TrustAfrica Grantmaking
An African-led foundation headquartered in Dakar that has moved over USD 80 million through more than 600 grants to civil society organisations in 34 African countries since 2006, currently distributing roughly USD 2 million a year in partnership with other philanthropies. Its three initiative areas are democratic governance (social movements, youth leadership, rights work), equitable development (illicit financial flows, smallholder farmer policy, higher education reform) and African philanthropy, where it funds research on the field itself. Its Senegal base and francophone working capacity m
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-grant size is published. The policy page gives only portfolio-level figures: approximately USD 2 million distributed annually, and over USD 80 million across 600-plus grants in 34 countries since 2006. These are aggregates, not award amounts, so the numeric fields are left null.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No deadlines are published on the grantmaking policy page. Opportunities appear as discrete calls for proposals on TrustAfrica's proposals page; unsolicited applications are not accepted at any time.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Grantees are African civil society organisations. TrustAfrica explicitly does not fund unsolicited proposals — the route in is a published call for proposals or being identified by the foundation for collaborative planning, not a cold application. Also excluded: individual grants, endowments, buildings and capital campaigns, fundraising, political campaigns and lobbying, travel-only requests, and for-profit enterprises. Because individuals are ineligible, a social work researcher accesses this only via an African CSO grantee, or via a higher-education or African-philanthropy research call wher
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- democratic governance · equitable development · african philanthropy research · higher education reform · social movements
- Apply at
- https://trustafrica.org/ta-grantmaking-policy/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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