Virginia · Public charity
Internet Society Foundation
At the INTERNET SOCIETY FOUNDATION, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. Our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet is for everyone.
- $20M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $15M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $184,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $90M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Internet Society Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $15M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $75M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $4.6M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $2.9M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $15M | 88% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $8.7M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connected Giving Foundation | $59,111,963 | 1 | 99% |
| Internet Society | $29,462,926 | 6 | 24% |
| Ietf Administration LLC | $13,250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Techsoup Global | $3,973,976 | 3 | 5% |
| Global Cyber Alliance Inc | $3,000,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Code for Science & Society Inc | $1,139,460 | 3 | 5% |
| Suboptic Foundation | $850,000 | 2 | 76% |
| People-Centered Internet Inc | $829,366 | 3 | 49% |
| University of Oregon Foundation | $799,861 | 3 | 0% |
| Data & Society Research Institute Inc | $699,926 | 3 | 16% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Internet Society Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 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: Internet Society · The Ford Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Craig Newmark Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Omidyar Network Fund Inc · The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation
How this is measured
About Internet Society Foundation
- How much does Internet Society Foundation give?
- Internet Society Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $14,543,134, out of $19,603,464 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Internet Society Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (90%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%), International (3%).
- Who are Internet Society Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Connected Giving Foundation ($59M), Internet Society ($29M), Ietf Administration LLC ($13M).
- Does Internet Society Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Internet Society Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Internet Society, The Ford Foundation, New Venture Fund.
- Where is Internet Society Foundation based?
- Internet Society Foundation is based in VA.
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