In 2025, the gap between need and resources widened.
Global aid budgets shrank. Disasters intensified. Communities already facing great challenges were forced to do more with less.
In this time of challenge, the GlobalGiving community showed up with immense care.
These are the stories of what your generosity made possible.
Our mission is to transform aid and philanthropy to accelerate community-led change.
$1 billion reached for community-led change. In 2025, GlobalGiving reached the milestone of $1 billion raised to support nonprofits around the world. From coral reef restoration in Malaysia to community kitchens in Gaza, this milestone represents not just generosity, but trust in local leaders to guide solutions—and the global community that makes it possible. Learn more about what’s in a billion.
Supporting a global network of nonprofits. Across 175+ countries and 20 time zones, GlobalGiving is backing change leaders driving real impact. In 2025, we supported nonprofit leaders through dynamic virtual gatherings, inspirational panels, peer-led workshops, and one incredible Women and Girls Storytelling Festival—all spaces designed for connection, learning, and momentum. The global nonprofit community continues to show up, share powerful stories of leadership, resilience, and change, and deliver meaningful impact. Learn more about how we support fellow nonprofits.
Companies driving impact. In 2025, 78 corporate partners collaborated with GlobalGiving to support nonprofits around the world, providing more than $49M through innovative grantmaking, disaster response, employee giving, cause marketing, charitable gift card programs and technical solutions. Their commitment enabled organizations across the globe to carry forward critical work—from Tripadvisor’s support in times of urgent need through GlobalGiving’s Community Aid Fund and KPMG’s campaign to advance mental health alongside 3M’s sustained investment in STEM education and Capital One’s leadership in environmental conservation.
Capturing stories the world might otherwise miss. With a camera in hand, filmmaker Brodie Hopkins seeks out places few people think to go—remote classrooms, village meetings, and community projects quietly changing lives. Time and again, his search leads him to GlobalGiving partners, where he finds not just compelling stories, but communities working together to solve challenges in their own way. By documenting these moments—and giving back to each organization he features—Brodie is helping ensure that these powerful, human stories reach far beyond the places they begin. Learn more about the stories he’s capturing.
From Our Community: The “Love in Action” World Journal. This year, community leaders around the world partnered with GlobalGiving to share letters, sketches, poems, and reflections about the passion that fuels their work—from a grandmother, to a river, to an unwavering belief in peace. Through these intimate stories, the GlobalGiving World Journal shows how everyday acts of care and commitment grow into solutions that heal, inspire, and carry communities forward. Learn more and download the journal here.
The global aid landscape shifted dramatically in 2025, as deep funding cuts left millions without critical support. GlobalGiving moved quickly to respond, launching the Community Aid Fund to mobilize flexible funding for local leaders across our community. Through this fund and our broader efforts in the wake of cuts, GlobalGiving and our community of partners and donors provided more than $45 million to vetted nonprofit organizations across the 100 most affected countries.
Learn moreIn 2025, GlobalGiving welcomed 1,129 new nonprofit partners into our community—each bringing deep expertise and leadership to address urgent challenges and drive lasting impact worldwide.
Learn moreAcross dozens of countries and hundreds of crises worldwide, GlobalGiving puts trust in local leaders, removes barriers to aid, and centers relationships on equity and collaboration—ensuring disaster relief and recovery is guided by the people who know their communities best.
In 2025, GlobalGiving reached an incredible milestone: $1 billion raised to support local leaders around the world. That billion went to midwives, farmers, artists, and activists—it helped Gazan cooks feed families, Rohingya children reclaim joy through performance, Indigenous women protect water sources in Paraguay, girls in Nigeria speak out for equality, and Maui land trusts preserve community wealth.
Each dollar represents trust in local changemakers, turning generosity into tangible impact across continents.
GlobalGiving, a nonprofit that fundraises for grassroots international organizations, was one of the first to launch a campaign to support impacted groups.
“I do deeply hope that philanthropy and individual donors step up in this moment.” said Victoria Vrana, CEO of GlobalGiving.
Generosity is the beating heart of our sector, and today it keeps many organizations going. At GlobalGiving and Charity Navigator, we see this resilience every day. We rigorously vet nonprofits so donors can give with confidence, and we’ve helped facilitate billions of dollars reaching thousands of organizations meeting diverse needs.
Donations to the GlobalGiving Afghanistan Earthquake Relief Fund are expected to support emergency response efforts across affected areas—including search and rescue, medical care, food and water supply, and temporary shelters. In an email to TIME, GlobalGiving said that once initial relief work is complete, the relief fund "will transition to support longer-term recovery led by vetted, community-based organizations."
After nearly 15 years of partnership, Ford reached a major milestone in 2025: $100 million granted to nonprofits tackling some of the world’s toughest challenges. From safe driving programs to disaster recovery and community hubs, Ford supports locally-led work in over 85 countries.Learn more about Ford’s impact.
Through their Charity Voting campaign, Riot Games raised $4.37M for 84 nonprofits across 28 countries. Players voted for the causes they cared about most, giving organizations global visibility and critical funding for their missions.Learn more about Riot’s innovative participatory campaigns.
Through the Let Your Heart Travel campaign, Tripadvisor Foundation matched donations to the GlobalGiving Community Aid Fund—transforming everyday generosity into amplified global impact. Together, donors unlocked critical funding for health care, education, and safe water initiatives around the world. See the campaign highlights.
Through their Mission Membership program, 1 Hotels donates 1% of qualifying stays to leading environmental nonprofits—raising nearly $500,000 in just six months to support critical conservation efforts.
Sage Foundation partnered with GlobalGiving UK in 2025 to support rapid responses to disasters affecting communities around the world. Sage provided funding to help communities and families impacted by a number of crises, including a powerful earthquake in Myanmar and catastrophic flooding in South East Asia, Spain and the United States. By directing funding quickly to organisations responding on the ground, this partnership helped ensure that communities facing sudden crises could access timely support as they navigated immediate recovery and began rebuilding for the future.
Our deepest gratitude goes to every corporate partner supporting critical nonprofit programs and organizations with GlobalGiving, including but not limited to the following:
3M, Adobe, Air Products, American Endowment Foundation, Amgen Foundation, American Express, Avery Dennison Corporation, Ball Corporation, Benevity, Blackbaud, Bosch Community Fund, Capital One, Christian Louboutin Group, Cotopaxi, Corteva, Cummins, DAFgiving360, Deed, Endaoment, Energy Recovery, Enlightened Generation, Fidelity Charitable, Ford Philanthropy, Fortive Foundation, Givinga, Goodstack, H.B. Fuller, Hopper USA, ImpactAssets, Jim Beam Brands Co., Johnson & Johnson, Kenvue, KPMG Foundation, L'Oréal, Meta, Moneygram Foundation, The Morrison & Foerster Foundation, NBC Universal, Nike, Nintendo of America, Barack Obama Foundation, O.C. Tanner, PayPal, PepsiCo Foundation, Percent Pledge Foundation, PMI WW Brands (Stanley 1913), Pledge, PVH Foundation, Riot Games, Salesforce, SAP Group, Semos Software, Skai, Spireworks, Starwood Hotels, Teach for All, Tillo, Tripadvisor Foundation, United Airlines, Unwrapit, Vertex, VF Foundation, Workhuman, YourCause, and Zola.
This year made something clear: When we stand together, we are stronger. Throughout 2025, you showed what’s possible when compassion turns into action. Your belief in community-led change—and your willingness to show up, again and again—made all the difference. That gives me hope.
Thank you for standing with communities around the world. Thank you for believing in a better way forward. And thank you for being part of the GlobalGiving community.
For believing in community-led change that brought solutions, support, and hope in a trying year. Join us on our journey to fuel even more good round the globe in 2026.
