Virginia · Public charity
Internet Society
To promote the open development, evolution, and use of the internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- Total assets, FY2024
- $68M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Internet Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesScience & TechCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $1.3M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $499k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $2.0M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $2.1M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.7M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $413k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $2.7M | 56% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $1.1M | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Science & Tech$5.3MEducation$2.3MInternational$1.3MCommunity Improvement$968kPublic Benefit$762kHuman Services$410kCivil Rights$330kArts & Culture$313kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Key Security Nfp | $2,521,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Oregon Foundation | $1,480,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Internet Security Research Group | $775,000 | 5 | 5% |
| IETF Trust | $609,197 | 7 | 100% |
| United Nations Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Shadowserver Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Mozilla Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nethope Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | $240,662 | 1 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $220,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Key Security Nfp | $2,521,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Oregon Foundation | $1,480,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Internet Security Research Group | $775,000 | 5 | 5% |
| IETF Trust | $609,197 | 7 | 100% |
| United Nations Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Shadowserver Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Mozilla Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nethope Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | $240,662 | 1 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $220,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Aspiration Aspirationtechorg | $192,768 | 1 | 2% |
| Duval County Public Schools | $180,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Wilson | $179,862 | 1 | n/a |
| Roanoke Connect Holdings LLC | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Maryland | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation | $175,000 | 2 | 2% |
| DC Public Schools | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Un Women | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pcs for People | $175,000 | 2 | 0% |
| South Union Community Development Inc South Union CDC | $174,900 | 1 | 54% |
| Freedom House | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Code for Science & Society Inc | $133,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Association for Progressive Communications | $132,000 | 5 | 1% |
| City of Williston | $131,708 | 1 | n/a |
| University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Internet Society | $121,039 | 5 | n/a |
| US Telecommunications Training Institute Inc | $120,140 | 3 | 5% |
| Center for Democracy and Technology | $90,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Texas A & M University - San Antonio | $87,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society | $75,944 | 3 | n/a |
| World Wide Web Foundation | $75,168 | 4 | 1% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute for Local Self Reliance | $65,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Internet Society of Puerto Rico Chapter Inc | $62,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Nanog Inc | $61,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Internet Society Chapter of Greater NYC | $60,085 | 3 | n/a |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equitable Origin Inc | $59,494 | 2 | 4% |
| Villanova University | $59,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc | $51,451 | 3 | 0% |
| Access Now | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| People-Centered Internet Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 41% |
| Auamo Collaborative | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of New Brunswick | $47,988 | 1 | n/a |
| Yurok Telecommunications Corporation | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Local Connectivity Lab | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria | $39,889 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Learning Network | $37,500 | 2 | 8% |
| Dynamic Community Solutions | $35,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Creative Commons Corporation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| McI USA | $27,000 | 1 | n/a |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Knowledge | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Internet Society Chapter of the Greater | $22,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kipahulu Ohana Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Marconi Society Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Floor64 Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mural Company | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| NYC Mesh | $14,859 | 1 | 15% |
| Elon University | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ietf Administration LLC | $12,915 | 1 | n/a |
| Baicells Technologies North America | $12,647 | 1 | n/a |
| Media Factory LLC | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Connect Humanity | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Internet Education Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lgbt Technology Institute | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ipnsig Inc | $8,466 | 1 | n/a |
| Arthur C Clarke Foundation of the United States | $6,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Peeringdb | $5,040 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Internet Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 42.
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.
Internet Society FoundationVA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Internet Society Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers · Mozilla Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Omidyar Network Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Tides Foundation · Luminate Foundation Inc · Craig Newmark Foundation
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Internet Society
- How much does Internet Society give?
- Internet Society reported 19 itemized grants totaling $1,285,975, out of $5,361,734 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Internet Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (45%), Education (20%), International (11%).
- Who are Internet Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Diamond Key Security Nfp ($2.5M), University of Oregon Foundation ($1.5M), Internet Security Research Group ($775k).
- Does Internet Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Internet Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Internet Society Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
- Where is Internet Society based?
- Internet Society is based in VA.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home