month grant aiming to support More in Common's plan to establish operations in Brazil, hire the top executive team and fully register a legal entity, enabling the development of its first audience mapping in the country as well as the dissemination and establishment of partnerships for its use."
"Instituto Update","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,650000,"Project Agreement","Supporting Instituto Update in bolstering the political engagement of marginalized communities in Latin America, with a particular focus on women, Afro-descendants, indigenous communities, and the LGBTIQ+ community."
"Inter-American Foundation","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,500000,"Project Grant","To establish a collaborative fund for civil society organizations in Argentina to 1) strengthen the country's civic space, 2) promote the civic participation of underrepresented groups and combatting gender-based violence online and hate speech against them, and 3) create opportunities to enhance community development in peripheral areas."
"Legal Aid Center for the Press (LBH Pers)","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,200000,"Project Agreement","To carry out strategic litigation for online freedom of expression cases and strengthen the capacity of legal aid lawyers in handling public cases."
Luchadoras,"Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2024,300000,"General Funding Grant","The 36-month core grant aims to support Luchadoras in monitoring gender-based violence online in Mexico and the region, as well as carrying out efforts regarding internet governance with platforms and key government stakeholders."
"Mathare Social Justice Centre","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2024,150000,"Project Agreement","This is a 2 year grant to support MSJC to continue their work on building community agency to advocate for their rights and hold power to account."
"Meliore Foundation","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,900000,Other,"This funding will support The Better Information Project(TBIP) at Meliore Foundation that seeks to create fact-based media, content, and digital infrastructure that can overwhelm oppositional narratives and provide information context that can be used by decision makers - with the support of policy expertise - to drive radical decision making on tech regulation and policy."
"Neo Philanthropy","Participation & Dissent",Global,2024,200000,"Project Agreement","This is a project agreement to Migration Tech Monitor's fellowship initiative, which incubates projects that 1) document the impact of technology and surveillance on mobile communities, 2) challenge the use and development of repressive border tools, or 3) build alternative security tech infrastructure and narratives designed by people with lived experience of migration. With this project, Luminate aims to explore how technologies used in border controls and border externalisation inform the use of repressive tech in society at large."
"Network of European Foundations","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,1000000,"Project Agreement","The European AI and Society Fund will provide support to CSOs across Europe to work together on building accountable governance mechanisms on AI."
"Network of European Foundations","Participation & Dissent",Europe,2024,550000,Other,"Luminate will contribute to the Civitates pooled fund to support the 2024-2028 strategy, which will focus on the enforcement of tech regulation at national level across 27 EU member states."
"Open Institute International","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2024,400000,"General Funding Grant","This is a renewal grant to Open Institute for two years. This grant seeks to continue support for ongoing work led by Open Institute in Kilifi County and beyond."
"Open Rights Group","Participation & Dissent",Europe,2024,290000,Other,"Open Rights Group will facilitate initiatives that protect digital rights in the UK, including the regulation of Big Tech and improved enforcement of data protection."
"Policy Innovation Centre","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2024,1965000,"Project Agreement","This is a three-year grant to Policy Innovation Centre in support of its work to provide policy analysis and ecosystem convening on the technology, development and democracy landscape in Nigeria. PIC will also provide coordination and managerial oversight for Nigeria's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collective, including acting as a fiscal agent to the three organisations that make up the consortium."
"Privacy International (PI)","Participation & Dissent",Global,2024,1500000,"Project Agreement","This is a project agreement to support Privacy International in building a transregional and cross-sectoral coalition to challenge the spread of the next generation of repressive tech and its misuse by governments. PI will bring together and coordinate civil society organisations, academics, and investigative journalists that have been working on components of digital authoritarianism (e.g. digital rights, defence sector, weapons control) to start building collective capacity to better understand and interrogate the convergence between civilian and military technology."
"Radio Workshop","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2024,200000,"Project Grant","By combining their skills in production, training, research and audience growth this grant is structured as a two year grant to support Radio Workshop in partnership with Africapodfest continue in its mission to train and mentor budding African podcasters to tell nuanced and impactful stories about Africa with the hopes of widening and deepening the conversations on issues that matter."
"Red de Innovación Local (RIL)","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,600000,"Project Agreement","This 36-month project agreement aims to support RIL's initiatives in amplifying the influence of women in politics at the local level by offering training and guidance in crafting public policies with a gender perspective, creating platforms for peer learning and accompaniment, and boosting the visibility of local women's leadership in Argentina."
"Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)","Information Ecosystems",Global,2024,650000,"General Funding Grant","This 33-month core grant aims to advance R3D's mission of protecting digital rights and preserving civic space in the face of escalating challenges posed by surveillance and cybercrime legislation, content moderation practices, and the rapid advancement of AI at a national, regional, and global level."
"Reporters Without Borders","Information Ecosystems",Global,2024,200000,Other,"An 18-month grant to support the Forum on Information and Democracy, to continue building its institutional capacity and expand its activities and partnerships in the Global South."
"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors","Participation & Dissent",Global,2024,200000,Other,"This is an 18-month grant to prototype an 18-month experiment in resourcing, documenting and potentially scaling methods to tackle harmful narratives as they relate to authoritarianism and securitization, which also considering how they intersect with AI and Big Tech."
"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors","Information Ecosystems",Global,2024,2000000,"Project Agreement","A two year grant renewal to support IFPIM's scale up and sustain its operations and activities including research, policy and strategy on emerging technologies."
Stears,"Information Ecosystems",Africa,2024,200000,"Project Agreement","A two year project agreement to Stears to; Support the flagship product - African Elections Monitor, of the Data for Storytelling Program. Utilise cutting-edge technologies such as real-time satellite imagery and interactive data visualisation technologies to share knowledge with and train independent media organisations within Luminate's existing portfolio on data visualisation"
TechHer,"Participation & Dissent",Africa,2024,260000,"General Funding Grant","This is a two-year core grant to TechHer, in support of their work to address Online Gender Based Violence (OGBV) and building a Community of Practice for the protection of women's digital rights."
"The Citizens","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,450000,Other,"The purpose of this grant is to support the Real Facebook Oversight Board project of The Citizens to challenge the legitimacy of Facebook's Oversight Board and expose the harms of Facebook creatively."
"The Voices Project","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,60000,Other,"This funding is to support the Disinformation project, whose goal is to reduce hate speech and online harassment and protect space for civil society to express solidarity with causes and campaigns for the protection of human rights, civilian protection and refugee rights."
"Tifa Foundation","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,550000,"General Funding Grant","This is a core support grant to TIFA to support their Data Policy and Governance Program, and to strengthen the organisation in transforming from a previously pure funding agency into a multi-donor, direct implementing organisation."
"Transnational Institute at Amsterdam","Participation & Dissent",Global,2024,400000,"Project Agreement","This grant will support Noor as the organisation coordinates a transregional network, seeking to build the power of gender justice and progressive movements to obstruct far right agendas, and advance the movement's transformative visions."
"UKM Pakarunding","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,100000,"Project Agreement","This project involves the mapping of group-based empowerment programmes in Malaysia."
"USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Norman Lear Center","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2024,103000,Other,"Luminate is providing funding for the Norman Lear Research Center of the Univeristy of California to undertake a content analysis of the portrayal of social media and its industry in news and entertainment."
"USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Norman Lear Center","Information Ecosystems","United States",2024,50000,"Project Grant","To provide funding for the Norman Lear Research Center of the University of California to undertake a content analysis of the portrayal of social media and its industry in news and entertainment."
"Washington Office on Latin America","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2024,600000,"General Funding Grant","This grant to WOLA aims to support its work in fostering civil society efforts in the region that promote law and democracy. Additionally, it will expand their focus to include themes such as climate justice, gender and racial justice in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico."
"Women in Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN)","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2024,260000,"Project Agreement","This is a two-year project agreement to support Women in Leadership Advancement Network's work in using technology to inspire a shift to gender-balanced leadership across all levels of political, economic, and public life."
"Yayasan Bahana","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,65000,"Project Agreement","To support Yayasan Bahana develop and expand ""Latih Logika"", a free online course on critical thinking for Indonesian youth."
"ABONG - Associação Brasileira de ONGs","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,350000,"Project Agreement","ABONG is a Brazilian association established in 1991 with the aim of strengthening Brazilian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in the defense and promotion of common rights and goods. They collaborate with social movements and engage in dialogue with governments for an environmentally just world, with equal rights and free from all forms of discrimination"
"Accountability Counsel","Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,400000,"General Funding Grant","This is a renewal grant to support the work of Accountability Counsel, focused on (1) supporting communities to use the non-judicial accountability offices tied to international investment through case support to achieve community goals; (2) policy advocacy to improve the system; and (3) research to understand the field."
"Accountability Lab Nigeria","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,260000,"General Funding Grant","A 2-year grant to Accountability Lab Nigeria to support core operations and program work. The broad aim of this grant will be to shift civic engagement and support the advancement of fundamental freedoms of individuals and communities, particularly those historically marginalized."
"Africa Uncensored","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,300000,"Project Agreement","A two-year project agreement grant to support Africa Uncensored in building out its investigative reporting capacity and audience in Kenya and the wider East African region."
"Africa's Voices Foundation","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,300000,"General Funding Grant","A 2-year grant to Africa's Voices Foundation to support core operations and program work. This grant's broad aim will be to amplify citizens' voices - placing them at the centre of decision-making, policy responses, and development planning."
"African Centre for Media and Information Literacy","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,50000,"Project Agreement","This is a rapid response grant to AFRICMIL to track and document misinformation and disinformation around the Nigeria elections on social media and provide recommendations on appropriate policy responses."
Afrobarometer,"Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,400000,"General Funding Grant","This is a two year pilot grant to support AfroBarometer train local civil society organisations in data collection, management and story telling using data and pilot tools to get perspectives on youth across Africa."
"AI Forensics","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,253000,Other,"Luminate supports AI Forensics so that it can hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms."
"Algorithim Watch","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,300000,Other,"Luminate is supporting Algorithm Watch to ensure that the use of algorithmic systems benefits the many, not the few."
"All Protocol Observed","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,200000,"Project Agreement","This is a two-year project grant to support the team at All Protocols Observed (APO) to publish The Continent and build out its internal operations and team."
"ALT Advisory","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,450000,"Project Agreement","A two-year grant to support ALT Advisory increase its geographical scope and advance work on information rights across Africa."
"Amazon Land Documentary","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,115000,"Project Agreement","This Project Agreement seeks to help The Territory impact campaign transition to a long-lasting initiative with permanent impact - an institute that helps traditional communities in the Amazon Region become storytellers and shape the public debate from their perspective."
"Amnesty International","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,305000,Other,"Supporting Amnesty International Indonesia in 1) providing a vibrant and supportive ecosystem for youth groups in civic space; and 2) improving public campaigns for social justice."
"Amnistía Internacional Argentina","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,120000,"Project Agreement","This rapid response grant to seeks to promote and defend the human rights of underrepresented groups in the country."
"Architects of Diversity","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,300000,"Project Agreement","Architects of Diversity (AoD) is a youth-led non-profit organisation that works on bridging communities among youth for justice, peace, and a sustainable future in Malaysia."
"Article 19 Eastern Africa","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,300000,"General Funding Grant","A 2-year grant to ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa to support core operations and program work."
"Aspiration Tech","Information Ecosystems","United States",2023,100000,Other,"The AI Now Institute project on monitoring AI policy trends and improvements."
"Association for Progressive Communications (APC)","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,320020,"Project Grant","A project grant to fund advocacy work focused on regulatory mechanisms that can generate evidence-based push for new diligence rules and transparency standards around social media platform monetisation programs."
AzMina,"Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,406000,"Project Agreement","Luminate's investment in AzMina will support its main tech projects and its institutional strengthening to enhance policy processes, strategies, governance and management, providing greater sustainability to the organization's activities over the long term."
"Baraza Media Lab","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,520000,"General Funding Grant","Two-year core funding to support Baraza Media Lab to establish a resource centre and increase products available to stakeholders; to expand presence and engagement in East Africa; and to improve internal operations, governance structures, and practice."
"BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,480287,Other,"BEUC is the umbrella group for 46 independent consumer organisations from 32 countries. BEUC's main role is to represent them to the EU institutions and defend the interests of European consumers. The BEUC acronym originates from the organisation's French name, Bureau EuropÈen des Unions de Consommateurs."
CANVAS,"Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,400000,"General Funding Grant","This is a general operating support renewal grant for CANVAS, an organisation focused on: 1) enhancing the effectiveness and safety of democratic movements as they challenge repressive powers and; 2) supporting the transition of movements who are effective in dissenting into building its long-term positive visions."
"Cedar Seed Foundation","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,150000,"Project Agreement","This is a two-year core grant to Cedar Seed Foundation in support of their work to enhance inclusion and diversity in political leadership in Nigeria."
"Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism)","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,500000,"General Funding Grant","This is a two-year core grant to support the CJID's work to improve the media and information ecosystem in Nigeria."
"Citizens' Gavel","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,310000,"General Funding Grant","This grant will support Gavel to institutionalize its operations and work around improving Nigeria's justice system and increasing citizens' awareness on related issues"
"Ciudades Feministas (CISCSA)","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,200000,"Project Grant","To support CISCSA in promoting the political participation of young women in local communities in Córdoba, Argentina, through a participatory diagnosis and research process, political training programs grounded in feminist popular education, and the creation of networks and alliances to amplify the voices of young women and ensure their inclusion in decision-making processes at the local level."
Conectas,"Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,980000,"General Funding Grant","This grant will support Conectas in establishing a new and innovative work stream dedicated to combating misinformation and hate speech in Brazil, as well as ensuring that Latin America perspectives are taken into consideration in the global debates around digital platforms' regulations."
"Connected by Data","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,140000,Other,"This project aims to co-create and test methods for collective action on data, working in partnership with a range of community groups and organisations to build capacity, insight and profile, including supporting and amplifying the experiences and actions of impacted communities through media and comms work."
"Cuestión Pública","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,331500,"Project Agreement","To support the organization's work in Colombia, focusing on the following three areas: a) strengthen and bolster its security capacities, b) help improve its investigative journalism and creative publishing, and c) supporting the diversification of income sources to promote the organization's financial sustainability."
"Data Privacy Brasil","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,400000,"Project Agreement","Data Privacy Brasil Research Association - DPBR is a non-profit civil society organization that promotes data protection and other fundamental rights in the face of the emergence of new technologies, social inequalities and power asymmetries. With a multidisciplinary team from different Brazilian regions, DPBR develops public interest research on emerging issues, conducts advocacy and provides training for decision-making agents and society in general."
"Debunk Media","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,410000,"Project Agreement","A two year renewal to support Debunk media expand the product portfolio and build their programs and operations team."
DeGoedeZaak,"Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,250000,"Project Agreement","This 2-year project grant will support DeGoedeZaak to map out the ecosystem of change-makers, civil society, and grassroots actors affected by platform harms and build a resilient ecosystem to tackle this in the Netherlands. The project will lean heavily on collaboration with key stakeholders Stem op een Vrouw and Bits of Freedom and start by convening diverse groups to build collective visions and strategies to tackle platform harms."
"DelMedia Productions","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,575000,"Project Agreement","Naija NextGen is a Social Impact TV show aimed at changing the narrative about, and encouraging, youth participation in civic and political processes in Nigeria."
"Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,268800,Other,"A 2-year project grant to continue work to decolonise the digital rights field in Europe. This grant will support Weaving Liberation to grow and support an anti-colonial tech community through convening research and imagining spaces, establishing new roles to bridge digital and non-digital communities, and an anti-colonial Digital Summer Retreat on digital justice and resistance. This grant supports Weaving Liberation in growing a strategic infrastructure that can shape the digital rights field in the long term."
DigitalReach,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,277419,"Project Agreement","Supporting the research on social media, elections, and digital authoritarianism in Southeast Asia."
"East Africa Documentary Film Fund (DOCUBOX)","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,250000,"Project Agreement","The grant to Docubox will be used for training and mentoring documentary filmmakers to produce films that enhance civic participation & engagement among Kenyan women, youth, and the minorities."
Ekō,"Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,500000,Other,"This grant will support the organisation in growing and mobilising their European movements to demand their rights be enforced under data protection regulations in Europe. This work will focus on ending the destructive behaviour of digital platforms."
Ekō,"Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,450000,Other,"Ek_ is a global movement of more than 22 million people that are committed to curbing corporate power."
"Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,150000,Other,"This project grant is to deepen Equinox's capacity as a racial justice organisation to integrate digital rights work into its broader strategy, including issues related to platforms and tech infrastructures. This funding will support the Colour of Surveillance convening, an event bringing together racial, migrant, and digital justice activists to organise to counter key aspects of racialised surveillance, criminalisation, and structural discrimination."
"Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género (ELA)","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,364400,"General Funding Grant","To support ELA in their efforts to enhance women's political participation in Argentina, addressing specific challenges that hinder their full and safe representation."
"Escola Livre","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,40000,"Project Agreement","This grant aims to strengthen RENFA/Escola Livre in its efforts as part of the Brazilian Black Coalition for Rights, building collective positions on key policy issues."
"EU DisinfoLab","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,55000,Other,"The funding will support the organisation of the EU DinsifoLab Annual Conference 2023 that brings together global actors in the fight against disinformation, and hosts conversations on how to tackle the threats of disinformation."
"European Sex Workers' Alliance","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,201081,Other,"A 2-year project grant to strengthen ESWA's capacity to understand and challenge social media platforms? lack of accountability to sex workers and adult content creators. This includes work on capacity building, research and evidence building, advocacy and campaigning, and building strategic partnerships."
"Fundacion Mi Sangre (FMS)","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,310000,"Program Grant","To support Fundacion Mi Sangre by a) building civic and political capacities in youth to shape decision-making and b) strengthening the organization's financial sustainability."
"Fundacion para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP)","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,600000,"General Funding Grant","This core grant to FLIP will support their work in Colombia, focusing on the following three programs: a) improving the protection of journalists from a preventive approach, b) reactivating independent local journalism networks, and c) strengthening the organization's financial sustainability, governance and well-being."
Futurelect,"Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,300000,"Program Grant","A two-year program grant to support Futurelect's work in East Africa. Through the EAC Public Leadership Programme, Futurelect will design and deliver non-partisan, intensive, and interdisciplinary leadership development and training to 25-30 emerging young leaders from East Africa annually."
"Global Dialogue","Participation & Dissent",Europe,2023,150000,Other,"A project grant to Global Dialogue to support the Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights coalition, a project hosted by its fiscal sponsor, Ariadne Network. The Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights coalition is a group of philanthropic funders building funding strategies that support civil society strategies and agendas at the nexus of the internet and the environment."
"Global Philanthropy Project","Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,600000,"Project Agreement","This is a project agreement to support the work of the Global Philanthropy Project, a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic efforts to advance LGBTQI+ rights in the majority world. The focus of this opportunity is GPP'S Donor Government and Field Influencing Strategy, as well as the Pathways Project, an initiative to map the needs and priorities of LGBTQI+ movements globally."
"Global Press Institute","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,600000,"Project Agreement","This grant will provide continued support to Global Press so it can meet its core mission."
"Global Witness","Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,500000,"General Funding Grant","This is a general operating support grant to Global Witness, to further their global campaign and advocacy work mainly on the 'Land and Environmental Defenders' (LED) Programme, an initiative whose ultimate goal is to end the attacks and killings of land and environmental defenders and to address the root causes of the violence against them."
"Global Witness","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,600000,Other,"A multi-year grant to Global Witness to further their work on tackling digital threats to democracy through campaigns and advocacy"
Hostwriter,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,225000,"Project Grant","To support Hostwriter to meet its strategic objectives and its mission to help journalists collaborate across borders."
IDEAS,"Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,300000,"General Funding Grant","This grant will provide support for IDEAS to conduct discussions with youth leaders, including from political parties, and further existing research regarding good governance and policies. It will also allow IDEAS to continue its work in advocating for access to information and facilitating public participation and engagement in policymaking processes."
"Initiative to Promote Tolerance and Prevent Violence (Initiate.My)","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,100000,"Project Agreement","This grant is to support INITIATE.MY, a data-driven initiative to promote tolerance and prevent violence, based in Malaysia."
"Institute of Digital Development for Latin America and the Caribbean (IDD LAC)","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,145000,"Project Agreement","This 7-month rapid-response grant aims to reduce the prevalence of misinformation and disinformation on social media in Argentina ahead of the 2023 presidential election."
"Instituto Marielle Franco","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,375000,"Project Agreement","Instituto Marielle Franco is a Brazilian non-profit organization, created by Marielle's family as a response to the brutal assassination that attempted to silence her.  The Institute's mission is to inspire, connect, and empower Black women, LGBTQIAP+ individuals, and those from marginalized communities to continue shaking the foundations of society. Its vision is of a world where people like Marielle can access and thrive in various decision-making spaces of society without being interrupted. Its pillars of action consist of fighting for justice, upholding memory, amplifying the legacy, and nurturing the seeds of Marielle, those who came before, and those who will come after."
"International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,200000,"Project Grant","Research-based Online Violence Early Warning System (EWS) by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the University of Sheffield designed to detect, predict, and ultimately help prevent the escalation of online abuse, harassment, and attacks against women journalists - online and offline."
InternetLab,"Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,655000,"General Funding Grant","InternetLab is a Brazilian civil society organization whose mission is to produce sophisticated, evidence-based and impact-oriented social and legal research and analyses to identify and clarify critical issues, thereby helping to build the intellectual and evidential foundation for public awareness, action and policy-making."
Intervozes,"Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,290000,"Project Agreement","This Project Agreement will support Intervozes' general mission of promoting a free and diverse informational ecosystem in Brazil, specifically by supporting their ability to a) carry out research projects; b) implement public engagement campaigns and advocacy strategies on both national and international levels; c) conduct training courses aimed at grassroots activists and organizations."
"Iraka Media Association","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,150000,"Project Agreement","A two-year project agreement to support Minority Africa to streamline their internal operations and to develop their editorial, fellowship, and external networks."
Kamara,"Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,200000,"Project Agreement","This is a project agreement to support the work of Kamara, an organization that works to advance the safety of the global ecosystem of civil society organizations and movements, and to provide tailored protection tactics for its partners. The focus of this opportunity is Kamara's Strategic Initiatives Centre (SIC), an experimental initiative to support civil society in the Global Majority by providing investigation-based insights to inform both their protection and advancement of missions."
"Katiba Institute","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,906000,"General Funding Grant","This is an unrestricted grant to support Katiba Institute's work to entrench a culture and practice of constitutionalism in Kenya which creates a society in which human rights are protected, government is accountable and transparent, and everyone is able to participate in decision-making."
"LEAP Africa","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,900000,"Project Agreement","This is a three-year grant contribution to the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), a $5 million fund created by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fund provides targeted capacity building, youth ecosystem building and financial support to burgeoning youth-led movements in Nigeria, in order to sustain their work locally and facilitate opportunities for learning."
medConfidential,"Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,20000,Other,"To support advocacy and education activities around human rights and data protection during the passage of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill."
"Nacif Films","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,140000,"Project Agreement","To support Filmadora in the production of a documentary about Vivir Quintana and her exploration of gender-based violence in Mexico."
Namati,"Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,500000,"Program Grant","A 2-year grant to support Namati's work in Kenya on the right to citizenship which seeks to end inequality in the access to citizenship by working hand-in-hand with marginalized communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services."
"New Economy Organisers Network (NEON)","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,149925,Other,"This 2-year project grant will support Just Treatment to deliver their project on youth mental health and platform accountability as part of their wider patient-led campaigning on health justice. The project will focus on building an ecosystem across digital and non-digital groups and supporting young people harmed by social media platforms to become the leaders of a broad coalition to win systemic reform."
"New Venture Fund","Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,300000,Other,"Digital Action is building a global coalition of tech justice organisations, aiming to hold Big Tech corporations to account for the way they amplify hate speech and disinformation, endangering already vulnerable minorities further. Digital Action is aiming to bring this pressure to bear particularly in 2024, when more than 60 countries go to the polls across the world."
"New Venture Fund","Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,84000,Other,"This funding is part of Luminate's participation in the NetGain Partnership, a philanthrophic collaboration seeking to advance the public interest in the digital age. NetGain's current work is focused on addressing the harms wrought by Big Tech and exploring and advancing meaningful reform."
"Núcleo Jornalismo","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,190000,"Project Agreement","The funding will be applied in institutional development (administrative, HR, and commercial capacity), community building, and technology enhancement and artificial intelligence."
"Open Briefing","Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,300000,"Project Agreement","This is a project agreement to support the work of Open Briefing, an organization that works to provide holistic security support and resources to protect people and communities challenging power. The focus of this opportunity is Open Briefing's strategies to 1) Disrupt attacks and reprisals against the people and communities challenging power and; 2) Strengthen the global support ecosystem for the people and communities targeted for challenging power. We will also be supporting their process of becoming a globally decentralized organization."
"Open Net","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,270000,"Project Agreement","To support the organisation's work in using Data Protection Acts to reducing monetisation of the disinformation content and accounts on platforms in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Taiwan."
"Open Rights Group","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,50000,Other,"Campaign initiatives to challenge the UK Government's ambition to weaken UK data protection standards."
"Paradigm Initiative","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,410000,"General Funding Grant","This is a two year grant to Paradigm Initiative to support its core operations and programs around digital rights and digital inclusion in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa."
Peri,"Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,944500,"Project Agreement","Peri is a Brazil-born studio focused on creating films, docs and series that strategically push new mental models into the audience's imagination by tapping into well-known narrative archetypes."
Perludem,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,102000,"Project Agreement","This grant will provide support to Perludem to build strong and solid CSO Coalition against election disinformation, and to coordinate multi-stakeholder forums that bridge collaboration of CSOs, social media platforms, and elections administrators to prevent and combat election disinformation in Indonesia."
"Pulitzer Center","Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,150000,"Project Agreement","This is a project grant to the Pulitzer Center's AI accountability network. The initiative aims to expand and diversify the field of of algorithmic accountability reporting by supporting journalists, particularly those working at the local level to pursue in-depth reporting projects that interrogate how AI systems are funded, built, and deployed by governments and other actors. With Luminate's support, the Pulitzer Center will research, design, and start to implement a comprehensive strategy to maximize the synergies between journalism and audience-centered engagement."
"Purple Code Collective","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,200000,"Project Agreement","This project funding will support Purple Code carrying out legal assistance, tech and psycho-social assistance to victims of online gender-based violence."
Quid,"Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2023,890000,"Project Agreement","This grant will help Quid consolidate its operations for a longer time, offering support to the field in its work to mitigate for antidemocratic extremism that prevents underrepresented groups to participate in political decisions. It will be dedicated to expanding research capacity, amplifying campaign actions, and deepening partnerships within and outside of Brazil."
Reset,"Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,3500000,"Project Agreement","This funding is to support the overall activities of the organisation in addressing digital threats to democracy."
Reset,"Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,3000000,Other,"This funding is to support the overall activities of the organisation in addressing digital threats to democracy."
"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,530000,Other,"AfricaNoFilter supports storytellers and organisations already working to shift stereotypical narratives of Africa through the development of nuanced and contemporary stories. This grant will support AfricaNoFilter implement its strategic plan in accordance with its key pillars: grant-making, research, community building, and advocacy."
SAFEnet,"Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,300000,"General Funding Grant","This is a general support grant for SAFEnet to support their programmatic work on digital rights and freedom of expression, and to strengthen their organization."
"Siasa Place","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,240000,"General Funding Grant","A 2-year grant to Siasa Place to support core operations and program work. This grant's broad aim will be to promote youth participation in democratic processes through research, training, civic education, networking, and strategic partnerships."
"Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,400000,"General Funding Grant","This is a core grant to SERAP in support of their strategic litigation work to protect dissent and to expand the space for civic participation in Nigeria."
"Spaces for Change","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,50000,"Project Agreement","This is a grant to Spaces for Change to support the tracking and documentation of civic space issues arising from the 2023 general elections, the Nigerian judiciary's contributions to these, and provide recommendations on appropriate responses."
"Studio Citizen","Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,600000,Other,"Luminate supports the early stage development of Studio Citizen, a new Studio that integrates journalism into impact-driven nonfiction storytelling."
"Superrr Lab","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,400000,Other,"A 3-year unrestricted grant to support Superrr Lab?s work to develop visions and projects to create more equitable futures by researching technologies, building networks, and shaping new narratives. LSI is particularly interested in their work 1) opening up the tech debate to those most affected by digital technologies, including forming new networks and alliances beyond tech and, 2) replacing innovation narratives with sustainability, equity and inclusion, including providing a forum to build consensus between civil society organisations, establish points of action and present shared narratives."
"Systemic Justice","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,150000,Other,"An 18-month project grant to support research mapping on how technology causes harm to marginalised communities in Europe. The grant will support Systemic Justice to 1) develop bespoke non-extractive methodological approaches to research / investigate the harms experienced by marginalised communities across Europe and 2) publish the main mapping report and develop additional related outputs."
"Tecnología Sin Fines de Lucro","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,60000,"Project Agreement","This grant to Accionar.io contributes to the collaborative design of communication and mobilization strategies aimed at raising awareness and promoting the agendas of underrepresented groups, specifically women, youth, the LGBT+ community, and Indigenous peoples."
"The London Story","Participation & Dissent",Europe,2023,150000,Other,"To support the London Story's work to fight the impunity of the state and big tech in the info-sphere through the tracking of disinformation and hate speech online that lead to violations of human rights in particular in India and Europe."
"The New Humanitarian","Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,175000,"Project Grant","This is a project grant to help TNH advance their mission to create a model of decolonised journalism, a key component of their five-year strategy (2022-2026), then to provide practical insights and thought leadership to the wider sector of international journalism on the subject. More specifically, TNH's efforts will focus on creating content that is more inclusive and guided by the communities they serve, in order to better represent the issues that matter to them. In addition to nuturing talent from the Global South, TNH will also seek to create guidance based on their own and others' experience and by providing fora and a platform for awareness-raising and discussion."
"The Syria Campaign UK","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,100000,Other,"This grant is to support survivors and victims of disinformation campaigns in Syria to directly advocate to policymakers and tech companies about the harm caused by disinformation attacks and the need for Tech regulation."
"Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education","Participation & Dissent",Global,2023,400000,"Project Agreement","This is a renewal project agreement to the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education. The scope of this project is supporting Tshisimani in building transnational solidarity across the African continent through the African Solidarity Programme, and Education for Movement Building. This work is also part of a continued long-term investment to support Tshisimani in becoming  a global reference for activist education."
"Universidad Torcuato Di Tella","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,160000,"Project Agreement","To create a resilient network of women in Argentina, fostering collaboration and facilitating their advancement in political, economic, academic, and social leadership roles."
"University of Massachusetts Amherst","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,198811,"Project Grant","This research grant renewal will extend the partnership between Luminate and UMass Amherst digital politics researchers to develop high-impact action research that supports global civil society to address information disorders across diverse national contexts."
Uplift,"Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,120000,Other,"This grant will help Uplift launch a major public enquiry in Ireland on the role of Big Tech in Irish society and its failure in holding these companies to account in protecting all Europeans' data and digital rights."
Uplift,"Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,250000,Other,"This 2-year project grant will support the Hope and Courage Collective to grow an emergent ecosystem across civil society in Ireland at the intersections of tackling threats to democracy, the exponential rise of the far-right and the role of social media platforms in amplifying hate, discrimination, mis- and disinformation and thus exacerbating harms and negatively impacting democracy. This grant will help them to support an ecosystem so that it is better connected, more aligned, and better able to work together."
"Victory Institute","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,589254,"Project Grant","The proposed project grant will support the Victory Institute in strengthening the network and skills of LGBTQI+ leaders across Latin America; producing a two-volume research on the regional situation of the political participation of LGBTQI+ persons; and developing institutional capacity and resilience of the LGBTQI+ movement in Brazil."
Viewfinder,"Information Ecosystems",Africa,2023,50000,"Project Agreement","Through narrative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and inter-newsroom collaborations, Viewfinder seeks to make complex findings accessible to audiences across the spectrum of South African news media consumers. This is a tie-off grant to Viewfinder to enable them to continue and expand their investigations into police abuses and impunity."
"Vox Public","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2023,450000,Other,"A 2-year project grant to support VoxPublic to convene, facilitate, and coordinate a network of digital and non-digital civil society organisations in France to increase pressure on social media companies by questioning their business model and toxic practices regarding discrimination, spread of hate speech, and disinformation. VoxPublic will convene stakeholders to build knowledge and analysis, centre people who experience harm by social media platforms and other injustices, and campaign."
"Women in Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN)","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,120000,"Project Agreement","This grant will go towards supporting two of WILAN's activities, namely the Leading Woman Show and Women Running Circle, an aftercare programme for women politicians. It will also strengthen their MsRepresented project which is an online campaign for women misrepresented and underrepresented."
"Women Win","Information Ecosystems",Global,2023,650000,"Project Agreement","Grant to Nebula Fund, a new multi-year initiative that aims to strengthen the narrative power of progressive movements advancing gender justice to promote an inclusive, just, and hopeful vision of the future."
"Yaaj México","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2023,210000,"General Funding Grant","To support Yaaj in their efforts to enhance the political and civic participation of the LGBTI+ community in Mexico."
Yar'Adua,"Participation & Dissent",Africa,2023,300000,"Project Grant","This is a renewal of Luminate's contribution to the donor collaborative fund to protect human rights defenders such as journalists, media houses, and civil society partners in Nigeria who are victims of the shrinking civic space in Nigeria."
"Yayasan HIVOS","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,200000,"Project Agreement","This project funding will support Yayasan Hivos organise training of trainers, organization accompaniment, and mentorship on holistic safety and security."
"Yayasan Malaysiakini","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,100000,"Project Agreement","Yayasan Malaysiakini is a foundation formed under the auspices of Malaysiakini, Malaysia's oldest online news portal. Its main project Sokong, is a digital fundraising platform that aims to connect donors and nonprofits in Malaysia, in an effort to provide increased, consistent and long-term funding for these organisations."
#Jesuislà,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Europe,2022,350000,Other,"This grant is to support hiring the necessary staff to scale up it works to fight against online hate, disinformation, and harassment and encourages online citizenship."
"Africa Uncensored","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Africa,2022,70000,"Project Agreement","A project grant to Africa Uncensored (working in collaboration with Open Cities Lab and OdipoDev) to run an initiative called MyCandidate to help inform voters who they are able to vote for in their area with the aim of increasing informed participation."
"African Women in Media","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Africa,2022,100000,"Project Agreement","This is a grant to build capacity of young women journalists, improve the visibility and accessibility of young women in politics, and design a media toolkit for reporting on young women in politics."
"All Out","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2022,600000,"Project Agreement","All Out is a global organization advancing the rights and political agency of the LGBT+ community. They describe themselves as ""a global movement fighting for a world where no one has to sacrifice their family, freedom, safety, or dignity because of who they are or who they love""."
"Asylum Access","Participation & Dissent",Global,2022,300000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted support to Asylum Access, aiming in particular to strengthen its Global Systems Change work, which seeks to transform the refugee system into one that is led and influenced by refugees and host 
communities, and that prioritises efforts that defend refugee rights and secure access to services."
"Black Stripe Foundation","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2022,400000,"General Funding Grant","A two-year unrestricted sunset grant to the Black Stripe Foundation to support the production of the Big Debate - a popular TV show that brings together civil society, state actors and the general public to discuss issues of national interest to South Africans."
BudgIT,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Africa,2022,500000,"General Funding Grant","This grant will support BudgIT's citizen engagement, media advocacy, civic tech for participation and ecosystem building work."
"Caribe Afirmativo","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2022,582000,"Program Grant","This program grant to Caribe Afirmativo will support its work in Colombia, fostering LGBTIQ+ public policy."
"Connected Development (CODE)","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2022,400000,"General Funding Grant","This is a core grant to support Connected Development's programmatic work around participation in civic and political life, and operations in support of these programmes."
"Corporate Europe Observatory","Information Ecosystems",Europe,2022,150000,Other,"The funding will support CEO's work to expose Big Tech interference in EU decision-making, thereby strengthening the resolve of decision-makers to stand firm against such lobbying pressure."
"Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Europe,2022,1365455,Other,"The grant will enable DFF to provide increased funding to support strategic litigation to advance digital rights and Europe, centred around platform accountability and Big Tech. It will also enable DFF to facilitate and coordinate community strengthening and support activities relating to platform accountability and collective redress within Europe."
"East West Management Institute","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2022,1953193,"Program Grant","East-West Management Institute (EWMI)'s mentoring and capacity-building programme supports a cluster of organisations working to advance freedom of expression in Malaysia. The programme aims to strengthen the capacity of each organisation and develop their collective ability to coordinate and collaborate more effectively."
Ekō,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Europe,2022,950000,Other,"This grant will support Sum of Us in growing and mobilising their European movements to demand their rights be enforced under data protection regulations in Europe. This work will focus on ending the destructive behaviour of digital platforms."
"Engage Media","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2022,203430,"Project Grant","A project grant focused on building the capacity of Indonesian civil society in defending digital rights through workshops and trainings, fostering and sustaining networks through advocacy and communication, building better understanding of the role of open technology to support civic actors, and enhancing civil society knowledge and communications."
"EU DisinfoLab","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Europe,2022,52000,Other,"This grant is to support EU Disinfo Lab in convening an annual conference that brings together experts and thinkers on the challenges of disinformation."
"Freedom Voices Network","Information Ecosystems",Global,2022,900000,"General Funding Grant","Forbidden Stories is a journalist network and cross-border newsroom that aims to secure the data and information of threatened journalists and, when journalists are arrested or killed, to continue and publish their investigative reporting."
"Fund for Global Human Rights","Participation & Dissent",Global,2022,400000,"General Funding Grant","To contribute to the Fund for Global Human Rights in supporting grassroots organisations working across the globe to enable activists to remain agile in the face of crackdowns on their work."
"Global Action Plan","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Europe,2022,240000,Other,"The grant will support Global Action Plan in engaging existing civil society coalitions and mass mobilisation groups in the European environment/development sectors to join the campaign to fix Big Tech. Through new research and analysis, GAP will engage the full breadth of the climate movement and expand its understanding of how Big Tech's business model is a fundamental obstacle to climate action."
"Global Fund for Women","Participation & Dissent",Global,2022,700000,"Program Grant","This is a restricted grant to the Global Fund for Women to kick off their initiative on movement-led grantmaking and support for gender justice movements worldwide, the Gender Justice Data Hub project."
"Global Witness","Financial Transparency",Global,2022,500000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted funding to Global Witness."
"Haki Yetu","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2022,100000,"General Funding Grant","To support Haki Yetu's work in civic empowerment to help underrepresented people to fully participate in governance and leadership in Kilifi, Kwale, and Mombasa counties."
Hostwriter,"Information Ecosystems",Global,2022,100000,"General Funding Grant","To support Hostwriter to meet its strategic objectives and its mission to help journalists collaborate across borders."
"Human Dignity Trust","Participation & Dissent",Global,2022,430000,"General Funding Grant","To support Human Dignity Trust to work towards the decriminalisation of LGBT+ people through strategic litigation and legislative reform."
"ICT Watch","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2022,171000,"Project Agreement","Supporting ICT Watch to extend and expand the capacity building workshops on the importance of privacy and digital literacy to national and local organisations in Indonesia."
"Igualada Film LLC","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2022,250000,"Project Agreement","To support IGUALADA, a film that tells the story of Francia Marquez, the first Afro-Colombian woman to run for president of Colombia."
InfluenceMap,"Information Ecosystems",Europe,2022,121270,Other,"The grant is to support InfluenceMap in developing an Ad Tracker to track, store and analyse advertising on the Facebook UK platform, to create awareness for disinformation/misinformation and green-washing propagated by fossil fuel corporations and other vested interests in relation to climate news."
"Institute for Integrated Transitions","Information Ecosystems",Global,2022,300000,"Project Agreement","To support the work of IFIT's Inclusive Narratives Practice Group, which is the world's first dedicated advisory platform on the need to construct and promote inclusive social and political narratives as part of any negotiation, dialogue, or transition process taking place in a fragile and conflict-affected society."
"Instituto Cultura e Democracia","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2022,210000,"Project Agreement","This project agreement will seek to strengthen Desinformante as a platform and specific connected initiatives that have a complementary role in monitoring and holding social media platforms accountable in Brazil's 2022 elections and the initial months of the new government."
"Instituto Update","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2022,600000,"Project Agreement","This Project Funding seeks to advance Update's work on campaigning (especially the implementation and expansion of its tech tools), storytelling, and research to improve the presence of women and other underrepresented groups in institutional politics. It will also seek to strengthen Update's institutional development."
"Lawyers Hub","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2022,75000,"Project Agreement","A project grant to Lawyer's Hub to support the convening of the 2022 Africa Law Tech Festival."
"Macondo Book Society","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2022,50000,"Project Agreement","A project grant to Macondo Book Society to support putting together the Macondo Festival as well as side events with the aim of creating avenues for youth to engage with information regarding the country's‚Äö (and continent's) history and current affairs and using this to inform debates on political issues with the aim of promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture."
"Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI)","Independent Media",Global,2022,800000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted funding to support Media Defense in advancing their strategic objectives around providing legal defense to journalists under threat."
"Nation Media Group","Information Ecosystems",Africa,2022,165000,"Project Agreement","A project grant to the Nation Media Group to relaunch the Weekly Review with a special focus on youth and youth-related issues in Kenya."
"Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD)","Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2022,30000,"Project Agreement","To support NIMD in increasing the representation of underrepresented groups in policymaking through civic participation methodologies and building capacities of congresspeople to carry out citizen-focused legislation."
"New Venture Fund","Information Ecosystems",Global,2022,350000,"Project Agreement","Unrestricted grant to Nebula Fund, a new multi-year initiative that aims to‚ strengthen the narrative power of progressive movements advancing gender justice to promote an inclusive, just and hopeful vision‚ of the future."
"New Venture Fund","Information Ecosystems","United States",2022,84000,Other,"This funding is part of Luminate's participation in the NetGain Partnership, a philanthrophic collaboration seeking to advance the public interest in the digital age. NetGain's current work is focused on addressing the harms wrought by Big Tech and exploring and advancing meaningful reform."
Nexo,"Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2022,250000,"Project Agreement","Nexo is a Brazilian award-winning, digital-only independent media organisation."
Nossas,"Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2022,515000,"General Funding Grant","Sunset core grant to support the continuity of their work at a national scale in Brazil."
"Olduvai Ltd","Information Ecosystems, Participation & Dissent",Africa,2022,300000,"Project Agreement","This is a 24-month grant to support Scrolla's ambitions to establish Scrolla.Africa as the pre-eminent popular mobile news platform in South Africa, with the aim to expand its work into the rest of southern Africa, and later to create regional hubs in Nigeria and Kenya."
"Open Cities Lab","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Africa,2022,400000,"General Funding Grant","A 2-year grant to Open Cities Lab to support core operations and program work. The broad aim of this grant will be to facilitate the provision of reliable information to citizens of various countries, especially Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, to enable participation in civic and political life."
"Privacy International (PI)","Participation & Dissent",Global,2022,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support Privacy International, which advocates for the right to privacy for everyone, everywhere. Privacy International works to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from institutions who breach public trust."
"Producciones P.P. México","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2022,175000,"Project Agreement","To support a documentary about journalists in Mexico"
"Reporters Without Borders","Information Ecosystems",Global,2022,300000,Other,"A two year grant to support the Forum on Information and Democracy expand its influence into new geographies outside Europe and build institutional capacity."
"Res Non Verba","Information Ecosystems","Latin America",2022,277000,"Project Grant","Seed funding to support the establishment and implementation of Civic Compass, an initiative focusing on the intersection of technology, the internet and representative democracy in Latin America."
"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors","Information Ecosystems",Global,2022,500000,Other,"A two year core grant renewal to support IFPIM to pilot its programs in its geographies of focus and build its institutional operations."
"Samosa Festival Ltd","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2022,30000,"Project Agreement","A one-year project grant to support work on promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture through digitization and dissemination of visual representations of history and hosting sessions to engage the youth on themes arising."
"School of Politics, Policy and Governance","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2022,400000,"Project Agreement","This is a core operating grant support to the School of Politics, Policy, and Governance, a school that seeks to build a base and pipeline of a new value-based and disruptive thinking political class with the requisite knowledge and skills to solve complex problems of development."
Stears,"Information Ecosystems",Africa,2022,150000,"Project Agreement","This is a grant to support Stears in building an election situation room which is designed to engage internet enabled Nigerians who want to follow the elections, an estimated audience of 33 million people."
TASCK,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Africa,2022,350000,"Project Agreement","TASCK is a creative company with access to a wide network of creative influencers across many fields, across Nigeria and Africa. They have engaged the creative space in Nigeria including the movie, music, art, fashion, etc. industries and worked to harness the the power of creatives for advocacy and social change."
Temblores,"Participation & Dissent","Latin America",2022,430000,"Program Grant","To strengthen Temblores's legal support for police violence victims, the Observatory on Police Violence and Global Network Against Police Violence."
"The Citizens","Information Ecosystems",Global,2022,175000,Other,"The grant is to support the Citizens' project that will bring the skills and knowledge of filmmakers, academics, campaigners, lawyers, scientists and activists to the service of public interest journalism on issues around Big Tech."
"The Engine Room","Participation & Dissent",Global,2022,350000,"General Funding Grant","To support The Engine Room, which does work to ensure that social justice movements can use technology and date in safe, responsible and strategic ways, while actively mitigating the vulnerabilities created by digital systems."
"The Markup","Information Ecosystems",Global,2022,900000,"General Funding Grant","The Markup undertakes data driven investigations of tech and how it influences society."
"The Signals Network","Participation & Dissent",Europe,2022,50650,Other,"Luminate's support to The Signals Network will fund the launch of its Tech Accountability Project (TAP) in Europe. The support will help The Signal Network expand its proven process and expertise in supporting whistleblowers and coordinating media investigations to the technology industry to Europe while also expanding its resources offering to empower more whistleblowers and show the impact whistleblowers make."
"Tifa Foundation","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2022,250000,"Project Agreement","This project funding will support TIFA Foundation carrying out research, convenings, and policy advocacy work"
"University of Massachusetts Amherst","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2022,266450,"Project Grant","A grant to a research coalition based in the University of Massachusetts Amherst that aims to support original research, develop policy advocacy, and provide capacity-building on technology accountability in/from the global South."
"Women Win","Participation & Dissent",Global,2022,450000,Other,"To support Numun Fund, the first dedicated funding for feminist tech in, and for the Larger World, aka the Global South. Its aim is to seed and sustain feminist technology infrastructure for movement organising, understanding that digital technologies to be an important part of movement infrastructure."
"Yiaga Africa","Participation & Dissent",Africa,2022,300000,"Project Agreement","This is a two-year general operating grant to support Yiaga Africa's work in support of youth and women's civic participation in Nigeria."
"Access Now","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2021,57000,"Project Agreement","To support a collaborative effort between Access Now and Observacom, addressing content moderation practices and aiming to guarantee user's freedom of expression online in Argentina."
"Accountability Counsel","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To provide an unrestricted grant to Accountability Counsel."
"ALT Advisory","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,300000,"Project Agreement","To support ALT Advisory's work towards an effective digital and information rights landscape in South Africa and in the region more broadly."
"Amazon Land Documentary","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,313600,"Project Agreement","To support The Territory, a film that tells the story of an Indigenous community - the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people - in the Brazilian Amazon and their struggle to keep their land."
"America's Voice","Civic Empowerment","United States",2021,500000,"Project Agreement","To provide funding for America's Voice to strengthen pro-immigrant strategic communications and advocacy to achieve pro-immigrant policies."
"Article 19","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2021,350000,"Project Agreement","To support Article 19's Digital Rights Program to enable a more favorable digital environment for exercising human rights, especially freedom of expression and access to information in Mexico"
Aspiration,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,756000,Other,"To support AI Now Institute (Cadence), a project housed at Aspiration Tech, that works to produce interdisciplinary research and public education on the social implications of artificial intelligence, and the industry responsible for it."
"Association for Progressive Communications (APC)","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,350000,"Project Grant","To provide a project grant to APC for capacity building of digital rights defenders, connecting them to other actors in the space, and supporting the work of different actors to promote a human rights-based approach to information and communications technology (ICT) policy making and advocacy in Southeast Asia."
"Big Cabal","Independent Media",Africa,2021,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To fund Big Cabal Media with seed equity investment to support the scaling of their core operations, storytelling, and citizen engagement media platforms"
"Brand New Bundestag","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2021,60000,"Project Agreement","To support Brand New Bundestag's work to find and support new progressive candidates to run for political office in Germany."
"BuscaVida Filmes","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,"For-profit figures not reported","Project Agreement","To support Dystopia, a Brazilian documentary that will shed a light on the COVID-19 crisis in the country."
CANVAS,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2021,400000,"General Funding Grant","To contribute to CANVAS' work in advocating for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy."
"Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism)","Independent Media",Africa,2021,200000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core operating support to Premium Times Centre for Investigation (PTCIJ) and their efforts at improving Nigeria's investigative journalism landscape, promoting press freedom in Nigeria, and for the expansion of Dubawa, their factchecking platform."
"Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística (CLIP)","Independent Media","Latin America",2021,300000,"Project Grant","To support CLIP,  a non-profit association composed of a Latin American team, which conducts and coordinates collaborative cross-border journalistic investigations and puts its technological innovations at the service of journalism in the region. Through its investigations, always carried out with Latin America's media and journalists, CLIP seeks to serve as a secure platform for exchange and hard-hitting journalism."
Chequeado,"Independent Media","Latin America",2021,310000,"General Funding Grant","To provide Chequeado with core support."
"Chicken and Egg Pictures","Independent Media",Global,2021,300000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted core support for Chicken & Egg Pictures' work that promotes more inclusive documentary film makers."
"Citizens' Gavel","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,200000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to Citizens' Gavel's operations and implementation of their strategy over two years."
ClientEarth,"Financial Transparency",Global,2021,80000,"Project Grant","To support ClientEarth's ongoing work to embed proper consideration of climate change and other environmental and social risks and impacts into the heart of accounting and audit practices, and ensure appropriate accountability and governance."
"Co-Creation Hub","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,"For-profit figures not reported",Other,"To support CcHub's GoVote initiative geared towards improving citizens' participation in elections through voter education, registration, and voter-turnout activities."
"Co-op Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,675000,"Program Grant","To provide a renewal grant to the Coop Foundation to support the Federation programme in Manchester."
"Community Initiatives","Civic Empowerment",Global,2021,200000,Other,"To contribute to the Global Philanthropy Project in supporting organisations working across the globe to defend and claim LGBTI rights."
"Community Partners","Civic Empowerment","United States",2021,200000,Other,"To provide support to Storyline Partners to strengthen the field of narrative change for civic empowerment in the United States."
"Cuestión Pública","Independent Media","Latin America",2021,110000,"Project Agreement","Cuestion Publica - 2021 Project Agreement"
"Debunk Media","Independent Media",Africa,2021,220000,"Project Agreement","To support Debunk Media, a pioneer in digital media in Africa using the art of storytelling to make sense of public interest issues."
"Diga Communications","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,40000,"Project Agreement","To provide coordination and campaign leadership for audit reform and scope future opportunities."
"Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To renew unrestricted support to Digital Freedom Fund's grant-making and field building in digital rights."
"Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative (DRLI)","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,100000,"Program Grant","To support two activities at DRLI: 1) publication of review of digital rights judgments, and 2) litigation surgeries to deepen digital rights in Nigeria with a view to ensuring that Nigerians' digital rights are comprehensively protected."
Disclose,"Independent Media",Europe,2021,150000,"General Funding Grant","To support Disclose, a not-for-profit organisation which bridges twin activities as both a media outlet and an NGO to promote investigative journalism."
"e-Governance Academy","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,342000,"Project Grant","To support e-Governance Academy, an Estonian CSO founded in 2002, in conducting ecosystem building research, namely investigating the widening gap in Ukraine and Georgia in terms of digital literacy, access to digital tools, and digital skills among various vulnerable groups."
Economy,"Financial Transparency",Global,2021,50000,Other,"To support Economy in developing framing, narrative, and language around audit reform and to co-produce with organisations working on audit reform a short public education course on accounting and audit reform."
"Education as a Vaccine (EVA)","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,35000,"Project Grant","To uphold the rights of young people especially young women to utilize digital technology for accessing information and as a social accountability tool and to strengthen their understanding on digital rights and interlinkage with other rights."
"El Espectador","Independent Media","Latin America",2021,65000,"Project Agreement","To support La Pulla's 2022 election project, which has two main goals: encouraging voters to head to the polls and educating young people from different regions of the country on electoral matters."
"ELSAM (The Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy)","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,300000,"Project Agreement","To support the organisation's work towards the inclusion of human rights principles in policies and regulations in Indonesia, with specific focus to strengthen the protection of digital rights in Indonesia."
"Estonian Human Rights Centre","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,166000,"Project Grant","To support Estonian Human Rights Centre, an independent  non-governmental human rights organisation to develop their digital rights competence and raise awareness in the field."
"European Digital Rights (EDRi)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,590000,"General Funding Grant","To support EDRi, the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online."
Extituto,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,210000,"General Funding Grant","To support Extituto's work in Colombia, fostering more representative, participative, and accountable governments."
"Fair Tax Foundation","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,260000,Other,"To support the internationalisation of the Fair Tax Mark accreditation scheme and the tax advocacy and research of the Fair Tax Foundation."
"Finance Uncovered","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,605000,"General Funding Grant","To provide an unrestricted grant to Finance Uncovered, an organization that magnifies the quantity and quality of illicit finance stories in the arena of global investigative journalism."
"Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC)","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,200000,Other,"To support the work of the Financial Transparency Coalition."
"Full Fact","Independent Media",Global,2021,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Full Fact, the UK's leading independent fact checking charity."
"Fund for Constitutional Government","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,232500,Other,"To support the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a project that brings together journalists, programmers, academics, and advocates to identify ways to tackle specific dimensions of illicit financial flows."
"Fundacja Reporterów","Independent Media",Europe,2021,160000,"Project Grant","To support Fundacja Reporterow to launch an independent, sustainable, non-profit investigative newsroom frontstory.pl in Poland."
"Global Impact","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,75000,Other,"To support an Open Ownership research project into the private sector costs and benefits of Beneficial Ownership Transparency."
"Global Press Institute","Independent Media",Global,2021,800000,"General Funding Grant","Unrestricted funding to support Global press advance their strategic objectives around audience, revenue and internal operations."
"Greenpeace UK","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,104147,"Project Agreement","To support Greenpeace UK's efforts in ensuring audit is fit for purpose in the 21st century, including the production of Paris-aligned financial statements, through building increased scrutiny of and pressure on auditors and their regulators among civil society and investors."
"Greenpeace UK","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,86000,Other,"To support Greenpeace UK's efforts in ensuring audit is fit for purpose in the 21st century, including the production of Paris-aligned financial statements, through building increased scrutiny of and pressure on auditors and their regulators among civil society and investors."
"Haki Africa","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,220000,"General Funding Grant","To support Haki Africa's Haki Mtaani project."
Hostwriter,"Independent Media",Global,2021,100000,"General Funding Grant","To provide a planning grant to Hostwriter to build out their decentralized newsroom's content and distribution strategy."
"ICT Watch","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,70000,"Project Agreement","To support series of workshops on privacy, personal data protection, and digital security in twelve provinces across Indonesia."
IDEAS,"Financial Transparency",Asia,2021,300000,"General Funding Grant","To support IDEAS' organisational strengthening, development of advocacy tools and strategic communications, and to support their goal of deepening research into financial transparency."
"Instituto Betty & Jacob Lafer","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,40000,"Project Agreement","To support Instituto Betty & Jacob Lafer, a Brazilian philanthropic organization that focuses its grant-making and activities in empowering Brazilian organizations and offering support to agendas such as the defense of democracy, public security, data & digital rights, and human rights more broadly."
"Instituto de Referência Negra Peregum","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,250000,"Project Agreement","To support the Peregum Black Reference Institute."
"Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,80000,Other,"To support the Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS), a non-profit that uses technology opportunities to drive positive social change."
"Instituto Igarapé","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,120000,"Project Grant","To support Instituto Igarape, an independent think and do tank devoted to evidence-based policy and action on complex security, justice, and development challenges in Brazil, Latin America, and Africa."
"Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,250000,"Project Grant","To support Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), a non-profit and non-governmental organization that seeks to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples, working closely with the Indigenous movement in Brazil."
"International Budget Partnership Kenya","Financial Transparency",Africa,2021,400000,"General Funding Grant","To support IBP Kenya in deepening the capacity and agency of citizens to influence the inclusivity, transparency, and responsiveness of national and county budgets, especially on budget execution."
"International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)","Independent Media",Global,2021,1500000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to carry out impactful cross-border investigations."
"International Lawyers Project (ILP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,150000,"General Funding Grant","To provide an unrestricted grant to the International Lawyers Project."
"International Women's Media Foundation","Independent Media",Global,2021,512000,"General Funding Grant","To provide an unrestricted core grant to the International Women's Media Foundation to support journalists around the world."
JoinPolitics,"Civic Empowerment",Europe,2021,200000,Other,"To support JoinPolitics, a new organisation and fund in Germany with a mission to seed capital for political talents. JoinPolitics empowers political talent and teams (individuals who want to run for office, or teams who want to work on specific political issues/projects) to develop and implement innovative solutions to the big political challenges of our times."
"Just Futures Law","Civic Empowerment","United States",2021,600000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating funding for Just Futures Law as they provide innovative legal support that strengthens the immigrant rights and racial justice movements, centering the leadership and lived experience of organizers, activists, and base-building community groups."
JustaPaz,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,71600,"Project Agreement","To support JustaPaz's 2022 Elections project in Colombia. This project will seek to increase the representation of historically marginalized groups in Congress both before and after elections."
"Katiba Institute","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,600000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted support to Katiba Institute, which works to achieve social transformation in Kenya through the Constitution. It uses research, collaborative workshops on constitutional issues, public interest litigation, and advocacy to achieve economic and social progress for all Kenyans through full implementation of the Constitution."
"La Silla Vacía","Independent Media","Latin America",2021,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support La Silla Vacía, a Colombian independent digital media outlet, which offers quality, investigative reporting about Colombian politics."
Liberty,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Liberty, an independent membership organisation that challenges injustice, defends freedom, and campaigns to make sure everyone in the UK is treated fairly."
"Mathare Social Justice Centre","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,80000,"Project Agreement","To support MSJC's work to promote social justice through engaged community and social movement platforms."
medConfidential,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,50000,Other,"To support MedConfidential's core work campaigning for confidentiality and consent in health and social care."
"Merdeka Center","Civic Empowerment",Asia,2021,450500,"Project Agreement","To provide project funding to carry out a youth empowerment and leadership program towards the goal of youth voter engagement and mobilisation in semi-rural and rural communities."
Mutante,"Independent Media","Latin America",2021,75000,"Project Grant","To provide a project grant to Mutante to support the organization's non-partisan 2022 Elections project in Colombia. This project aims to increase youth representation in 2022 Congress agendas, focusing on raising the voices of young people who mobilized and participated in the 2021 social protests."
Namati,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,360000,"Project Grant","To support Namati's work in Kenya on the Right to Citizenship."
"New America","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,305000,"Program Grant","To support Ranking Digital Rights, a programme that works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users rights."
"New Venture Fund","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,400000,Other,"To support Digital Action's work coordinating policy engagement and advocacy, and encouraging collaboration on digital rights."
"New York University","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,305000,"Program Grant","To support The Governance Lab's Data Programme."
Nexo,"Independent Media","Latin America",2021,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Nexo, a media organisation that produces analytic and data journalism, providing audiences with high-quality content while also testing different approaches to business development."
"No Ficción","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,85000,"Project Agreement","To support the implementation of impact campaigns for films highlighting the crisis of impunity in Mexico."
"None on Record","Independent Media",Global,2021,302500,"Project Grant","To provide a restricted project grant to None on Record to support AQ studios in building out its content and team as it scales its growth and to provide executive coaching support."
OBSERVACOM,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2021,57000,"Project Agreement","To support a collaborative effort between Access Now and Observacom, addressing content moderation practices and aiming to guarantee user's freedom of expression online in Argentina."
"Olas Altas Productora","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,50000,"Project Agreement","To support an impact campaign for ""La Vocera"", a film about the first indigenous woman to formally aspire to the Mexican Presidency. The impact campaign for the film is designed to contribute to the effort of making Mexican politics more inclusive and representative."
"Open Data Manchester","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,240000,"Program Grant","To support the educational, training and engagement work of Open Data Manchester, a community group that advocates for responsible and intelligent data practice in Greater Manchester and beyond."
"Open Institute International","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,400000,"General Funding Grant","To support expanding Open Institute's active citizen work at the Kenyan Coast."
OpenCorporates,"Financial Transparency",Global,2021,500000,"Project Agreement","To support OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world."
openDemocracy,"Independent Media",Europe,2021,630000,"Project Grant","To support openDemocracy, an independent media organisation."
"Our Future Engagement and Empowerment Initiative","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,200000,"Project Agreement","To support the Run-To-Win initiative that aims to increase the capacity and chances of youths in Nigeria to participate and get voted into elected offices."
"Paradigm Initiative","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,105000,"Program Grant","To support PIN, which is working as part of a cohort to strengthen the data and digital rights ecosystem in Nigeria. PIN will address threats and challenges to digital rights in Nigeria through a blend of: 1) building capacity of civil society actors; 2) supporting strategic litigation efforts; and 3) raising public awareness of digital and data rights more broadly."
"Paris Peace Forum","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,80000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support to the annual Paris Peace Forum to mobilise collective action around governance and to the organisation helping implement and develop the most promising projects and solutions presented at the annual event."
"Pilot Media Initiatives","Independent Media",Africa,2021,145000,"Project Agreement","To provide a project grant to PMI to, in collaboration with Buni Media, launch the first season of a news and political satire TV show in Kenya."
"Plop Media","Independent Media","Latin America",2021,230000,"Project Agreement","To support Plop Media in producing satirical multimedia content focused on political topics that engage young audiences in Latin America."
"POGO Action","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,150000,Other,"To support the FACT Coalition project."
"Public Benefit Journalism Research Centre","Independent Media",Europe,2021,43000,"Project Agreement","To support the Public Benefit Journalism Research Centre, a group of journalists, media experts, funders, academics, and lawyers working together to research Public Benefit Journalism."
"Public Services International (PSI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,65000,"Project Agreement","To support the growth of labour and civil society co-ordination to build power for change in corporate tax and transparency rules."
Quid,"Independent Media","Latin America",2021,400000,"Project Agreement","To support Quid, a non-profit dedicated to improving Brazil's public debate by researching, testing, and implementing new narratives against disinformation and hate speech."
"Reimagine Politics Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2021,1700000,"Project Agreement","To support a fund and incubator that will develop a nascent ecosystem in Europe working to reimagine political power: who holds it; how it's exercised; and how people connect to it."
"Represent Justice","Civic Empowerment","United States",2021,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Represent Justices work to turn stories about injustices within the criminal legal system into action to change the system, while building power within system-impacted communities to build a movement for change."
"Res Non Verba","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,400000,Other,"To support The Open Data Charter, a project at Civic House that aims to make data open and freely available, while protecting the rights of people and communities."
"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors","Independent Media",Africa,2021,500000,Other,"To provide unrestricted core funding to support Africa No Filter in advancing their narrative change work across the African continent."
"Ruta Cívica","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,300000,Other,"To support Aina's programmatic work in advancing the participation of women in Mexican politics by supporting them through training, mentorship, and other activities designed to gradually tackle entrenched barriers to enter or stay in public decision-making processes at every level (neighborhood, city, state, and national levels)."
SAFEnet,"Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,199900,Other,"To support the organisation in advancing the work on digital rights violation monitoring and in increasing the digital rights and digital security awareness in Indonesia."
"Spotlight on Corruption","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,115000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted support to Spotlight on Corruption."
"Stanford University","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2021,400000,"Project Grant","To support Stanford's Cyber Policy Center in their research, project, and writing/editing work"
"Sundance Institute","Independent Media",Global,2021,300000,"Project Grant","To provide additional funds to support independent filmmakers and finalise the ongoing evaluation of the Sundance Institute | Luminate Fund."
"Tax Justice Network","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,100000,"Program Grant","To support the work of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) on global corporate tax reform"
"The Accountability Lab","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,400000,"General Funding Grant","To support Accountability Lab's South Africa and Nigeria country programs for two years."
"The Citizens","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,350000,Other,"To support The Citizens, an organisation with a mission to use impact journalism to hold government and big tech to account."
"The Conversation Indonesia","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,200000,Other,"To support TCID in curating and distributing research-based and credible content on digital rights, digital democracy, and other socio-political issues in Indonesia."
"The Glitch","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2021,150000,"General Funding Grant","To support Glitch, a not-for-profit organisation working towards ending online abuse."
"The Praxis Project","Civic Empowerment","United States",2021,500000,Other,"To support UndocuBlack's work to advocate for legislation and executive actions to protect and provide permanent immigration status relief to Black undocumented immigrants facing the dual threat of xenophobia and racism."
"Tous Elus","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2021,100000,"Project Agreement","To support Tous Elus, which exists to increase representation in politics by providing people with the information they need to participate in elections, supporting people who typically do not stand for election to do so, and building national and local community to bring energy and imagination to local democracy."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,200000,Other,"To support the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI), a donor collaborative working toward a world where citizens are informed and empowered, governments are open and responsive, and collective action advances the public good. Luminate is a founding member of TAI, and participates in this collaborative alongside many of the largest donors in the transparency, accountability, and participation field."
"Transparency International EU","Financial Transparency",Global,2021,30000,Other,"To support Transparency International EU's advocacy on country-by-country reporting on tax in the EU."
"Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,150000,"Project Agreement","To enable the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education to grow their regional work, and to operate as an activist education centre across multiple African countries"
Undocublack,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2021,500000,Other,"To support UndocuBlack's work to advocate for legislation and executive actions to protect and provide permanent immigration status relief to Black undocumented immigrants facing the dual threat of xenophobia and racism."
"United We Dream","Civic Empowerment","United States",2021,1200000,"General Funding Grant","To support UWD Network's movement building work to ensure that undocumented immigrant youth are centered in immigrant rights advocacy efforts."
"United We Dream Action","Civic Empowerment","United States",2021,800000,Other,"To support UWD Action's c4 policy advocacy efforts to ensure full protections for undocumented immigrants in the United States."
"University of Johannesburg","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,100000,"Program Grant","To support University of Johannesburg's Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP) to carry out advocacy and further investigative reporting of instances of state-surveillance in Southern Africa."
"University of the Witwatersrand Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2021,215000,"Program Grant","To support the Civic Tech Innovation Network, a community of practice based at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa that aims to advance research, learning, and application in the field of civic tech in southern Africa."
Upturn,"Data & Digital Rights","United States",2021,750000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted core support for Upturn's work to promote equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology."
Viewfinder,"Independent Media",Africa,2021,100000,"Project Agreement","To support Viewfinder in scaling its model for long term, data-driven investigations."
"Washington Office on Latin America","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2021,800000,"Program Grant","To provide a renewal grant to WOLA to support its work fostering civil society efforts in the region that seek to build democratic governance, attack systemic corruption, defend human rights, secure peace, and promote equity, especially in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico."
"World Wide Web Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,250000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to the Web Foundation."
Abraji,"Independent Media","Latin America",2020,230000,"General Funding Grant","To support The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism - Abraji, a non-profit institution composed of and run by journalists,  dedicated to improving Brazilian journalism and defending freedom of expression."
"Access Now","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,1100000,"Project Grant","To provide general operating support to Access Now and to its work in Central & Eastern Europe."
"Africa Check","Independent Media",Africa,2020,450000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core funding to Africa Check for their factchecking work across the continent."
"All Out","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2020,300000,Other,"To support All Out's work in Latin America, particularly related to empowering LGBT+ people in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico."
"ALT Advisory","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2020,100000,Other,"To support Alt Advisory's research, analysis, and policy work on data and digital rights issues arising directly and indirectly from the COVID-19 pandemic."
amaBhungane,"Independent Media",Africa,2020,375000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to amaBhungane, a non-profit organisation that conducts and develops investigative journalism to promote free, capable media and open, accountable, just democracy."
"Amalgamated Foundation","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,500000,"Project Grant","To support Amalgamated Foundations' Families and Workers Fund."
"Amalgamated Foundation","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,500000,Other,"To support Emergent Fund's COVID relief efforts that assist communities in responding to rapidly changing conditions and in seeking long-term social justice and economic justice."
amandla.mobi,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2020,600000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general support to amandla.mobi, which empowers anyone to initiate both online and offline campaigns to protest for a more just society and take co-ordinated, strategic action."
"American Immigration Council","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,500000,"Program Grant","To support the operations and goals of the American Immigration Council's Immigrant Justice Campaign."
"Amnesty International","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,200000,"Project Grant","To support a multi-year programme of work focussed on disrupting the surveillance-based business models of big tech companies."
Artemisas,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2020,25000,Other,"To support Artemisas' work aiming to protect the right to peacefully assemble and de-stigmatize social demonstrations in Colombia."
"Asylum Access","Civic Empowerment",Global,2020,400000,"Program Grant","To support Asylum Access' Global Systems Change work which seeks to transform the refugee system into one that is led and influenced by refugees and host communities, and that prioritises efforts that defend refugee rights and secure access to services."
"Atlantic Council","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2020,45000,"Project Grant","To support the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)'s work to research and understand misinformation flows in Nigeria."
"Avina Americas","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2020,1800000,"Program Grant","To support the ALTEC project, providing the resources necessary for the project to fund civic empowerment organisations, social movements, and rapid-response campaigns which are striving to protect civic space and democratic governance."
"Betterplace Lab","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2020,180000,"Project Grant","To support Betterplace Lab's project to foster healthy and productive collaboration between social change organisations in Germany."
"Black Stripe Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2020,400000,"Project Grant","To support The Big Debate, a townhall debate TV show produced by the Black Stripe Foundation that provides a unique platform for public engagement that helps to promote informed discussion and accountability on critical topics."
BudgIT,"Financial Transparency",Africa,2020,950000,"General Funding Grant","To support BudgIT's core civic engagement, service delivery, and transparency programmes in Nigeria."
"Citizens' Gavel","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2020,50000,Other,"To support Citizens' Gavel's Covid-19 legal empowerment work in Nigeria."
"Civic Hall Labs","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,150000,"General Funding Grant","To assist Civic Hall in transitioning from a physical co-working space and programming to a virtual community."
CODA,"Independent Media",Europe,2020,319200,"Project Grant","To support the CODA team in their plans for sustainability and developing business model and audience related processes."
"Code for America","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,1750000,"General Funding Grant","To support Code for America, an organization working to make government work in the digital age for the people who need it most."
Colab.re,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2020,"For-profit figures not reported",,"This convertible seeks to support Colab, a Brazilian civic tech company, which provides a platform for citizens to engage with local governments and utility companies."
"Connected Development (CODE)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2020,400000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core operating support to Connected Development, to support their work to empower citizens in Nigeria to participate in holding government accountable for public spending."
"Corporate Accountability Network","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,40000,Other,"To support CAN in building an understanding of the need for audit reform by communicating the technically complex issues involved in a way that is understandable to the media, public, politicians, and the tax and accounting professions."
Correctiv,"Independent Media",Europe,2020,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Correctiv, an independent, non-profit media organisation in Germany that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy."
"Democracy Works","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,250000,"General Funding Grant","To support Democracy Works' efforts to increase their R&D capabilities to make their voter engagement tools even more effective at serving under-reached voter populations."
"Démocratie Ouverte","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2020,200000,Other,"To support Démocratie Ouverte, an independent, non-partisan, non-profit collective which seeks to integrate more transparency, participation, and collaboration into political systems and organisations."
"Directorio Legislativo","Financial Transparency","Latin America",2020,200000,"General Funding Grant","To support Directorio Legislativo's work in Argentina and Latin America, with a focus on strengthening Directorio Legislativo's in-house communications expertise; stabilizing impact in the anti-corruption and transparency field and opening two legislatures at the subnational level in Argentina; leveraging the Open Government Partnership leadership opportunity."
"East West Management Institute","Civic Empowerment",Asia,2020,800206,"Project Grant","To support East West Management Institute's work in Malaysia strengthening Freedom of Expression civil society organizations"
"East West Management Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2020,349618,"Program Grant","To support EWMI-ODI work to: (i) build the constituency of Indigenous Peoples who assert and promote Indigenous Data Sovereignty; (ii) build the capacities within the Indigenous Peoples communities to adapt technology to changing circumstances without external assistance; and (iii) develop the Indigenous Data Sovereignty framework that is reflective of Indigenous Peoples in Asia and ensure the use of this framework to involve Indigenous Peoples in policy development."
"El Veinte","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,50000,Other,"To support the initiative ""COVID-19 Index and Digital Rights"" (Index), an alliance of NGOs working together to monitor and address the digital rights implications of regulatory, technical, and public policy measures in response to COVID-19 in Colombia."
"Engage Media","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2020,200000,"General Funding Grant","To develop and strengthen the data and digital rights network and ecosystem in Southeast Asia through convening, peer-learning, and series of research and advocacy."
"European Journalism Centre","Independent Media",Europe,2020,54000,Other,"To support IJ4EU (Investigative Journalism for Europe), a fund that supports cross-border investigative journalism in Europe."
Foxglove,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,300000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support for Foxglove."
"Frontiers of Tech Governance","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,200000,Other,"To support stakeholder engagement around convening an international effort on digital rights."
"Fund for Constitutional Government","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,100000,"Program Grant","To support the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a project that brings together journalists, programmers, academics, and advocates to identify ways to tackle specific dimensions of transnational corruption flows."
"Fund for Global Human Rights","Civic Empowerment",Global,2020,380000,"Program Grant","To contribute to the Fund for Global Human Rights in supporting grassroots organisations working across the globe to enable activists to remain agile in the face of crackdowns on their work."
"Fund for the City of New York","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,1800000,"Program Grant","To support the Open Contracting Partnership to continue advancing work globally to make public procurement more transparent and effective."
"Fund for the City of New York","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,9500,"Project Grant","To provide partner support to Open Data Charter."
"Fundación Vía Libre","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,60000,Other,"To support The Citizen Initiative for the Control of the Intelligence System (ICCSI), an initiative dedicated to monitoring and promoting the effective operation of control mechanisms over the intelligence system of Argentina."
"Georgetown University","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,1000000,"Program Grant","To provide general operating support to the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law."
"GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,300000,"General Funding Grant","To support GFF's work to establish a sustainable structure for successful strategic litigation in the area of human and civil rights in Germany and Europe."
"Global Disinformation Index","Independent Media",Global,2020,800000,"General Funding Grant","To support Global Disinformation Index, which aims to disrupt, defund and down-rank disinformation sites. It collectively works with governments, business, and civil society and operates on three core principles of neutrality, independence, and transparency."
"Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT)","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,150000,"Program Grant","To support the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), a muti-stakeholder programme of the International Budget Partnership addressing challenges in fiscal transparency and participation."
"Human Dignity Trust","Civic Empowerment",Global,2020,380000,"Project Grant","To support Human Dignity Trust to work towards the decriminalisation of LGBT people through strategic litigation and legislative reform."
"Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,150000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to ILDA to expand its work on open data through applied research, experimental pilots, and agenda building."
"Institute for Public Policy Research","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,66000,Other,"To support IPPR in putting the need for profound reform of the auditing industry on the political map in the UK through a programme of research, policy development, and engagement with business and political stakeholders."
"Instituto Igarapé","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,400000,Other,"To support the Igarapé Institute, a non-profit and independent think and do tank focused on delivering data-driven and evidence-based solutions for security, justice, climate, and development challenges."
"Instituto Update","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2020,190000,Other,"To support Update Institute, a Brazilian organisation that studies and fosters civic engagement and political innovation in Latin America, seeking increased representation in politics and higher trust in democracy across the region."
"Instituto Vladimir Herzog","Independent Media","Latin America",2020,200000,"Project Grant","To support the Vladimir Herzog Institute (IVH), a Brazilian civil society organisation founded in 2010, which seeks to defend the values of Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom of Expression."
"International Budget Partnership (IBP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,150000,"Program Grant","To support the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), a muti-stakeholder programme of the International Budget Partnership addressing challenges in fiscal transparency and participation."
"International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)","Independent Media",Global,2020,100000,"Project Grant","To fund a global action research project to map the impact of the pandemic on journalism, and describe how journalists and news organisations are responding to it."
"International Lawyers Project (ILP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,18000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to the International Lawyers Project, who support local actors on economic inequality issues including corruption, tax reform, media freedom, and curbing illicit financial flows."
Internews,"Independent Media",Global,2020,500000,Other,"To support the Internews Rapid Response Fund, which is providing funding to small, local news organisations worldwide in the face of COVID-19."
Intervozes,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,110000,Other,"To support Intervozes, a non-profit civil society organisation established in 2003 to guarantee and improve the human right to communication, including freedom of expression and seeking, receiving and impart information and ideas, privacy, and data protection."
"Irish Council for Civil Liberties","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,150000,Other,"To support the Irish Council for Civil Liberties in delivering a program of work to protect the privacy rights and personal data of European-based internet users."
"Journalism Development Network","Independent Media",Global,2020,400000,"Project Grant","To provide two-year core funding to support OCCRP to diversify revenue, build capacity, and strengthen audience engagement."
LightboxAfrica,"Independent Media",Africa,2020,270000,Other,"To support an impact and awards campaign for Lightbox Studio's documentary film ""Softie""."
MAFINDO,"Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2020,40489.51,Other,"To support building the capacity of local fact-checkers in nine provinces in Indonesia to help debunking mis/disinformation in the lead up to the Indonesia 2020 local elections."
medConfidential,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,50000,Other,"To support MedConfidential's core work campaigning for confidentiality and consent in health and social care."
"Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)","Independent Media",Asia,2020,645234,"Project Grant","To support the Media Development Investment Fund's Southeast Asia Technical Assistance Programme."
"Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)","Independent Media",Global,2020,800000,Other,"To help MDIF launch the second round of the Membership Puzzle Project’s Membership in News Fund, to support newsrooms across the world with revenue experiments."
"Media Monitoring Africa","Independent Media",Africa,2020,450000,"General Funding Grant","To support MMA's media monitoring, policy submissions, strategic litigation, and stakeholder engagement."
MediaJustice,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,750000,"General Funding Grant","To support MediaJustice's work to build a movement at the intersection of data and digital rights and racial justice, organising around the unique challenges of sustaining grassroots organisations in creating concerted, amplified change. MediaJustice centers the rights and voices of people of color, lower-income communities, and all those who face historic discrimination and disadvantage."
"Mozilla Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Multi-Country,2020,1500000,Other,"To establish the Data Futures Lab, a new initiative housed within Mozilla aimed at advancing work on new data stewardship models to enable collective action and collective rights in relation to data."
"National Conference on Citizenship","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,100000,"Project Grant","To support the National Conference on Citizenship's projects related to the 2020 Census."
"National Conference on Citizenship","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,100000,"Project Grant","To support NCOC's Public Data Integrity project to ensure census data integrity through coordination with experts and stakeholders in government and the private sector."
"Neo Philanthropy","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,2250000,"Project Grant","To support a donor collaborative working toward full integration of immigrants as active participants in our democracy."
"Network of European Foundations","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2020,700000,Other,"To renew support to Civitates - the Fund for Solidarity and Democracy in Europe."
"Network of European Foundations","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,550000,"Program Grant","To establish a pooled fund to strengthen an ecosystem for European public interest and civil society organisations to shape the direction of AI in Europe based on a diversity of actors and a plurality of goals that represents society as a whole."
"New America","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,25000,"Project Grant","To support the Ranking Digital Rights project."
"New Media Ventures","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,760000,Other,"To support New Media Ventures, a seed fund and angel network investing in media and technology startups that support advocacy movements, create new narratives, and drive civic engagement. This investment supports NMV's activities building the ecosystem and financing early-stage, for-profit and non-profit startups."
"New Media Ventures","Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,240000,Other,"To support New Media Ventures, a seed fund and angel network investing in media and technology startups that support advocacy movements, create new narratives, and drive civic engagement. This investment supports NMV's activities building the ecosystem and financing early-stage, for-profit and non-profit startups."
New/Mode,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2020,20000,Other,"To pilot an Accessibility Fund to subsidize the costs of online organizing tools for grassroots organizations and campaigns."
"Nuffield Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,250000,"Project Grant","To support the work of the Ada Lovelace Institute, with particular focus on the Institute's responsive work on COVID-19 and technology, and the Institute's international engagement."
"Open Collective Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Global,2020,275000,Other,"To support internet freedom projects through the ""Internet Freedom Support Fund"", jointly created with the Ford Foundation."
"Open Contracting Partnership","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,1800000,"Program Grant","To support the Open Contracting Partnership to continue advancing work globally to make public procurement more transparent and effective."
"Open Data Institute (ODI)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,1100000,"Program Grant","To support ODI's programmes on Data Institutions, Data Skills, and Data Assurance / Governance."
"Open Institute","Financial Transparency",Africa,2020,282000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Institute's operations and the Active Citizen Data and Government Responsiveness programmes."
"Open Knowledge Foundation Germany","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,975000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKFDE), a non-profit organisation focusing on the dissemination of free and openly accessible knowledge."
"Open Rights Group","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,75000,Other,"To support a project exploring the impact that British negotiations to leave the EU, alongside the agreement of new trade agreements, will have on data and digital rights protections."
"Open Secrets","Financial Transparency",Africa,2020,450000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support for Open Secrets' continued investigations and litigation against economic crimes."
OpenUp,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2020,650000,"General Funding Grant","To support tool development, open data, and data training to support an active citizenry and help communities and governments work better."
Outriders,"Independent Media",Europe,2020,300000,"Project Grant","To support Outriders, an independent media company established through a crowdfunding campaign in 2017 and based in Poland."
"Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2020,250000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core operating support to Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative, a civic organisation working to promote citizens’ active participation in the Nigerian public audit through its Value for Money project to foster public accountability, good governance, and development of rural communities."
"Paris Peace Forum","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,175000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support to the annual Paris Peace Forum to mobilise collective action around governance and to the organisation helping implement and develop the most promising projects and solutions presented at the annual event."
"Partnership on AI","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Partnership on AI's work to develop and share best practices; advance public understanding; provide an open and inclusive platform for discussion and engagement; and identify and foster aspirational efforts in AI for socially beneficial purposes."
"Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2020,280000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, which defends and supports whistleblowers, and conducts strategic litigation and advocacy on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens."
PODER,"Financial Transparency","Latin America",2020,310000,"Program Grant","To renew support to PODER's Transparency Technologies program and its work in data for accountability, whistleblowing promotion, and data and investigative journalism."
"Project On Government Oversight (POGO)","Financial Transparency","United States",2020,75000,"Project Grant","To support POGO's aims to diagnose and explain problems with the current US auditing system to non-academic audiences, analyse policy options and potential solutions, and use those materials as the basis to build partnerships with civil society organizations interested in reform."
"Public Citizen","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,200000,"Project Grant","To support the Digital Trade Alliance project at Public Citizen."
"Public Interest News Foundation","Independent Media",Europe,2020,100000,Other,"To support the Public Interest News Foundation, a charity supporting public interest news organisations through capacity building, leadership training, advice, and networking to unlock their potential to strengthen democracy."
"Publish What You Pay (PWYP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Publish What You Pay international secretariat."
"Res Non Verba","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2020,400000,"General Funding Grant","To support Civic House's efforts to incubate civic innovations and to advance the Latin America civic technology ecosystem."
"Res Non Verba","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2020,194500,Other,"To support Change.org Argentina's citizen mobilization efforts, with a specific focus on impact-driven campaigns and expanding its reach at the local level."
Rhize,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2020,150000,"General Funding Grant","To support Rhize's coaching and mentoring efforts geared towards building more people-powered movements that amplify the voices of historically marginalised groups and communities."
"Spotlight on Corruption","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,15000,Other,"To support Spotlight on Corruption to highlight and seek to remedy the accountability gap in which the large accounting firms operate."
"Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general support to Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV), a non-profit think tank based in Berlin working on bringing tech companies, government, and civil society together on policy proposals on the intersection of technology and public policy such as the impact of AI, intelligence oversight on surveillance, and disinformation in political campaigns."
"Tax Justice UK","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,90000,Other,"To support a Tax Reform Project of Tax Justice UK."
Temblores,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2020,85000,"Program Grant","To support Temblores' work in Colombia, with a focus on increasing visibility of systematic police violence while supporting citizens' capacity and tools to access the justice system."
"The B Team","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,775000,"Program Grant","To support the B Team's Governance & Transparency programme."
"The Bureau of Investigative Journalism","Independent Media",Europe,2020,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, an independent, not-for-profit media organisation."
"The Citizens","Independent Media",Global,2020,300000,Other,"To support strategic and operational development, and select project work."
"The Citizens","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2020,150000,Other,"To support the establishment and set-up of the Real Facebook Oversight Board."
"The Correspondent","Independent Media",Global,2020,"For-profit figures not reported",,"In 2018, Luminate invested $950,000 as a convertible loan in The Correspondent to finance its crowdfunding campaign that would enable it to launch its operations. This refinancing focused on helping The Correspondent meet its operating cash requirements. Ultimately The Correspondent was not able to sustain its operations and shut down in December 2020."
"The Ferret","Independent Media",Europe,2020,260000,Other,"To support The Ferret's investigations and work building a media co-operative."
"The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,75000,"Project Grant","To support development of the Justice, Equity and Technology Table which will create routines and structures for knowledge exchange and coordination between civil society practitioners on issues of justice, data-driven technologies, and their governance."
"The Markup","Independent Media",Global,2020,650000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted funding to The Markup, a non-profit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society."
"Tifa Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2020,119553,"Project Grant","To support research and policy engagement on data governance in the Health and Education sectors during COVID-19 and its impact towards public service delivery in Indonesia."
"Tilburg University","Data & Digital Rights",Multi-Country,2020,200000,"Project Grant","To support policy specialist position for the Global Data Justice project at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2020,150000,Other,"To support Transparency & Accountability Initiative (the TAI Project), a donor collaborative to support effective grantmaking by the participating donors."
"United Nations Foundation","Independent Media",Global,2020,2000000,"Program Grant","To support Verified, an initiative launched by the United Nations to combat the growing scourge of COVID-19 misinformation by increasing the volume and reach of trusted, accurate information. This grant was funded by The Omidyar Group and is managed by Luminate."
Viewfinder,"Independent Media",Africa,2020,100000,Other,"To provide rapid response grant support to Viewfinder to continue and expand their investigations into police abuses and impunity."
"Vox Public","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2020,50000,Other,"To support running a network of rights and justice NGOs, movements, lawyers, and academics to monitor the state of emergency in France during COVID-19."
"Yiaga Africa","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2020,50000,Other,"To support Yiaga Africa's operations and activities of its Centre for Legislative Engagements during Covid-19."
"Accountability Counsel","Financial Transparency",Global,2019,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support the work of Accountability Counsel, which amplifies the voices of communities around the world to protect their human rights and environment."
"Africa Check","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2019,64952,"Project Grant","To support the Digital Africa Research Lab in addressing the threat posed by the misuse of social media in the 2019 Nigerian general election and post-election period."
"American University",Other,"United States",2019,500000,"Project Grant","To support the Yes, and... Laughter Lab and Comedy Think Tanks initiatives."
"Avalanche Insights","Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Avalanche in building organising infrastructure for the digital era that helps causes, campaigns, and companies better understand their stakeholders and lead advocacy campaigns that resonate."
"Baraza Media Lab","Independent Media",Africa,2019,987000,"Project Grant","To provide core funding for Baraza Media Lab's space and program establishment"
"BBC Media Action","Independent Media",Global,2019,200000,"Project Grant","To support the design of an international fund for public interest media."
"California Immigrant Policy Center","Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,200000,"Project Grant","To support the California Immigrant Policy Center's Immigration Strategic Messaging Project."
"Campaign Bootcamp","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2019,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Campaign Bootcamp, which aims to provide people with the skills, confidence, and community necessary to run effective campaigns."
"Center for Cultural Power",Other,"United States",2019,75000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support The Center for Cultural Power, a women of color, artist-led organisation, inspiring artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature."
"Center for International Governance Innovation",Other,Global,2019,50000,"Project Grant","To provide support for international coordination on opposing surveillance commerce."
"Center for New American Security",Other,Global,2019,349159,"Program Grant","To support a research project housed in the Center for New American Security's Transatlantic Security programme."
"Civic Hall Labs","Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,450000,"Program Grant","To support Civic Hall Labs, the non-profit R&D arm of Civic Hall"
Civix,Other,Global,2019,355000,"Project Grant","To support Civix in developing an educational curriculum on digital threats to democracy for middle and high school students."
"Color of Change","Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,1500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Color of Change's ongoing civic empowerment programmes, which will help to create more authentic and representative narratives about criminal justice reform and other issues of importance to Black and historically marginalised communities in the United States."
Conectas,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2019,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the work of Conectas in the defense of Brazilian civic space"
"Define American",Other,"United States",2019,400000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support for Define American's work to create more authentic and representative narratives about immigrants and refugees in the United States."
"Democracy Club","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2019,200000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general support to Democracy Club, which envisions a United Kingdom with the digital foundations to support everyone’s participation in democratic life."
"European Digital Rights (EDRi)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2019,550000,"General Funding Grant","To support EDRi, an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe, defending rights and freedoms in the digital environment."
"European Press Prize","Independent Media",Europe,2019,120000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core funding to support the capacity and operations of the European Press Prize."
Foxglove,"Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2019,41200,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Foxglove in providing pre-litigation research related to tech accountability."
"Freedom Voices Network","Independent Media",Global,2019,1100000,"General Funding Grant","To support Forbidden Stories / Forbidden Films to expand their work."
"Fund for the City of New York","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,200000,"Project Grant","To support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of principles."
"Fundacion Mi Sangre (FMS)","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2019,267127,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to Fundacion Mi Sangre"
"Fundacion para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP)","Independent Media","Latin America",2019,400000,"General Funding Grant","To support FLIP further consolidate its work on freedom of expression and journalists protection, and ramp-up efforts to fight misinformation in Colombia."
"Fuse Corps","Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,3000000,"General Funding Grant","To help Fuse Corps continue to grow its executive-level Fellowship program, which places experienced leaders within local governments to work on year-long projects tackling strategic issues like economic and workforce development, healthcare, public safety, climate change, and education."
"Global Press Institute","Independent Media",Global,2019,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Global Press Institute in its mission to train and employ local journalists to produce ethical, accurate news coverage from the world's least-covered places."
"HNK Legal","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,"For-profit figures not reported",Other,"To support HNK, a legal firm and consultancy focused on data rights."
ideas42,"Financial Transparency",Africa,2019,247800,"Project Grant","To support Ideas42's focused programme of applied behavioral design and empirical field research in Africa, Latin America, and India."
"Institute for Strategic Dialogue",Other,Europe,2019,185000,"Project Grant","To support Institute for Strategic Dialogue in delivering an operational review and analysis of the European Parliamentary elections projects and findings."
"Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2019,900000,"Program Grant","To support ITS' work on democracy and technology, algorithmic accountability, disinformation, and computational propaganda."
"Instituto Update","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2019,305000,Other,"To support Update Institute in its efforts to advance political innovation in Latin America."
"International Budget Partnership (IBP)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2019,900000,"Program Grant","To support IBP's Kenya and South Africa country programmes."
"International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)","Independent Media","Latin America",2019,459864,"Project Grant","To support the establishment of Velocidad, a media accelerator that provides capacity building and financing to independent for-profit and non-profit media organisations in Latin America. "
"International Women's Media Foundation","Independent Media",Global,2019,350000,"Project Grant","To support IWMF's preventive cybersecurity programme and evaluation"
InternetLab,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2019,360000,"General Funding Grant","To support InternetLab's work in advancing technology policy and promoting human rights in the digital environment."
LightboxAfrica,Other,Africa,2019,160000,Other,"To support post-production of ""Softie,"" a documentary film which follows Kenyan activist and photojournalist Boniface Mwangi as he enters mainstream politics to challenge social injustice."
"Local Development Research Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2019,75000,"Program Grant","To support an Open Government Partnership (OGP) Fellow engaged in the Kenya Open Government CSO Support program."
MAFINDO,"Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2019,50793,"Project Grant","To support MAFINDO, an Indonesian non-profit organisation to enable them to do social media monitoring and platform-focused advocacy during the period leading up to and after the Indonesian election."
"Magamba Network","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2019,315000,"Project Grant","To support Magamba Network in increasing youth participation in national civic processes and consolidating citizen engagement through digital media and the use of civic tech in Zimbabwe."
"McGill University",Other,"United States",2019,165000,"Program Grant","To support the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University to participate as the research lead in the Digital Democracy Project, a multi-faceted initiative designed to monitor, study, and respond to digital threats to democracy in Canada."
"Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI)","Independent Media",Global,2019,1250000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support for Media Legal Defence Initiative's organisational health and growth."
Memria,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2019,100000,Other,"To support Memria in capturing and curating stories of victims from the Colombian armed conflict."
"More in Common","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2019,2500000,"General Funding Grant","To support More in Common, an organisation which aims to build communities and societies that are stronger, more united, and more resilient to the increasing threats of polarisation and social division."
"Mozilla Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,500000,"Program Grant","To support Mozilla Foundation's project to build, test, and distribute the underlying technology required to quantify the harms of surveillance capitalism."
Namati,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2019,300000,"Program Grant","To support Namati's work in Kenya on the Right to Citizenship."
"National Conference on Citizenship","Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,100000,"Project Grant","To support the National Conference on Citizenship's projects related to the 2020 Census."
"Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2019,2300000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving countries' governance over their natural resources to promote sustainable and inclusive development."
"New America","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,450000,"Project Grant","To support New America Foundation's Ranking Digital Rights programme."
"New Venture Fund","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,400000,"Project Grant","To support Digital Action to work with partner organisations around the world to identify and mitigate technology-based vulnerabilities for impending elections and to build strategic coalitions to push for reforms that will build resilient democracies into the future."
"New York University",Other,"United States",2019,175000,"Program Grant","To provide support for an NYU research team to collect and analyse data that increases the transparency of organised political messaging on major digital media platforms. The work aims to provide a public audit of voluntary corporate transparency and expose how organised information operations use digital advertising."
New/Mode,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support New/Mode, a multi-channel advocacy and engagement platform that helps causes activate grassroots support, reach lawmakers, and win campaigns on the issues."
"Open Cities Lab","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2019,240000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Data Durban, a non-profit civic technology lab that implements and advocates for open data, open government, and civic technology through projects, events, workshops, and dataquests. They work with government, citizens, civic society, and the media to democratise knowledge and enable informed decision making and evidence‐based planning."
"Open Data Manchester","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2019,160000,"Program Grant","To support the educational and engagement work of Open Data Manchester, a community group that advocates for responsible and intelligent data practice in Greater Manchester and beyond."
"Open Government Partnership (OGP)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,1500000,"General Funding Grant","To support OGP, launched in 2011 to provide an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens."
"Open Knowledge Foundation Germany","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2019,340000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, which focuses on open data, transparency, and access to information through the use of FOI."
OpenCorporates,"Financial Transparency",Global,2019,600000,Other,"To support OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world."
openDemocracy,"Independent Media",Europe,2019,650000,"Project Grant","To support openDemocracy's investigative output."
"Paris Peace Forum",Other,Europe,2019,560000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Paris Peace Forum, an event to mobilise all stakeholders for collective action and a resource to help implement and scale-up the most promising governance projects."
PersonalData.IO,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,150000,"General Funding Grant","To support personaldata.io, an organisation committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding infrastructure that enables, accelerates, and maximises individual and collective empowerment around personal data."
"Poder Ciudadano",Other,"Latin America",2019,38439,"Project Grant","To support Poder Ciudadano in its efforts to establish accountability mechanisms to keep track of the electoral campaign expenditures during the national 2019 elections in Argentina."
"POGO Action","Financial Transparency",Global,2019,100000,Other,"To support the FACT Coalition project."
"Privacy International (PI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,2500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Privacy International, which advocates for the right to privacy for everyone, everywhere. Privacy International raises awareness about technologies and laws that place privacy at risk, to ensure that the public is informed and engaged."
"Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2019,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support PPDC's work on Open Contracting with State governments in Nigeria and enable them to continue to build take-up and usage of Open Contracting information for accountability."
"Race Forward","Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,600000,"Project Grant","To support Race Forward as they launch a 24-month practitioner cohort to support organizations in creating and amplifying more accurate and humanizing immigration narratives."
"Represent Justice",Other,"United States",2019,500000,"Project Grant","To support the Represent Justice campaign, launched in conjunction with the film Just Mercy, to change the culture and conversation about criminal justice in the United States."
"Res Non Verba","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,200000,"Project Grant","To support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of principles."
"Res Non Verba","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2019,68200,"Project Grant","To support Change.org Argentina in developing an online platform to provide citizens with opportunities for civic engagement and interaction with candidates."
Right2Know,"Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2019,240000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Right2Know Campaign, a grassroots organisation raising public awareness, mobilising communities, and undertaking research and targeted advocacy that aims to ensure the free flow of information necessary to meet people's social, economic, political, and ecological needs."
"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors",Other,Africa,2019,500000,"Program Grant","To support #AfricaNoFilter, a donor collaborative designed to support innovative narratives on Africa that can change the way both Africans and the rest of the world see the continent. ANF is a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors."
"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors",Other,"United States",2019,1000000,"Project Grant","To support Pop Culture Collaborative, a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.  The Collaborative is committed to the advancement of just, authentic narratives of immigrants, communities of color, women, LGBTQ, and Muslims in pop culture with the purpose of creating a more equitable society. This grant funds the Collaborative's work supporting content creators, culture change strategists, and advocacy groups; sponsoring audience engagement evaluation research; and growing the pop culture for social change field through convenings, events, and immersive learning sessions for practitioners and philanthropists."
"Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2019,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support SERAP, a non-profit which promotes transparency and accountability in Nigeria primarily by advocating for improved implementation of the Freedom of Information Act to enable the public and civil society to know, understand, and act on what government is doing."
Stears,"Independent Media",Africa,2019,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Stears NG, which publishes high quality financial and economic news and analysis in Nigeria."
"Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2019,80000,"Project Grant","To support Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in comparing the US and the EU on their capabilities to address social, economic, and political challenges associated with AI."
"The Accountability Lab","Financial Transparency",Africa,2019,420000,"Program Grant","To support programming, operations and learning for the Accountability Lab's South Africa and Nigeria country programmes."
"The Bristol Cable","Independent Media",Europe,2019,450000,Other,"To support Bristol Cable's investigations and work building a media co-operative."
"The Governance Lab","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,395000,"Program Grant","To support The Gov Lab in its mission to strengthen the ability of institutions and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems."
"The University of Oxford Development Trust","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,500000,"Project Grant","To support a new research programme at the Oxford Internet Institute called the Governance of Emerging Technologies."
"Transparency International UK (TI-UK)","Financial Transparency",Global,2019,980000,"Program Grant","To support Transparency International's Anti-Corruption Programme."
"Unite US","Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Unite US in continuing to scale the platform to reach more customers in more verticals and geographies."
"University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,750000,"Program Grant","To support UNC's Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)"
Univision,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2019,100000,"Project Grant","To educate Spanish-speaking audiences on how to identify misinformation and disinformation related to the 2020 census and election, and will also help identify and debunk disinformation aimed at reducing Latino-participation in these events."
"Washington Office on Latin America",Other,"Latin America",2019,1100000,"Program Grant","To support WOLA's campaigns in Latin America."
"Women's Legal Centre","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2019,50000,"Project Grant","To support The Women's Legal Centre, a public interest litigation non-profit that works to create a South Africa in which women and people identifying as women are free from violence, empowered to ensure their own reproductive and health rights, free to own their own share of property, have a safe place to stay, and are empowered to work in a safe and equitable environment."
"World Wide Web Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,600000,"General Funding Grant","To support the World Wide Web Foundation, which was established in 2009 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to advance the open Web as a public good and a basic right."
"Access Now","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,851305,"General Funding Grant","To support Access Now's Digital Security Helpline, a resource offering real time, direct technical assistance and advice to users at risk around the world, and the work of Access Now Europe."
amaBhungane,"Independent Media",Africa,2018,225000,"General Funding Grant","To support the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism's ongoing work to hold power to account."
amandla.mobi,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2018,250000,"General Funding Grant","To support amandla.mobi's growth."
"American Immigration Council",Other,"United States",2018,500000,"Project Grant","To support the American Immigration Council's Justice Campaign in building a network of pro-bono lawyers to provide services to people in geographically isolated detention centers in the United States."
"Article 19","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2018,30000,Other,"To support Article 19's participation in a government taskforce working to propose a new data protection policy for urgent adoption in Kenya."
Aspiration,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,89118.52,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Aspiration to deliver a series of workshops to determine the feasibility of technology backed interventions to meaningfully address the problem of disinformation."
"Association for Computing Machinery","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,500000,"Program Grant","To support the Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, a project of ACM. This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems."
"Avina Americas","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2018,700000,"Project Grant","To support Avina Americas in establishing a three-year collaborative regranting mechanism called Initiativa por los Derechos Digital en Latinoamerica - Indela to strengthen and further develop the digital rights ecosystem in Latin America."
"Black Stripe Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2018,331000,"Project Grant","To support The Big Debate, a townhall debate TV show produced by the Black Stripe Foundation that provides a unique platform for public engagement that helps to promote informed discussion and accountability."
"California Immigrant Policy Center",Other,"United States",2018,250000,"Project Grant","To support the California Immigrant Policy Center in conducting research to gain a much deeper and broader understanding of how Americans think about immigrants."
"Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)",Other,Multi-Country,2018,1306024,"Program Grant","To support three programs run by the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford: ON Leadership Forum (ONLF), Leadership Academy for Development (LAD),  and the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program."
"Centre for Community Development Zimbabwe",Other,Africa,2018,130000,"Project Grant","To support the Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ), a community-centred non-profit organisation, to work on enhancing citizen engagement, social accountability and monitoring of local government officials, and civic education at grassroots level."
Chequeado,"Independent Media","Latin America",2018,680000,"General Funding Grant","To support Chequeado in advancing its fact-checking efforts in Latin America through automation, content distribution, and data literacy programs."
"Code for America","Civic Empowerment","United States",2018,4000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Code for America, an organisation working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the digital age."
Correctiv,"Independent Media",Europe,2018,749500,"General Funding Grant","To support Correctiv, an independent, non-profit media organisation in Germany that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy."
"Data and Society Research Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,4500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Data & Society, a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development."
"Democracy Works","Civic Empowerment","United States",2018,585000,"Project Grant","To support Democracy Works Lab, an innovation arm in service to the wider civic engagement sector."
"Fast Forward","Civic Empowerment","United States",2018,345000,"Project Grant","To support civic tech startup Raheem.ai, a project of Fast Forward, in collecting and publishing data about interactions with police in the U.S. that local organisations, lawmakers, and police departments can use to better support their communities."
"Finance Uncovered","Financial Transparency",Global,2018,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Finance Uncovered, a follow-the-money organisation that is part of the Global Investigative Journalism Network."
"Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC)","Financial Transparency",Global,2018,850000,"Project Grant","To support the Financial Transparency Coalition, which works to curtail illicit financial flows through the promotion of a transparent, accountable, and sustainable financial system that works for everyone."
"Four Freedoms Fund","Civic Empowerment","United States",2018,3100000,"Project Grant","To support the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF), a national donor collaborative working toward full integration of immigrants as active participants in our democracy."
"Freedom Voices Network","Independent Media",Global,2018,55000,Other,"To support Forbidden Stories, which publishes the work of journalists that have been imprisoned or harmed."
"Freedom Voices Network","Independent Media",Global,2018,314000,"General Funding Grant","To support Forbidden Stories, which publishes the work of journalists that have been imprisoned or harmed."
"Full Fact","Independent Media",Global,2018,300000,"Project Grant","To support research on fact-checking formats."
"Full Fact","Independent Media",Europe,2018,950000,"General Funding Grant","To support Full Fact, the UK's leading independent fact checking charity."
"Fundacao Getulio Vargas","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2018,88000,"Project Grant","To support FGV Department of Public Policy Analysis (FGV DAPP)'s project focused on near real-time monitoring of disinformation and fake news in Brazil's 2018 elections, with the goals of positively influencing public debates and informing electoral authorities and policymakers on how to deal with related challenges."
"Georgetown University",Other,Africa,2018,200000,"Project Grant","To support a research project evaluating how administrative and political devolution can improve accountability, foster the provision of local public goods and services, and promote citizen engagement in sub-national governance to overcome unequal development and allocation of resources between counties in Kenya."
"Global Disinformation Index","Independent Media",Global,2018,600000,"General Funding Grant","To support Global Disinformation Index, which aims to disrupt, defund and down-rank disinformation sites. It collectively works with governments, business, and civil society and operates on three core principles of neutrality, independence, and transparency."
"Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT)","Financial Transparency",Global,2018,500000,"Program Grant","To support the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), a muti-stakeholder programme of the International Budget Partnership addressing challenges in fiscal transparency and participation."
"Global Witness","Financial Transparency",Global,2018,4000000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted funds to Global Witness."
IDFI,"Financial Transparency",Europe,2018,390000,"Project Grant","To support the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information's 3G project: Good Governance for Georgia."
"Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2018,561610,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to ILDA to expand its work on open data through applied research, experimental pilots, and agenda building."
"International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)","Independent Media","Latin America",2018,1568186,"Project Grant","To support Grantee in its work providing capacity building and financing to non-profit media organizations in Latin America."
"International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)","Independent Media","Latin America",2018,275000,"Project Grant","To support SembraMedia and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in providing capacity building and financing to independent for-profit and non-profit media organizations in Latin America."
Involve,Other,Europe,2018,60000,"Project Grant","To support the coordination and delivery of a citizens' assembly, in partnership with two parliamentary select committees."
"Journalism Development Network","Independent Media",Global,2018,800000,"Program Grant","To support OCCRP, an internationally renowned investigative journalism non-profit focussed on organised crime and corruption."
"Katiba Institute",Other,Africa,2018,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support Katiba Institute, which  uses the constitution as an instrument to achieve the rule of law, greater respect for human rights, more transparent and accountable leadership, good governance, and eventually a more just society in Kenya. This is a core grant to support their work on improving citizens' access to information and ability to hold those in power accountable through the courts."
Liberty,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2018,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to Liberty to support and expand the organisation's capability, particularly around privacy, surveillance, and data protection and their relationship to human rights."
"Media Monitoring Africa","Independent Media",Africa,2018,330000,"General Funding Grant","To support MMA, a non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights."
"Mozilla Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2018,752140,"Project Grant","To support the Mozilla Foundation in conducting public campaigns and coalition building in key EU member states and to partner with Global Progress to promote a policy agenda that defends democracy from digital threats."
"Neo Philanthropy","Data & Digital Rights",Multi-Country,2018,575000,"Project Grant","To support country efforts around our strategy on digital threats to democracy."
"New Media Ventures","Civic Empowerment","United States",2018,1000000,Other,"To support New Media Ventures, a seed fund and angel network investing in media and technology startups that support advocacy movements, create new narratives, and drive civic engagement. This investment supports NMV in financing early-stage, for-profit and non-profit startups with seed funding."
"New York University","Independent Media",Global,2018,1240000,Other,"To provide support for the Membership Puzzle Project to identify and incubate innovative early-stage membership models globally. The Membership Puzzle Project is run by New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute."
Nexo,"Independent Media","Latin America",2018,920000,"General Funding Grant","To support Nexo, a Brazilian award-winning, digital-only independent media start-up. They are driven by the goal of strengthening citizenship and democracy through high quality information and data, and champion the idea that respectful public debate is possible and important."
Nossas,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2018,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Nossas in scaling and refining their Civic Empowerment model."
"Open Secrets","Financial Transparency",Africa,2018,185000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Secrets, a non-profit organisation which exposes and builds accountability for private sector economic crimes through investigative research, advocacy, and the law. This core grant supports Open Secrets to continue and expand their work to hold private sector companies accountable for economic crimes that result in human rights violations."
"Paris Peace Forum","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2018,590000,"General Funding Grant","To support Paris Peace Forum, an organisation combining an annual event with support through the year to demonstrate that international cooperation is key to tackling global challenges."
"Partnership on AI","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Partnership on AI, a multi-stakeholder organisation that brings together academics, researchers, civil society organizations, companies building and utilising AI technology, and other groups working to better understand AI's impacts."
"Quebrando o Tabú","Independent Media","Latin America",2018,240000,Other,"To support Quebrando o Tabu, a Brazilian, social-first independent media outlet, which covers issues of policy, politics, and human rights."
"Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2018,420000,"General Funding Grant","To support R3D in continuing to build evidence-based approaches to defend human rights in the digital realm."
"Social Impact Fund","Civic Empowerment","United States",2018,100000,"Project Grant","To support A Day of Unreasonable Conversation, bringing together leading television writers, producers, and executives across the broadcast, streaming, and cable networks to connect with world leaders, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and activists to discuss the greatest challenges and opportunities facing the world in 2019."
"Sundance Institute","Independent Media",Global,2018,900000,"Project Grant","To create the Sundance Institute | Luminate Fund, which provides non-recoupable grants to independent artists working across documentary, narrative, episodic, and emerging media projects that address the areas in which Luminate strives to have impact."
"Swish Labs","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,48000,Other,"To fund specialised engineering and design services from Swish Labs, delivered to Robhat Labs, which is building a user-facing software that detects and labels automated and spam accounts on Twitter."
"The Bureau of Investigative Journalism","Independent Media",Europe,2018,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's impactful journalism and investigations."
"The Correspondent","Independent Media",Global,2018,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support The Correspondent, the international expansion of the Dutch membership-based journalism model, De Correspondent."
"The Democratic Society (Demsoc)","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2018,750000,"Project Grant","To support the 'Public Square' project, a partnership between the Democratic Society and mySociety to develop and build consensus around the case for common social and technological infrastructure to support citizen participation in the democratic process at local and regional level in the UK."
"The Ferret","Independent Media",Europe,2018,100000,Other,"To support The Ferret, an award-winning independent media cooperative based in Scotland."
"The Open Trust","Independent Media",Europe,2018,350000,"Program Grant","To support the investigations and output of openDemocracyUK."
"The University of Oxford Development Trust","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,999127,"Program Grant","To support the University of Oxford to support the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Programme. The programme investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation, and politics."
"United We Dream",Other,"United States",2018,2000000,"General Funding Grant","To support United We Dream, which empowers undocumented young people to develop their leadership, their organising skills, and to develop their own campaigns to push for justice and dignity for U.S. immigrants and all people."
"University of the Witwatersrand Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2018,215000,"Program Grant","To support the Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. CTIN is a community of practice and a learning network of civic tech practitioners in South Africa, currently hosted as a programme of the Journalism and Media Department."
Upturn,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,750000,"General Funding Grant","To support Upturn, an organisation that promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology."
Veritas,Other,Africa,2018,64900,"Project Grant","To support strategic litigation by Veritas for improved electoral processes, media freedom and transparency in Zimbabwe."
Zenysis,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2018,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Zenysis, a technology company dedicated to building the powerful, collaborative software that governments and international organisations need to confront the greatest challenges facing humanity."
"Africa Check","Independent Media",Africa,2017,80000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Africa Check's collaboration with other Luminate investees."
"Africa Check","Independent Media",Africa,2017,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Africa Check and enable them to expand their impact in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya."
"Anti-Defamation League",Other,"United States",2017,250000,"Program Grant","To support the Center for Technology & Society in advancing ADL's mission of fighting anti-Semitism and hate, reinforcing its leadership against cyberhate, and protecting freedom of speech and democratic rights affected by emergent technologies."
"Anti-Defamation League",Other,"United States",2017,1450000,"Program Grant","To support the Center for Technology & Society in advancing ADL's mission of fighting anti-Semitism and hate, reinforcing its leadership against cyberhate, and protecting freedom of speech and democratic rights affected by emergent technologies."
"Black Stripe Foundation","Independent Media",Africa,2017,283000,"Project Grant","To support The Big Debate, a townhall debate TV show produced by the Black Stripe Foundation that provides a unique platform for public engagement that helps to promote informed discussion and accountability."
"Campaign Bootcamp","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2017,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Campaign Bootcamp, which aims to provide people with the skills, confidence, and community necessary to run effective campaigns."
"Center for Technology and Society",Other,"United States",2017,1450000,"Program Grant","To support the Center for Technology & Society in advancing ADL's mission of fighting anti-Semitism and hate, reinforcing its leadership against cyberhate, and protecting freedom of speech and democratic rights affected by emergent technologies."
"Center for Technology and Society",Other,"United States",2017,250000,"Program Grant","To support the Center for Technology & Society in advancing ADL's mission of fighting anti-Semitism and hate, reinforcing its leadership against cyberhate, and protecting freedom of speech and democratic rights affected by emergent technologies."
"Center on Privacy and Technology","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2017,600000,"Project Grant","To support the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, which is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy???and the communities they affect."
"Co-op Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2017,940000,"Project Grant","To support the Co-op Foundation's project at The Federation (Federation House in Manchester), an open community and hub run by the Co-op Group. It provides co-working space and venture support to digital social enterprises and an events programme."
"Connected Development (CODE)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2017,450000,"General Funding Grant","To support Connected Development (CODE), a non-profit organisation focused on advocacy and the tracking of funds spent by government and donors in Nigeria."
"Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2017,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Digital Freedom Fund, a non-profit fund that supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation."
"Digital Security Exchange","Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the Digital Security Exchange (DSX), a matchmaking effort seeking to increase digital security capacity by bridging the gap between civil society organisations that are particularly vulnerable given the U.S. political climate, and the digital security providers who want help them."
"Directorio Legislativo","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2017,235795,"General Funding Grant","To support Directorio Legislativo through a process to more fully apply civic technology and open data into their parliamentary openness work."
DoSomething.org,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,4000000,"General Funding Grant","To support DoSomething.org, the largest member organisation for young people and social change in the world."
Elucd,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Elucd, which enables cities to measure how residents feel and prioritise fixing what isn't working."
"ePanstwo Foundation (ePF)","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2017,400000,"General Funding Grant","To support ePanstwo, a non-profit that aims to increase the transparency and accountability of government in Poland."
"Equality Labs","Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Equality Labs, a South Asian American human rights arts organisation working at the intersection of storytelling, design, technology, and digital security to end caste apartheid, Islamophobia, and religious intolerance."
"Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,10000000,"Program Grant","To support the establishment of the Ethics and Governance of AI Fund."
"Fractured Atlas","Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Equality Labs, a South Asian American human rights arts organisation working at the intersection of storytelling, design, technology, and digital security to end caste apartheid, Islamophobia, and religious intolerance."
"Full Fact","Independent Media",Global,2017,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Full Fact, the UK's leading independent fact checking charity."
"Fund for the City of New York","Financial Transparency",Global,2017,1850000,"Program Grant","To support the Open Contracting Partnership to continue advancing work globally to make public procurement more transparent and effective."
"Fund for the City of New York","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,500000,"Project Grant","To support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of Principles."
"Georgetown University","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2017,600000,"Project Grant","To support the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, which is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy—and the communities they affect."
"GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2017,250000,"General Funding Grant","To support GFF, an organisation undertaking strategic litigation to support human and civil rights, with a focus on digital rights."
"Global Integrity","Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,60000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a project by the Sunlight Foundation and Open Gov Hub called Global Lessons for US Democracy."
Grassroot,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2017,180000,"General Funding Grant","To support Grassroot, a non-profit organisation whose mobile tools enable ordinary people in communities across South Africa to organise groups, meetings, and events - using any mobile phone - which eliminate the transaction costs of collective action. This is a core grant to support the expansion of their work."
"Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2017,575000,"General Funding Grant","To support ITS Rio in implementing data activities including work on blockchain, algorithmic accountability, and open data."
"Instituto Igarapé","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2017,810000,"Program Grant","To support Igarapé Institute, a think and do tank committed to safety, security and justice with operations across Latin America and Africa."
"International Budget Partnership (IBP)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2017,765000,"Program Grant","To support IBP's Kenya and South Africa country programmes."
"International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)","Independent Media",Global,2017,4500000,"General Funding Grant","To support ICIJ, an investigative reporting enterprise and network of journalists and media outlets."
"Magamba Network","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2017,280000,"Project Grant","To support the development and use of new media tools to educate citizens and promote new forms of civic engagement in Zimbabwe."
"Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)","Independent Media",Africa,2017,1650000,"Program Grant","To support the Media Development Investment Fund, which provides financial and venture support to independent media organisations globally."
MediaJustice,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the Center for Media Justice, in partnership with Wellstone and United We Dream, in conducting three day-long local events that deliver grassroots digital security workshops to activists and organisers and engage them in related advocacy or educational events."
"Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO)",Other,"Latin America",2017,75000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a project by IMCO and Ciudadano Inteligente called Hunt for Electoral-Spending Monsters in Chile and Mexico."
"Migratory Notes","Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,75000,"Project Grant","To support Migratory Notes, a weekly guide to rapidly developing immigration issues for journalists, policymakers, lawyers, academics, advocates, and immigrants themselves."
"More in Common",Other,Europe,2017,1800000,"Project Grant","To support More in Common, an organisation which aims to build communities and societies that are stronger, more united, and more resilient to the increasing threats of polarisation and social division."
"New Media Ventures","Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,600000,"Project Grant","To support New Media Ventures, a seed fund and angel network investing in media and technology startups that support advocacy movements, create new narratives, and drive civic engagement. This investment supports NMV Innovation Fund in financing early-stage, for-profit and non-profit startups with seed funding."
NextRequest,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support NextRequest, which streamlines the public records request process with a user-friendly, cloud-supported digital portal that makes it easier for civil servants to respond to the public."
"Open Contracting Partnership","Financial Transparency",Global,2017,1850000,"Program Grant","To support the Open Contracting Partnership to continue advancing work globally to make public procurement more transparent and effective."
"Open Data Charter","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,500000,"Project Grant","To support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of Principles."
"Open Data Institute (ODI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,2500000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Open Data Institute, an organisation working with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem, where people can make better decisions using data and manage any harmful impacts."
"Open Data Manchester","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2017,100000,"Project Grant","To support the educational and engagement work of Open Data Manchester, a community group that advocates for responsible and intelligent data practice in Greater Manchester and beyond."
OpenUp,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2017,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Up in scaling its work and assisting local municipalities in narrowing the gap between government and citizens."
OpenUp,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2017,70189,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a project by OpenUp and Grassroot called Delivering the Accountability Stack."
ParliamentWatch,"Civic Empowerment",Europe,2017,400000,"Project Grant","To support a cross-media campaign to promote Candidate Check, a vote-matching platform, leading up to the 2017 federal elections in Germany."
PODER,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2017,385000,"Program Grant","To support PODER's Transparency Technologies program to expand its work in open contracting and beneficial ownership, whistleblowing and whistleblower protection, and digital security."
"Pop Culture Collaborative",Other,"United States",2017,1000000,"Project Grant","The Pop Culture Collaborative is committed to the advancement of just, authentic narratives of immigrants, communities of color, women, LGBTQ, and Muslims in pop culture with the purpose of creating a more equitable society. This grant supports the Collaborative in regranting to content creators, culture change strategists, and advocacy groups; sponsor audience engagement evaluation research; and grow the pop culture for social change field through convenings, events, and immersive learning sessions for practitioners and philanthropists."
"Poynter Institute","Independent Media",Global,2017,1000000,"Program Grant","To support Poynter's fact-checking network."
"Publish What You Pay (PWYP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2017,1140000,"General Funding Grant","To support the work of Publish What You Pay (PWYP)'s international secretariat."
"Publish What You Pay (PWYP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2017,940000,"Project Grant","To support PWYP's campaign for strong and coherent policy regimes and implementation for the mandatory disclosure of extractive companies' payments to governments. This campaign is targeted on key jurisdictions, including the EU, Canada, the U.S., Australia, and South Africa."
"Reporters Without Borders","Independent Media",Global,2017,1000000,"Project Grant","To support Reporters Without Borders, which promotes and defends the freedom to be informed and to inform others throughout the world."
"Res Non Verba","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2017,742147,"General Funding Grant","To support Wingu's general operation, with a particular focus on expansion and professionalisation of tech engagement, civic impact, and experimentation with sustainability models."
"Responsible Mining Foundation","Financial Transparency",Global,2017,107000,"General Funding Grant","To support the first edition of the Responsible Mining Index, designed to encourage continuous improvement in responsible mining by transparently ranking the performance of some of the world's largest mining companies on economic, environmental, social, and governance (EESG) issues, and highlighting leading practice."
"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors",Other,"United States",2017,1000000,"Project Grant","To support Pop Culture Collaborative in regranting to content creators, culture change strategists, and advocacy groups; sponsoring audience engagement evaluation research; and growing the pop culture for social change field through convenings, events, and immersive learning sessions for practitioners and philanthropists."
"Sahara Reporters","Independent Media",Africa,2017,240000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria"
"Seedstars World",Other,Multi-Country,2017,340000,Other,"To support Seedstars World in running national and regional competitions and workshops and in growing the civic tech ecosystems in Myanmar, Zimbabwe, and Central and Eastern Europe."
"Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2017,240000,"General Funding Grant","To support SERAP in building awareness around the Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria, to support citizens and civil society to make use of it, and to conduct strategic litigation to build jurisprudence around the right of the public to access information."
"Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2017,1425000,"General Funding Grant","To support Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in research and policy development on technology issues including data governance, fake news, and surveillance."
"The AI Now Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,1500000,"Program Grant","To support the AI Now Institute at New York University. The AI Now Institute is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence across four key domains: rights and liberties, labour and automation, bias and inclusion, and safety and critical infrastructure."
"The Bristol Cable","Independent Media",Europe,2017,275000,"Project Grant","To provide project support to The Bristol Cable, an independent media cooperative in Bristol that is redefining media ownership and providing impactful journalism that holds power to account."
"The Governance Lab","Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,75690,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a project by The Governance Lab, Reboot, and the New York City Mayor's Office called Powering New Yorkers via NYC Open Data."
"Transparencia Mexicana","Financial Transparency","Latin America",2017,912507,"Program Grant","To support Transparency Mexicana in providing support to advance anti-corruption efforts in Latin America through Transparency International chapters in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)",Other,Global,2017,500000,"Program Grant","To support the Transparency & Accountability Initiative, a donor collaborative including Luminate, Open Society Foundations, Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and DFID."
"Transparency International EU","Financial Transparency",Europe,2017,300000,"Project Grant","To support the policy and advocacy work of Transparency International EU on country-by-country reporting on corporate tax and the strengthening of corporate accountability standards."
"Transparency International UK (TI-UK)","Financial Transparency",Europe,2017,660000,"Project Grant","To support the policy and advocacy work of TI-UK, building on the outcomes of the UK Anti-Corruption Summit to establish global standards on anti-corruption practices such as beneficial ownership transparency."
"Unite US","Civic Empowerment","United States",2017,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Unite US, which designs, builds, and delivers the best-in-class collaboration and coordination software to streamline the delivery of health and human services."
Wingu,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2017,742147,"General Funding Grant","To support Wingu's general operation, with a particular focus on expansion and professionalisation of tech engagement, civic impact, and experimentation with sustainability models."
"Avina Americas","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2016,2900000,"Program Grant","To support ALTEC in spurring the development of the civic tech ecosystem in Latin America."
BudgIT,"Financial Transparency",Africa,2016,1500000,"General Funding Grant","To support expansion into Abuja and enable BudgIT to expand its team."
Change.org,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2016,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Change.org, an online petition platform that empowers individuals to initiate and win campaigns for social change."
Chequeado,"Independent Media","Latin America",2016,237000,"General Funding Grant","To support Chequeado in advancing fact checking efforts in Latin America through the development of products from their Innovation Lab, as well as through the region-wide dissemination of those innovations as the hosts of a regional gathering on fact checking, ""Latam Chequea""."
Citymart,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2016,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Citymart, which transforms the way cities solve problems, connecting them with new ideas through open challenges to entrepreneurs and citizens."
"Civic Hall","Civic Empowerment","United States",2016,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support the launch of Civic Hall, a one-of-a-kind innovation center for civic tech innovators. Located in New York City, it provides a space to share knowledge, build tools, and solve problems."
"Civic Hall Labs","Civic Empowerment","United States",2016,2000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Civic Hall Labs, a research and design organisation that brings together sector experts, the public, funders, data scientists, researchers, designers, technologists, media makers, community groups, and entrepreneurs to explore how the use of design, data, and technology can create scalable, sustainable solutions for the public good."
Colab.re,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2016,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Colab.re, a Brazil-based civic tech platform that enhances governments' ability to engage and respond to their citizens."
"Data and Society Research Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,850000,"General Funding Grant","To support Data & Society, a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development."
DataKind,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,2000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Datakind, an organisation building a community of data scientists for social change."
DoSomething.org,Other,"United States",2016,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support DoSomething.org, the largest member organisation for young people and social change in the world."
"Fundacion Ciudadanía Inteligente (FCI)","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2016,495000,"General Funding Grant","To support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente in amplifying its regional positioning, strengthening its operational team, and increasing citizens' engagement through the development of civic tech tools and platforms."
"Fuse Corps","Civic Empowerment","United States",2016,3000000,"General Funding Grant","To support FUSE Corps, which helps urban communities by partnering with civic leaders to identify pressing strategic challenges and recruiting executive-level fellows to help design innovative solutions."
"Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2016,1050000,"General Funding Grant","To support IMCO's successful work to enhance government transparency and citizen engagement in Mexico through programs such as Mejora tu Escuela (Improve your School) and 3de3."
"Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2016,2800000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving countries' governance over their natural resources to promote sustainable and inclusive development."
Nossas,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2016,480000,"General Funding Grant","To support Nossas in the expansion of its model for people-powered political participation at the city-level, originally developed by Meu Rio."
"Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,1500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge, a central player in the movement for open, useful information, which has helped build communities of practice and tools to facilitate greater and more efficient publication and consumption of data."
OpenOil,"Financial Transparency",Global,2016,98096,"Project Grant","To support OpenOil, a provider of financial analysis and commercial advice on natural resource assets for public policy, in creating a community of open financial modellers."
"Privacy International (PI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,2200000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to Privacy International, an organisation building a global movement for the rights of citizens to privacy, contesting growing state surveillance and challenging data exploitation."
"Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2016,300000,"Project Grant","To support the development of Budeshi, a project that links procurement data to public services using the Open Contracting Data Standard."
"Publish What You Pay (PWYP)","Financial Transparency","United States",2016,80000,"Project Grant","To support the Publish What You Pay US project, of which Oxfam America is the fiscal sponsor. The grant supports analysis and communication of data on the extractive industries in the U.S."
"Publish What You Pay (PWYP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2016,120000,"Program Grant","To support PWYP's open data advocacy work, focusing on effective advocacy in Europe."
Purpose,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2016,175000,"Project Grant","To fund research on the civic tech movement to better inform policies, products, investments, and civic actions."
"The B Team","Financial Transparency",Global,2016,980946,"Program Grant","To support the Governance & Transparency programme of The B Team."
"The Governance Lab","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,1000000,"Program Grant","To support GovLab's Data programme, especially its work on open data impact, open data demand, data stewards, data collaboratives, and its work to coordinate the International Open Data Conference's research symposium."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2016,310000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/AI), a donor collaborative that has been working with donors, governments, and the range of actors in the transparency, accountability and participation (TAP) field since 2009."
"Urban Innovation Fund","Civic Empowerment","United States",2016,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To provide funding to Urban Innovation Fund, a venture fund focused on identifying early-stage innovators disrupting entrenched industries, and providing them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued and impactful companies."
Viamo,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2016,1435338,"Project Grant","To support Voto's work with EiE to help increase National Assembly transparency and accountability via an advocacy campaign."
"Well Told Story","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2016,1083340,"Program Grant","To support Well Told Story's 24-month Governance Campaign."
"Where is my Transport","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2016,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Where Is My Transport, an integrated mass transit solution for emerging markets, focused on providing public transport data and technologies that enrich services, empower people, and enable innovation."
"Africa Check","Independent Media",Africa,2015,330000,"General Funding Grant","To support Africa Check, a non-profit working to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa."
"ccHub Growth Capital","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2015,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support CcHub's financial sustainability and seed innovation."
"Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)",Other,Global,2015,830000,"Program Grant","To support activities related to Stanford's Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. The funds will continue support for the alumni network and student internships, all intended to develop talent and foster knowledge sharing in the Government Transparency area."
"Code for Africa","Independent Media",Africa,2015,532500,"Project Grant","To support the Innovate Africa media challenge, formerly known as ANIC, an initiative that encourages digital experimentation in newsrooms across the continent."
"Code for America","Civic Empowerment","United States",2015,6000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Code for America, an organisation working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the digital age."
"Code for America","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2015,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a project by Code for America and ePanstwo to accelerate the global civic technology movement by breaking down silos, spreading best practices, and building stronger working relationships between civic technologists around the world."
"Connected Development (CODE)","Financial Transparency",Africa,2015,100000,"General Funding Grant","To support Connected Development (CODE), a non-profit organisation focused on advocacy and the tracking of funds spent by government and donors in Nigeria."
"Development Initiatives","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,670000,"Program Grant","To support an international framework and working group on ""Joined Up Data."""
"Fund for the City of New York","Financial Transparency",Global,2015,2500000,"Program Grant","To support OCP, which works to bring transparency, accountability, participation, and innovation to government contracting to ensure that the trillions of dollars spent lead to better goods and services for citizens, greater opportunities for businesses, and more effective and trusted governments."
"Fundacion Ciudadanía Inteligente (FCI)","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2015,250000,"General Funding Grant","To support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente, a non-profit in Chile that seeks to promote government transparency and accountability, using web and mobile technology to encourage active citizen participation and engagement in the political process."
"Global Witness","Financial Transparency",Global,2015,4800000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to Global Witness to strengthen their corruption, land & forests, and conflict campaigns."
HiviSasa,"Independent Media",Africa,2015,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To provide a seed investment in HiviSasa.com, an online Kenyan newspaper that provides local, county level news tailored for the mobile web."
I-SEEED,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,440000,"Project Grant","To support the further development, adoption, and consolidation of an International Open Data Charter, which sets out principles to guide the creation and implementation of open data policies and initiatives of governments."
"Livity Africa","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2015,534616,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support for Livity Africa to help increase the participation of youth in South Africa's democracy."
NationBuilder,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2015,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To provide support for NationBuilder, a software platform enabling leaders and communities to organise, rally supporters, and take action on causes and issues that matter to them."
"New America","Civic Empowerment","United States",2015,300000,"Project Grant","To provide project support to New America Foundation to ""rethink the think tank"". NAF will pilot a model of building a national network of public problem-solvers, offering a new model for public engagement and civic discourse that bridges local, state, and federal policy levels."
"Open Contracting Partnership","Financial Transparency",Global,2015,2500000,"Program Grant","To support OCP, which works to bring transparency, accountability, participation, and innovation to government contracting to ensure that the trillions of dollars spent lead to better goods and services for citizens, greater opportunities for businesses, and more effective and trusted governments."
"Open Government Partnership (OGP)",Other,Global,2015,3800000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Government Partnership (OGP) to provide unrestricted funding to the OGP Support Unit. OGP is a multilateral initiative of countries in which governments and civil society work together to develop ambitious open government implementation plans."
"Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a project by Open Knowledge Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation called Open Data for Tax Justice (OD4TJ) Network to catalyse a network of people and organisations working to use open data to improve advocacy and journalism around tax justice."
OpenUp,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2015,300000,"General Funding Grant","To support Code for South Africa, a civic technology lab using data and technology for social change."
"Poynter Institute","Independent Media",Global,2015,225000,"Project Grant","To support Poynter in fostering a global community of fact checkers by hiring a community manager, creating a website, curating best practice materials, and hosting a global fact checking summit."
"Privacy International (PI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2015,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a project by Privacy International and Civic Hall entitled ""That's Not Privacy!"" to reorient the public conversation about online privacy and shift the practice of a large number of organisations with big online user bases and constituencies towards greater respect for actual privacy."
"Project Isizwe","Independent Media",Africa,2015,472533,"Project Grant","To support Project Isizwe's WiFi's TV project that delivers hyper-local news content to low-income communities via online channels."
"Publish What You Fund","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,330000,"Project Grant","To support an international framework and working group on ""Joined Up Data."""
Rappler,"Independent Media",Asia,2015,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To invest in Philippine Depository Receipts, which support Rappler Holdings Corporation, the parent company of Rappler, a Philippines-based social news network and video website."
"Results for Development Institute",Other,Global,2015,400000,"Project Grant","To support the Governance Data Alliance, a community of organisations and individuals involved in the effective production and usage of high-quality governance data."
"Sahara Reporters","Independent Media",Africa,2015,1122000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria"
SeeClickFix,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2015,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support SeeClickFix, a web and mobile platform to enable citizens to report non-emergency issues, such as potholes, graffiti, abandoned vehicles or property, to their cities in order to improve service delivery and citizen engagement with local government."
"Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)",Other,Global,2015,475000,"Project Grant","To support SNV in bringing together privacy advocates engaged in the surveillance debate with the open government community to establish a privacy policy framework with democratic legitimacy for any public institutions use of big and open data."
"The Governance Lab","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,100000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support GovLab in the research and production of case studies on the impact of open data."
"Transparency International","Financial Transparency",Global,2015,640244,"Project Grant","To support Transparency International's project on global institutional advocacy and national-level advocacy around fiscal transparency, contracting, and open data."
"Transparency International UK (TI-UK)","Financial Transparency",Global,2015,369023,"Project Grant","To support TI-UK in working with the UK Government to promote UK leadership globally on anti-corruption through domestic transparency and accountability measures and international agenda-setting."
"Unite US","Civic Empowerment","United States",2015,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To provide funding to Unite US, an outcome-focused technology company that builds coordinated care networks of health and social service providers."
"World Wide Web Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,2000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the World Wide Web Foundation, which was established in 2009 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to advance the open Web as a public good and a basic right."
Zenysis,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2015,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Zenysis, a technology company dedicated to building the powerful, collaborative software that governments and international organisations need to confront the greatest challenges facing humanity."
"Africa Check","Independent Media",Africa,2014,250000,"General Funding Grant","To support Africa Check, a non-profit working to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa."
BudgIT,"Financial Transparency",Africa,2014,400000,"Program Grant","To support Procurement Nigeria (BudgIT), a social enterprise focused on using technology to drive civic participation and fiscal transparency in Nigeria."
"Center for Economic Investigation and Teaching (CIDE)","Independent Media",Global,2014,150000,"Project Grant","To support the Mexico Innovation Agents project, which is an opportunity to catalyse public service delivery and generate learning for the global Open Government Partnership community."
"Center for Public Integrity","Independent Media","United States",2014,800000,"Project Grant","To support the Center for Public Integrity and its work on the State Integrity Investigation in the U.S."
Change.org,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2014,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Change.org, an online petition platform that empowers individuals to initiate and win campaigns for social change."
Change.org,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2014,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Change.org, an online petition platform that empowers individuals to initiate and win campaigns for social change."
Change.org,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2014,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Change.org, an online petition platform that empowers individuals to initiate and win campaigns for social change."
"Civic Hall","Civic Empowerment","United States",2014,500000,"Program Grant","To support Personal Democracy Media in developing the Personal Democracy Center, which will be an accelerator / incubator in New York that supports civic start-ups and serves related purposes."
"Dalberg Consulting",Other,Africa,2014,360000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To fund Dalberg Global Development Advisors to collect credible citizen feedback on public sector performance in several African countries."
"Data and Society Research Institute","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2014,15000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To fund a convening on Data, Discrimination, and Civil Rights held in Washington, DC."
DataKind,"Data & Digital Rights","United States",2014,400000,"General Funding Grant","To support Datakind, an organisation building a community of data scientists for social change."
"Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC)","Financial Transparency",Global,2014,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Financial Transparency Coalition, which works to curtail illicit financial flows through the promotion of a transparent, accountable, and sustainable financial system that works for everyone."
"Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT)","Financial Transparency",Global,2014,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), a multi-stakeholder programme of the International Budget Partnership addressing challenges in fiscal transparency and participation."
"Global Integrity","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,35800,"One-Off Funding Grant","To provide funding for an upcoming convening of the Governance Data Alliance, which seeks to improve the quality of governance data and foster better communication between data producers and data users."
"Global Integrity","Financial Transparency","Latin America",2014,120000,"Project Grant","To support Global Integrity in developing and piloting an approach to understand the ability to Follow the Money in Mexico."
"Global Voices","Independent Media",Global,2014,1200000,"General Funding Grant","To support Global Voices, a ""citizen media platform"" that seeks to find and publish the most compelling and important stories coming from marginalised and misrepresented communities."
Involve,Other,Europe,2014,270000,"Project Grant","To support Involve UK's  two-year project to coordinate, strengthen and deepen the OGP civil society network in the UK."
"Lateral Economics","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,65000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Lateral Economics's research intended to quantify the economic value of open data, for the purpose of supporting policy recommendations in G20 meetings."
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","Civic Empowerment",Global,2014,401033,"One-Off Funding Grant","To fund the Omidyar Network-MIT Collaboration for Impact Assessment, a project to test theories of change for organisations in the government transparency sector."
mySociety,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2014,3600000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to mySociety, a UK-based organisation that provides technology, research, and data to help people globally to be active citizens."
NationBuilder,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2014,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To provide support for NationBuilder, a software platform enabling leaders and communities to organise, rally supporters, and take action on causes and issues that matter to them."
"Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2014,680000,"Project Grant","To support the Revenue Watch Institute to further development of international open data standards for extractives, through a combination of advocacy, technical efforts, and piloting open data approaches in Ghana."
NewsDeeply,"Independent Media","United States",2014,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support NewsDeeply, a media organisation providing in-depth content on thematic topics."
"ONE Campaign","Financial Transparency",Global,2014,3000000,"Program Grant","To support ONE Campaign, an international advocacy organisation that focuses on driving government transparency and accountability."
"Open Data Institute (ODI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,4100000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Open Data Institute, an organisation working with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem, where people can make better decisions using data and manage any harmful impacts."
"Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,1075000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge, a central player in the movement for open, useful information, which has helped build communities of practice and tools to facilitate greater and more efficient publication and consumption of data."
"Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2014,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To provide funding for a consultant to evaluate the Open Knowledge Foundation."
"Poynter Institute","Independent Media",Global,2014,35000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To fund an international conference on journalism fact checking organised by the Poynter Institute."
"Privacy International (PI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Privacy International, a global leader in policy, advocacy, and campaigns concerning the rights of citizens to privacy, especially state surveillance and the use of personal data in the public sphere."
"Publish What You Pay (PWYP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2014,500000,"Program Grant","To support organisational development of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP)'s international secretariat and their open data programming."
"Publish What You Pay (PWYP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2014,300000,"Program Grant","To support Publish What You Pay (PWYP)'s work to secure in key global jurisdictions the mandatory transparency of payments by extractive companies to recipient governments."
"Rhodes University","Independent Media",Africa,2014,25500,"One-Off Funding Grant","To provide support to Rhodes University to help fund the Highway Africa journalism conference, the largest annual gathering of African journalists in the world."
SEATTI,"Civic Empowerment",Asia,2014,70000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the Openness Marketplace Conference, which seeks to spark and inspire new ideas relating to the Open Government Partnership."
"Tactical Technology Collective","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Tactical Tech Collective, an organisation that works globally to help transparency and accountability activists, citizen journalists, and human rights advocates use information and technology effectively in their work."
"Tax Justice Network Africa","Financial Transparency",Africa,2014,450000,"General Funding Grant","To support Tax Justice Network Africa (TJN-A), a pan-African initiative consisting of a network of members in 15 African countries."
"The World Investigates (TWI)","Independent Media",Africa,2014,355000,"Project Grant","To support The World Investigates, an organisation comprised of award-winning journalists and filmmakers focused on supporting African investigative journalism and bringing those stories to a global audience."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)",Other,Global,2014,60000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To provide funding for a full-time consultant to work on post-2015 Millennium Development Goals."
Tumml,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2014,300000,"General Funding Grant","To support Tumml, an organisation in San Francisco that operates as an accelerator, supporting early stage companies developing innovative consumer products and services that improve urban living."
VoteRunLead,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2014,200000,"General Funding Grant","To support VoteRunLead, a nonpartisan organisation focused on increasing women's political representation at the local and state level in the U.S."
"World Federation of United Nations Associations",Other,Global,2014,150000,"Project Grant","To support the hires of two coordinators to influence the SDG process in its final year before the 15-year goals are set."
"African Media Initiative","Independent Media",Africa,2013,500000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the African News Innovation Challenge."
"Agência Pública","Independent Media","Latin America",2013,120000,"Project Grant","To support Reportagem Publica, a crowd funded network of independent, investigative journalists, which if successful , will signal to other non-profit journalism organisations that crowd funding represents a viable revenue stream."
"Center for Economic Investigation and Teaching (CIDE)","Independent Media","Latin America",2013,215000,"Project Grant","To support data-driven journalism activities at the Center for Economic Investigation and Teaching (CIDE) in Mexico."
"Center for Global Development","Financial Transparency",Global,2013,1500000,"Project Grant","To support the Center for Global Development, a leading think tank focused on reducing poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community."
"Co-Creation Hub","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2013,300000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Co-Creation Hub, Nigeria's first pre-incubation ""hub"" designed as a multi-functional space for catalysing creative social tech ventures."
"Code for America","Civic Empowerment","United States",2013,1065000,"Project Grant","To support Code for America, an organisation working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the digital age."
"Committee to Protect Journalists","Independent Media",Global,2013,2100000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Committee to Protect Journalists, promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal."
DATA,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2013,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To sponsor a regional conference on open data for Latin America held in Uruguay."
DoSomething.org,Other,"United States",2013,2300000,"General Funding Grant","To support DoSomething.org, the largest member organisation for young people and social change in the world."
"ePanstwo Foundation (ePF)","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2013,600000,"General Funding Grant","To support ePanstwo, a non-profit that aims to increase the transparency and accountability of government in Poland."
Fundar,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2013,211000,"Project Grant","To support Fundar which seeks to build a data community to create social value from Mexico City's open transit data."
"Global Investigative Journalism Conference","Independent Media","Latin America",2013,25000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, one of the largest and most influential conferences on investigative journalism held in Rio de Janeiro."
"Guardian Activate","Independent Media",Global,2013,98000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To provide funding for a Guardian Activate conference in Africa, which seeks to increase collaboration among players in media, technology, civil society, and business in order to improve both the quantity and quality of civic innovation in South Africa as well as other countries in the region."
"International Budget Partnership (IBP)","Financial Transparency",Global,2013,785000,"Project Grant","To support the International Budget Partnership's pilot project to develop a real-time survey tool that would automatically provide information on the transparency of budgets in countries around the world."
"Laboratorio para la Ciudad","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2013,100000,"Project Grant","To support The Laboratorio para la Ciudad (LabPLC), an civic innovation office within the Mexico City government. The grant enables LabPLC to test and document its theory of change, to learn how to most effectively increase civic engagement & government responsiveness."
"Leadership Academy for Development",Other,Global,2013,350000,"Program Grant","To support the Leadership Academy for Development, a programme at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, which is designed to train government officials and business leaders from developing countries to promote private sector development through public policy."
"Livity Africa","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2013,186048,"Project Grant","To support Livity Africa, which seeks to transform the lives of young people in South Africa by using youth-created media platforms and campaigns that engage, empower, and cause young people to act, including through political and democratic processes."
NationBuilder,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2013,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To provide support for NationBuilder, a software platform enabling leaders and communities to organise, rally supporters, and take action on causes and issues that matter to them."
"Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)","Financial Transparency",Global,2013,10000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the Revenue Watch Institute's data standards brainstorming session in London."
Nossas,"Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2013,475000,"General Funding Grant","To support Meu Rio, a city-focused platform for civic engagement and people-powered political action."
"Open Government Partnership (OGP)",Other,"United States",2013,1000000,"Program Grant","To provide support for the support unit of the Open Government Partnership, a multi-stakeholder initiative through which governments make concrete commitments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance."
"Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2013,390000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge Foundation's work identifying whether and how it is possible to empower citizens by providing them with easy access to fiscal data on the public services that they care about."
"Open the Government","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2013,200000,"Project Grant","To support Open the Government, an organisation that provides a platform for the community of open government-focused NGOs in the U.S. to collaborate on issues of shared importance."
"Personal Democracy Forum","Civic Empowerment",Global,2013,150000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Personal Democracy Forum 'Poland-Central Eastern Europe' (PDF-PCEE), a two-day event in 2014 exploring the interaction between open Internet and open government."
"Personal Democracy Forum","Civic Empowerment",Global,2013,100000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the WeGov project, a hub for current reporting, analysis, and background on groups working on government transparency, operated by the Personal Democracy Forum."
"Personal Democracy Forum","Civic Empowerment",Global,2013,100000,"Project Grant","To support Personal Democracy Media's efforts to develop a new facility in New York, to be called the Personal Democracy Center, which will serve as an accelerator / incubator for civic start-ups and related purposes."
"Project On Government Oversight (POGO)","Independent Media","United States",2013,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support POGO, a bipartisan watchdog that focuses on bringing to light and rectifying systemic abuses of power in the U.S. federal government."
"Sahara Reporters","Independent Media",Africa,2013,1085000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria"
"Skylight Pictures","Civic Empowerment",Global,2013,175000,"Project Grant","To support a new endeavor called the Toolbox, the purpose of which is to create a platform where citizen activists and other stakeholders, such as app developers and large non-profits, can actively engage on a range of social issues."
"Sunlight Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Global,2013,60000,"Project Grant","To support the Sunlight Foundation in funding a multi-party effort to explore the merit and feasibility of an Open Data Charter, an initiative that would examine and develop policies and resources that countries could use to build meaningful new open data reforms."
"The University of Texas at Austin","Independent Media","Latin America",2013,25000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support International Symposium on Online Journalism, which focuses on the emergence of new kinds of independent, alternative journalism in Latin America."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)",Other,Global,2013,565000,"General Funding Grant","To support projects and programs related to the Donor Collaborative on Transparency and Accountability Initiative."
"UK Field Study","Financial Transparency",Europe,2013,100000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To provide funding for the Field Study on UK Tax Payer Statements, which will research the impact of distributing to UK taxpayers statements that explain how their taxes are being spent."
Versa,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2013,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Versa, a for-profit civic startup developing digital products to deliver engaging, factual information to citizens through partnerships with online publishers, with the aim to increase transparency and foster citizen participation on local issues."
"World Wide Web Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2013,400000,"Project Grant","To support the development of a technical data standard that would enable civil society, governments, and the private sector to rapidly compare and contrast information contained in government contracts."
"Yo Propongo","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2013,130000,"Project Grant","To fund its efforts to develop an online platform that will enable citizens in Mexico City to monitor the city's progress in achieving its operational and impact metrics."
"Aventura Capital Partners","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2012,40000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a hackathon competition in Mexico that pits teams of programmers against each other to develop mobile applications for government agencies."
"Avina Americas","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2012,2300000,"Project Grant","To support ALTEC, a fund that invests in early-stage organisations focused on the use of technology to increase civic engagement and government effectiveness."
"Bridgespan Group","Civic Empowerment",Global,2012,229500,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Bridgespan research on early stage for-profit investment opportunities in the Government Transparency area."
Change.org,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2012,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support Change.org, an online petition platform that empowers individuals to initiate and win campaigns for social change."
"Cidade Democratica","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2012,202500,"Program Grant","To support Cidade Democratica, a revenue-generating non-profit that provides an open innovation platform designed for Brazilian users and municipal governments."
"Code for America","Civic Empowerment","United States",2012,3000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Code for America, an organisation working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the digital age."
"Global Integrity","Financial Transparency",Global,2012,2000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the continued growth and impact of Global Integrity, an innovation leader for the global government transparency sector."
"Making All Voices Count","Civic Empowerment",Global,2012,5000000,"Program Grant","To provide support for a new fund providing financial and human capital support to grow the nascent technology for transparency and accountability sector, globally."
"Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2012,25000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a convening organised by the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness to increase awareness of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) among Latin American transparency organisations."
"Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2012,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness's transformation from policy think tank to civic platform administrator by broadening reach, with a special focus on educational transparency platform."
"National Democratic Institute (NDI)",Other,Global,2012,69000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a convening of Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations to discuss advocacy strategies to set global norms for legislative transparency. The convening is organised by the National Democratic Institutes."
"ONE Campaign","Financial Transparency",Global,2012,750000,"Project Grant","To support ONE Campaign, an international advocacy organisation to fund a campaign to crowd-source the next Millennium Development Goals."
"Open Data Institute (ODI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2012,750000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Open Data Institute, an organisation working with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem, where people can make better decisions using data and manage any harmful impacts."
"Open Government Partnership (OGP)",Other,"United States",2012,480000,"Program Grant","To support the Open Government Partnership, an initiative launched in 2011 across 38 countries to ensure greater transparency of government and improved means for citizens of holding governments accountable."
"Personal Democracy Forum","Civic Empowerment",Global,2012,175000,"Project Grant","To support the Personal Democracy Forum's creation of The DoTank, a news-blog/online hub for reporting and analysis on groups working globally on government transparency, anti-corruption, open data, and civic hacking."
"Personal Democracy Forum","Civic Empowerment",Global,2012,75000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the Personal Democracy Forum in convening government transparency organisations and activists from East and Central Europe."
"Praekelt Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2012,275000,"Program Grant","To support the Praekelt Foundation's work on JoziHub, a technology hub in Johannesburg that seeks to catalyse the development of new technology ventures by creating an environment where social entrepreneurs, techies, and other stakeholders can interact."
SEATTI,"Civic Empowerment",Asia,2012,2140000,"Program Grant","To support SEATTI (the Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Fund), a partnership between Omidyar Network and Hivos supporting technology-driven civil society organisations working on media and government transparency in Southeast Asia."
"XYZ Show","Independent Media",Africa,2012,430000,"General Funding Grant","To support Buni Media, a Kenyan non-profit producing creative digital content challenging the country's socio-political status quo including the XYZ Show."
Yar'Adua,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2012,30000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To sponsor a conference on new media and governance, organised by the Shehu Musa Yar'adua Foundation and Enough is Enough."
"African Media Initiative","Independent Media",Africa,2011,1200000,"General Funding Grant","To support the African Media Initiative, a consortium of private media companies in Africa that are working together to improve the quality of journalism on the continent, improve business practices, and access more flexible capital for investment in media."
"Arab Techies","Civic Empowerment",Global,2011,70000,"Project Grant","To sponsor an event in July 2011 for the 'Arab Techies', a network of technologists in the Middle East that fosters collaboration in the development of Internet and mobile applications."
"Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)",Other,Global,2011,1035000,"Program Grant","To support activities related to Stanford's Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and Haas Center for Public Service - specifically, an undergraduate seminar, several undergraduate fellowships, and an alumni network - all intended to develop talent and foster knowledge sharing in the Government Transparency area."
"Co-Creation Hub","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2011,200000,"General Funding Grant","To support Co-Creation Hub, which seeks to bring together stakeholders from different walks of life to work collaboratively on solutions to social challenges facing Nigerian society. It operates Nigeria's first multi-functional, multi-purpose space for social entrepreneurs, and provides related services."
"Code for America","Civic Empowerment","United States",2011,250000,"General Funding Grant","To support Civic Commons, which was incubated as a 2011 Code for America project and sponsored by the District of Columbia to help government agencies share code, best practices, and innovations in IT."
"Committee to Protect Journalists","Independent Media",Global,2011,800000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Committee to Protect Journalists, promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal."
DoSomething.org,Other,"United States",2011,1500000,"Program Grant","To support DoSomething.org, the largest member organisation for young people and social change in the world."
"ePanstwo Foundation (ePF)","Civic Empowerment",Europe,2011,200000,"General Funding Grant","To support ePanstwo, a non-profit that aims to increase the transparency and accountability of government in Poland."
FrontlineSMS,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2011,350000,"General Funding Grant","To support Frontline SMS in its business development activities."
"Fundacion Ciudadanía Inteligente (FCI)","Civic Empowerment","Latin America",2011,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente, a non-profit in Chile that seeks to promote government transparency and accountability, using web and mobile technology to encourage active citizen participation and engagement in the political process."
"Global Forum for Media Development","Independent Media",Global,2011,150000,"General Funding Grant","To support the 3rd GFMD World Conference in Brasilia on May 8-11, 2012."
"Global Integrity","Financial Transparency",Global,2011,325000,"Project Grant","To support Global Integrity's involvement in a project for the Open Government Partnership (OGP)."
"Institute for Philanthropy",Other,Global,2011,65000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To co-sponsor a one-day event in London in September 2011, themed Technology for Development, that showcases the role of technology in social change in the developing world."
"Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)","Independent Media",Global,2011,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support MDIF, a non-profit mission-driven investment fund that supports primarily for-profit independent news outlets in countries with a history of media oppression."
"Mideast Youth","Civic Empowerment",Global,2011,600000,"Project Grant","To support Mid East Youth, a group of websites that serves as an interactive and educational platform for its users throughout the Arab world, offering what the region's mainstream media overlooks: uncensored information, human rights abuses, personal anecdotes from underrepresented minorities, and articles on culture."
mySociety,"Civic Empowerment",Europe,2011,2900000,"General Funding Grant","To support the continuing efforts of mySociety, including further innovation on its core platforms and products and growth in its international work."
"Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2011,750000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge Foundation, a UK-based non-profit whose mission is to develop and promote open knowledge (information that can freely be used, reused and redistributed) to foster better governance through transparency, provide greater access to culture, and spur research and innovation."
"People, Technology, Government Conference (PTGC)",Other,Global,2011,120000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a one-day event in 2012 called 'People, Technology, and Government' showcasing the use of technology tools for open government and for enabling increased transparency and accountability."
"Sahara Reporters","Independent Media",Africa,2011,150000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria"
"Sahara Reporters","Independent Media",Africa,2011,300000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria"
"Sunlight Foundation","Civic Empowerment","United States",2011,6000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Sunlight Foundation, which aims to increase government transparency in the United States."
"Sunlight Foundation","Civic Empowerment","United States",2011,24000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support an annual event organised by the Sunlight Foundation at which various communities of activists, government, NGOs, technologists, and others share their knowledge, challenges, and engagements in open government, transparency, and accountability efforts."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)",Other,Global,2011,455000,"Program Grant","To support the donor collaborative on transparency and accountability, the principal aim of which is to increase knowledge on the impact of transparency and accountability, promote the use of new transparency & accountability technologies, and agree on international transparency & accountability standards."
Ushahidi,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2011,380000,"Project Grant","To support SwiftRiver, a free and open source platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time. It offers organisations an easy way to combine natural language/artificial intelligence process, data-mining for SMS and Twitter, and verification algorithms for different sources of information."
Ushahidi,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2011,1900000,"General Funding Grant","To support the continuing efforts of Ushahidi, including further innovation on its core platforms and products."
"World Press Freedom Day","Independent Media",Global,2011,200000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the Center for International Media Assistance, a Washington DC-based organisation leading the organising committee for World Press Freedom Day, celebrated with a series of events in DC from May 1-3, 2011."
"African Technology and Transparency Initiative","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2010,2400000,"Program Grant","To support African Technology and Transparency Initiative, which seeks to support organisations in Africa that use technology and media platforms to empower citizens in their countries to hold their leaders accountable by providing access to credible public information, influence, and stewardship of resources."
"Center for Public Integrity","Independent Media","United States",2010,1000000,"Project Grant","To support the Center for Public Integrity, which focuses its investigations on money and politics, government waste/fraud/abuse, the environment, healthcare reform, national security and state government transparency."
"Code for America","Civic Empowerment","United States",2010,250000,"General Funding Grant","To support Code for America, an organisation working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the digital age."
"Enough is Enough","Independent Media",Africa,2010,87500,"Project Grant","To support a campaign to use technology to mobilise Nigerian citizens to register to vote in the 2011 Presidential Elections."
"Enough is Enough",Other,Africa,2010,130000,"Program Grant","To support a campaign to use technology to mobilise Nigerian citizens to register to vote in the 2011 Presidential Elections."
FrontlineSMS,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2010,350000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support for Frontline SMS, which is professional messaging platform."
"Global Voices","Independent Media",Global,2010,1200000,"General Funding Grant","To support Global Voices, a ""citizen media platform"" that seeks to find and publish the most compelling and important stories coming from marginalised and misrepresented communities."
Herdict,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2010,300000,"Project Grant","To support Herdict, the Berkman Center's crowdsourcing platform for providing insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of website accessibility."
Infonet,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2010,99942,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support InfoNet, which develops open source technologies that give individuals the ability to share public information, therefore improving government transparency and enabling communities to build social capital for democratic social action."
mySociety,"Civic Empowerment",Europe,2010,575000,"General Funding Grant","To support mySociety, which provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens."
NewsTrust,"Independent Media",Global,2010,100000,"General Funding Grant","To support Newstrust, a non-profit news network where users were able to reference news stories, rate those stories according to quality of journalism, post reviews, and add stories they found worthwhile."
"Praekelt Foundation","Civic Empowerment",Africa,2010,825000,"General Funding Grant","To support Praekelt Foundation in its pioneering use of mobile technology to drive positive social change."
"Project On Government Oversight (POGO)","Independent Media","United States",2010,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support POGO, a bipartisan watchdog that focuses on bringing to light and rectifying systemic abuses of power in the U.S. federal government."
"Refugees United","Civic Empowerment",Global,2010,2600000,"General Funding Grant","To support Refugees United, a  non-profit organisation that uses an online forum and mobile phones to help refugees reunite with family."
SeeClickFix,"Civic Empowerment","United States",2010,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To support SeeClickFix, a web and mobile platform to enable citizens to report non-emergency issues, such as potholes, graffiti, abandoned vehicles or property, to their cities in order to improve service delivery and citizen engagement with local government."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)",Other,Global,2010,48500,"Project Grant","To support the donor collaborative on transparency and accountability, the principal aim of which is to increase knowledge on the impact of transparency and accountability, promote the use of new transparency & accountability technologies, and agree on international transparency & accountability standards."
"XYZ Show","Independent Media",Africa,2010,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Buni Media, a Kenyan non-profit producing creative digital content challenging the country's socio-political status quo including the XYZ Show."
"Global Integrity","Financial Transparency",Global,2009,2400000,"General Funding Grant","To support the continued growth and impact of Global Integrity, an innovation leader for the global government transparency sector."
"Global Integrity","Financial Transparency",Global,2009,25000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Global lntegrity, which works toward open, accountable, and effective governance in countries and communities around the world."
Mzalendo,"Civic Empowerment",Africa,2009,64200,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Mzalendo, whose mission is to keep an eye on the Kenyan parliament."
"Sunlight Foundation","Civic Empowerment","United States",2009,9000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Sunlight Foundation, which aims to increase government transparency in the United States."
"Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI)",Other,Global,2009,80000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the donor collaborative on transparency and accountability, the principal aim of which is to increase knowledge on the impact of transparency and accountability, promote the use of new transparency & accountability technologies, and agree on international transparency & accountability standards."
Ushahidi,"Civic Empowerment",Global,2009,1400000,"General Funding Grant","To support Ushahidi, a social enterprise that provides software and services to numerous sectors and civil society to help improve the bottom up flow of information."
"Sunlight Foundation","Civic Empowerment","United States",2007,2000000,"Program Grant","To support the Sunlight Foundation, which aims to increase government transparency in the United States."
"Sunlight Foundation","Civic Empowerment","United States",2006,2000000,"Program Grant","To support the Sunlight Foundation, which aims to increase government transparency in the United States."
"Center for Public Integrity","Independent Media","United States",2004,50000,"Project Grant","To support the Center for Public Integrity, which focuses its investigations on money and politics, government waste/fraud/abuse, the environment, healthcare reform, national security and state government transparency."