As nonprofits focused on advocating for LGBTQ+ rights have faced intensified pressures in state legislatures and beyond in recent years, they have been fortified by a burst in funding from grant makers. According to the most recent data tracked by Candid and the Human Rights Funders Network, funding from grant makers increased by 17 percent to $215 million in 2019 compared to the year before.
Grant makers focused on LGBTQ+ human rights issues fund an array of efforts, such as work to expose abuses against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity and advocacy for laws, policies, and practices that protect and promote equal rights.
The top three issues addressed by LGBTQ+ human rights funding in 2019 were equality rights and freedom from discrimination, sexual and reproductive rights, and health and well-being rights, which includes access to health care and adequate and safe food and housing.
Support for groups working on those issues represent 70 percent of human rights grant dollars that were earmarked to aid LGBTQ+ populations in 2019.
Among the top 10 foundations that supported LGBTQ+ human rights issues in 2019, the Ford Foundation gave the most — $43.4 million— which was 20 percent of total human rights funding in support of LGBTQ+ populations.
(The Ford Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)
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