Emergency Assistance for Fundamental Freedom Defenders
- Award ceiling
- up to $4,932,500
- Closes
- Sep 8, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
Awards up to $4,932,500 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 8, 2026.
In one sentence
Emergency Assistance for Fundamental Freedom Defenders awards up to $4,932,500 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 8, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $4,932,500Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $4,932,500
- Award floor
- Not confirmed
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 8, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Sep 1, 2026
- Status
- Closed
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- short-term emergency funding to enable them to continue their work pressing for democratic government and reform and respect for human rights
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitThe following organizations are eligible to apply: -U.S.-based non-profit organizations/NGOs with or without 501(c)(3) status -Private, public, or state institutions of higher education -For-profit organizations or businesses…
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
What can the money be used for?
1 categoryThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- No
Who has received this funding?
72 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
72 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $315,860,780 | 2025 |
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $315,249,800 | 2024 |
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $315,079,941 | 2022 |
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $315,000,000 | 2023 |
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $300,000,000 | 2020 |
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $180,046,673 | 2019 |
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $170,000,000 | 2018 |
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $169,824,588 | 2016 |
| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY | Not stated | $169,139,219 | 2017 |
| INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF SITES OF CONSCIENCE | Not stated | $41,873,445 | 2019 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE, INC. | Not stated | $25,316,509 | 2019 |
| VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC | Not stated | $25,249,252 | 2019 |
| VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC | Not stated | $18,266,765 | 2023 |
| CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE, INC. | Not stated | $10,254,124 | 2018 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE, INC. | Not stated | $7,713,169 | 2016 |
| VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC | Not stated | $4,099,942 | 2017 |
| INTERNEWS NETWORK | Not stated | $3,940,100 | 2016 |
| UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANISATION | Not stated | $2,564,900 | 2024 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE, INC. | Not stated | $2,317,962 | 2016 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $2,082,734 | 2022 |
| INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF SITES OF CONSCIENCE | Not stated | $2,022,692 | 2024 |
| MERCY CORPS | Not stated | $1,975,308 | 2023 |
| STALY SEKRETARIAT WSPOLNOTY DEMOKRACJI | Not stated | $1,973,359 | 2024 |
| GLOBAL NETWORK INITIATIVE INC | Not stated | $1,750,000 | 2018 |
| NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | Not stated | $1,731,771 | 2020 |
| THE ASIA FOUNDATION | Not stated | $1,706,245 | 2018 |
| FUNDACION SARAKI | Not stated | $1,487,500 | 2020 |
| SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND | Not stated | $1,487,500 | 2021 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $1,250,000 | 2023 |
| THE ASIA FOUNDATION | Not stated | $1,233,652 | 2020 |
| HORIZONTAL | Not stated | $1,000,000 | 2022 |
| THE TOR PROJECT INC. | Not stated | $1,000,000 | 2022 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS | Not stated | $987,654 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | Not stated | $987,654 | 2022 |
| NULAI-NIGERIA LTD/GTE | Not stated | $896,296 | 2022 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC | Not stated | $803,798 | 2022 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE, INC. | Not stated | $740,740 | 2022 |
| INTERNEWS NETWORK | Not stated | $740,740 | 2023 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $740,740 | 2020 |
| THE ASIA FOUNDATION | Not stated | $740,740 | 2023 |
| WORLD INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY | Not stated | $650,000 | 2024 |
| AFRICAN EVALUATION ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $598,511 | 2019 |
| NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION | Not stated | $441,693 | 2018 |
| SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND | Not stated | $417,453 | 2020 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE, INC. | Not stated | $356,400 | 2020 |
| INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR COOPERATION IN EVALUATION | Not stated | $243,809 | 2017 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $71,345 | 2018 |
| THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY | Not stated | $53,143 | 2020 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $20,000 | 2018 |
| GWERU RESIDENTS FORUM | Not stated | $13,782 | 2019 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $12,789 | 2019 |
| Recipient name withheld | Not stated | $10,000 | 2024 |
| INSTITUTO SOBRE MIGRACION Y REFUGIO LGTBIQ PARA CENTROAMERICA | Not stated | $10,000 | 2024 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $10,000 | 2024 |
| YOUTH INVEST | Not stated | $9,744 | 2019 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $8,981 | 2019 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $8,606 | 2019 |
| Recipient name withheld | Not stated | $8,375 | 2024 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $6,000 | 2024 |
| Recipient name withheld | Not stated | $5,000 | 2022 |
| JOURNAL RAGE MEDIA INC. | Not stated | $5,000 | 2022 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $5,000 | 2023 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $5,000 | 2023 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $4,969 | 2022 |
| Recipient name withheld | Not stated | $4,926 | 2023 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $4,906 | 2022 |
| Recipient name withheld | Not stated | $4,652 | 2022 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $3,360 | 2024 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES | Not stated | $2,800 | 2022 |
| Recipient name withheld | Not stated | $0 | 2023 |
| NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | Not stated | -$528,039 | 2018 |
| INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE | Not stated | -$1,498,671 | 2018 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
59 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Other, 59 of 78 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$37,500
- Median$200,000
- 75th percentile$7,000,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Who has won this programme before?
72 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
72 federal awards on file under assistance listing 19.345, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.
- $315,860,780NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACYlocation not stated · FY2025
- $315,249,800NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACYlocation not stated · FY2024
- $315,079,941NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACYlocation not stated · FY2022
- $315,000,000NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACYlocation not stated · FY2023
- $300,000,000NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACYlocation not stated · FY2020
Common questions
7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- Up to $4,932,500 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $4,932,500 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Sep 8, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- short-term emergency funding to enable them to continue their work pressing for democratic government and reform and respect for human rights, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 72 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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