About David and Anita Keller Foundation
The David and Anita Keller Foundation concentrates its small but focused grantmaking on legal and policy advocacy that advances human rights and corporate accountability, often with an international or transnational focus. Their funded organizations use strategic litigation, community representation, and digital/media advocacy to hold governments and corporations accountable and protect vulnerable communities. The foundation appears to favor mission-driven advocacy groups rather than service delivery or arts organizations.
Focus Areas
Corporate accountability and community representation through strategic litigationDigital rights and new-media advocacy for human-rights causesTransnational human-rights advocacy and policy change
Who They Fund
indigent defendants and incarcerated peopleyouth climate advocatesunderprivileged communities in AfricaAsian American communitiesinvestigative journalists and reporting organizationsstrategic philanthropists / philanthropy networks
About David and Anita Keller Foundation
The David and Anita Keller Foundation’s largest recent grant in the dataset is a $70,000 award to Accountability Counsel for work to promote human rights and combat global suffering. That single grant fits a broader pattern: the foundation backs legal and policy advocacy organizations that use strategic litigation, rights-based research, and public-interest communications to press for corporate accountability and human-rights protection. Across 2023 to 2025, its support repeatedly goes to groups working on transnational abuses, constitutional rights, climate-related rights claims, and media-driven advocacy. Several grants point to a preference for organizations that can move between legal strategy and public narrative. New Media Advocacy Project received $40,000 in 2024, while Mother Jones was funded in multiple years for investigative reporting on social and political affairs. Human Rights Watch, The Sentry, and Clooney Foundation for Justice also appear among recent recipients, reinforcing a portfolio centered on rights enforcement and global accountability. The foundation’s giving is small in count but consistent in theme, with grants typically aimed at organizations rather than individuals and with a clear emphasis on mission-driven advocacy work.
What David and Anita Keller Foundation Funds
Human-rights advocacy is the clearest throughline in the foundation’s recent grantmaking. It gave $20,000 to Clooney Foundation for Justice in 2024 and another $20,000 in 2023, both for promoting human rights and combating global suffering. Human Rights Watch also appears twice, including a $10,000 grant in 2025 for the same purpose. The foundation also supports legal accountability work. It gave $10,000 to Equal Justice Initiative in 2025 for legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners, and $10,000 to Namati in 2024 for legal empowerment. Climate-rights work appears as well: Climate Rights International received $10,000 in both 2024 and 2025 for preventing climate change and human rights abuses, while Our Children’s Trust received $10,000 in 2025 to empower youth to defend their right to a safe climate. Its portfolio also reaches into media and civic advocacy, including $20,000 to Mother Jones in 2025 for investigative reporting on social and political affairs.
How David and Anita Keller Foundation Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$110K
Total Assets
$1.1M
Total Revenue
$256K
Total Expenses
$302K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $20K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$20K
Geographic Reach
National7 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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