Report: Foundation Funding for Hispanics/Latinos
in the United States and for Latin America

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This report, the product of a collaboration between the Foundation Center and Hispanics in Philanthropy, provides an in-depth analysis of foundation funding for Latino communities in the U.S. and for Latin America. Over the past decade, U.S. foundation giving explicitly designated to benefit Hispanics and Latinos has held steady, comprising about one cent for every dollar of foundation funding, even as the Hispanic population in the U.S. has grown significantly over the same period.

Total grant dollars targeting Latinos in the U.S. between 2007 and 2009, averaged about $206 million per year, while funding for Latin America averaged roughly $350 million per year. Human services (27 percent) and health (26 percent) captured the largest shares of grant dollars awarded for Latinos in the U.S. Of the grants targeting Latin America, Mexico and Brazil received the largest shares.

Among other key findings in the report:

  • The top 10 funders awarding grants for Latinos in the U.S. from 2007 to 2009 accounted for close to 40 percent of grant dollars.
  • Recipient organizations in the Western region of the United States received the largest share (42 percent) of foundation dollars intended to benefit Hispanics. Over 80 percent of this funding went to organizations in California.
  • The South, where the Latino community is growing fastest, received the lowest level of funding relative to the region’s Latino population, with foundations awarding $5.20 per Latino compared to $12.31 per Latino for the nation as a whole.
  • The largest share of grant dollars for Latin America was for the environment and animals (33 percent), followed by international affairs (20 percent).
  • Roughly half of funding for Latin America went directly to recipient organizations located in Latin America, while the other half was awarded through U.S.-based international programs.

The report also features a special section on foundation giving to Puerto Rico, which is sometimes left out of both domestic and international reports because of its unique status as a commonwealth of the United States.

The new report documents trends in giving based on grants awarded by more than 1,000 of the largest U.S. foundations. The report was developed through a partnership with the Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide.

The full report is available for download free of charge here or from the Gain Knowledge area of the Foundation Center's web site. Print copies are also available at select HIP events, or may be provided upon request for HIP members and partners. (Please contact adam@hiponline.org to request print copies.)

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— Edgar Aguirre
Loyola Marymount University

Guanajuato Productive Initiative

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— Marilda Gandara
Aetna Foundation

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"In the late '90s, the HIP board said, 'Getting more Latinos into the field just isn't enough-we need a new strategy for increasing giving to Latinos.' The result was the Funders' Collaborative, which proved incredibly effective — we raised more than $40 million for Latino community-based organizations."

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President of HIP

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