Which organizations have received the most funding from Open Society Foundations in 2024?
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Executive summary
Open Society Foundations (OSF) reported $1.2 billion in expenditures for 2024 and says it awarded thousands of grants that year; OSF provides a searchable grants database of awarded grants for 2024 but does not publish a simple ranked list of which organizations received the most funding in 2024 [1] [2]. Available sources point readers to OSF’s public grants database and program pages as the primary way to determine top grantees, and note OSF’s multiyear and decentralized grantmaking approach across regional foundations [2] [3] [4].
1. OSF spent $1.2 billion in 2024 but did not publish a top-donee leaderboard
OSF’s public materials state $1.2 billion in expenditures in 2024 and emphasize giving “thousands of grants,” but the materials in the search results do not present a single, consolidated ranking of which organizations received the largest sums that year [1] [4]. The organization offers an “Awarded Grants” database where individual grant records can be viewed, implying researchers must compile totals themselves rather than rely on an OSF-published top-recipient list [2].
2. The grants database is the primary source for answers — but it requires aggregation
OSF’s “Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships” pages host specific grant records and IDs for 2024 awards [2]. That database is the source OSF uses to account for individual grants; researchers seeking the organizations with the largest receipts in 2024 must query and sum records from that database because the foundation’s public pages do not present an aggregated ranking [2].
3. Decentralized, program- and region-based grantmaking complicates a simple ranking
OSF describes itself as a network of national and regional foundations and programs that make grants across many thematic areas, including multiyear commitments in 2024; this decentralized model disperses funding through dozens of offices and program lines, which makes identifying single largest recipients less straightforward without collating multiple program and regional feeds [3] [4] [5].
4. Multiyear commitments and general support change how “most funded” should be interpreted
OSF said in 2024 it made multiyear grants and aims to give “general support” in some cases, which means some large sums may be disbursed as multi-year awards or unrestricted support rather than single-project line items; that affects whether a high total to one organization shows up as a single 2024 payment or a multiyear commitment to be counted differently [3] [6].
5. How to get the specific list you asked for — method and limitations
To identify which organizations received the most funding in 2024 using the available materials, you must (a) download or query OSF’s awarded-grants database records for 2024, (b) aggregate grant amounts by recipient organization across program and regional feeds, and (c) decide whether to count multi-year commitments entirely in 2024 or pro-rate them across their term. OSF’s web pages and the granted-record entries are the only cited sources in the search results that contain the underlying figures for such an exercise [2] [4]. Available sources do not mention a precompiled, OSF-published ranking of top grantees for 2024 [2].
6. Alternative sources and context — what other reporting says and what’s missing
Inside Philanthropy offers profile and analysis of OSF’s changing strategies and notes OSF’s decentralized structure and shifting program focus, which helps explain why independent aggregation is necessary [5]. Databases such as Foundation Directory/Candid are referenced in the search results as profiles of the foundation, but those entries are not shown here with 2024 grantee totals — the provided results do not include a separate third‑party ranked list of 2024 recipients [7] [5]. If you want a ready-made ranking, available sources do not mention such a product.
7. What to watch for in interpreting any compiled ranking
Any list you or a third party compiles will reflect methodological choices: whether to count pledge vs. disbursed amounts, whether to include OSF’s national/regional affiliates separately or as one entity, and whether to treat multi-year commitments as full-year payments. OSF’s own materials stress programmatic discretion and a mix of project and general support, so different aggregation rules will produce different “most funded” winners [3] [6] [4].
8. Practical next steps I recommend
If you want a verified ranked list, instruct me to extract and sum 2024 grant records from OSF’s awarded-grants pages [2] and specify: count disbursed payments only or include full multi-year commitments; consolidate national/regional affiliates or keep them separate. I will then aggregate the data from OSF’s public grant records cited above [2] and produce a ranked table with source citations for each total.