Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust is an independent, indigenous grantmaker (between $15,000-$50,000) with six focus areas:
• Democracy, good governance, and institution building.
• Social justice.
• Women's rights.
• Pluralistic values.
• Youth in social transformation.
• Arts and culture to further the understanding of rights/peace.
NTT is the only local grantmaker in Sri Lanka, where every other grantmaker is a bilateral or multilateral agency, an international NGO, or an intergovernmental organization.