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This is our growing list of funders and donors that have supported civic tech efforts over the years. Not all fund exclusively civic tech, but if they're in this collection, they either currently support this work or have at some point in the past.

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Sobrato Family Foundation

Sobrato Family Foundation

Mountain View, CA, USA

The mission of the Sobrato Family Foundation is to support low-income residents in Silicon Valley who seek stability and opportunities for upward mobility.

Open Tech Fund (OTF)

Open Tech Fund (OTF)

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

We support the research, design, development, and deployment of technology-focused projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance, to enable global internet users to exercise their fundamental human rights online.

Barr Foundation

The Barr Foundation is a private, Boston-based foundation with core programs in Arts & Creativity, Climate, and Education.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

As the nation's largest public health philanthropy, we strive to build a national Culture of Health that will enable all to live longer, healthier lives.

The Case Foundation

Learn more about the @casefoundation, where they invest in people & ideas that will change the world.

Google Digital News Initiative

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

Ford Foundation

Welcome to the Ford Foundation. We envision a just, fair, and peaceful world with opportunity for all

Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation provides education, scholarships, exhibits, events, and media related to the lives of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Menlo Park, California, United States

Especially the Transparency, Participation, and Accountability grantmaking

Robert Bosch Foundation

Robert Bosch Foundation

Germany (Deutschland)

The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH is one of Europe’s largest foundations associated with a private company.

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy: Data Tool

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy is a data visualization platform featuring tens of thousands of grants, available to anyone interested in understanding philanthropy's role in U.S. democracy

The Parker Foundation

The Parker Foundation was founded on October 5, 1971 for charitable purposes leading to the betterment of life for all people of San Diego County.

National Democratic Institute (NDI)

National Democratic Institute (NDI)

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government

The New profit Accelerator Initiative

The New profit Accelerator Initiative

225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, USA

It identifies, connects, advises, and invests in diverse social entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to persistent problems in their communities

David and Lucile Packard Foundation

The Packard Foundation works with people and communities to create solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.

Microsoft Philanthropies

Believing that technology provides endless opportunity, Microsoft Philanthropies works in creating a future where everyone has access to endless possibilities.

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

The first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism. Learn more.

Citi Foundation

Investing in Our Communities Citi and the Citi Foundation are working in new ways to help build equitable and resilient communities

Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network

1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

The Montpelier Foundation

Since 2000, the Montpelier Foundation has worked to transform James Madison's Montpelier from a privately owned estate into a destination for more than 125,000 visitors each year. Learn more about the Foundation and support Montpelier's future.

Siragusa Foundation

The Siragusa Family Foundation is a private foundation that is committed to sustaining and developing Chicago’s extraordinary nonprofit resources.

Kaiser Permanente Foundation

Kaiser Permanente Foundation

Oakland, California

Kaiser Permanente | Our News and ViewsNews and views from one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans.

Kiva

Kiva

Kiva, Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

The Duke Endowment

The Duke Endowment

North Carolina

Since 1924, The Duke Endowment has worked to help people and strengthen communities in North Carolina and South Carolina by nurturing children, promoting health, educating minds and enriching spirits.

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.

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