How much does Public Interest Registry give?

Public Interest Registry reported 10 grants totaling $61,281,468 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Public Interest Registry fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (59%), International (41%), Environment (0%).

Who are Public Interest Registry's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Internet Society ($272M), Internet Society Foundation ($191M), Connected Giving Foundation ($3.0M).

Does Public Interest Registry fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Public Interest Registry?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.

Where is Public Interest Registry based?

Public Interest Registry is based in VA.

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Public Interest Registry

PUBLIC INTEREST REGISTRY's mission is to support and to assist its sole member, the internet society, achieve its important and significant charitable mission, in among other ways, by operating the .org and other top level domains as an internet industry model and to serve in other ways to encourage and promote the open development,…

$61M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2024: 11
Organizations funded FY2023: 64%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $45,833
Largest grant, FY2024: $29,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 11; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $71M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 64% of the organizations Public Interest Registry funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalEducationCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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	9	$61M	44%
FY2023	11	$65M	64%
FY2022	8	$69M	75%
FY2021	9	$62M	67%
FY2020	6	$62M	67%
FY2019	4	$68M	25%
FY2018	3	$49M	0%
FY2017	3	$32M	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$275MInternational$191MEnvironment$610kPublic Safety & Disaster$156kEducation$73kHuman Services$60kHealth$54kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Internet Society	$271,908,904	8	82%
Internet Society Foundation	$191,260,670	8	96%
Connected Giving Foundation	$3,000,000	1	53%
Enset	$610,000	3	n/a
Global Cyber Alliance Inc	$155,833	4	1%
Yellow Boat of Hope USA	$50,000	1	n/a
Hope for Justice Inc	$50,000	1	1%
University of Oregon Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Days For Girls International	$45,000	1	2%
412 Food Rescue Inc	$45,000	1	0%

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All grantees of Public Interest Registry by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Internet Society	$271,908,904	8	82%
Internet Society Foundation	$191,260,670	8	96%
Connected Giving Foundation	$3,000,000	1	53%
Enset	$610,000	3	n/a
Global Cyber Alliance Inc	$155,833	4	1%
Yellow Boat of Hope USA	$50,000	1	n/a
Hope for Justice Inc	$50,000	1	1%
University of Oregon Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Days For Girls International	$45,000	1	2%
412 Food Rescue Inc	$45,000	1	0%
Techsoup Global	$40,000	1	0%
Internet Education Foundation	$30,000	3	1%
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn	$23,600	2	0%
Venice Family Clinic Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Non-Profit Technology Enterprise Network Dba Nten	$15,000	1	0%
Herhealtheq Corp	$10,200	1	15%
Good Sports Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Wholives Inc	$10,000	1	1%
University of Central Florida Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Kakenya Center for Excellence	$10,000	1	0%
Seeding Labs a Non-Profit Corporation	$10,000	1	0%
Share our Spare	$10,000	1	0%
Zoe Empowers	$10,000	1	0%
Project Camp Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Maia	$10,000	1	1%
Kageno Worldwide Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Pro Mujer Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Association for Progressive Communications	$7,500	1	0%
Kkis Inc	$5,681	1	8%
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children	$5,160	1	0%
Darkness to Light Inc	$5,130	1	0%

Public Interest Registry supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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 29.

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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.

Tides FoundationCA13.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

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About Public Interest Registry

How much does Public Interest Registry give?: Public Interest Registry reported 10 grants totaling $61,281,468 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Public Interest Registry fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (59%), International (41%), Environment (0%).
Who are Public Interest Registry's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Internet Society ($272M), Internet Society Foundation ($191M), Connected Giving Foundation ($3.0M).
Does Public Interest Registry fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Public Interest Registry?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
Where is Public Interest Registry based?: Public Interest Registry is based in VA.