New York · Public charity
Project Liberty Institute
To create a new civic architecture for the digital world that returns the ownership and control of personal data to individuals, embeds ethical values into technology, and expands economic opportunities for web users and developers alike.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Project Liberty Institute’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Global Impact, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 3
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Project Liberty Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 | 9 | $710k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $95k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $750k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $8.0M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $4.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cortico Corporation | $7,325,581 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $2,500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| US Sciences PO Foundation | $2,200,000 | 1 | 74% |
| Heterodox Academy | $500,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Issue One | $500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Common Sense Media | $425,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Eth Zurich Foundation (Usa) Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The German Marshall Fund of the United States | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mediators Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cortico Corporation | $7,325,581 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $2,500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| US Sciences PO Foundation | $2,200,000 | 1 | 74% |
| Heterodox Academy | $500,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Issue One | $500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Common Sense Media | $425,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Eth Zurich Foundation (Usa) Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The German Marshall Fund of the United States | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mediators Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Consumer Reports Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Techfreedom | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Idi | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New America Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Exchange Point Institute | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Radicalxchange Foundation Ltd | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Project Liberty Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Project Liberty Institute
- How much does Project Liberty Institute give?
- Project Liberty Institute reported 12 itemized grants totaling $1,905,000, out of $1,950,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Project Liberty Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Science & Tech (35%), Public Benefit (2%).
- Who are Project Liberty Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Cortico Corporation ($7.3M), Georgetown University ($2.5M), US Sciences PO Foundation ($2.2M).
- Does Project Liberty Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Project Liberty Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Project Liberty Institute based?
- Project Liberty Institute is based in NY.
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