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Funders to approach for Public Invention

Austin, Texas$410k revenue3 funders on file

Public Invention relieves the poor and distressed and the underprivileged through the advancement of science. Our mission is to "invent in the public, for the public" by creating free-libre, open-source, and humanitarian technologies. We focus on developing accessible, non-proprietary inventions that improve human health, education, and quality of life while bypassing traditional patent-and-profit models. n particular, Public Invention creates teams of volunteers who produce humanitarian open source inventions and machines usable by all. Our method is creating teams of volunteers who collaborate to "work in the light". Many of our projects focus on global health, such as our ventilator, ventilator tester, and our work for NASA creating a digital control system for a ceramic oxygen generator made by for-profit firm. Often our projects use microcontrollers, such as the Krake, a genarl purpose alarm device, but sometimes we make pure-software systems, such as Global Distributed…

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$40k, your typical grantunder 1 in 1001 in 100$10k$30k$100k$300kChance of a first grant within two years →Likely grant for you →
Expected from this list$0–$3kover two years, from 0–1 new funder
Last two years (2023–24)$500from 1 new funder

Half the value is in your top 4 funders, of 160

$0$16k$33khalf from the top 4likely range1st10thAll 160
FunderWay inChanceLikely grant
  1. 1Every OrgSimilar grantees: Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc ($57k/yr), Creative Commons Corporation ($80k/yr), Creative Time Inc ($8k/yr)1 in 81$39k
  2. 2Austin Community Foundation IncGives in Texas (674 of 1322)Similar grantees: Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc ($25k/yr), Techsoup Global ($10k/yr), Neighborhood Forest Inc ($16k/yr)1 in 66$23k
  3. 3The Patrick J McGovern Foundation IncSimilar grantees: Open Earth Foundation ($350k/yr), Global Fishing Watch Inc ($300k/yr), Watttime Corporation ($1.4M/yr)under 1 in 100$110k

157 more funders on the list for Public Invention

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