Funding · International
Which US foundations give to your country?
US foundations sent $37.1B to organizations abroad across 137,906 grants. Pick a country to see the US funders behind it, what they fund, who receives the money, and how the flow has shifted. Read from IRS 990 filings.
What the data shows
- US foundations sent $37.1B abroad across 224 countries and territories in the filings on record.
- Switzerland receives the most, $8.1B from 491 US funders.
- Europe draws the most of any region, $18.7B.
- The single largest funder-to-country tie is $7.2B from GATES FOUNDATION to Switzerland.
Does the money follow wealth, or need?
Every country a dot — how rich it is (across) against how much US foundation money it draws per resident (up), both log-scaled, sized by total dollars. The dashed line is the trend: it climbs, so the money tracks wealth as much as need. Directly-addressed giving only — money routed through US intermediaries counts at home, so these are floors.
By region
45 countries · ▲ 68% over the window
51 countries · ▲ 236% over the window
32 countries · ▲ 66% over the window
41 countries · ▲ 71% over the window
14 countries · ▲ 165% over the window
14 countries · ▲ 161% over the window
27 countries · ▲ 41% over the window
Top recipient countries
Fastest moving
Where cross-border giving is growing and where it's retreating, 2020–2023, each country indexed to 100 at the start. The thin, under-reported backfill years before 2020 and the still-arriving latest year are excluded, so the lines compare like for like.
Indexed to 100 at 2020 · growing · retreating · through 2023
Most per resident
A different league table from raw dollars.
The biggest cross-border funders
US foundations sending the most abroad overall, and how many countries each reaches — cross-border philanthropy is highly concentrated.