Grants at a Glance
Learn about the grantee partners of the Global Statelessness Fund, our impact across regions and thematic areas, and our future commitments.
Get to know our grantees!
Between July and October 2024, the Steering Group of the Global Statelessness Fund finalized our very first selection process. During the launch event on 16 January 2025, we were proud to announce our first grantee partners: 25 organizations across 16 countries.
Following a consultation, nomination, and peer review process, the Fund selected its second group of grantees in 2025, supporting an additional 31 initiatives with multi-year, unrestricted grants.
Throughout this participatory and deliberative process, we strived to ensure a balance across geographical regions and thematic priorities, reflecting the diversity and depth of leadership within the statelessness and nationality rights field.
We are immensely proud of the initiatives we are supporting and the impact of their work. On this page, you can find information about our grantee partners.
Our reach in numbers
as of November 2025
Grantee partners by region
In line with the extent of statelessness within different regions, we aim to have a geographical balance in the grantees we support.
Currently, we are supporting 10 initiatives in Africa, 8 in the Americas, 18 in the Asia Pacific, 12 in MENA, and 8 in Europe.
Thematic focus
The different ways in which people are affected by statelessness bring forth different and complementary solutions to this pressing issue.
Within our grantee partner community of 56 initiatives, 28 are working on statelessness as it impacts minorities, 11 are working on issues relating to migrants & refugees, 8 have a gender perspective, and 9 work on statelessness as a broad thematic issue.
Funding women and youth-led groups
In more than 40 countries worldwide, nationality laws still discriminate on the basis of sex. Young people are often at the forefront of activism and advocacy, yet their initiatives remain under-resourced. The lived experiences of women and young people are therefore crucial to driving meaningful change against statelessness and discriminatory nationality laws.
At the Global Statelessness Fund, we are committed to supporting women- and youth-led initiatives. Of the 56 initiatives we currently support, 26 are led by women and/or young people.
*defined as initiatives whose primary decision-makers are under 35 years of age.
Registration status
Groups led by people impacted by statelessness and denial of equal nationality rights often face difficulties in registering their organizations. This puts them at a disadvantage in accessing traditional funding sources and ensuring the sustainability of their work.
We recognize the importance of the work done by groups in more complex and hard-to-reach situations. Together with our partner and fiscal host Open Collective Europe, we come up with tailored funding solutions for each of our grantees, including unregistered groups.
Our first cohort of grantees included five unregistered initiatives. In our second round of grantmaking, we expanded this support to 15 additional unregistered groups, reflecting our commitment to reaching newer initiatives and those working in particularly challenging environments.
Today, we are funding 20 unregistered initiatives, each playing a crucial role in advancing the rights and recognition of stateless communities around and those impacted by denial of equal nationality rights around the world.
What is involved for grantee partners?
Fully flexible funding
We fund organizations engaged in rights-based work to combat statelessness and discriminatory nationality laws in their countries or regions, or globally. We believe that our grantees are best placed to make their spending decisions and our grants are 100% flexible.
Accompaniment and peer learning
Financial resourcing is not the only catalyst of impact. We support our grantees to achieve the change they seek through capacity strengthening, peer learning, and opportunities for joined-up action.
Simple and effective reporting processes
We keep application and reporting processes simple, people-centered, effective, and informative.
We do not require our grantees to write lengthy and time consuming financial or narrative reports. Instead, our team regularly meet our grantees to discuss what is working and what needs changing.
Through this reporting approach, we stay up to date with the impact of our funds, and the needs and priorities of our grantee partners.
Consultations and participatory processes
We want the Fund to be shaped by those who know best– people who work on the ground with communities, leading work addressing statelessness. To this end, our processes continue to be shaped by the input and priorities of our grantee partners and those affected by statelessness and the denial of equal nationality rights.