Register for the Pilot Pitchfest in New York City on May 22nd—and apply for up to $80K to support high-impact projects.

• city

• Govtech
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

With this guide, you'll have access to key information on over 2,000 grant-makers, each with the potential to give at least £50,000 per year. (£135.00)

• books

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Nonprofit tech

• Funders & donors
• Open knowledge
• Open science

Building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities
• resilience

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Research and policy centers

Improving people’s lifetime earnings through access to opportunities.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Since 1995, we've coordinated the philanthropic endeavours founded by the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, continuing a tradition of social engagement stretching back as far as 1841.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI) is launching a fund to support civil society engagement on digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, with a focus on governance, human rights protection, and rule of law

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.

• teachers & educators

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic literacy

We are seeding a future in which ‍truth is a shared asset, and trust between citizens in Europe is fostered by transparency in the digital sphere.

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We support organisations and people who contribute to an open internet for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Predecessors

Die DATUM STIFTUNG für Journalismus und Demokratie leistet ganz konkrete und zielgerichtete Beiträge, um Qualität und Unabhängigkeit des Journalismus und damit seine Abwehrkräfte gegenüber autoritären Tendenzen zu stärken und verfolgt dabei eine systemische Herangehensweise.

• Media
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Fondation Botnar works with and for young people towards a world that fulfils their rights and supports their wellbeing.

• youth
• city
• mental health

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Media Forward Fund funds media diversity in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Journalism

• Meet the others
• Funders & donors
• In-person meetings

By investing in innovative new solutions driving change across the key pillars of digital inclusion, WiDEF is transforming the lives of women and girls both online and offline.

• women
• Gender Equality

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Breakout Program is a $250,000 seed funding initiative launched by eQualitie to support innovations in digital communication that can withstand network shutdowns and censorship of global connectivity.

• free speech

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Connectivity

The Fund is a shared space for philanthropists to leverage one another’s expertise, incubate investment strategies to advance visionary concepts, and catalyze big ideas that can transform the use of technology to serve the public interest.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Public Interest Tech

Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

To support fact-checking on WhatsApp, the International Fact-Checking Network is offering a new round of its Spread the Facts grant program in partnership with Meta to combat AI-generated misinformation.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Factchecking

The FRIDA Program site is the platform that collects the types of funds to which you can apply and the projects financed since 2004.

• Funders & donors
• Connectivity

Helping European workers benefit from AI’s potential

• Artificial Intelligence
• Funders & donors

Support for FOSS events in India

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Catalyst Fund was launched in October 2023 to support the burgeoning ecosystem of actors working on the intersection of digital rights and climate justice to build cross-territorial strategies and weave thematic threads across movements.

• Climate action

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Sustainability Fund is Open Technology Fund’s newest mechanism to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A family of interrelated justice-seeking organizations that both independently and collectively work to reimagine and reconstruct a more inclusive and equitable technology sector.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundational layers

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Established by MacKenzie Scott to share a financial fortune created through the effort of countless people, Yield is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We fund startups across nearly all technology areas and markets like artificial intelligence, energy, medical devices, robotics, semiconductors, and many more.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Mit ihren Projekten, Studien und Veranstaltungen regt die Bertelsmann Stiftung Debatten an und gibt Impulse für gesellschaftliche Veränderungen. Gemeinnützige Arbeit und nachhaltige Wirkung sind die Grundlagen ihres Handelns. Die Initiativen der Stiftung zeigen nicht nur Lösungen auf, sondern schaffen empirisch gestützte Orientierung in einer breiten Öffentlichkeit.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Eurasia Foundation envisions a world where all people have the opportunity to realize their potential and transform their societies.

• Funders & donors

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital security and privacy

We are the first donor fund dedicated to community organising. We will provided targeted long-term funding in key geographies across the UK.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• The craft of organizing

The Risk and Response Fund is a $10 million pool of unrestricted resources that can be deployed with speed when a crisis strikes

• Media
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

IMS is the largest media development organisation in the Nordic region. We work in more than 30 countries across four continents promoting press freedom, good journalism and safety for journalists.

• free speech

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Journalism

The Center for International Media Assistance's donor profiles on major public and private funders of global media development work

• Media
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

We empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Artistic interventions

Philea (Philanthropy Europe Association) is the leading organisation for foundations, philanthropic organisations and networks working for the common good in Europe. It aims to create connections and knowledge sharing between its members.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The EMIF is entrusted with an objective of public interest to support fact-checking and media literacy initiatives, as well as fundamental research projects, with a view to addressing the phenomenon of online disinformation in Europe and promoting a more resilient and fact-based digital information ecosystem.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Get funding

We invest in ideas and organizations that expand human agency.

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• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

We identify political changemakers in Europe and provide them with financial resources, strategic advice, practical support and a community of practice to advance their mission of reimagining politics.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors