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Wikimedia Foundation

Name: Wikimedia Foundation grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

72
grants reported: $15.3M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $139,244
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

further work plan multi period wikimedia year july

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

9 grants matching “period” · $2.8M

$500,000
Wiki Education Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Multi-year grant for support of the wiki education foundation annual plan for the 2024-2026 period
$404,689
Artfeminism · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Multi-year grant for support of the art+feminism annual plan for the 2023-2025 period
$305,340
Wikimedia New York City · New York, NY · 2024
Multi-year grant for support of the wikimedia new york city annual plan for the 2025-2028 period; grant for wikiconference north america 2025
$216,300
Whose Knowledge · San Diego, CA · 2024
Multi-year grant for support of whose knowledge? Annual plan for the 2024 - 2026 period
$445,000
Wiki Education Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of the wiki education foundation annual plan for the 20242026 period
$404,689
Artfeminism · New York, NY · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of the art+feminism annual plan for the 2023-2025 period
$200,000
Whose Knowledge · San Diego, CA · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of whose knowledge? Annual plan for the 2024 - 2026 period
$177,000
Wikimedia New York City · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of wikimedia new york city annual plan for the 2024 -2025 period
$150,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2023
Grant for afrocrowd user group for the july 2024 - june 2025 period

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Wikimedia Endowment2 grants · $2.4M
Wiki Education Foundation3 grants · $1.5M
Tides Foundation1 grant · $1.5M
Artfeminism3 grants · $1.2M
Black Lunch Table3 grants · $895,649
Whose Knowledge4 grants · $781,612
Wikimedia New York City3 grants · $644,585
Tides Foundationpo Box 29903 San Francisco Ca 941291 grant · $516,650
Wiki Education Foundation 11 Funston Ave Suite a San Francisco Ca 941291 grant · $500,000
Fractured Atlas3 grants · $445,000

Giving over time

$3.3M

2021

$3.9M

2022

$3.6M

2023

$4.4M

2024

Grant history

All 72 reported grants, largest first.

$1.5M
Wikimedia Endowment · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Board-approved remit of planned gifts to the wikimedia endowment
$1.5M
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$866,498
Wikimedia Endowment · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Board-approved remit of planned gifts to the wikimedia endowment
$581,753
Wiki Education Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$516,650
Tides Foundationpo Box 29903 San Francisco Ca 94129 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$500,000
Wiki Education Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Multi-year grant for support of the wiki education foundation annual plan for the 2024-2026 period
$500,000
Wiki Education Foundation 11 Funston Ave Suite a San Francisco Ca 94129 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$445,000
Wiki Education Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of the wiki education foundation annual plan for the 20242026 period
$404,689
Artfeminism · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Multi-year grant for support of the art+feminism annual plan for the 2023-2025 period
$404,689
Artfeminism · New York, NY · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of the art+feminism annual plan for the 2023-2025 period
$381,685
Artfeminism · New York, NY · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$337,527
Artfeminism Inc 323 W 39th Street Suite 912 New York Ny 10018 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$325,335
Ideas Beyond Borders · New York, NY · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$305,340
Wikimedia New York City · New York, NY · 2024
Multi-year grant for support of the wikimedia new york city annual plan for the 2025-2028 period; grant for wikiconference north america 2025
$304,850
Black Lunch Table · Chicago, IL · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of the black lunch table (a history archiving project) for calendar year 2024
$301,799
Black Lunch Table · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$301,799
Black Lunch Table6225 N Kenmore Ave Apt 2n Chicago Il 60660 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$300,000
Tides Advocacy Po Box 29229 San Francisco Ca 94129 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$289,000
Black Lunch Table · Chicago, IL · 2024
Grant for support of the black lunch table (a history archiving project) annual plan 2025
$260,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Support for a legal and research fellowship program
$216,300
Whose Knowledge · San Diego, CA · 2024
Multi-year grant for support of whose knowledge? Annual plan for the 2024 - 2026 period
$200,000
Whose Knowledge · San Diego, CA · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of whose knowledge? Annual plan for the 2024 - 2026 period
$196,434
Whose Knowledge · San Diego, CA · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$180,000
Wiki Project Med Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Grant for support of the wiki project med: achieving global impact
$177,000
Wikimedia New York City · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Multi-year grant for support of wikimedia new york city annual plan for the 2024 -2025 period
$173,420
Wiki Society of Washington Dc Inc Dba Wikimedia Dc · Washington, DC · 2023
Grants related to wikiconference north america 2024 and sustaining and growing chapter programs and partnerships in july 2023-december 2024
$170,913
Wikitongues · New York, NY · 2024
Grant for support of wikimedia language diversity hub project; annual plan for 2025
$168,878
Whose Knowledge · San Diego, CA · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$163,100
Writing Downtown Inc Dba Wikiportraits · Las Vegas, NV · 2024
Grant for support of wikiportraits: 2025-26 activities
$162,245
Wikimedia New York City · New York, NY · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$160,665
Wikitongues · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Grants related to evaluation and planning for scaling the language revitalization accelerator, enhancing indic oral culture on wikimedia projects, and building the language diversity hub
$150,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2024
Grant for fiscal sponsorship of afrocrowd july 2025 - june 2026
$150,000
Internews Network · Arcata, CA · 2024
Grant for support of earth journalism network
$150,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2023
Grant for afrocrowd user group for the july 2024 - june 2025 period
$145,000
Wiki Project Med Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Grant for scaling the team, tech, reach, and impact of wiki project med foundation (wikimedia medicine)
$145,000
Fractured Atlas · Hartsdale, NY · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$133,489
Fractured Atlas Incpo Box 55 Hartsdale Ny 10530 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$129,000
Wiki Society of Washington Dc Inc Dba Wikimedia Dc · Washington, DC · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$128,000
Software Freedom Conservancy · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Grant for support of outreachy interns
$116,900
Wikijournal · Danbury, CT · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$113,674
Smithsonian Institute · Chicago, IL · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$103,900
Wikijournal10134 Avalon Valley Drive Danbury Ct 06810 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$100,000
International Center for Journalists · Washington, DC · 2023
Grant for expanding the multilingual resources offered to journalists
$100,000
Data for Black Lives · Miami, FL · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$100,000
Hack Hackers · Washington, DC · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$90,000
Ideas Beyond Borders · New York, NY · 2023
Grant for preserving knowledge through language-focused programs
$85,544
Software Freedom Conservancy · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$83,890
Wiki Society of Washington Dc Inc Dba Wikimedia Dc · Washington, DC · 2024
Grant for support of wikimedia dc annual plan 2025
$72,000
Software Freedom Conservancy · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Sponsorship of interns working with the wikimedia community
$70,000
Filipino American National Historical Society · Seatlle, WA · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$67,706
Software Freedom Conservancy137 Montague Street Brooklyn Ny 11201 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$55,250
Hack Hackers · Washington, DC · 2024
Grant for support of wikicredcon 2025: reliable sources
$55,000
International Center for Journalists · Washington, DC · 2024
Grant for support of international center for journalists
$54,000
Wikitongues · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$53,949
Creative Commonspo Box 1866mountain View Ca 94042 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$52,500
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Grant for support of opportunities for supporting community-scale communication
$51,106
Code for Science and Society Inc3439 Se Hawthorne Blvd #247 Portland O · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$50,000
Code for Science and Society · Portland, OR · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$50,000
Access Now34 W 27th Street 6th Floor New York Ny 10001 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$50,000
Digital Public Library of America1 Washington Mall Ste 1019 Boston Ma 02 · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$49,500
Wikitongues · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$40,000
Open Environmental Data · Hudson, NY · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$38,457
Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$32,000
Wikijournal · Danbury, CT · 2023
Grant for support of wikijournal annual plan for 2024
$28,879
Ranjitsinh Disale Foundation · Sacramento, CA · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$27,000
National Council of Teachers of English 340 N Neil St #104 Champaign Il · 2021
To support work to further mission.
$25,876
State of Maryland - University of Maryland Office of Research Administratio · College Park, MD · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$20,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
To support work to further mission.
$19,814
Margika · Ocala, FL · 2023
Grant for quality improvement and community development of kannada language wikipedia
$14,867
Wikijournal · Danbury, CT · 2024
Grant for general support july-dec 2024; grant for support of wikijournal july 2025-june 2026
$14,300
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2024
Grant for establishing a critical digital commons research network
$9,992
Helping Give Away Psychological Science · Chapel Hill, NC · 2021
To support work to further mission.

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.