FCAA FUNDER SPOTLIGHT: Meet the Organizations that Increased Funding in 2016
FCAA’s latest resource tracking report found that philanthropic funding for HIV and AIDS reached the highest level to date in 2016 ($680 million). While this represented a third straight year of increase, the headline also belies a broader trend of funding decreases among leading HIV funders. In fact, without the two largest funders — the Gates Foundation and Gilead Sciences, which, together, represent over half of all funding in 2016 — total giving to HIV/AIDS among all other private funders decreased 5%.[i]
All this is taking place against a backdrop of increased threats against the fight. Not only is donor government support on the decline, but the US — historically, the largest contributor of global HIV/AIDS resources — has created several new threats (such as reinstating and expanding the Global Gag Rule and proposing significant cuts to global health budgets) since the Trump Administration took office little over a year ago.
All of this makes the following list of organizations that much more remarkable. These 74 private funders bucked the 2016 trend of decreases to HIV/AIDS funding. Collectively, these organizations increased their HIV-related philanthropic giving by $82 million in 2016. And we are so grateful that they did! It is organizations like this that will help to ensure we remain diligent in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Please join us in congratulating:
- 80/20 Foundation, Inc.
- Abell-Hanger Foundation
- Aidsfonds
- amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
- Avert
- Barry & Martin’s Trust
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Black Tie Dinner
- Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
- Calamus Foundation
- California Wellness Foundation
- Campbell Foundation
- Casey Albert T. O’Neil Foundation
- Castle Foundation
- Collins Foundation
- Comer Family Foundation
- Danford Foundation
- Daniel Foundation of Alabama
- David Schwartz Foundation, Inc
- Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA)
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
- Dyson Foundation
- EBB Point Foundation
- Egmont Trust
- Elizabeth Firth Wade Endowment Fund
- Elton John AIDS Foundation, UK & US
- Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation
- Firelight Foundation
- Foundation for Civil Society
- FXB International – Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- Grace Helen Spearman Foundation
- Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey
- Ittleson Foundation
- James B. Pendleton Charitable Trust
- Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation, Inc.
- Keep A Child Alive
- King Baudouin Foundation
- L. & N. Andreas Foundation
- Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation, Inc.
- Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
- Mama Cash
- Mary Norris Preyer Fund
- Mckesson Foundation
- Michael Reese Health Trust
- Missouri Foundation for Health
- Monument Trust
- Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
- MTV Staying Alive Foundation, UK & US
- Nationale Postcode Loterij (Dutch National Postcode Lottery)
- New York Council for the Humanities
- New York Women’s Foundation, Inc.
- One to One Children’s Fund
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund
- Red Umbrella Fund
- Richard Grand Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- San Diego Human Dignity Foundation
- Segal Family Foundation
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Solidarite Sida
- South Africa Development Fund
- Staten Island Foundation
- Stonewall Community Foundation
- TD Charitable Foundation
- Third Wave Fund
- Trans Justice Funding Project
- UHAI: East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative
- ViiV Healthcare, UK & US
- VNA Foundation
- VriendenLoterij (Dutch Friends Lottery)
- Weingart Foundation
- WESEEHOPE
- Williams Sonoma Foundation
In the coming months, we will be profiling some of the organizations on this list in more detail. In the interim, be on the lookout for the next call for data — on 2017 HIV-related grantmaking — in late March. If you have any questions about how to participate, please contact FCAA’s Research & Communications Associate Cat Gironda at [email protected].
Thank you to every organization that supported the fight against HIV and AIDS in 2016. Learn more about the full philanthropic response to HIV online here.
[i] This particular comparison only includes funders whose data was acquired for both 2015 and 2016.