The Global Fund for Women is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that funds what it calls “gender justice movements.” Its grantmaking and financial support is not restricted to left-of-center women’s-interests groups, but also includes LGBT, immigration-liberalization, and climate-activist initiatives. 123
The Global Fund for Women is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that funds what it calls “gender justice movements.” It characterizes its “feminism” as “rooted in intersectionality” and argues that the women’s movement is connected to “struggles for racial justice, queer justice, immigration justice, climate justice, and so many more” social movements. 13
The Fund is affiliated with the United Kingdom-based Global Fund for Women UK. 5
The Global Fund for Women runs the Gender Justice Data Hub, a research database of nascent “gender justice” organizations to attract donors on their behalf. 6
Financials
In 2023, the Global Fund for Women reported revenues of $36,741,867, total expenses of $33,129,555, and net assets of $92,909,045. 7
Funding
In 2025, the Global Fund for Women received a grant from Yield Giving, MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropic initiative started in 2022. Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos and gave over $7 billion to various nonprofit organizations in 2025. 8
In 2024, the Global Fund for Women received $300,000 from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, part of the network of philanthropic organizations funded by George Soros. 9 In 2023, the Global Fund for Women received a total of $4 million from the Foundation to Promote Open Society. 10 In 2022, the Global Fund for Women received a total of $997,623 from the Foundation to Promote Open Society. 11 In 2021, the Global Fund for Women received $277,377 from the Foundation to Promote Open Society. 12 In 2020, the Global Fund for Women received $450,000 from the Foundation to Promote Open Society. 13
In 2023, the Global Fund for Women received $6,811,543 in government grants according to the organization’s tax return. 14
Grantmaking
In 2023, the Global Fund for Women provided grants to the African Diaspora Network ($10,000), How Women Lead ($28,500), the Lavender Rights Project ($40,000), Me Too International ($250,000), the Reimagination Lab ($150,000), the Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism ($100,000), We Can’t Breathe ($10,000), and the Women’s Funding Network ($50,000). 15
The Global Fund for Women has a page on its website dedicated to its funding for Me Too International and related initiatives, indicating that its support for the “global movement” strives to obtain “racial justice” and “gender justice.” 16
Core support for the launch of The Black Feminist Fund, an unprecedented philanthropic initiative bridging Black feminist resources to Black feminist organizing around the world to strengthen their sustainability and resilience
to support the building of another world that is affirming of Black women and gender expansive people by building a network of Black women in philanthropy, conducting research on how Black women are supported and providing long term funding to Black women-led organizations
Core support for the Gender-just Economy Collaborative, a pooled fund mechanism centering justice and feminist economic principles in its learning and funding
The purpose of the project is to support women-led Pacific organizations and their local networks to develop innovative approaches to climate change and emergency preparedness using traditional, local knowledge.
All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:
Total Grant Value:$147,832,832
Number of Grants:6,019
Number of Recipients:2,769
Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:
Amount
Year
Funder
Subject
$1,216,250
2024
Multiple EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Recipients
FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY
$1,000,000
2022
Shifting the Power Coalition
General support grant; economic justice – sustainable agriculture
$889,509
2021
XOESE
Partnership grant
$710,432
2021
Anonymous Recipient
$433,146
2023
Ciwil St. Kitts and Nevis Chapter Inc
Caribbean Women in Leadership St. Kitts and Nevis Chapter (CIWIL) is requesting a single-year grant amounting to USD $433,146 to support gender and climate justice movements in the Caribbean region
$399,977
2021
Anonymous Recipient
$395,000
2024
Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa Recipients
FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY
$353,420
2021
Women for a Change, Cameroon
This is a request for a three-year grant for coaching and mentoring support to the MIFALI (Moving In Feminism With Adolescent Leaders In Action) Movement in Cameroon. Women for a Change Cameroon (WfaC)
$330,000
2021
Numun Fund
Partnership grant
$320,000
2024
Multiple SOUTH AMERICA Recipients
FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY
$320,000
2024
Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa Recipients
FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY
$300,000
2023
The Re/imagination Lab
In support of Global Fund for Women's Gender Justice Lab, this grant will enable Re/Imagination to co-design of a go-forward strategy centered on a fundraising case for support, cultivate and pitch interested donors.
$300,000
2023
United World Colleges
Through this partnership, United World Colleges aims to create a new generation of socially and politically-minded female leaders who are motivated and empowered to impact change at all levels – personally, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
$261,250
2024
Multiple Europe Recipients
FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY
$250,000
2024
me too International Inc
FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY
$250,000
2023
Assiwar- the Feminist Arab Movement
Assiwar will host a convening gathering our partners in Palestine and groups and individual activists in the region working on feminist issues to jointly address some of the key challenges to collective work and propose a three-year strategy to addressing
General support grant; innovative approaches to media and technology
$236,000
2023
The Global Health Justice and Governance Program, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health within The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York requests $250,000 for a Learning Partnership to support the Global Fund for Women Localization Activity with USAID.
1. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Global Fund for Women. 2023. Part I, line 1.
2. “Global Fund for Women.” Global Fund for Women. Accessed January 5, 2026. https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/.
3. “What is Gender Justice?” Global Fund for Women. Accessed January 5, 2026. https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/what-we-do/gender-justice/.
4. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Global Fund for Women. 2023. Box L.
5. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Global Fund for Women. 2023. Schedule R. Part II – Identification of Related Tax-Exempt Organizations.
6. “Gender Justice Data Hub.” Global Fund for Women. Accessed January 5, 2026. https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/what-we-do/gender-justice-data-hub/.
7. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Global Fund for Women. 2023. Part I, lines 12, 18, 22.
8. Scott, MacKenzie. “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For.” Yield Giving, December 9, 2025. Accessed January 5, 2026. https://yieldgiving.com/essays/we-are-the-ones-we-ve-been-waiting-for/.
9. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990-PF). Foundation to Promote Open Society. 2024. Part XIV, line 3 – Grants and Contributions Paid During the Year or Approved for Future Payment.
10. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990-PF). Foundation to Promote Open Society. 2023. Part XIV, line 3 – Grants and Contributions Paid During the Year or Approved for Future Payment.
11. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990-PF). Foundation to Promote Open Society. 2022. Part XIV, line 3 – Grants and Contributions Paid During the Year or Approved for Future Payment.
12. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990-PF). Foundation to Promote Open Society. 2021. Part XIV, line 3 – Grants and Contributions Paid During the Year or Approved for Future Payment.
13. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990-PF). Foundation to Promote Open Society. 2020. Part XV, line 3 – Grants and Contributions Paid During the Year or Approved for Future Payment.
14. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Global Fund for Women. 2023. Part VIII – Statement of Revenue, line e.
15. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Global Fund for Women. 2023. Schedule I. Part II – Grants and Other Assistance to Domestic Organizations and Domestic Governments.
16. “’Me too.’ Global Movement.” Global Fund for Women. Accessed January 5, 2026. https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/movements/me-too/.
