Delaware · Private foundation
Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $2.8M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $6.7M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $8.6M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $6.2M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $7,000,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Freedom of the Press Foundation | $6,740,823 | 5 | 40% |
| Witness Inc | $3,100,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Spritely Networked Communities Institute | $1,806,944 | 3 | 100% |
| Creative Commons Corporation | $650,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Access Now | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.7M), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
- How much does Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web give?
- Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web reported 5 grants totaling $2,812,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (31%), Education (31%), Human Services (25%).
- Who are Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ($7.0M), Freedom of the Press Foundation ($6.7M), Witness Inc ($3.1M).
- Does Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web based?
- Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web is based in DE.
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