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Share of Total Giving, 2018

8.33% $19,044,510 72 Grants

Top Funders

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $6.8 M
Ford Foundation $2.6 M
NoVo Foundation $2.5 M
Foundation to Promote Open Society $1.3 M
Carnegie Corporation of New York $700.0 K
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation $700.0 K
The Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc. $600.0 K
The PepsiCo Foundation, Inc. $535.0 K
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation $500.0 K
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $500.0 K
Cisco Systems Foundation $325.0 K
Abbvie Foundation $300.0 K
The Pfizer Foundation, Inc. $300.0 K
Klarman Family Foundation $200.0 K
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation $200.0 K
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, Inc. $120.0 K
Levi Strauss Foundation $100.0 K
The New York Community Trust $100.0 K
Annenberg Foundation $97.5 K
Community Foundation of North Texas $78.6 K

Top Recipients

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center Foundation $2.8 M
United States Fund for UNICEF - New York, NY $1.6 M
Give2Asia $1.3 M
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees $1.2 M
BRAC USA $1.0 M
Welfare Association $780.0 K
MADRE $690.9 K
International Labour Organization $630.0 K
Asian University for Women Support Foundation $500.0 K
CARE $500.0 K
CARE India $500.0 K
Expo 2020 Dubai $500.0 K
Medical Aid for Palestinians $500.0 K
Kiron Open Higher Education $450.0 K
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific $450.0 K
Lebanese Economic Association $400.0 K
Sawa for Development and Aid $400.0 K
University of Geneva $400.0 K
The King Hussein Foundation $350.0 K
International Medical Corps $316.7 K

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Breakdown by Disaster Assistance Strategy

About the Data: U.S. Foundations — Top 1,000

Data include all grants of $10,000 or more reported by 1,000 of the largest U.S. foundations. The dataset accounts for approximately half of the total grant dollars awarded by the universe of independent, corporate, community, and grantmaking operating foundations. The data do not include gifts by corporate giving programs or public charities. The data also exclude grants, fellowships, or awards directly to individuals; grants paid by private foundations to U.S. community foundations (to avoid double-counting of dollars); and loans or program-related investments.

Funding by region includes double-counting of grants that benefited multiple regions. Some funding is not directed for a specific region but rather provides a global benefit; these grants are not reflected in the regional graphic.