California · Public charity
Internet Archive
Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format including texts, audio, movies, images, software and web pages.
- $684k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $135k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $135,014
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,014
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Internet Archive 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 | 1 | $135k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $540k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $462k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $355k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $18M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $136k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $167k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library of Richmond Inc | $16,750,000 | 2 | 65% |
| Better World Libraries | $1,250,000 | 1 | 38% |
| Gatherings for Good | $1,207,317 | 4 | n/a |
| The Earth Species Project | $375,000 | 2 | 45% |
| Inst of Museum & Library Svcs | $256,628 | 2 | n/a |
| The Long Now Foundation | $59,842 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Initiatives | $49,816 | 1 | 0% |
| Buddhist Digital Resource Center Inc | $35,884 | 1 | 3% |
| Oclc Inc | $21,529 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Open Science Inc | $19,580 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library of Richmond Inc | $16,750,000 | 2 | 65% |
| Better World Libraries | $1,250,000 | 1 | 38% |
| Gatherings for Good | $1,207,317 | 4 | n/a |
| The Earth Species Project | $375,000 | 2 | 45% |
| Inst of Museum & Library Svcs | $256,628 | 2 | n/a |
| The Long Now Foundation | $59,842 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Initiatives | $49,816 | 1 | 0% |
| Buddhist Digital Resource Center Inc | $35,884 | 1 | 3% |
| Oclc Inc | $21,529 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Open Science Inc | $19,580 | 1 | 0% |
| Densho | $18,519 | 1 | 1% |
| The Frick Collection | $11,961 | 1 | 0% |
| DDSchull Associates | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Benjamin Franklin Society Library Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 5% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Internet Archive supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Internet Archive?
Find your warmest path to Internet Archive through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Internet Archive
- How much does Internet Archive give?
- Internet Archive reported 1 itemized grants totaling $135,014, out of $684,386 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Internet Archive fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Arts & Culture (8%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
- Who are Internet Archive's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Open Library of Richmond Inc ($17M), Better World Libraries ($1.3M), Gatherings for Good ($1.2M).
- Does Internet Archive fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Internet Archive?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Internet Archive based?
- Internet Archive is based in CA.
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