National Security, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy

Grants focused on helping inform national security and foreign policy, as well as efforts to prevent or solve conflict via diplomacy. This includes bi- and multi-lateral efforts and actions taken by countries.

10%
$35.5 Million
out of $357.1 Million
for all peace and security
Median Grant Size: $50,000

Top Funders

Carnegie Corporation of New York
$17.2 M
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$3.8 M
Ploughshares Fund
$2.6 M
Foundation to Promote Open Society
$1.7 M
Sarah Scaife Foundation, Inc.
$1.4 M
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
$1.1 M
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
$936.2 K
The Starr Foundation
$876.3 K
GPD Charitable Trust
$835.6 K
The Atlantic Philanthropies
$709.3 K
Colombe Foundation
$665.0 K
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
$600.0 K
The Marcus Foundation, Inc.
$550.0 K
Ford Foundation
$480.0 K
Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.
$375.0 K
The Stanley Foundation
$338.6 K
Humanity United
$300.0 K
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
$260.0 K
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
$225.0 K
Stewart R. Mott Foundation
$215.0 K
Cherna Moskowitz Foundation
$150.0 K
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$130.0 K
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
$130.0 K
Sequoia Foundation
$125.5 K
The Arca Foundation
$110.0 K

Starting in 2014, the Open Society Foundations’ grants data is reported by and attributed to the individual legal entities that constitute the Foundations. Prior to 2014, grantmaking from these funders are collectively attributed to ‘Open Society Foundations’.

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Regional Focus

Strategy Focus

Funding for General Support

8% $2,750,500 32 Grants = 13%

Sample Grants

  • Proteus Fund, Inc.
    awarded a grant for $60,000 to Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus

    For the National Security and Civil Rights Program's community empowerment work in Northern and Southern California that, integrated with advocacy and litigation, will advance policy reforms to increase civil and human rights protections in the national security context.

  • The Nathan Cummings Foundation
    awarded a grant for $225,000 to J Street Education Fund

    For general support to promote strong U.S. Leadership to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict peacefully and diplomatically and to broaden the discourse on Israel in the American Jewish community.

  • Ford Foundation
    awarded a grant for $300,000 to Praxis Films

    To produce "Untitled Surveillance Project," a documentary on the National Security Agency and Edward Snowden's disclosures.