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Ask HN: What entities out there provide open-source grants/funding?

55 pointsjviotti18 comments

In the lines of the Mozilla Technology Fund, and others.

The NLnet Foundation supports organizations and people that contribute to an open information society. It was influential in spreading the Internet throughout Europe in the 1980s. In 1997, the foundation sold off its commercial networking operations to UUNET (now part of Verizon), resulting in an endowment with which it makes grants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLnet

They've sponsered many of my favorite projects and teams: https://nlnet.nl/project/

The Sovereign Tech Fund: https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/

Also the Prototype Fund, funded by some of the same people but focused on early-stage projects: https://prototypefund.de

There are a bunch of grants listed on the FOSSjobs wiki, please add any more you find:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#grants

The EU framework research programs have strongly favoured FOSS contributions. It's certainly not the most straightforward application process though and competition for the grants outside niche domains is cutthroat.

Is this the link for that?

https://www.scienceeurope.org/our-priorities/eu-framework-pr...

FOSS Funders is a community of companies that sponsor FOSS maintainers and projects: https://fossfunders.com

It doesn't seem possible for FOSS folks/projects to apply to this one, you have to get noticed by employees of the companies involved and get them to nominate you?

A lot of these providers of grants to open source don't actually use open source themselves, so you can't apply without enabling proprietary JavaScript, joining their Slack etc :(

Clojurists together: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/

FUTO is a newer player in this space: https://futo.org/

Where do the finances for foundations like come from? Purly donations? Or is it government funded?

This is a key information one would be looking for on the site, but i cannot find it.

FUTO is funded by billionaire Eron Wolf. There's an interview[1] with him on their YouTube.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UHF84gyVWg

https://aigrant.org/ for AI projects

Hmm, this doesn't have any contact info.

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