Foundations & Philanthropic Organizations

Impact organisations that fund research and programmes based on their capacity to change lives. DIA collaborates with foundations and philanthropic partners to ensure funding translates into measurable, lasting impact. We help design grant-making strategies grounded in evidence, evaluate funded programmes rigorously, and surface learnings that inform future investment. These partnerships strengthen the link between philanthropic capital and demonstrable outcomes for the communities they aim to serve.

Dean’s Research Fund, Harvard Kennedy School

The Dean’s Research Fund provides small seed grants for junior faculty members of the Harvard Kennedy School.

Vitol Foundation

We’re passionate about identifying, supporting, and funding innovative approaches that enhance social systems and strengthen communities. We focus on Early Childhood Care and Education, Adolescent Health, Humanitarian Emergencies, and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene. We work with communities in low- and middle-income countries, prioritising 12 countries and 4 evolving humanitarian hotspots.

Echidna Giving

Echdina Giving is a private funder that will grant and fund $6 billion over the next 30 years, staying the course on one issue: advancing girls’ education in countries with limited resources and modest education budgets, committed to data, evidence, iteration, and learning, and willing to try unconventional approaches to get there.

Keynes Fund, University of Cambridge

The Keynes Fund for Applied Economics promotes innovative and path breaking quality research in economics and finance. A key part of the Faculty of Economics, it provides resources for early stage researchers as well as for established academics in Cambridge, with a special emphasis on understanding key distortions that affect market allocations and create inefficiencies, and on finding policy solutions to correct such inefficiencies.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

We lead the UK’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)

With the goal of improving the lives of millions of Indian people, we work in collaboration with the Indian government and other partners on various issues, from health care and sanitation to gender equality, agricultural development, and financial empowerment of the most vulnerable populations.