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Area of work

Geographic focus

Year

Amount committed (US$)

Accountability Counsel

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

243,479

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 243,479

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description Final funding grant to the Accountability Counsel, an organisation that is dedicated to supporting and protecting communities harmed by internationally financed projects.

Africa's Voices Foundation

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

150,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A final 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.

Afrobarometer

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2025

200,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a one year final funding grant to Afrobarometer to support its data collection, management and storytelling on issues of technology and its intersection with social justice and human rights across Africa.

ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2025

300,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 24-month project supports ARTICLE 19's efforts to promote a human rights-based digital environment in Mexico through policy advocacy, civil society strengthening, environmental research, and oversight of public sector technologies.

Caribe Afirmativo

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2025

161,700

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 161,700

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This General Operating Grant aims at supporting Caribe Afirmativo in its mission of transforming prejudices, perceptions, and social and institutional practices regarding sexual and gender diversity in Colombia.

Cedar Seed Foundation

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

75,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 75,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This is a final funding grant to Cedar Seed Foundation to support its work on enhancing inclusion and diversity in political leadership in Nigeria, particularly with respect to issues of digital rights of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).

Ciudades Feministas (CISCSA)

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2025

108,334

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 108,334

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description Final funding grant to CISCSA, a feminist organisation dedicated to promoting women's rights and social justice in Argentina.

Connected Development (CODE)

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a one-year final funding grant to Connected Development (CODE) to support its core operations and programmatic interventions around strengthening citizens' participation in political and governance processes.

DAIR

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

600,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description Core general operating grant to DAIR, a globally distributed AI research institute that produces research that is deeply informed by lived experiences to create a future that values people and communities. This grant will enable DAIR to continue their award-winning research and publications led by marginalised communities left behind by current AI models, as well as accelerate their creation of tools and platforms that imagine alternative tech futures outside the realms of billionaire-owned spaces.

Debunk Media

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2025

200,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 200,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description A final grant to support Debunk Media expand the product portfolio and build their programs and operations team.

Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)

Participation & Dissent

Europe

2025

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Europe

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description This 2-year grant to Weaving Liberation through the Digital Freedom Fund supports the launch of the Digital Justice Fund, a participatory regranting fund to resource racial, social, economic, environmental, transfeminist, disability, migrant justice groups working at the intersection of technology and justice.

East Africa Documentary Film Fund (DOCUBOX)

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2025

125,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 125,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description 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.

East West Management Institute

Participation & Dissent

Asia

2025

900,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Asia

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant is to continue support to the East West Management Institute Freedom of Expression (FOE) Cluster.

Foundation for Investigative Journalism

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2025

300,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a two-year core grant to FIJ, in support of their work on holding government accountable for citizens data and the protection of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) against harassment and attacks through tech and spyware.

Fundacion Mi Sangre (FMS)

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2025

51,666

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 51,666

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant aims to support Fundacion Mi Sangre (FMS) by further strengthening youth participation in decision-making and enhancing the organisation's financial sustainability.

Futurelect

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

150,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A 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 Press Institute

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

250,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant will provide continued support to Global Press so it can meet its core mission of training and supporting local women journalists around the world to become storytellers of record for audiences of local and international changemakers.

Hostwriter

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

105,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 105,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This grant will provide continued support to Hostwriter so it can meet its strategic objectives and its mission to help journalists collaborate across borders.

IDEC - Instituto de Defesa do Consumidores

Information Ecosystems

Latin America

2025

500,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support IDEC's Telecommunications and Digital Rights Program in promoting a safer, fairer digital environment that protects consumers and upholds human rights in Brazil.

Instituto Marielle Franco

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2025

156,250

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 156,250

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This project agreement aims at supporting Instituto Marielle Franco in developing its institutional capacities as well as providing support for Afro Descendant Brazilian women to exercise their political rights in the digital era.

Namati

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

250,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A final 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 marginalised communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services.

New Venture Fund

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

500,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description Core contribution to the Spyware Accountability Initiative, a pooled fund set up by the Ford Foundation to support coordination and capacity building efforts through open, accessible grants to organizations working on spyware accountability anywhere in the world. The fund aims for a sustainable and coordinated global field of activists that is able to curtail the use of surveillance technologies that facilitate authoritarianism, political repression, and the closing of civic space.

Privacy International (PI)

Participation & Dissent

Global

2025

800,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Global

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 800,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This is a core renewal grant to Privacy International, whose mission is to protect people's privacy, dignity and freedoms from abuses of companies and governments. PI's strategy has the following pillars: i) Challenging Corporate Data Exploitation, ii) Contesting Government Data, iii) Defending Democracy and Dissent and iv) Safeguarding Peoples' Dignity.

TechSocietal

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2025

350,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 350,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A two-year project agreement with TechSocietal to support work aimed at reducing digital inequalities and empower vulnerable groups, particularly women and children, by advocating for platform accountability, promoting digital safety and rights, and enabling access to and benefit from the digital economy through policy engagement, capacity building, digital skills development, and research from a Feminist Tech Lens.

Temblores

Participation & Dissent

Latin America

2025

300,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Latin America

Year 2025

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description Temblores ONG, a non-profit founded in 2017, fights social inequality in Colombia through strategic litigation and civic participation. They mobilise community-led transformation to challenge exclusion and systemic rights denial.

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