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Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 Annual Report
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Wikimedia Foundation 2011–12 Annual Report edit
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The Voice of the World edit
HALF A BILLION PEOPLE use Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. Today, Wikipedia is the FIFTH MOST-VISITED website in the world.
All of the other top-40 websites are private sector companies; we are the only non-profit on the list.
Each month, we generate 19 BILLION PAGE VIEWS to more than 23 million articles in 285 LANGUAGES. More than 80,000 volunteer editors regularly contribute content to Wikipedia and its sister projects.
The Wikimedia Foundation’s 125 employees support our community of editors and manage the software and technical infrastructure of our projects.
Wikipedia belongs to everyone and it’s funded by over a million donors from every part of the world.
Your support edit
The Wikimedia Foundation is supported the same way Wikipedia is written: with millions of small contributions. That keeps us independent and able to deliver what readers need and want from Wikipedia. Which is exactly as it should be.
Financial contributions 2011–12
A total of 1,130,700 people donated the equivalent of more than $30 million US dollars in over 80 currencies.
Volunteer contributions 2011–12
Individual contributors made 139.4 million edits, added 3.3 million Wikipedia articles, and uploaded 2.9 million images, audio files and video files.
Total cash expenditures in 2011-12
$27 million
in US dollars
Participation edit
Global collaboration starts with a thriving community of volunteers and a streamlined platform that makes contributing to our projects faster and easier. The Foundation works with our community to better understand the challenges our volunteers face in making a project like Wikipedia. Through research initiatives, simplified software, and broad outreach, we're working to increase the size of our editing community and to support the long-term growth of our projects.
Visual Editor edit
The Foundation began developing a visual editor in 2011–12; it will launch in 2012–13. Our research tells us that the need to learn wiki markup is a substantial barrier for people who might otherwise edit Wikipedia, and so the visual editor will eliminate the need for it, making the editing experience much easier and more natural.
Wikipedia Education Program edit
In 2011–12, at more than 100 universities in 25 countries, professors assigned their students to develop and improve Wikipedia articles as part of their coursework. Instead of writing essays that would have been read by only a few people and then forgotten, these students made Wikipedia better for readers around the world. The professors say teaching Wikipedia editing skills is a good way for students to gain topic expertise, to improve their information-processing abilities, and to become more conscientious world citizens.
Editor Engagement edit
Editor engagement projects encourage participation in the Wikipedia community. They include work aimed at keeping existing editors, as well as engaging new contributors.
This year we launched the Article Feedback Tool (AFT), a new way to involve Wikipedia readers and encourage contributions. AFT helps editors improve articles based on reader comments and provides a low-barrier way for readers to join our community. We also developed new Page Curation software to help the volunteer editors who each day check thousands of new articles for quality. It includes the New Pages Feed, an overview of newly created pages annotated with information that helps to assess them more efficiently.
With our Editor Engagement Experiments, we seek ways to attract and retain new Wikipedia editors through small, rapid improvements. We use a data-driven approach, deploying trial versions of features, measuring their effectiveness at engaging and retaining contributors, and then iterating based on the results. Recent projects include new types of notifications on the site and redesigning core experiences like account registration.
Reach edit
The Foundation focused this year on meeting the next generation of global Internet users where they are accessing our projects: on their mobile phones. That means supporting the thousands of different devices in use today. We want to deliver free knowledge to all the world’s mobile devices, from the most basic mobile phones to the latest smart phones and tablets. We’re partnering with global telecommunications operators and redeveloping our mobile platforms with an eye to the next billion users.
Wikipedia Zero edit
Mobile devices now allow hundreds of millions of people around the world access to the Internet, but the cost of mobile data remains a significant obstacle for many who would benefit most from that access. Under an initiative called Wikipedia Zero, the Foundation is making deals with global telecommunications operators, particularly in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, to offer Wikipedia for free to their subscribers. So far, operators in 28 countries with a total of 205 million customers have signed up. Wikipedia Zero aims to significantly expand in 2012–13.
Mobile Engineering edit
In 2011–12 the Foundation continued developing our mobile web offering, launching a new mobile site, better device detection software and an Android app. Future mobile apps are in development. In April 2012 we exceeded 2 billion monthly page views to the Wikipedia mobile site, which represents an increase of 187 percent over the previous year. As of June 2012 the mobile site attracted 2.1 billion page views, about 12 percent of all page views for Wikipedia. Mobile traffic is growing even faster in Portuguese (primarily Brazil, from 5 million to 24.9 million); in Arabic (from 2 million to 11.4 million); and in Turkish (from 1.3 million to 8.1 million).
Language Support edit
A dedicated team at the Foundation is working with our global community to ensure that Wikipedia and its sister projects are able to support hundreds of languages. This year we developed interfaces for non-Latin scripts (such as Hindi), and right-to-left scripts (such as Arabic), user interfaces for language tools like the Universal Language Selector and the Translate extension, and a collaborative, on-wiki translation system for our projects.
Innovation edit
Our global community of volunteers is rapidly changing, much in the same way our projects continue to evolve. The Foundation is working with our chapters, affiliates and volunteers to develop new ways to bring resources and technology to bear on the big ideas in our community. We're also testing new theories and concepts relating to the challenges our community faces, and bringing new data and insights to our technical and programmatic work.
Wikimedia Lab edit
Launched in October 2011, the new Wikimedia Labs are opening up access to our site infrastructure as widely as possible. In this cloud computing environment, volunteer operations engineers can work with an exact replica of the live server system, and thus contribute directly to improving the computing and networking infrastructure of a top-5 website. Like the source code of our MediaWiki software, we have published our complete server configuration files (minus sensitive data like passwords), enabling other sites on the Internet to learn from the solutions that Wikimedia engineers have found over the years to handle a gigantic amount of traffic on a shoestring budget.
FDC and Grantmaking edit
Launched in March 2012, the volunteer-driven Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) helps the Foundation make decisions about how to effectively allocate funds inside the Wikimedia movement, with the goal of helping the movement achieve its mission, vision and strategy. Via this new process, eligible entities in the Wikimedia movement submit funding requests, which are publicly posted and reviewed by the FDC for strategic fit and potential impact. The FDC is a team of seven volunteers from seven countries and eight Wikimedia projects, speaking 13 languages, and with long track records in the Wikimedia movement, including governance at five chapters. Through the FDC process, nearly $10 million will be distributed during the 2012–13 fiscal year. The Foundation also supports an active smaller grants program that distributes funds to individuals and groups. In 2011–12, 54 grants totaling over $1.1 million were distributed to 39 organizations and projects supporting the Wikimedia mission. The launch of the FDC is a big step forward for the Wikimedia movement in devolving power to volunteers, and increasing transparency, collaboration and accountability.
Infrastructure edit
In 2011–12, our servers handled more than 6,000 page requests per second. Since 2001, they have been faithfully storing every single edit to the projects — a total of 1.7 billion. Every year we are supporting thousands of updates and bug fixes for the open source MediaWiki software. The world relies on this critical infrastructure and our team works 24/7 to keep it running at peak performance.
Data Centers edit
The vast content of Wikipedia and its sister projects used to be stored in only one primary data center in Florida, and served to the world with the assistance of a single caching center. To better protect more than a decade of work by Wikipedia editors, and to enable our half billion readers to access it faster and more reliably, we have been building out a second primary data center in Virginia, bringing the total number of servers to 800 in this fiscal year.
Uptime edit
This year the Operations team at the Foundation achieved 99.98 percent up-time for our readers with a fraction of the staff of any other top web property (up-time for editors was 99.88 percent).
Legal and Community Advocacy edit
The Foundation supports our projects with our Legal and Community Advocacy team by defending them against legal threats, monitoring legislative initiatives that might harm them, and assisting the community with other critical legal matters. In 2011–12 we revised Wikimedia’s terms of use via an open and collaborative drafting process, in which 120 issues were raised and resolved over a period of more than three months.
I’m a volunteer. No one pays me. But helping edit Wikipedia has become my life’s work. Even though I’m not in the classroom, I’m still doing what I care about most: helping a new generation of students learn, in the language I love.
— Poongothai Balasubramanian, Wikipedian
Wikipedia’s victory was getting the rules — and importantly, the rules for making rules — right, and trusting that the process would lead to substance.
— Ethan Zuckerman, researcher and entrepreneur
And I tell myself every time I contribute to Wikipedia, I’m building a library. I’m able, from my couch, to build a library every day of the year.
— Andrea Zanni, Wikipedian
Wikipedia is perhaps one of the few truly global endeavors that really brings together people from all races, religions, nationalities, points of view.
— Alfonso Luna, donor
I still maintain that this Wikipedia project made a world of difference in being able to write well. And unlike a term paper, which is thrown away at the end of the semester, all the work that goes into a Wikipedia article continues to help people even after the class ends.
— Karl Whalen, student
"Das größte Werk der Menschen" ("The Greatest Work of Human Beings")
— Headline in Die Zeit, Germany’s largest weekly newspaper, on an article about Wikipedia, January 2011
For me, Wikipedia underscores an evolutionary lesson: We’ve always gotten farther as a species collaborating than going it alone.
— Mariette DiChristina, science journalist
It’s not just about getting something working for next week, it’s about keeping Wikipedia healthy for the next decade, for the next generation.
— Ryan Kaldari, Wikimedia Foundation developer
This is my wish and one of my dreams and many peoples dreams to make a real change in the world, to make a difference in the world. I think Wikipedia gave me this chance to make a huge difference in this world. It’s like an investment for your future, for your children’s future.
— Ravan Jaafar, Wikipedian
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This was the year the free knowledge movement found its voice. edit
For nearly 12 years, we’ve been building a world where information is freely available for people everywhere. In 2011–12, for the first time, we felt that world was seriously under threat. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) were pieces of proposed legislation in the US that might have seriously damaged the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
That’s why in January 2012, more than 1,800 Wikipedians made a collective decision to black out Wikipedia for 24 hours in order to raise awareness about SOPA and PIPA. The protest was a huge success: more than eight million people used our look-up tool to find their elected representatives, millions more made their voices heard on social media, and thousands of journalists published news stories. The bills were dropped.
We hesitated before we blacked out the site, because we know how important Wikipedia is to people, and we didn’t want to lightly take it away from them. Plus we didn’t want to squander the goodwill that people feel for the site. Readers trust Wikipedia because they know that, despite our faults, our heart is in the right place. We’re not trying to sell a product or a point of view: we just want to provide useful, neutral, reliable information.
We may never do anything like the anti-SOPA/PIPA protests again. We don’t consider ourselves to be political, and we’re not an advocacy organization. But we’re proud that when it really mattered, we spoke up. We believe January 2012 was when Wikipedia found its public voice, speaking up for those who write and read Wikipedia — and for the ability of ordinary people to share and learn together.
Beyond SOPA and PIPA, in 2011–12 the Foundation focused on its core priorities: improving quality, increasing participation, expanding our reach, stabilizing our infrastructure and supporting innovation. We expanded some of our most successful programs, including the Wikipedia Education program, and we launched Wikipedia Zero. We made significant steps forward developing new features like Wikipedia’s visual editor, the article feedback tool, and new interfaces and apps serving a rapidly growing audience of mobile users.
We’ve got more great work ahead in 2012–13.
We want to thank our donors. The fact that you pay the costs of the site keeps us independent of outside influence, and able to deliver exactly what you want and need from Wikipedia. As it should be.
And we want to thank the people who create Wikipedia — writing it, taking photographs for it, copyediting, working to resolve disagreements, fighting vandalism, creating code, responding to reader questions, and all the other tasks involved.
You’re making information freely available for a half-billion people around the world, and they — and we — are grateful. Thank you for everything you do.
Sincerely,
Sue Gardner, Executive Director
Kat Walsh, Chair, Board of Trustees
Projects edit
The Wikimedia Foundation operates 11 free knowledge projects managed and built by a community of over 100,000 active volunteers.
Wikipedia® Free encyclopedia
The free encyclopedia containing more than 23 million articles in 285 languages. The most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled. More than 74,000 active volunteers contribute every month.
Wikimedia Commons® Shared media repository
A repository of almost 15 million freely usable images, sound and video files, serving both Wikimedia’s projects and countless other educational and informational needs.
MediaWiki® Open-source wiki software
The leading open-source wiki software on the Internet which acts as the backbone for all of the Wikimedia Foundation’s wikis and thousands of other wiki communities.
Wikispecies® Dictionary of species
Wikibooks® Free textbooks and manuals
Wikinews® Free content news source
Wikiquote® Collection of free quotations
Wiktionary® Dictionary and thesaurus
Meta-wiki™ Project coordination
Wikiversity® Free learning tools
Wikisource® Free source documents
Financial Performance edit
All financial data is reported in US dollars unless otherwise noted.
| Description | Amount | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support and revenues | |||
| Donations and contributions | 35,067 | ||
| In-kind equipment donation | 965 | ||
| In-kind service revenue | 297 | ||
| Other income, net | 666 | ||
| Investment income, net | 44 | ||
| Release of restrictions on temporarily restricted net assets | 1,441 | ||
| Total revenue | 38,480 | ||
| Expenses | |||
| Salaries and wages | 11,749 | ||
| Awards and grants | 2,107 | ||
| Internet hosting | 2,487 | ||
| In-kind service expenses | 297 | ||
| Operating | 9,199 | ||
| Travel and conferences | 1,533 | ||
| Depreciation and amortization | 1,889 | ||
| Total expenses | 29,261 | ||
| Increase in unrestricted net assets | 9,219 | ||
| Temporarily restricted net assets | |||
| Contributions | 2,959 | ||
| Release of restrictions on temporarily restricted net assets | (1,441) | ||
| Increase in temporarily restricted net assets | 1,518 | ||
| Increase in net assets | 10,737 | ||
| Assets | Liabilities & Net Assets | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 21,797 | Liabilities | |||
| Contributions receivable | 3,084 | Accounts payable | 745 | ||
| Accounts receivable | 495 | Accrued expenses | 1,034 | ||
| Investments | 3,600 | Deferred revenue | 294 | ||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 1,257 | Other liabilities | 205 | ||
| Total current assets | 30,233 | Total liabilities | 2,278 | ||
| Property, plant, and equipment, net | 5,168 | Net Assets | |||
| Nonconcurrent portion of contributions receivable | 1,806 | Unrestricted net assets | 29,991 | ||
| Temporarily restricted net assets | 4,938 | ||||
| Total net assets | 34,929 | ||||
| Total assets | 37,207 | Total liabilities and net assets | 37,207 | ||
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Governance edit
Board of Trustees
Kat Walsh, Chair
Jan-Bart de Vreede, Vice Chair
Stu West, Treasurer
Bishakha Datta, Secretary
Jimmy Wales, Founder
Phoebe Ayers (through July 2012)
Ting Chen (Chair through July 2012)
Samuel Klein
Arne Klempert (through July 2012)
Matt Halprin
Alice Wiegand
Patricio Lorente
Advisory Board
Ward Cunningham
Florence Devouard
Melissa Hagemann
Mimi Ito
Mitch Kapor
Veronique Kessler
Neeru Khosla
Teemu Leinonen
Nhlanhla Mabaso
Rebecca MacKinnon
Wayne Mackintosh
Benjamin Mako Hill
Roger McNamee
Domas Mituzas
Trevor Neilson
Craig Newmark
Achal Prabhala
Clay Shirky
Michael Snow
Jing Wang
Jessamyn West
Ethan Zuckerman
Executive Director
Sue Gardner
Executive Team
Geoff Brigham
Garfield Byrd
Zack Exley
Erik Möller
Barry Newstead
Gayle Karen Young
Contributors edit
The Wikimedia Foundation benefits from its unique global community of volunteer editors and financial contributors. We thrive due to the vital support we receive from this community.
$1 million + edit
Stanton Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Pavel Durov
$100,000 – $999,999 edit
Peter Baldwin & Lisbet Rausing
Charina Endowment
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Anonymous (1)
$25,000 – $99,999 edit
Andy & Consuelo Fund
Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
Irene Clardy
Google Matching Gifts
Microsoft Matching Gifts
Shor Family Foundation
Lawrence Spitters
Two Sigma Investments LLC
Yardi Systems, Inc.
Anonymous (2)
$5,000 – $24,999 edit
John Abele
Academy Place Foundation
Bijan & Soraya Amin Foundation
Eric Anderson Foundation
Apple Matching Gifts Program
Dana Bartlett
Patricia Bell
JoeBen Bevirt & Jennifer Barchas
Michael Birch
Milonja Bjelic
Brightwater Fund
Annette Campbell-White
John Caulkins
James Chambers
Fong Tat Chong
CNC Repair & Sales
Pat & Eva Condon Foundation Fund
William Deramus
Livio Desimone
Disruptor Foundation
Elbaz Family Foundation
Stack Exchange
David & Amy Fulton Foundation
Fund for Second Nature at the Bessemer Trust
Geisel Family Foundation
Glenair Inc
Toni Godfrey
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Foundation
Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation
Jose Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez
DW Gore Family Foundation
Grace Jones Richardson Trust
Grainger Foundation
Graphics Press, LLC
Gary Gray
Marc Haas & Helen Hotze Haas Charitable Foundation
Mark Heising & Elizabeth Simons
Alan Huber
Indigo Trust
Jose Luis Infiesta Valls
Scott Jordan
Wong Ka Wai
Ravi Kalidindi
Neeru Khosla
Scott Kluth
Andras Konya
Takashi Kousaka
Sean Lennon
Mark & Candace Leonard
Michael Lewis
Rosa Lockett
De Long Stanislawski & Co.
Richard Lounsbery Foundation
Donald Luhmann
Irene Lynch
Madan Family
Joseph K. McLaughlin
Mary Meeker
National Christian Foundation
National Combined Federal Campaigns
Network For Good
New York Community Trust
Newsmax Media Inc.
Kevin O' Shea
Paul O'Neill
Henrik Orsted Administration
Nicholas Palevsky Fund
Manish Pandya
Stuart Paynter
Pediapress
Frank & Denise Quattrone Foundation
Melanie Reimer
Jonathan Rosen
Santa Barbara Foundation
Schaible Seidletz Foundation
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Skowronski Family Foundation
Lawrence Stupski
Aaron Swartz
John Templeton Foundation
Tripling Elephants
Unger Foundation
Robert L Vick
Charles & TC Vollum
Khanh Vu
Everett Wetchler
Peter Wheeler & Elizabeth Munro
William Wolf
King & Linda Won
Gibson Worster
David Zwirner
Anonymous (11)
$1,000 – $4,999 edit
Anurag Acharya
David Agraz
Mohammed Zaman Akil
Maha Al-Sulaiti
Amir Aliev
Abdulhamid Alkasbany
Mohammed Alkhalifa
Ilan Almog
Alpine School District Technology Dept.
Fatma Alsabah
Ahmed AlSager
David Alston
Konrad Alt & Maureen Kennedy
Richard Altmaier
American Endowment Foundation
Mitch Ames
Levin Anne
Dalibor Antonic
Benjamin Appen
Appleby Charitable Trust
Adolfo Arena
Charles Arnold
Kevin Connor Arpe
Vadim Asadov
Robert Ashcroft
Austin Community Foundation
Jesse Ausubel
Omer Ayfer
Sandra Ayling
Rick Ayre
John Babcock
Brayton Bailey
Bailey Family Foundation
Alexis Baird
John Baldridge
Sam Baldridge
Roger J Bamford
Bank of America Matching Gifts Program
Cindy Barber
Julien Basch
Peter Baumgartner
Jack Baylis
Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation, Inc.
William Benter
David Bentley
Marc Berndl
Jules Bernstein & Linda Lipsett
Peggy Bess
Rajeev Bhaman
Kasi & Jayashree Bhaskar
Ramamoorthi Bhaskar
BiblioLabs LLC
Michael Bills
Graeme Birchall
Claude Blackburn
Paula Blaha
Boulder Labs Inc
Laurence Boyd
Bob Bradley
William Brall
Joseph Brandt
Heidi Brockman
Robert Brooks
William Brown
Broyhill Family Foundation
Russell Bucciere
Paul Bugyik
Thomas Buhr
Brian Burnim
John Burrison
David Bydeley
Alex Cable
Judy Cagle
George Cameron
Robert Capps
Caremed Health Corporation
Adam Carte
Christopher Carter
Eligio Cedeno
Bertrand Chan
Glenn Chesterton
Chevron Humankind Matching Gift Program
Nicholas Chu
William Cline
Mary Beth Cody
James Cogbill
Scot Colburn
Columbia Pictures
Conger Family Foundation
Ryan Conlon
Lenore C Cooney
Ardelle Cowie
Martin Crawford
Bryan Culbertson
Burt Cutler
Jeffrey Dauber
Ad Davidse
Muhammad Dawood
Carl de Marcken
John De Palma
Pierre de Saab
Paolo De Santis
William Devitt
Peter deVos
David Dewhurst
Dillon Fund
Margaret Dixon
Mathew Donovan
Michael Doyen
Dr. Dobb's
DRB Systems Incorporated
Drollinger Family Charitable Foundation
Lawrence H. & Elizabeth S. Dunlap Foundation
Douglas Durst
Brendan Dyson
Kenneth Eddings
William B Edwards
Peter Egli
Stanley Eisenberg
Bruce Elleman
Enablement Fund
Energy Income Partners LLC
Charles Engelke
Randall Erickson
Lars Erlandsson
Esolutions First LLC
Mark Esposito
Peggy Farber
Ira Fay & Ruth Kaplan
Jeffrey Feddersen
Fieldstead and Company
David Fifield
John Filetti
Michael Fine
First National Bank
Kristy Fisher
Gerald Fishman
Carla Flournoy
Marek Fludzinski
Norman Fogelsong
Marc Forand
Robert Ford
William Ford
Bruce Ford Brown Charitable Trust
Jamie Forrest
John Fox
John Frame
Isabelle Francois
Max Frankel
Andrew Fraser
Mark Frohnmayer Advised Fund
Victor Gadzhiev
Gheorghe Ganea
Jason Gans
Don Garrett
Richard L. Garwin
GE Foundation
Ken Geib
Betty Gerlack
Sal Giambanco
John Giannandrea
Jacob Gibson
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Bradley Grantham
Gregory Grass
Stuart Gray
Green Bicycle Fund
Ribes Greus
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Joshua Guberman
James Guiry
Jose M Guzman Ibarra
Luis Armando Guzman Luna
Alexandre Haag
Paul Haahr
Patrick Hagan
Julian Haight
Tsutsui Hajime
J Hall
Sue Ann Hamm
Kevin Hammond
Kimberley Harding
K Harigai
Clayton Harper
Fred Hassani
Michael Hassett
Allen Hathaway
John Healy
Jonathan Heiliger
Franz Heinsen
Greg Hendershott
M. Hepel
Hewlett Packard Company Foundation
Martin Hibdon
Timothy T. Hilton
Gregory Hirschmann
David Hitz
Jim Hobart
Paulien Hogeweg
Adrian Holovaty
Aubrey Holt
John Horne
Krista Horstman
Patrick Hosey
David S. Howe Foundation
David Humm
Aaron Hung
William H Hurt Foundation
Don Husby
David Ignat
Daniel Ihnat
IJzerlo Holding B.V.
Osamu Ikeuchi
Lawrence W. Inlow Foundation
Grattan Institute
Intergrid Mideast Group LLC Kliakhandler
Iolo Technologies
Elizabeth Ireland Graves Foundation
Tetsuya Isozaki
Roy Jabionka
Douglas Jaffe
Vinay Jain
Jim Jannard
Kent Janér
Jonathan Jarvis
Jessica Jenkinson
Amy Jernigan
David Joerg
Scott Johns
Mark Johnson
Fredrik Johre
Srikanth Jonnalagadda
Robert E. Jordan
Jacques Jorion
Michael Just
JustGive
Richard Kandarian
Kara Fund
Sinan Karaca
Steve Kass
Kellogg Company
Joseph Kennedy
Jennifer King
Elizabeth Kinney
Lisa Kirros
Nora Klein
Kleinschmidt Family Foundation
Robert Knapp
Jonathan Knowles
Donald & Jill Knuth
Eric Koegler
David Kohler
Keen Yung Kong
Boris Kontsevoi
Caroline Koo
HM Koo
Erin Korber
Koss Family Fund
Khris Krepcik
Kenya Kura
Marc Labelle
Jeffrey Lamkin
Jim Lampl
David Landhuis
Mr. & Mrs. Glenn H. Landis
Miguel Lantigua
Dianne Lawrence
Karen Lawrence
Michiel le Roux
Seth Lederman
Eric Lee
Linda Lee
Muchen Lee
LegitScript LLC
John Leong
Leslie Family Foundation
Shawn Ligocki
Jing Lim
Aase Lindahl
Christopher Lingle
Jeffrey Litwiller
Juliette Liu
Richard Liu
Epigmenio López
Keith Loritz
Nicholas & Diane Lovejoy
Joshua Lovelace
Felicia Lovelett
Lu Foundation
Marilyn Lucht
Monique Lusse
Benjamin Lutch
Joseph Lyons
Shashikiran M S
Michael Makuch
Anup Mantri
Lauren Marino
Lars Markhus
Josef Martin
Dawn Mason
Philip Mateescu
Rafael Mayer
Philip Mayfield
Craig McCaw
Ryan McCorvie
Bill McCune
SD McGee
Georgia McGraw
Brian McInnis
Steven Melander-Dayton
Merrill Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Eugene Mesgar
Metropolitan Arts Partnership
Metz Family Foundation
Carol Meyer
Gil Michaels
J Michael Miller
Kelly Miller
James Millis Jr. Donor Advised Fund
Milner Family Foundation
Dr. L. David Mirkin
Florin Miron
Domas Mituzas
Gavin Moodie
Ethel Moore
Norma & Randy Moore
Stuart Moore
Rodman W. Moorhead III
Charles Morgan
Timothy Mott
Jon Moynihan
Andrea Mueller
Eben Muglen
Azat Mukhametov
Anton Murashov
Musk Foundation
Thomas Myers
Jasmine Nabi
Bapi Nag
Theodore Naleid
Raghuram Narayan
National Instruments Matching Gifts
Newsmax Media
Eric Nickell
Govind Nk
Nord Family Foundation
Asia Nugent
Alisa O'Leary
Diya Obeid
Purnendu Ojha
Bryan Olson
Oracle Corporate Matching Gifts Program
Orx
Naoto Otani
Jim Pacha
Margot Page
Mohan Pandit
C E Patterson
Peil Charitable Trust
Marielee Perez
Drew Perkins
Yorick Peterse
Duane Phillips
Joel Phillips
Franck Pion
Alexander Polsky
Diane Post
Robert Prestezog
James & Michelle Pretlow
Spencer Pricenash
Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A.
Max Pucher
Jane Pyenson
Eric Pynnonen
Qualcomm Matching Gift Program
Robert Quillin
Sreeram Ramachandran
E. Randol & Pamela Schoenberg
Mahendiranath Rangareddy
Mike Ranta
Navaneetha Rao
Valmiki Rao
Vivekanand Rau & Farzaneh Abhari
Pat Roach
Thomas Rocklin
Michael Rogers
James Rolle
Claudio Rondinelli
Thomas Rosato Foundation
Evan Rosenfeld
Dennis Rossman
Aaron Rotenberg
Royce Family Foundation
Mark Russinovich
Pooja Rutberg
Frank Ruthacker
Richard Saada
Stephen Sacks
Thomas Salander
Mary Salmon
John Santmann
Sawa Family Charitable Fund
Saye Family Fund
Brian & Cynthia Scanlan
Sebastian Schachinger
James Schimpf
Steven Schlossstein
Anna Scott
Seattle Foundation
Thomas Seiz
Semantic Arts Inc
William Serpe
Albert Shahugian
Konstantin Shchuka
Jacqueline Shelburne
Joan Sherman
Michael Shimoide
Clay Shinn
Daniel Shull
Sarah Siddiqui
Jason Simar
Russel Simmons
Kathleen Simpson
Sims/Maes Foundation
Linda Slakey
Barry Smith
Steven Smith
Susan Smith
Charles Smith-Dewey
Sara Smollett
Snyder White Oaks Foundation of Delaware
Luca Sobacchi
Fady Soliman
Jennifer Sparks
Joel Spiegel
Nathan Springer
Raghavan Srinivasan
James Stanard
Trevor Standley
Kevin Stanford
Renata Stasaityte
Dennis Stattman
Jim & Debby Stein Sharpe
Alessandro Steinfl
Gary Steinmetz
Allan Stephan
Anthony Stieber
Michael Stochosky
Matthew Streeter
Strypemonde Foundation
Amy Subach
Edna Sugihara
James Summerton
David Sunderland
Mohammed Suroor
Gerald Sussman
Andrew Sutherland
Arne Svensson
Tarbell Family Foundation
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