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Uniswap Foundation

The UNISWAP FOUNDATION supports a community of individuals and organizations dedicated to a more open, fair and decentralized financial system through education.

$10.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$978k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Science & Tech$8.4MPhilanthropy$163kCommunity Improvement$30kFood & Nutrition$17kEducation$15k
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $5,555,703, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,992,919 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,437,216 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
$176,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANTINA MARKETPLACE$977,680
EDGE EVENTS LLC$862,572
GAUNTLET NETWORKS INC$851,333
DEFI LESSONS LLC$600,000
CIRCLE INTERNET FINANCIAL LLC$333,300
ARGONAVIS INC - CHARLIE FENG$240,000
ALLIUM LABS INC$240,000
THE LATEST IN RESEARCH INCORPORATED$227,027
AXICON LABS INC$210,556
ATRIUM ACADEMY$180,000
TRAIL OF BITS$176,000
ZAHA STUDIO LLC$150,000
DIFRANCESCO TECHNOLOGIES LLC$135,000
LOCAL GROUP INC$100,000
COOLEY LLP$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Team Secret: $113k → 10%LOCAL GROUP INC: $100k → 11%AXICON LABS INC: $211k → 7%CIRCLE INTERNET FINANCIAL LLC: $333k → 16%DIFRANCESCO TECHNOLOGIES LLC: $135k → 10%ARGONAVIS INC - CHARLIE FENG: $240k → 10%COOLEY LLP: $75k → 10%Regents of the University of California: $105k → 11%UCSB SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%CHAOS LABS: $85k → 6%Pursuit: $50k → 13%Cornell University: $100k → 16%ALASTOR: $30k → 17%Other Internet LLC: $200k → 20%EDGE EVENTS LLC: $863k → 10%GAUNTLET NETWORKS INC: $851k → 14%CANTINA MARKETPLACE: $978k → 15%HD Group LLC: $30k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $15k → 11%GFX Labs Inc: $462k → 14%OTTERSEC: $13k → 9%THE LATEST IN RESEARCH INCORPORATED: $227k → 10%SCOPELIFT: $15k → 10%ARGONAVIS INC: $68k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%MSPC Advisors LLC: $75k → 17%LILY TRADE LLC: $15k → 20%GAUNTLET NETWORKS INC: $395k → 14%MISS O' COOL GIRLS: $16k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $15k → 11%ATRIUM ACADEMY: $180k → 10%AgroNavis Inc: $17k → 10%ALLIUM LABS INC: $240k → 17%LILY TRADE LLC: $14k → 20%ZAHA STUDIO LLC: $150k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $49k → 17%DEFI LESSONS LLC: $600k → 17%FIREBLOCKS INC: $55k → 17%TRAIL OF BITS: $176k → 17%INTRINSIC TECHNOLOGIES INC: $20k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%Xenophon Labs LLC: $12k → 17%XENOPHON LABS: $12k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
CT
CA
DE
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $4.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $3.4M to organizations and $646k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.6M · 65% · 1 grant · 24 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$603k · 15% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

East Asia and the Pacific$378k · 9% · 1 grant · 3 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Middle East and North Africa$261k · 7% · 1 grant · 2 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

South Asia$60k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Central America and the Caribbean$57k · 1% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

South America$50k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Sub-Saharan Africa$3k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 8 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$2.0M
$2.2M

Still filing today

13%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GN
    GAUNTLET NETWORKS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M
  • AI
    ARGONAVIS INC - CHARLIE FENG
    3× · 2022–2024 · $325k
  • DT
    DIFRANCESCO TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M
  • GL
    GFX Labs Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $462k
  • OI
    Other Internet LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GAUNTLET NETWORKS INC: $1,245,999 · OtherGAUNTLET NETWORKS INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,167,679 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCANTINA MARKETPLACE: $977,680 · OtherCANTINA MARKETPLACEEDGE EVENTS LLC: $862,572 · OtherEDGE EVENTS LLCDEFI LESSONS LLC: $600,000 · OtherDEFI LESSONS LLCGFX Labs Inc: $461,847 · OtherGFX Labs IncCIRCLE INTERNET FINANCIAL LLC: $333,300 · OtherARGONAVIS INC - CHARLIE FENG: $325,004 · Other+23 more: $2,190,845 · Other+23 moreThe Latest in Research Incorporated: $227,027 · Science & TechCornell University: $124,202 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $63,944 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Education
Other$8,164,926Science & Tech$227,027Education$203,146

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Latest in Research Incorporated: $227,027 over 1y, 100% of budgetCornell University: $124,202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $63,944 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds The Latest in Research Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Uniswap Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Uniswap Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Uniswap Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Uniswap Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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