About Dropbox Charitable Foundation
Support organizations fighting for equal opportunity, basic freedoms, and fundamental necessities by promoting and protecting human rights globally through grants and skills-based volunteering.
Focus Areas
human rightsrefugee and asylum seeker rightsyouth serviceseducation (girls' education)environmental justicehuman traffickingLGBTQ+ rightschildren in conflicttechnology and digital security
Who They Fund
civil rights organizationssocial advocacy organizationshuman services clients (e.g., individuals receiving social services)
About Dropbox Charitable Foundation
Dropbox Charitable Foundation’s recent grantmaking centers on organizations defending human rights, with repeated general-support awards of $200,000 to partners such as Kind Inc and Women for Women International. The foundation also shows a multi-year pattern with several recipients appearing across 2023, 2024, and 2025, suggesting ongoing relationships rather than isolated awards. Its public grant descriptions point to a mix of human rights advocacy, refugee protection, anti-trafficking work, youth services, environmental justice, and technology-related support for rights work. The foundation’s portfolio includes unrestricted funding for human rights organizations and flexible grants that can be used where partners have the greatest need. In the recent grants list, Outright Action International received support in both 2023 and 2025, while Mockingbird Society and Raheem Ai also appear more than once. The pattern is consistent with funding core operations and related advocacy rather than narrow project-only awards. The foundation’s stated approach also includes skills-based volunteering alongside grantmaking, aligning monetary support with organizational capacity-building.
What Dropbox Charitable Foundation Funds
Human rights is the clearest throughline in the foundation’s recent giving. It provided $200,000 to Kind Inc for civil rights, social action, and advocacy, and another $200,000 to Women for Women International for the same broad category. The foundation also supports work tied to refugee and asylum seeker rights. Its grant to Mockingbird Society included a $200,000 award in 2024, and the same organization later received a $7,000 grant in 2025 for civil rights, social action, and advocacy. LGBTQ+ rights and related services appear through Outright Action International, which received $175,000 in 2023 and $150,000 in 2024. Environmental and technology-linked themes also show up in the grants list: Raheem Ai received $200,000 in 2023 and 2024, plus a $7,000 grant in 2025, while Freedom Fwd received $125,000 in 2025 for health care, public, and societal benefit.
How Dropbox Charitable Foundation Gives
Typical grant size is tightly clustered at $200,000, with p25, median, and p75 all at $200,000. That indicates a very narrow grant-size band, even though a few smaller awards appear in the recent list. The foundation is a regular funder and its grants are mostly unrestricted or general support. Multiple recipients recur across several years, including 2023, 2024, and 2025, which points to ongoing partner funding rather than one-time awards. Public program descriptions say grants can be flexible and may run for up to three years.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$739K
Total Assets
$25.6M
Total Revenue
$2M
Total Expenses
$1.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $200K and $200K, with a median of $200K.
25th Percentile
$200K
Median
$200K
75th Percentile
$200K
Geographic Reach
Regional4 states funded
About 19% of grants go to recipients in DC.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
HILARY M CASTILLO
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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