California · Public charity
Wikimedia Foundation Inc
The mission of the wikimedia foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. (see schedule o)in coordination with a network of individual volunteers and our independent movement…
- $29M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $163,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,490,207
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $311M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Wikimedia Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 18 | $4.4M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $3.3M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $2.4M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $2.8M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $628k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $10M | 55% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $781k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $930k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tides Advocacy | $9,023,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Wiki Education Foundation | $3,326,723 | 8 | 47% |
| Wikimedia Endowment | $2,356,705 | 2 | 4% |
| Art Feminism Inc | $2,179,572 | 6 | 99% |
| Black Lunch Table | $1,469,095 | 7 | 33% |
| Wikimedia New York City | $1,020,098 | 7 | 42% |
| Whose Knowledge Question Mark | $781,612 | 4 | 19% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $732,313 | 6 | 0% |
| Wiki Society of Washington DC Inc | $644,068 | 6 | 78% |
| Software Freedom Conservancy Inc | $603,500 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 43 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Wikimedia Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Mozilla Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · New Venture Fund · Open Society Institute · Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Inc · Elkes Foundation III · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
How this is measured
About Wikimedia Foundation Inc
- How much does Wikimedia Foundation Inc give?
- Wikimedia Foundation Inc reported 18 itemized grants totaling $4,423,356, out of $29,021,576 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wikimedia Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (54%), Civil Rights (17%), Education (12%).
- Who are Wikimedia Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tides Advocacy ($9.0M), Wiki Education Foundation ($3.3M), Wikimedia Endowment ($2.4M).
- Does Wikimedia Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wikimedia Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Wikimedia Foundation Inc based?
- Wikimedia Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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