Dreilinden’s funding is fed from the financial income on its capital.

Support is given to feminist institutions, and feminist projects within not per se feminist institutions.

Important – applications only upon invitation!

Grant volume in 2011: € 902.000.-. Total grant volume since 2006: € 4.266.800,-.



Grant sectors are:

1) Human rights for women and sexual minorities in the world beyond the "West"

Example: "International Fund for Sexual Minorities" of the Astraea Lesbian Justice Foundation, New York, small grants for human rights groups in twenty countries (2007). Funding amount: currently € 400,000 p.a.

For over ten years, Astraea’s "International Fund for Sexual Minorities" was working in the margins of the mainstream of human rights funding, and fundraising was hard, correspondingly. These years, the situation is changing. Since 2008, the "Global Philanthropy Project" (GPP) brings together grantmaking and advisory institutions and individuals active in the international LGBTI human rights field. Housed at astraea foundation, New York, the GPP currently works in the following three areas:

  • bilateral aid institutions
  • outreach to mainstream human rights donors
  • high-networth individuals in the Global North, East and South.

Dreilinden carries this initiative into German speaking areas. On the European level, Dreilinden connects GPP with the Ariadne European Human Rights Funders Network.



2) Gender sensitive right-wing extremism prevention

"Lola für Ludwigslust: Strategies for fighting right-wing extremism in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - civil society commitment and empowerment of girls and women 2007-2017".
Grant is for the Project "Lola für Lulu".



3) The topic "Ethical Investment": Research and improvement of the existing instruments from feminist aspects

As an indipendent research institution, Südwind provides ground-breaking work in rendering SRI more relevant within the development context. "Women and the economy" is one of the foci of research.

Funding at present: € 40,000 p.a.