The report reflects a year of consolidation, learning, and expanded Global South-led collaboration for socio-environmental justice.
A network in motion is not built only by the moments that become visible. It is also built through the conversations, decisions, relationships, and shared practices that make coordinated action possible over time.
In 2025, this is what Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur continued to strengthen and bring into focus: the infrastructure behind locally rooted funds from the Global South working to move resources closer to communities and territories.
Our 2025 Annual Report brings together the milestones, reflections, voices, and learnings of a year marked by consolidation and movement. It shows how locally rooted funds across the Global South are supporting communities on the frontlines of climate and environmental crises, while also helping reshape the way philanthropy understands proximity, trust, adaptability, and power.
Across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, Alianza’s member funds have built long trajectories of support for communities across the Global South. Over time, they have supported initiatives in more than 70 countries, awarding over 12,938 grants and investing more than USD 117.9 million directly in communities. In 2025 alone, they disbursed USD 19 million in grants, demonstrating the scale of a funding ecosystem rooted in territories and sustained by local leadership.
But the report also tells a deeper story.
It shows a network that sustains its members in times of uncertainty, creating spaces for shared analysis, mutual support, and joint decision-making. It highlights the invisible movements behind action: governance processes, monthly meetings, working groups, peer-learning spaces, and the everyday work of building trust across regions, languages, and time zones.
In 2025, this internal strengthening was deeply connected to Alianza’s external positioning. Through the research Funding from the Ground Up, the network contributed evidence from the Global South on how socio-environmental funds operate, what they make possible, and why they are strategic actors within the philanthropic ecosystem.
Through Seeds of Practice, members created spaces to exchange knowledge from their own experiences, reinforcing the idea that learning is not extracted from territories, but built through relationships, practice, and reciprocity.
The year also marked a major public milestone with the first edition of The Global South House at COP30. Co-created by Alianza and Rede Comuá, with strategic partners from across the Global South, the initiative brought together an historic articulation of more than 40 philanthropic organizations, including Indigenous, territorial, community-based, thematic, and activist funds. Over seven days of programming in Belém, The Global South House became a platform for political articulation, collaboration, and shared positioning around climate, nature, people, and finance. More than a venue, it was a space where Global South actors could gather, speak from their realities, build alliances, and challenge funding systems that remain too distant from communities.
Throughout the year, Alianza and its members were also present in global spaces where narratives, partnerships, and funding priorities are shaped. From climate weeks to philanthropic forums and COP30, this presence was not only about visibility. It was about bringing territorial evidence into international conversations and affirming that climate and socio-environmental justice require resources to move differently.
As we look ahead, this report invites partners, funders, and allies to recognize the strength of locally rooted funds and the role of Global South-led networks in transforming philanthropy. It is also an invitation to keep moving together — with urgency, patience, trust, and shared responsibility.
Read Alianza’s 2025 Annual Report and explore the journey of a network working to strengthen socio-environmental justice from the ground up.
