| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | $375 million | Responding to Trump administration plans to cut federal spending on international family planning, the nation’s largest private grant maker made a commitment to global contraception programs. |
| Omidyar Network | $100 million | In April, the philanthropic LLC announced plans to invest to support investigative journalism, help citizens engage with government, and reduce hate speech. |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | $63 million | Each year, Hewlett sets aside its discretionary budget to explore new areas of funding, collaborate with other donors, or make grants for urgent needs. In January, Hewlett earmarked that funding pot to address immediate efforts to alleviate global poverty, mitigate the worst effects of climate change, strengthen U.S. democracy, and support women’s health. |
| California Wellness Foundation | $35 million | The foundation said it is shifting its entire grant-making budget to focus on access to health care for Californians, including immigrants; maintaining the social safety net for low-income residents; and preventing hate crimes. |
| California Endowment | $25 million | The grant maker created a fund, which it plans to spend down in three years, to help Californians hurt by federal budget cuts, protect immigrants who face deportation, and support efforts by artists to promote the role of minorities in American life. |
| W.K. Kellogg Foundation | $24 million | Three days before President Trump’s inauguration, the foundation held a “National Day of Healing” as part of its ongoing “Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation” effort. In June, Kellogg announced new grants to organizations that work to bridge the racial divide. |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation | $22 million | Citing the president’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord as well as what it called threats to health care and the environment, the California foundation said in June that it would increase its payout this year. |
| NoVo Foundation | $20 million | The grant maker headed by Peter and Jennifer Buffett created the Radical Hope Fund, which will distribute money over four years to social-justice organizations worldwide. |
| Bloomberg Philanthropies | $15 million for the climate convention; $3 million for job training | Following the climate-pact pullout, billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg said he would provide funding for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to help countries fulfill their commitment to the agreement. He also committed to support job-training and economic-development efforts in areas hit by the decline of the coal industry. |
| Open Society Foundations | $10 million | With reports of violence against minorities on the rise nationwide, Open Society announced an effort in November to document and combat hate crimes and help community groups head off incidents of intimidation and assaults based on race, religion, national origin, gender, and sexual orientation. |
| Nathan Cummings Foundation | $8 million
| The New York grant maker is boosting its grant making by $4 million in each of the next two years to address discrimination, racism, income inequality, and other concerns. |
| Kresge Foundation | $3 million | In December, the grant maker set aside money for an “opportunity fund” to respond to changing social circumstances and political events. The fund aims to support immigrant and refugee communities and antiracism efforts; explore state mandates that localities enforce immigration laws and barriers to local communities’ efforts to advance their agendas; and boost emerging nonprofit leaders. |
| Barr Foundation | $3 million | The Boston grant maker announced two special programs following the election, one to support investigative journalism and freedom of the press and another to fund groups working to help the most vulnerable residents of Massachusetts. |
| Craig Newmark Foundation | $2 million | The foundation gave $1 million each to media organizations the Poynter Institute and ProPublica to combat “fake news.” |
| Rockefeller Foundation | $1.8 million | In January, after the president issued his travel ban affecting refugrees and citizens of some majority-Muslim countries, Rockefeller donated $500,000 each to the American Civil Liberties Union, the Anti-Defamation League, and the International Rescue Committee. In July, citing an environment of “violence, hostility, and prejudice” against LGBTQ people, it awarded $100,000 each to the New York City LBGTQ Community Center, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Campaign for Southern Equality. |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | $1.2 million | In August, the grant maker awarded money to groups in its home city of that provide legal aid and education to immigrants. |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund | $3 million
| The additional money went, in part, to the fund’s Democratic Practice, which supports voting rights and works to curb the influence of money in politics. The increase in grant making will also help support a rapid-response fund at the foundation to make grants outside of the grant maker’s established program areas. |
| Annie E. Casey Foundation | 25% increase in grants for some types of advocacy | The Baltimore foundation boosted grant making to groups that advocate on issues and policies affecting children and families. |
