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Giving to disasters by the 1,000 largest funders was more than seven times greater during 2022 than 10 years early, hitting $860.2 million compared to $111.4 million for the decade earlier. New Data from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) while it is not record-level funding, it was the third highest amount since the nonprofit started reporting such data in 2014.

Overall giving to disasters worldwide totaled $1.7 billion, according to CDP data. The definition used for disaster to research purposes is a “disaster taxonomy” that includes four types of disasters: Complex humanitarian emergencies; Human-made accidents; Natural hazard and severe weather (drought, earthquakes/tsunamis, wildfires, epidemics, extreme temperature, flood, mass movement, storm, volcano, wildfires); and if funders report funds for “disasters” whether specifically or generally.

 That sounds like a lot of money. However, it is just 1.4% of the $126.7 billion given toward disasters by private and community foundations, corporations, and public charities. And, when COVID focused giving was removed, it was $547.5 million.

The new information in the “State of Disaster Philanthropy 2024” is based on data from Candid’s Foundation 1000 data sets. The data also showed that the proportion of disaster funding for reconstruction and recovery was higher than in recent years. Complex humanitarian emergencies saw its highest share of total giving, primarily in response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. Many international grants were directly given to local and national actors.

While response and relief dominated the 2022 giving, $201.8 million supported recovery and reconstruction, roughly 11.6% of the funding, according to Tanya Gulliver-Garcia, CDP’s director of advisory and education services.

Funding for complex humanitarian emergencies (CHE) — protracted events that occur at the complicated intersection of crisis, conflict and climate — grew from 1.2% of all funding in 2021 to 17.4% in 2022, driven by an unprecedented amount of funding for the Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis. This is a number that surprised Gulliver-Garcia.

She explained that the influencers for CHE are crisis, climate and conflict. Funding grew to 301.8 million and was 17.4% of overall disaster funding, up from 1.2% the previous year. She attributes the uptick to support for Ukraine. Sudan was also in a spotlight due to war and flooding which sparked famine.

CHE giving totaled $301.8 million and was 17.4% of overall giving, making it the highest percentage of overall giving ever recorded in SODP for CHEs. At least 2,344 transactions from philanthropy included funding for Ukraine in 2022, totaling $247.2 million and representing 81.9% of the CHE dollars. Even excluding Ukraine-related funding, almost $54.5 million was given to CHEs, which shows a rise in philanthropic support beyond Ukraine compared to 2021.

In 2022, 40% ($93.1 million) of philanthropic disaster funding to recipients outside the U.S. went to organizations headquartered in the countries where the work occurred. It is a significant percentage, exceeding the commitment to provide 25% of humanitarian funding to local and national actors by signatories of the Grand Bargain. 

The Grand Bargain is a platform that brings together donors and aid organizations committed to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the humanitarian action, to get more means into the hands of people in need. While the Grand Bargain is a separate and independent process from the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, the official website is hosted by the IASC structure, and maintained by the Grand Bargain Secretariat.

The definition used for disaster to research purposes is a “disaster taxonomy” that includes four types of disasters: Complex humanitarian emergencies; Human-made accidents; Natural hazard and severe weather (drought, earthquakes/tsunamis, wildfires, epidemics, extreme temperature, flood, mass movement, storm, volcano, wildfires); and if funders report funds for “disasters” whether specifically or generally.

A series of educational data sets will be released during the next 12 months, said Gulliver-Garcia. To see this full data set go to https://disasterphilanthropy.org/resources/measuring-the-state-of-disaster-philanthropy-2024/

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