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PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT TO ADDRESS HIV/AIDS IN 2014 The Mission of Funders Concerned About AIDS is to FCAA wishes to thank Broadway Cares/Equity Fights mobilize the leadership, ideas, and resources of funders to AIDS, Elton John AIDS Foundation UK, Open Society eradicate the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and to address Foundations, and the Ford Foundation for their generous its social and economic dimensions. funding of, and in-kind support for, this publication. The data, findings and conclusions presented in this report are FCAA envisions a world without AIDS, facilitated by a those of FCAA alone and do not necessarily reflect the philanthropic sector that works collaboratively, transparently, perspectives or the opinions of any of our funding partners. and urgently to ensure focused and robust funding for: • Evidence-based interventions in the treatment and FCAA is grateful for the efforts of the prevention of HIV infection; following people in ensuring the quality and comprehensiveness of this report: • Advocacy, research, and exploration of new methods to hasten the end of AIDS; and, • Erika Baehr, primary author • Investments that address the social inequities, health • Interns Thu Anh Vu Tran and Haley Kawaja disparities, and human rights abuses that fueled the • The FCAA Resource Tracking Advisory Committee: spread of the epidemic. Alicia Carbaugh, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Erika Arthun, The Bill & Melinda Gates FCAA Board of Directors and Staff Foundation; Kevin Fisher and Emily Donaldson, AVAC; Michael Joyner, ViiV Healthcare; Sam Avrett, Fremont Center; Lyle Matthew Kan and Naa Hammond, Funders Andrea Flynn Krista Lauer Co-Chair Open Society Foundations for LGBTQ Issues; Sarah Tansey and Christen Dobsen, M•A•C AIDS Fund International Human Rights Funders Group. Julia Greenberg J. Channing Wickham Open Society Foundations • Funders for LGBTQ Issues and the International Co-Chair Human Rights Funders Group for their ongoing Cara Miller Washington AIDS Partnership Gilead Sciences guidance and collaboration. John Edmiston Gregorio Millett • Project Design Company, design Secretary amfAR, The Foundation for Kaiser Permanente AIDS Research FCAA thanks all the philanthropic entities that Daniel Jae-Won Lee Kathy Palumbo Immediate Past Chair responded to this year’s resource tracking surveys, The Community Foundation which provided the bulk of information for this Levi Strauss Foundation for Greater Atlanta publication. Thanks are also due to the Foundation Lisa Bohmer Shari Turitz Conrad N. Hilton Foundation American Jewish World Service Center for use of their data to supplement the U.S. section of the report. Alicia Carbaugh Louise van Deth The Henry J. Kaiser Family STOP AIDS NOW! Foundation Contact Funders Concerned About AIDS at: Alice Lin Fabiano STAFF 1100 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, Johnson & Johnson D.C. 20036 202-721-1196 202-882-2142 John L. Barnes Telephone: Fax: Shane Jenkins Executive Director Email: [email protected] Magic Johnson Foundation Website: www.fcaaids.org Sarah Hamilton Michael N. Joyner Director of Operations ViiV Healthcare © December 2015, Funders Concerned About AIDS Michael Kaplan Permission is granted to reproduce this document in part or AIDS United in its entirety, provided that Funders Concerned About AIDS Brook Kelly-Green (FCAA) is cited as the source for all reproduced material. This Ford Foundation document is posted and distributed primarily as an electronic condensed PDF file. Please feel free to contact FCAA if you would prefer printed copies of this report. TABLE OF CONTENTS [2] About This Report [6] Funding Context [3] Introduction [7] Geographic Focus [4] Overview [12] Corporate Funders [4] HIV/AIDS Philanthropic [13] Intended Use Disbursements 2007-2014 [15] Target Populations [5] Top 20 Philanthropic HIV/AIDS Funders in 2014 [17] Appendix 1: List of all Philanthropic [6] Distribution of Philanthropic Funders of HIV/AIDS in 2014 Funding by Funder Rank [26] Appendix 2: Methodology [28] Endnotes ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS Please visit the FCAA website at FCAA Funders Concerned About AIDS www.fcaaids.org/resourcetracking for an Global Fund Global Fund to Fight AIDS, online version of the report, and additional information including: Tuberculosis and Malaria • A press release and Q&A LGBTQ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, • the full report methodology and questioning • full lists of 2014 intended use and target LMIC low- and middle-income countries populations by region. TA technical assistance Please visit www.aidsfundingmap.org for a TB tuberculosis searchable database of 2014 funding by region, UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program country and U.S. state. on HIV/AIDS U.S. United States Note: All figures marked $ are U.S. dollar amounts Table of Contents: Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS in 2014 1 ABOUT THIS REPORT Our 13th edition of Philanthropic Support to Address Where does this data show progress on the HIV/AIDS represents a new era for Funders Concerned philanthropic response to HIV/AIDS? Where are the About AIDS (FCAA). gaps? This report gives you the tools and opportunity to reflect on the impact behind the numbers, and drives While we have been analyzing the philanthropic response the critical conversations on where and how our sector to HIV/AIDS for more than a decade, our prior efforts can best innovate, strengthen, and advance the response. have offered only an aggregate, 50-thousand-foot view of This data will also become the driving force behind our the field. However, for FCAA to be an organization that future programming and outreach efforts, and will guide truly helps to leverage and align philanthropic resources our upcoming strategic review process. to address urgent and underfunded areas within the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we needed to unlock the data Finally, as we all know, HIV/AIDS does not exist in a necessary to advocate where those areas exist. vacuum, and neither does this project. We would like to thank our friends at the International Human Rights How is this year’s report different? We switched from Funders Group and Funders for LGBTQ Issues for surveying funders on their aggregate HIV funding totals to their outstanding thought partnership, inspiration, and analyzing individual grants submitted by funders within support of this work. This important collaboration has their full grants lists. We were overwhelmed by the allowed our organizations to be more mindful of not only response; not only in that we received 96% of our data as programming that happens at the intersections of HIV, detailed grants lists sent directly from participants, but human rights, and LGBTQ issues, but also the process in also by the level of data to which we now have access. which that work is analyzed and acknowledged. On page [The remaining data was supplemented from public 14 you can see the results of our careful attention to databases (such as The Foundation Center) and websites, those intersections. and via survey tools from organizations unable to share their grant lists.] This new methodology yielded grant-level Thank you to the organizations that participated in this and detail on more than 6,000 HIV/AIDS-related grants, and previous year’s reports. We welcome, and look forward to, offers deeper insight into the geographic, populations, input from readers about how to improve future editions of and strategy foci of the current private HIV/AIDS Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS. funding sector. On pages 8-9, for example, you can see top target populations by region. Page 10 offers data on the top U.S. region and state recipients of funding. We also know many international funders are concerned about shifting donor resources for HIV/AIDS in middle-income countries. Now, on page 7, you can find an analysis of private philanthropic funding for HIV/AIDS by country income level. This new methodology yielded grant-level detail on more“ than 6,000 HIV/AIDS-related grants, and offers deeper “insight into the geographic, populations, and strategy foci of the current private HIV/AIDS funding sector. 2 About This Report: Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS in 2014 INTRODUCTION A CALL TO ACTION This year’s Funders Concerned About AIDS (FCAA) has flourished on the violation of human rights of the resource tracking publication heralds an encouraging most vulnerable populations and inattention to the most headline: an 8% increase (to $618 million) in private impoverished regions. Even if HIV is someday eradicated, philanthropic funding for HIV/AIDS in 2014. without addressing root causes — such as poverty and marginalization — it would be a hollow victory when the But as is often the case, the full story is much more next wave of pandemic illness inevitably takes its place. complex than the headline. Despite the overall increase, The massive divestment of bilateral and multilateral private philanthropic funding for HIV/AIDS is down 8% resources, which now threatens decades of progress in from the high water mark of $674 million in 2008. This development efforts in middle-income countries, must year’s increase was mostly directed to the U.S. domestic serve as a call to action for private funders to invest epidemic, bringing private philanthropic funding for in community mobilization in those regions to hold HIV/AIDS in the U.S. to a new high of $139 million, governments accountable. Philanthropy must continue although the change is almost entirely attributable to to champion marginalized and criminalized populations, increased contributions to the U.S. from one funder. address stigma and discrimination, and employ effective Private funding given internationally from donors in the interventions that governments cannot or will not fund. U.S., Europe and Canada (for work in other countries or regions) has fallen each year since 2011 when it was first To do this work, we must rededicate ourselves to finding measured, decreasing 22% overall. needed resources. In 2008, the year of the global financial meltdown, private philanthropy contributed $674 million According to UNAIDS, in order to substantially bend the to HIV.