Financials

NRGI donor partners

The Natural Resource Governance Institute receives contributions and grants from foundations, governments and international financial institutions. NRGI's staff are extremely grateful for the generous support of past and present donor partners.

NRGI's donors include philanthropic foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Luminate and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation; public sector donors including the governments of Germany, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, and multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, United Nations Democracy Fund and the Open Government Partnership, as well as the University of California, Berkeley.

NRGI takes seriously its commitment to transparency and so it discloses financial information beyond what is traditionally made available in annual financial statements and U.S. Internal Revenue Service tax forms. With support from and in consultation with donor partners and its governing board, NRGI publishes information for contributions and grants of $100,000 or more. In total, these account for more than 90 percent of NRGI’s annual contributions.

In parallel, NRGI is compliant with the IATI standard. NRGI received a five-star rating from Transparify in 2018, reflecting transparency in public disclosure of funding.

See the links below for contributions and grants from 2013 to 2019.

2019 funders (previous years)

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		Total contribution/grant
Contributor	2019 amount* (USD, millions) (1)	Amount (original currency, millions)	Time period	Purpose
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation	$1.20	$3.00	March 2019 - March 2021	General operating support
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	$0.53	CHF 1.10	September 2018 - September 2020	General operating support
Luminate Group	$0.59	2.30	April 2019 - March 2022	General operating support
Department for International Development (UK)	$4.71	$7.59	April 2019 - March 2021	Releasing the Transformational Potential of Extractives for Economic Development
Ford Foundation	$0.03	$0.45	August 2019 - July 2021	For support to assist resource-rich territories dependent on the extraction and export of minerals and fossil energies to build a diversified, socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic base for growth and financial return for public benefit.
Ford Foundation	$0.05	$0.35	May 2017 - April 2019	For support to produce research and train civil society organizations, community-based organizations and leaders to reinforce their capacities to set strategies around extractives industries.
Ford Foundation	$0.04	$0.05	October 2018 - May 2019	For support to explore current arrangements and alternatives in Extractive Industries Benefit Sharing
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation	$1.26	NOK 21.80	October 2018 - April 2021	Strengthening accountability actors for improved governance
African Legal Support Facility	$0.13	$0.25	April 2018 - December 2020	i) Increase the number of resource contracts and associated documents available in the public domain; ii) Make published contracts and documents more accessible; iii) Improve how host governments, civil society, affected communities and other stakeholders understand investment contracts and use their knowledge to improve outcomes from the natural resource sector; iv) Support government agencies to become contract publishers.
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)	$0.43	CHF 1.90	April 2015 - December 2019	To support work on mandatory disclosure, SOEs, contract transparency and the Resource Governance Index
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)	$0.17	CHF 0.60	April 2019 - March 2022	NRGI Eurasia Knowledge Hub in Azerbaijan
Deutsche Gesellschaft Furr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)	$0.04	$0.04	May 2018 - May 2019	Civil Society Capacity Building to Enhance the Extractive Sector Contributions to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
Deutsche Gesellschaft Furr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)	$0.02	EUR 0.02	July 2019 - September 2019	Enhance the Extractive Sector Contributions to the Achievement of SDG 08 and SDG 09
Deutsche Gesellschaft Furr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)	$0.01	EUR 0.04	December 2019 - November 2021	Integrated Economic Development in the Mining Sector - DRC
Deutsche Gesellschaft Furr Internationale Zusammenarbeit(GIZ)	$0.01	EUR 0.29	December 2019 - June 2021	Regional Resource Governance - Guinea
Deutsche Gesellschaft Furr Internationale Zusammenarbeit(GIZ)	$0.01	EUR 0.18	December 2019 - July 2021	Regional Cooperation on Sustainable Mining in the Andean Countries - Chile
Open Contracting Partnership	$0.02	$0.02	April 2019 - December 2019	For an expense sharing arrangement for the services provided by consultants for the documentation of Ghana’s first bid and oil licensing round 2018/19 by tracking implementation and highlighting success, lessons and challenges, from FCNY to NRGI in return for NRGI’s implementation of same project.
Open Governmant Partnership	$0.01	$0.20	July 2019 - June 2021
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation	$0.01	$0.05	June 2019 - June 2020	For a new communications strategy
University of California Berkeley	$0.02	$0.02	April 2019 - March 2020	To explore potential pathways for the electric vehicle and battery industries to contribute more effectively to good governance in mineral-producing regions
U.S. Department of State	$0.04	$0.55	July 2017 - December 2020	To conduct a program with local civil society organizations and other accountability actors to promote transparency, accountability and resource-sharing in Myanmar

To download a spreadsheet or pdf:

2013 Contributions and Grants: XLS | PDF
2014 Contributions and Grants: XLS | PDF
2015 Contributions and Grants: XLSX | PDF
2016 Contributions and Grants: XLSX | PDF
2017 Contributions and Grants: XLSX | PDF
2018 Contributions and Grants: XLSX | PDF

Financial documents

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Gift acceptance policy

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