Global Health Grants

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Key Funders

Global Health Funding Trends

Philanthropy represents only a small fraction of overall giving for global health, and foundations generally partner with government and state-supported agencies to achieve goals.

Global health funding is primarily a government function, with grants by foundations and major donors for global health representing only a small fraction of overall funding. Very few philanthropic funders give for the entire scope of global health, instead focusing on a specific issue, such as infectious disease, reproductive health, or nutrition. Grantmaking from the United States for global health is done mostly by large, private foundations to U.S.-based affiliates and intermediaries who then distribute funds overseas.

For a long time, fighting infectious diseases has been the top priority in global health. Yet thanks to significant progress in this area in the past two decades, today, global health philanthropy also addresses many other aspects of health, including noncommunicable diseases; reproductive health.

It’s a complex field, and funders are increasingly understanding the ways health is intertwined with issues including climate change, poverty, and housing and food insecurity. rights and care; healthcare administration and financing; and much more.

While health intersects with almost every other issue, most top funders of global health focus their efforts on specific issues, such as strengthening health systems (a priority for the Helmsley Charitable Trust) or reproductive health and rights (a program area for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation). Women’s and girls’ health are a priority for many funders.

In recent years, strengthening health systems and improving data to advance equity and access to healthcare have emerged as priorities among global health funders. Some funders are also integrating an equity analysis into their funding of health interventions.

Much of the global health funding from the U.S. goes to U.S.-based affiliates and intermediaries who then distribute resources through partnerships with local communities and governments. U.S. funders’ giving for global health had been decreasing in the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but in response to the pandemic, traditional global health funders stepped up and were joined by others in providing pandemic relief. It remains to be seen whether this increased funding will last beyond the pandemic.

Foundations for Global Health

ABBOTT FUND

Abbott favors organizations expanding access to healthcare, maternal and child health, noncommunicable diseases, HIV/AIDS and improving nutrition in underserved regions of the world.

ABBVIE FOUNDATION

AbbVie mostly partners with large organizations working on HIV/AIDS, neglected tropical diseases, sustainable healthcare infrastructure, and improving access to quality healthcare.

ADDAX & ORYX FOUNDATION

The Addax & Oryx Foundation focuses its global health funding access to healthcare, good health, sanitation and hygiene.

ADTALEM GLOBAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION

Adtalem Global Education Foundation focuses its global health work on access to affordable healthcare.

PAUL G. ALLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s global health tend to focus on disease outbreaks and pandemics.

AMB FOUNDATION

AMB’s grantmaking for global health occurs alongside it’s global development grantmaking. In this area, it tends to broadly fund healthcare and poverty alleviation organization. It does not name specific grantmaking strategies.

amfAR

Also known as the Foundation for AIDS Research, amfAR devotes its global funding to research, advocacy, and treatment of HIV/AIDS in developing countries.

ASTELLAS USA FOUNDATION

This foundation’s global health investments support vaccines in Latin America.

AUTODESK FOUNDATION

The Autodesk Foundation awards cash grants to global health organizations in addition to providing in-kind donations. The foundation also offers employee volunteers to assist on various global health projects.

CAMERON AND JANE BAIRD FOUNDATION

The Cameron and Jane Bird Foundation awards grants to support a variety of global health organizations working around the world.

BANCKER-WILLIAMS FOUNDATION

A modest funder in the global health field, Bancker-Williams favors grassroots groups working in the fields of reproductive health and medical and supply delivery.

BAND FOUNDATION

This foundation’s global health work primarily centers on epilepsy.

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

The philanthropic arm of the global healthcare product company, this is a good grantmaker to know for NGOs focused on providing quality basic healthcare to vulnerable populations.

BD FOUNDATION

The BD Foundation’s global health grantmaking focuses on widespread immunization campaigns, healthcare worker safety, and outreach projects that educate and raise awareness of pandemic diseases. Specific disease interests include HIV/AIDS, malaria, diabetes, immunizations and infectious diseases.

BEIT TRUST

Beit’s grants provide funding and support to “established, independent institutions, in particular schools, hospitals and health centers” in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi.

ERIK AND EDITH BERGSTROM FOUNDATION

This funder supports groups concerned with reproductive health in the U.S., Latin America and East Africa. It also funds for more general global and economic development work.

BOHEMIAN FOUNDATION

The Bohemian Foundation funds public health efforts in Africa as part of its broader global grantmaking mission.

BOOZ ALLEN FOUNDATION

The Booz Allen Foundation awards grants to mental health organizations in the United States.

BRIGHT HORIZON FOUNDATION

This funder broadly supports global health.

BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION

Bristol Myers-Squibb invests in diabetes and cancer relief in central and eastern Europe and hepatitis relief in Asia. It also makes grants for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

CABOT CORPORATION FOUNDATION

Cabot takes a broad approach to grantmaking in the global health field. Despite not having distinct global health grantmaking programs, Cabot appears to prioritize projects, programs, and organizations that focus on children’s health.

BUSHROD H. CAMPBELL AND ADAH F. HALL CHARITY FUND

Campbell and Hall Charity Fund supports organizations based in the U.S. that address reproductive health on an international scale and the needs of Boston, Massachusetts on a local scale.

CARDINAL HEALTH FOUNDATION

Global health is a smaller area of giving for the Cardinal Health Foundation, but since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the foundation has supported international relief efforts.

CARTER CENTER

Many of Carter’s global health initiatives address diseases and other health concerns caused by parasites. The Carter Center supports programs and organizations working to eliminate two of the leading causes of preventable blindness in the world.

PING AND AMY CHAO FAMILY FOUNDATION

Grantmaking focus areas include improving the health and health outcomes of vulnerable children. Funding preference is given to groups working in east and southeast Asia.

CHILD HEALTH FOUNDATION

This foundation focuses on children’s health around the world.

CIVILIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

The CRDF’s global health grants encourage collaborative research on an international scale that addresses the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases.

CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION

The Clara Lionel Foundation supports climate resilience, disaster relief, racial justice, global health, immigrants and refugees, and other issues of interest to the founder in the U.S., the Caribbean and other countries around the world, particularly in Africa.

CONSERVATION, FOOD, AND HEALTH FOUNDATION

A small, accessible funder focusing global health grantmaking on food security, disease prevention, family planning, and reproductive health.

ELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION

The Eleanor Crook Foundation seeks organizations that prioritize ending hunger and poverty.

CROWN FAMILY PHILANTHROPIES

Focuses on psychosocial services for those living in conflict areas, community health centers, and providing decentralized preventative and emergency care to local communities in developing countries.

DEERFIELD FOUNDATION

Deerfield focuses its global health grantmaking on children’s health and access to healthcare services in vulnerable communities.

DEVON CREEK FOUNDATION

The Devon Creek Foundation’s global health related grants mainly focus on women’s reproductive health and children.

WILLIAM H. DONNER FOUNDATION

Rather than dedicating itself to specific global health priorities, Donner chooses an open, broad approach. It tends to support organizations that reflect a capacity for wide-reaching impact.

DONNER CANADADIAN FOUNDATION

Donner’s global health grants mainly support Canada-based organizations that operate internationally.

DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

DDCF devotes its global health dollars to medical research and strengthening health systems that link workforce training directly with primary healthcare delivery.

EAGLEMERE FOUNDATION

Eaglemere’s global health grants typically fund environmental protection, global health, and global development concerns.

ELMO FOUNDATION

Elmo takes a broad-based approach to its global health funding and supports groups working in a variety of health fields, including maternal health, water and sanitation, and medical supply and care delivery.

ELSEVIER FOUNDATION

The Elsevier Foundation supports global health research organizations as well as organizations providing direct healthcare.

EMPOWER FOUNDATION

EMpower funds programs for at-risk children and young people aged 10 to 24. Its global health giving backs health education, HIV prevention, nutrition, and positive youth socialization.

EVERY MOTHER COUNTS

This funder supports organizations advocating for safe pregnancy, childbirth, and access to quality maternal healthcare in the U.S. and abroad.

EXXONMOBIL FOUNDATION

ExxonMobil awards grants toward the treatment of malaria, devoting its global health dollars to prevention and eradication projects in Asia and Africa.

FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION

This funder gives smallish global health grants to community-based organizations fighting HIV/AIDS in specific regions of sub-Saharan Africa. A great friend to grassroots groups.

FLAHIVE FAMILY FOUNDATION

Awards grants to groups promoting maternal health and wellness, women’s healthcare, education, and access to clean water in developing countries.

J.C. FLOWERS FOUNDATION

This foundation’s grants for global health focus on malaria transmission and eradication.

FORD FOUNDATION

Ford makes grants to sexual and reproductive health rights projects with an eye on empowering marginalized populations. This could change, however, as Ford is restructuring its grantmaking to focus on global inequality in all forms.

FUTURA FOUNDATIONS

The Futura Foundations support global health organizations working in developing and least developed countries around the world. It’s global health work prioritizes girls and women.

GATES FOUNDATION

Gates is a leading force in global health and makes numerous grants to organizations working in disease prevention and treatment, discovery and translational sciences, maternal and child health, and family planning services.

GE FOUNDATION

The GE Foundation works in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and partners closely with health ministries. The foundation emphasizes projects to improve technological capacities in hospitals and health centers around the world.

GERE FOUNDATION

Gere’s global health funding has traditionally focused on AIDS/HIV research, diagnosis and treatment, but recent grants also support more general global health causes.

GILEAD FOUNDATION

This charitable arm of a biotech company focuses its international grantmaking on disease prevention efforts predominantly in Africa and South America. Gives both in-kind support and grants.

GILLESPIE FOUNDATION

Grants to projects providing sexual and reproductive healthcare and contraceptives for women in least-developed countries. A good source for smaller outfits that can do a lot with a modest grant.

GIVE2ASIA

Give2Asia’s global health grants tend to focus on preventative healthcare for underserved groups, pediatric and maternal care, chronic diseases and the development of healthcare infrastructure in low-income areas.

GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN

This funder makes relatively small grants to a wide range of women-run NGOs working on the provision and development of reproductive health services, advocacy and education, especially in Africa and Asia.

GLOBAL RESILIENCE FUND FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN

Global health grantmaking centers on women’s health, reproductive health and healthcare access for underserved and marginalized populations.

HORACE W. GOLDSMITH FOUNDATION

This low-profile outfit tends to award multi-year grants to large international organizations mounting generalized global health campaigns.

GOOD VENTURES

Good Ventures is a huge supporter of pressing global health challenges. Favors projects related to malnutrition and the prevention and treatment of specific diseases.

GOOGLE.ORG

Google has increased funds for global health concerns since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Grants tend to focus on relief efforts and data tracking.

GREENBAUM FOUNDATION

The Greenbaum Foundation’s global health grantmaking focuses on improving world health overall with an emphasis on promoting “[w]hole foods plant-based diets.”

HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST

Helmsley focuses its global grants on food security, nutrition, WASH, education, and neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.

WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION

This top foundation makes grants to global health projects related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Hewlett also funds projects engaging the broader issues of women’s empowerment that surround this area.

HEXBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION

This low-profile family foundation doesn’t have a global health program, but awards modest grants to U.S.-based global health outfits operating in poor countries around the world.

HICKEY FAMILY FOUNDATION

Focuses on significant global health concerns related to pervasive diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. The foundation also makes grants to support healthcare capacity-building efforts.

CONRAD N. HILTON FOUNDATION

Hilton’s global health giving supports NGOs working in the areas of children impacted by HIV/AIDS and avoidable blindness prevention.

INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

This is an approachable WASH funder, although grant amounts tend to be pretty modest.

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL OUTREACH

This Texas foundation makes grants to organizations fighting infectious diseases in the developing world. The foundation’s primary disease prevention area relates to problems surrounding parasitic worms.

INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION

IPPF awards grants to make sexual and reproductive health services safe and accessible. Most grants go to affiliate organizations, but it occasionally awards small grants to support complementary projects.

IROH FOUNDATION

The IROH Foundation, formerly Ra5, supports “emerging organizations” working in global development and global health.

JACKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

The Jackman Family Foundation appears to support global health organizations with intersecting themes such as access to healthcare and poverty.

JEPHCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST

The Jephcott Charitable Trust funds a wide range of global health projects.

JOCHNICK FOUNDATION

The Jochnick Foundation supports global health organizations that work with people living in developing countries.

ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION

EJAF is a longtime funder of global health work related to HIV/AIDS and makes grants to organizations serving marginalized and vulnerable populations, including key groups with a higher risk of contracting HIV.

JOHNSON & JOHNSON FAMILY OF COMPANIES FOUNDATION

This funder devotes its global health dollars to expanding reproductive health services for women and girls, eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and combating fistula.

SC JOHNSON GIVING

SC Johnson’s Health grants support efforts to “help educate about or combat mosquito-borne diseases, or encourage public health and wellness education and equitable access to health care.”

KIMBERLY-CLARK FOUNDATION

The Kimberly-Clark Foundation does not focus on a single global health challenge, focusing instead on problems and regions of the world that present the most acute need.

KVINNA TILL KVINNA FOUNDATION

Funds organizations working on women’s rights and empowerment around the world, placing special emphasis on projects occurring in conflict areas.

LACEWING FOUNDATION

In keeping with all of its grantmaking, the Lacewing Foundation conducts grants for global health through a gender lens, focusing on women and children.

LALOR FOUNDATION

Primarily funds large international organizations that provide information about sex, reproduction, contraception and abortion to young women; infrequently supports smaller groups. Also gives postdoc fellowships.

LEVI STRAUSS FOUNDATION

While not a huge global health funder, the Levi Strauss Foundation does support international HIV/AIDS work, particularly projects with a human rights angle.

LILLY FOUNDATION

While mainly working in the U.S., gives global grants for health care access, tuberculosis prevention, hunger relief, and disease prevention and treatment.

LINBURY TRUST

One of the 17 Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. Linbury’s global health grants go toward humanitarian aid in developing countries, often through support for hospitals and health centers. Palestine is a primary area of interest.

MAC AIDS FUND

A charitable project of the MAC cosmetics line, the fund gives numerous grants to global health projects around the world that empower marginalized groups affected by HIV/AIDS.

MACAULEY FOUNDATION

This small family foundation supports organizations improving the health and health outcomes of children living in developing countries around the world.

MASIMO FOUNDATION

Main areas of interest include improved ethics in healthcare delivery, access to affordable healthcare, and innovation. Favors larger and better-known organization in its grantmaking.

MASTERCARD FOUNDATION

MasterCard invest in global health work focused on vaccine manufacturing and improving the CDC in Africa.

NEIL AND AMELIA MCDANIEL CHARITABLE TRUST

The trust supports organizations that take a broad approach towards the improvement of global health in least developed countries.

MCJ AMELIOR FOUNDATION

Most of MCJ Amelior’s global health grants fund large international groups, with fewer to local and grassroots groups. Spreads giving over a broad range of interests.

MEDTRONIC FOUNDATION

The charitable arm of the medical device company, the foundation makes global health grants toward preventing and treating noncommunicable diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

MERCK COMPANY FOUNDATION

The charitable arm of the pharmaceutical company focuses its grantmaking on hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, vaccines, and building healthcare worker capacity in developing countries.

MERCK FOR MOTHERS

The Merck for Mothers supports maternal health and ending maternal mortality in many countries all around the world.

T&J MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION

The Meyer Family Foundation does not name specific global health grantmaking priorities, but tends to fund large international health organizations working in developing countries around the world.

MICROSOFT PHILANTHROPIES

Microsoft created its AI for Health program to “use artificial intelligence (AI) and data to help improve the health of people and communities worldwide.”

MICHELIN CORPORATE FOUNDATION

The Michelin Corporate Foundation tends to global health organizations working in developing and developed countries.

MILAGRO FOUNDATION

The Milagro Foundation works in the arts, education and health, prioritizing vulnerable children and youth around the world and the Bay Area.

MORGAN STANLEY FOUNDATION

The Morgan Stanley International Foundation’s global health grantmaking focuses on children’s health.

MULAGO FOUNDATION

The Mulago Foundation supports both for profit and nonprofit organizations working in the health space, which it funds more broadly.

NEW PROSPECT FOUNDATION

The New Prospect Foundation supports larger global health organizations working around the world.

NEW VENTURE FUND

Backs projects promoting access to family planning information, services and supplies, as well as tobacco control. More of a donor-advised fund than a traditional grantmaker.

NEXTWORLDNOW FOUNDATION

While NextWorldNow’s grants tend to benefit vulnerable populations in developing countries, it awards grants to groups working with marginalized populations in developed nations.

OPEN PHILANTHROPY PROJECT

The Open Philanthropy Project broadly supports global health projects around the world.

OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS

Open Society’s health grantmaking focus is empowering people stigmatized because of their sexual practices, sexual orientation, or gender identity, as well as expanding access to reproductive health services.

PACE ABLE FOUNDATION

The Pace Able Foundation broadly supports global health organizations that focus on public health.

DAVID AND LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION

The Packard Foundation makes global health grants to organizations improving reproductive health services, access, and policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

PALMER FOUNDATION

The Palmer Foundation supports U.S. based organizations that are working abroad and focusing their work on water, sanitation and hygiene.

PANAPHIL FOUNDATION

Panaphil doesn’t cite specific global health grantmaking priorities, but it tends to support groups providing healthcare for vulnerable people around the world.

PEERY FOUNDATION

The Peery Foundation’s global health grants fund organizations serving vulnerable, marginalized and rural communities around the world.

PERSHING SQUARE FOUNDATION

The Pershing Square Foundation supports global health organizations around the world.

PFIZER FOUNDATION

The Pfizer Foundation’s global health grants focus on health care delivery in low- and middle-income countries and underserved communities around the world.

PROCTER & GAMBLE FUND

Supports groups promoting healthy hygiene habits in an effort to prevent sanitation-related illnesses in regions of the world in which the company has business operations.

PURLEY OVERSEAS TRUST

Global health a smaller area of funding for Purley and overlaps significantly with its global development grantmaking.

QUAIL ROOST FOUNDATION

This modest funder favors organizations working in the fields of women’s health and maternal and child health.

ROCHE

Roche awards global health grants to nonprofit organizations around the world focusing on those working in least developed and developing countries.

ROTH FAMILY FOUNDATION

Global grantmaking is concerned with sexual and reproductive health information and services, and to a lesser degree, access to clean water; relatively modest grants often go to smaller and grassroots groups.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

The Royal Society seeks innovative projects and individuals working across disciplines to find tropical medicine and improve global health.

SCHOONER FOUNDATION

The Schooner Foundation’s international grants fund human rights, peace-building, global security, and economic opportunity.

ARTHUR B. SCHULTZ FOUNDATION

The Schultz Foundation’s Disability Inclusion grantmaking primarily seeks to “increase access to locally produced appropriate wheelchair and mobility solutions.”

SIDACTION

Makes a decent number of global health grants each year, which are awarded to projects that treat and prevent HIV/AIDS in countries on all continents of the globe, but especially in Africa.

SKOLL FOUNDATION

Global health grants go to outfits promoting access to healthcare services and technology, integrated healthcare models, and access to clean water and sanitation. Favors large organizations with large-scale resources.

STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION

Backed by MTV, this foundation exclusively supports youth-led HIV prevention projects.

IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION

Stern doesn’t award a ton of global health grants annually. The ones it does award typically go toward projects in social services, physical health and mental health.

SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION

This is a top private funder of sexual and reproductive health and rights work worldwide, with funding emphasis on Latin America, Mexico, South America, and Africa.

TARA HEALTH FOUNDATION

The Tara Health Foundation mainly seeks global health organizations improving the health of women and girls.

JACK DELOSS TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST

Low-profile funder accepts unsolicited funding requests from outfits providing basics like food, healthcare and medicine to vulnerable populations around the world; seems to prefer grassroots organizations.

JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION

The Templeton Foundation does not support global health per se but names voluntary family planning as a funding initiative. This work is conducted globally.

TIMKEN FOUNDATION

A small, but approachable, global health funder that supports a diverse range of global health concerns.

TOMBERG FAMILY PHILANTHROPIES

The Tomberg Philanthropies do not name specific priorities for their health funding, but grantmaking appears to prioritize reproductive health and general healthcare for underserved people.

TRAFIGURA FOUNDATION

Funder focuses on improving the health and safety of those affected by logistics-related activities.

TRIPADVISOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

The quiet corporate giver mostly supports development and health projects.

SD TROMBETTA FOUNDATION

This low-profile funder awards grants to global health outfits working in marginalized and disadvantaged populations in developing and least-developed countries.

TRUE COLORS TRUST

This approachable funder makes modest grants in the uncrowded field of palliative medical and psychological care for children and adults in Africa who suffer from life-limiting and painful illness, including HIV/AIDS.

UBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION

This corporate funder focuses its global health grants on maternal and newborn health, child care, and community health.

VERIZON FOUNDATION

The Verizon Foundation takes a broad approach to health funding and prefers to invest in a variety of diseases.

ViiV HEALTHCARE

ViiV focuses its global health grantmaking on HIV/AIDS-related work, particularly in overlooked populations such as sex workers and men who have sex with men. Viiv also awards grants to groups working on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS.

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