We held an Impact Data Chat focused on Mapping Funding Data to highlight innovative projects thriving in today's funding landscape and identify emerging growth opportunities. New grants, rapid response funds and innovations in the philanthropy and impact investing sectors were centrally discussed. It was a lively and insightful exchange of ideas among diverse participants from the foundation, corporate, and monitoring and evaluation sectors. Below is a list of funding opportunities that are being constantly updated. Please feel free to share other tools we should add.

Funding opportunities

• FFF Immigration Frontlines
• Founder’s Pledge Rapid Response
• Foreign Aid Bridge Fund
• Borealis
• Audacious Project
• Wam Foundation https://www.wamfoundation.org/funding-opportunities
• Open call by the Agency Fund
• L'oreal Fund for Women (call April 2025)
• UK Gov challenge competitions
• https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/cause-funds/rapid-response-fund/
• The Elevate prize for social impact leaders around the world
• MIT Solve call (antibiotics) 4/24 deadline https://solve.mit.edu/
• Safe Abortion Fund https://saafund.org/about-saaf/
• UNICEF funding for "fem" tech solutions
• Swedish Postcode Lottery
• UNICEF funding for innovative WASH projects https://opportunitydesk.org/2025/03/31/unicef-call-for-innovative-wash-solutions-2025/
• Funding opportunities at Mama CASH https://www.mamacash.org

Mapping Funding Projects

• SSIR article on diaspora philanthropy, mainly focused on Indian Americans. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/diaspora-philanthropy?utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SSIR_Now&utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=810aa5a18f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_10_12_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec555346bd-810aa5a18f-477051196
• Nonprofit job loss tracker
• USAID Stop Work tracker https://www.usaidstopwork.com/
• The Audacious Project
• Impact Project: mapping impact of USAID cuts. https://theimpactproject.org/
• COUNTDOWN EUROPE230 - https://www.countdown2030europe.org/tracking-what-it-counts/
• Institute for Development Impact. Resource shared in presentation https://i4di.org/pubs/usaid-restructuring_analysis/
• @AfricanNGOs and EPIC-Africa are surveying the impact of the US government's funding cuts on African CSOs. The report will be available in May 2025.
• Impact Genome https://www.impactgenome.com/
• Alliance for Feminist Movements - Global Projected Losses to Women's Rights https://www.allianceforfeministmovements.org/reports/#globalloss
• Miro board for sharing giving tactics and strategies
• https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVIHI-haA=/?moveToWidget=3458764624109252120&cot=10
• Isabel Allende Esperanza Grant https://isabelallende.org/en/programs#esperanza
• MIT Solve call (antibiotics) 4/24 deadline https://solve.mit.edu/
  

Articles and Social Media Posts

• Education-specific resource (UNESCO): What is the potential impact of recent cuts in aid to education? - World Education Blog
• New Narratives in Philanthropy: https://cep.org/blog/the-myths-of-philanthropy-what-if-we-change-the-narratives-that-govern-the-philanthropic-sector/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4WrE6TmIWs9B5B2qMacCw2fET1bLF9b8B9vauDjUZKzbDRGCplodN0O2sVgg_aem_j-mqxb0dcYiCmd4T1Quf6Q
• As USAID Is Gutted, Here’s How Philanthropy Can Stop Panicking and Start Helping https://www.philanthropy.com/article/as-usaid-is-gutted-heres-how-philanthropy-can-stop-panicking-and-start-helping
• Half my DAF campaign. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7311930521230446593-zRw1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAABfReEB01VKN_fZIumElLkFZnGr25RxUVw
• Research Exposes Devastating Impact of the Trump Administration - Over Half of Partners and $85 Million Affected https://www.ippf.org/media-center/breaking-ippf-global-research-exposes-devastating-impact-trump-administration-over
• New Estimates of US Funding Cuts https://www.cgdev.org/blog/new-estimates-usaid-cuts
• Philanthropy in Crisis – How to Support Grantees in the Wake of the USAID Freeze
• https://philea.eu/events/philanthropy-in-crisis-how-to-support-grantees-in-the-wake-of-the-usaid-freeze/
• Big Humanitarian Rethink https://pol.is/report/r4abppppbcbpkaahabejx
• Humanitarian Reset https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christina-r-bennett_humanitarian-reset-a-call-for-transformative-ugcPost-7316381138946592768-_aBt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABfReEB01VKN_fZIumElLkFZnGr25RxUVw‍
• LinkedIn post providing links to 9 funders "stepping up": https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wayan_usaid-activity-7314987855255138304--yDL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAcTDmwBn5U_HGyr0Ykd4dsurQJaWiLH-us

Projects connected to mapping the realities of the philanthropic and nonprofit sector at this time

• SSIR article on diaspora philanthropy, mainly focused on Indian Americans. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/diaspora-philanthropy?utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SSIR_Now&utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=810aa5a18f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_10_12_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec555346bd-810aa5a18f-477051196
• Nonprofit job loss tracker
• USAID Stop Work tracker https://www.usaidstopwork.com/
• The Audacious Project
• Impact Project: mapping impact of USAID cuts. https://theimpactproject.org/
• COUNTDOWN EUROPE230 - https://www.countdown2030europe.org/tracking-what-it-counts/
• Institute for Development Impact. Resource shared in presentation https://i4di.org/pubs/usaid-restructuring_analysis/
• @AfricanNGOs and EPIC-Africa are surveying the impact of the US government's funding cuts on African CSOs. The report will be available in May 2025.
• Impact Genome https://www.impactgenome.com/
• Alliance for Feminist Movements - Global Projected Losses to Women's Rights https://www.allianceforfeministmovements.org/reports/#globalloss
• Miro board for sharing giving tactics and strategies
• https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVIHI-haA=/?moveToWidget=3458764624109252120&cot=10
• A local mapping funding project in Portsmouth with both grants and public sector contracts and public service budgets to get 'whole system' picture is in development

Recommendations

• Global Aid Freeze: https://www.globalaidfreeze.com/
• N4G Paris Commitments
• Free resources from BlackFox
• Connective Impact
• Mastercard for CBOs
• European Foundations (UBS Optimus, Ikea, Lego)
• Seeing lots of conversation from diverse types of funders and investors in concepts around intentionally positioning philanthropic capital to be catalytic to other forms of investment.
• Increased now for ORCHESTRATION of different types of funders to fill gaps.  This intermediary function is underleveraged, at present

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