Funders & donors
This is our growing list of over 250 funders and donors that have supported civic tech efforts over the years. Not all fund exclusively civic tech, but if they're in this collection, they either currently support this work or have at some point in the past.
Bain Capital
Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
We believe in the power of individuals to advance science through research and science education, making discoveries that benefit humanity. Learn more about how we move science forward.
Westly Foundation
Urban Innovation Fund
A venture capital fund that identifies early-stage innovators solving our toughest urban challenges and provides them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued c...
European AI & Society Fund
The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe
Azim Premji Foundation
Towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society Our journey began with Education. Over the years, our work has expanded to Grants, Health and Livelihoods Read more Towards a just, equitable,...
Tulsa Community Foundation
Across Green Country, from the Tulsa Zoo to ONEOK Field, education to health, assisting neighborhoods to assisting nonprofits, Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) is making a difference in Eastern Oklaho...
Gates Foundation
We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual
Garfield Weston Foundation
Welcome to the Garfield Weston Foundation. We are a family-founded, grant-making trust which has been supporting charities across the UK for over 50 years.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was created in 1956 and aims to improve people's lives through art, charity, science and education.
Rita Allen Foundation
Investing in transformative ideas in their earliest stages to promote breakthrough solutions to significant problems
The Church Commissioners for England
The Church Commissioners exist to support the work and mission of the Church of England today and for future generations, helping it to remain a Christian presence in every community.
Hive Chicago Fund
The Hive Chicago Fund for Connected Learning (Fund) at The Chicago Community Trust is a funder collaborative that empowers educators to use connected learning principles, including the thoughtful inte...
Obama Foundation
"I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to create change — but in yours." President Barack Obama
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
Sheikh Sulaiman bin Abdulaziz Al Rajhi (Arabic :سليمان بن عبد العزيز الراجحي, born 1929)[1] is a Saudi Arabian corporate figure and billionaire.
Lilly Endowment
Lilly Endowment Inc., is a private philanthropic foundation supporting the causes of religion, education and community development. We afford special emphasis to projects that benefit young people and...
Digital Impact
Digital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resourc...
Google.org
We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for...
San Francisco Foundation
The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation
The Langeloth Foundation supports health and racial equity outcomes in order to foster and sustain safe and healthy communities.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots
The Democracy Fund
The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.
Nesta
Nesta is an innovation foundation. We back new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
As the largest community foundation in the nation, SVCF helps build and strengthen the community by bringing together people and organizations who want to strengthen the common good.
Digital Defenders Partnership
We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.
Open Society Foundation
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
At the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, we work together with communities in education and entrepreneurship to create uncommon solutions that empower people to be uncommon, take risks, achieve succes...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program
APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES
Cal Humanities
A state affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researcher...
Living Cities
We take risks, catalyze fresh thinking and test new approaches in order to creatively disrupt the status quo.
Woods Fund Chicago
funding over 80 years of change
California Health Care Foundation
The California Health Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California, particularly t...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
Neighborhood Funders Group
Neighborhood Funders Group organizes philanthropy so that Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities and low income communities thrive.
Reid Hoffman (individual)
Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses th...
Cleveland Foundation
The Cleveland Foundation’s mission is to enhance the lives of all residents of Greater Cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, add...
California Wellness Foundation
Media Democracy Fund
At the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.
Voqal Fund
Voqal grantmaking is a philanthropic program that promotes social equity in creative and disruptive ways. We have a deep commitment to racial and social justice. We invest in leaders, organizations, a...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation
Organizations in Western New York and Southeast Michigan within our four core funding areas are now welcome to apply through our online process.
National Lottery Community Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery
Sara and Evan Williams Foundation
Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
The Greater Washington Community Foundation works to strengthen the Washington metropolitan region by encouraging and supporting effective giving and by providing leadership on critical issues in our...
Fannie Mae Foundation
Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders and our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for m...
Sobrato Family Foundation
The mission of the Sobrato Family Foundation is to support low-income residents in Silicon Valley who seek stability and opportunities for upward mobility.
Polk Bros. Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation focuses its work at the intersection of Chicago's most pressing issues to address the complex roots and devastating effects of poverty, and to challenge inequity. Learn more.
Open Tech Fund (OTF)
We support the research, design, development, and deployment of technology-focused projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance, to enable global internet users to exerci...
Barr Foundation
The Barr Foundation is a private, Boston-based foundation with core programs in Arts & Creativity, Climate, and Education.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
As the nation's largest public health philanthropy, we strive to build a national Culture of Health that will enable all to live longer, healthier lives.