· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $4,423,356 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,021,576 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,598,220 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WIKIMEDIA ENDOWMENT | $1,490,207 |
| WIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| ARTFEMINISM INC | $404,689 |
| WIKIMEDIA NEW YORK CITY | $305,340 |
| BLACK LUNCH TABLE | $289,000 |
| WHOSE KNOWLEDGE | $216,300 |
| WIKI PROJECT MED FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| WIKITONGUES INC | $170,913 |
| WRITING DOWNTOWN INC DBA WIKIPORTRAITS | $163,100 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $150,000 |
| INTERNEWS NETWORK | $150,000 |
| SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY | $128,000 |
| WIKI SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC INC DBA WIKIMEDIA DC | $83,890 |
| HACK HACKERS INC | $55,250 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS | $55,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $24M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $22M to organizations and $2.8M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND COMMITTEE STIPENDS, CONFERENCES
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND COMMITTEE STIPENDS, CONFERENCES · SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND ANNUAL WIKIMEDIA CONFERENCE - WIKIMANIA
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND COMMITTEE STIPENDS, CONFERENCES
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND COMMITTEE STIPENDS, CONFERENCES
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND COMMITTEE STIPENDS, CONFERENCES
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND COMMITTEE STIPENDS, CONFERENCES
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND COMMITTEE STIPENDS, CONFERENCES
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND COMMITTEE STIPENDS, CONFERENCES
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL PLANS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TRAVEL AND STIPENDS TO SUPPORT COMMITTEE WORK, CONFERENCES
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 55% of Wikimedia Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 37% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WEWIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +38% · 47% of their budget
- AFART FEMINISM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +63% · 99% of their budget
- BLBLACK LUNCH TABLE7× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +530% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- DFData For Black Lives Incone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -90%
- FAFILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $70k
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $53k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wiki Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is WikiJournal User Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds WIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds ART FEMINISM INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK LUNCH TABLE ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Whose Knowledge Question Mark ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Wiki Society of Washington DC Inc ↗
- Who funds SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WIKITONGUES INC ↗
- Who funds Ideas Beyond Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds Wiki Project Med Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WikiJournal User Group ↗
- Who funds QUBIT NEW MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Writing Downtown Inc ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds HACKS HACKERS ↗
- Who funds THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OCLC INC ↗
- Who funds Data For Black Lives Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH ↗
- Who funds FILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds ACCESS NOW ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wikimedia Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Digital Public Library of America — 2% of income from government
- Code for Science & Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.