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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “wikipedia”
Where the money went
Largest: $715,000 to WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION — to leverage ai for the benefit of wikipedias readers and contributors, including tools to address vandalism
Largest: $200,000 to WIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — to expand stem biographies (particularly women and people of color in math & engineering) in wikipedia through instruction-led student research projects to include stem pioneers "w…
Largest: $100,000 to WIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — for wikipedia student program
Gold Family Charitable TrustBriarcliff Manor, NY
3 matching grants · $150,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION — to support wikipedia and the wikimedia community to help the world share in free knowledge
Wikimedia EndowmentSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $5.7M · through 2024Largest: $3.1M to WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION — for abstract wikipedia, ai and machine learning infrastructure, wikimedia commons, and wikidata
Largest: $10,000 to WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION — to support wikipedia and its sister projects and to help the world share in free knowledge.
Largest: $10,000 to WIKIPEDIA FOUNDATION — public benefit
Largest: $100,000 to LAVANT CONSULTING INC — for the disability wikipedia project to broaden the scope and knowledge of disability history for everyone, including disabled and non-disabled people
Largest: $400,000 to WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — toward the costs of building infrastructure to allow for the seamless and automatic translation of wikipedia entries into a range of languages globally and make knowledge more equi…
Largest: $2,570 to WIKIPEDIA FOUNDATION — to help secure the future of free knowledge for everyone.
Largest: $1,000 to WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION — to support wikipedia
Largest: $1,000 to WIKIPEDIA FOUNDATION — general and unrestricted
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →