Peace and Security Funders Group

Peace and Security Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations, 2008-2009

This report presents a detailed view of peace and security grantmaking in 2008 and 2009, examining the sources, recipients and purposes of foundation support. Its analysis is based on a database of over 2000 individual grants from 91 foundations, totaling over $257 million. To our knowledge, this report represents the only available comprehensive study of current funding in the field. We hope and trust that this study is the first of a series. Reports in subsequent years will provide longitudinal data that will allow us to identify trends over time.

To download the full report (pdf), click here or on the image above. Click here to download Supplemental Information to the report, including profiles of the top grantmaking foundations and tables of funding for strategies by foundation. The raw data is not publicly available, but we would be pleased to generate additional analyses of the data, in response to queries from PSFG Members.

We welcome your comments and suggestions on how to improve future editions of this report. For information, please contact PSFG Director Katherine Magraw at kmagraw @ peaceandsecurity.org or PSFG Consultant Carah Ong at cong @ peaceandsecurity.org

Errata

Table 11: Top Grant Recipients (over $1 million), 2008-2009
The total funding to International Institute for Strategic Studies for 2008 -2009 was incorrectly reported as $2,205,000. The actual amount of funding to IISS for 2008-2009 was $2,565,000, making it the 13th largest grant recipient in total 2008-2009 funding. The total number of grants awarded to IISS is correctly reported on the table as eight grants.

Table 12: Ten Largest Grants in 2008 Table 12 incorrectly lists the recipient of the tenth largest grant as the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The recipient of this $1,200,000 grant from the MacArthur grant (three-years) was the National Bureau for Asian Research.

Please note that the errors listed above are in these printed report tables only and do not affect the analysis presented in the report, nor overall funding levels.