Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Funded/2023-24
Approved Annual, Multi-year, and Conference Grants in Fiscal Year 2023–24
Map of all approved annual, multi-year, and conference grants in fiscal year 2023–24. Click on the pin to see the details. For the grants with international scope, the grantee organization's country is listed. If the non incorporated group is international, the fiscal organization's location is shown, even if it is outside of the funding region. The location data is accurate to the country level only. For the Conference Funds, the conference location is shown. This map does not include Rapid Funds. Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa North America Northern & Western Europe South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Conference Funds
Regions are in alphabetical order.
Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia
edit| Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia MKD (GLAM Macedonia & Shared Knowledge) | $81,161.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Estonia (Mittetulundusuhing Wikimedia Eesti) | $85,772.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Polska | $108,998.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Ukraine | $146,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia User Group Georgia | $58,358.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group | $47,206.00 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Serbia | $164,159.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Czech Republic | $229,124.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Republic of Srpska | $54,087 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia User Group Turkey | $72,912 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
| CEE Spring User Group | $10,946 | Full funding | Renewal application |
| Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group | $22,342 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Armenia | $152,549 | Partial funding | New multi-year funding decision |
| TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $1,233,614.00 |
East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific
edit| Grantee organisation | Country | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| User Group Malaysia | Malaysia | $57, 000.00 | Partial funding | Returning |
| Wikimedia Korea | Korea | $117,968.40 | Full funding | Returning
Includes additional funding of $15,314 |
| Wikimedia Taiwan | Taiwan | $137,321.00 | Full funding | Returning |
| Wikimedia Thailand | Thailand | $40,347.00 | Full funding | Returning |
| Hopengiu Wikimedians User Group (not a recognized affiliate) | Taiwan | $11,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
| Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific (SKAP) Inc. | Philippines | $20,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
| Wikimedia Indonesia | Indonesia | $368,500 | Partial funding | Returning |
| Wiki Advocates Philippines | Philippines | $69,730 | Partial funding | Returning |
| Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group | Philippines | $47,527 | Partial funding | Returning |
| Wikimedians of Japan User Group | Japan | $65,399 | Partial funding | Returning |
| 漱石の猫 | Japan | $24,000 | Partial funding | Rapid to GSF, First GSF grant |
| Wikimedia Asian Month | Taiwan | $39,795 | Partial funding | Rapid to GSF, First GSF grant |
| Progress Gateway NGO (Alliances) | Mongolia | $40,000 | Partial funding | Returning |
| Creative Commons Indonesia (Alliances) | Indonesia | $67,000 | Partial funding | Returning |
| Wikimedia Australia [Multi-year] | Australia | $266,376 | Full funding | Existing multi-year |
| Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand [Multi-year] | New Zealand | $212,337 | Full funding | Existing multi-year |
| TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $1,584,300 |
Latin America & Caribbean
edit| Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Movimento Brasil | $527,511 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant |
| Wikimedia Argentina | $375,000 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
| Wikimedia México | $365,126 | Partial funding | Partial funding based on persistent concerns about long-term strategy, internal capacity, and historical underspending. Grant conditional on meeting specific deliverables
Renewal application |
| Wikimedia Chile | $284,953 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
| Wikimedia Colombia | $195,858 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant. For year 2, funding increased followed by the request for adjustment based on inflation and other unforeseen expenses |
| Wikimedia Uruguay | $154,258 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
| Wiki Acción Perú | $121,496 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
| Wikimedistas de Bolivia | $110,096 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
| Groupe d'Utilisateurs Wikimedia d'Haiti | $80,305 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
| Wikimedistas Wayúu (Colombia & Venezuela) | $70,688 | Full funding | Renewal application |
| Wikimedistas de Perú | $58,129 | Full funding | Renewal application |
| Mais Teoria da História na Wiki (Brasil) | $51,448 | Full funding | Renewal application |
| Equipo de Wikimedistas de La Universidad de La Plata (Argentina) | $36,300 | Partial funding | Partial funding due to some costs considered to be elevated
Renewal application |
| TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $2,431,168 |
*The LAC Regional Fund Committee has decided to keep the funding amounts the same for both years until information about the regional budget for FY 24-25 is available.
Middle East & North Africa
edit| Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria Wikimedians User Group | $28,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant, partial funding due to some high equipment costs and some work needed related to community leadership |
| Egyptian Wikimedians User Group | $29,364.61 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
| Iraqi Wikimedians | $12,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant, partial funding to test new leadership and ambitious timeline |
| Wikimedia Libya | $14,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant, partial funding to test new leadership and ambitious timeline |
| Wikimedians of the Levant (Jordan) | $34,050.00 | Full funding | |
| Wikimedians of the United Arab Emirates User Group | $50,000.00 | Partial funding | MEA Committee wanted to see greater impact before approving larger funding |
| Wikimedia MA (Morocco) | $108,800.00 | Full funding | First multi-year funding approved for MENA until 2026 |
| Jordanian Digital Arabic Content Association | $20,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
| TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $296,214.61 |
North America
edit| Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia DC | $42,450.00 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant, funded for 1-1/2 years to support affiliate to switch future funding rounds. |
| Wikimedia NYC | $177,000.00 | Partial funding | Existing multi-year grant |
| Art + Feminism | $404,689.00 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant |
| Black Lunch Table | $301,793.10 | Partial funding | Existing multi-year grant |
| Whose Knowledge? | $200,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning multi-year grant |
| Wikimedia Canada | $211,740.98 | Full funding | Returning grant |
| Wiki Education Foundation | $445,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning multi-year grant |
| WikiTongues | $58,000.00 | Full funding | New annual grant |
| WikiProject Medicine | $145,000.00 | Partial funding | With $15,000.00 amendment included |
| AfroCROWD | $150,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia LGBT+ UG | $131,000 | Full funding | New grantee |
| WikiJournal UG | $32,000 | Partial funding | Six-month grant, see proposal talk page for details |
| TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $2,298,673.08 |
Northern & Western Europe
edit| Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia France | $465,676.75 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant Y2 with no change in budget compared to approved amount at the time of application |
| Wikimedia France | $40,541.27 | Partial funding | Direct costs of a one-year project mitigating the effects of the conflicts of French Wikipedia for the wider francophone community
Amendment |
| Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group | $132,351.00 | Partial funding | Annual grant - also awarded a Conference Grant |
| Wikimedia Norge (Norway) | $123,062.73 | Full funding | 6 months bridging request due to changing application Rounds from R2 to R1
Amendment of 2023 grant |
| Wikimedia Portugal | $136,588.66 | Partial funding | Annual grant awarded with the condition of a strategic review |
| Wikimedia Österreich - WMAT (Austria) | $358,297.17 | Partial funding | Existing multi-year grant Y3 with change in budget compared to approved amount at the time of application, difference compensated from Alliance Funds |
| Wikimedia Sverige - WMSE (Sweden) | $409,353.26 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant Y3 with no change in budget compared to approved amount at the time of application |
| Wikimedia Sverige - WMSE (Sweden) | $34,500.00 | External fundraising support | External fundraising support: one-time partial funding of a CRM system’s upfront costs
Amendment |
| Wikimedia UK | $549,887.78 | Partial funding | Existing multi-year grant Y2 with small change in budget compared to approved amount at the time of application, difference compensated from Alliance Funds |
| Wikimedia Nederland (Netherlands) | $451,258.85 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
| Wikimedia Nederland (Netherlands) | $46,458.20 | External fundraising support | External fundraising support: self-fund of a project on decolonizing work in Aruba and the Caribbean
Amendment |
| Wikimedia Israel | $396,262.22 | Partial funding | Annual grant |
| Wikimedia Israel | $15,000.00 | Partial funding | Extra funding for the maintenance costs of the GLAM-Wiki Dashboard, compensated from the Tech Budget. |
| Wikimedia España (Spain) | $273,928.50 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
| Les sans PagEs (Switzerland) | $155,694.14 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
| Wikimedia Suomi (Finland) | $115,049.97 | Partial funding | Annual grant awarded with the condition of a strategic review |
| Wikimedia Suomi (Finland) | $32,871.30 | External fundraising support | External fundraising support: self-fund of a project on gamification of outdoor photography
Amendment |
| Wikiesfera (Spain) | $76,699.98 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
| AvoinGLAM (Finland) | $65,742.84 | Partial funding | Annual grant |
| Wikimedia Belgium v.z.w (BE) | $21,914.28 | Partial funding | Annual grant awarded with the condition of a strategic review |
| Wikimedia Belgium v.z.w (BE) | $16,435.00 | Full funding | Support to hire a part-time consultant for 4 months (the chapter has had no paid staff at all).
Amendment |
| Wiki Editoras Lx (Portugal) | $65,742.84 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
| Wikimedia Community Malta User Group | $46,602.91 | Full funding | Annual grant |
| Basque Wikimedians User Group | $54,785.70 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
| TOTAL SPENDING IN THIS FISCAL YEAR: | $4,084,705.35 | ||
| Compensations from other budget lines: | $52,759.67 |
South Asia
edit| Grantee organization | Country | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atudu/Wiki Loves Butterfly - Phase VII & Phase VIII | India | $ 23,193.40 | Full funding | Returning |
| Wiki Loves Folklore International Organizing Team | $ 22,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning | |
| Pavanaja | India | $ 19,814.00 | Partial funding | Returning |
| Boli Cheto The Language And Livelihood Foundation | India | $ 11,917.40 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
| Indic MediaWiki Developers UG 2024 Annual Plan | India | $ 46,158.21 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
| Karavali Wikimedians User Group | India | $ 13,068.00 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
| West Bengal Wikimedians User Group | India | $21,255.00 | Full funding | Returning |
| CIS | India | $123,132.00 | Full funding | Returning (6 month grant extension) |
| Oral Indic Cultural Project | India | $21,815.00 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
| TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $480,679.01 |
Sub-Saharan Africa
edit| Grantee organization | Country | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| African & Proud (Afroyanga Cultural Enlightenment Initiative) | Nigeria | $22,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Global Open Initiative | Ghana | $79,000.00 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
| Hausa Wikimedians User Group | Nigeria | $50,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Igbo Wikimedians User Group | Nigeria | $81,000.00 | Partial funding | Multi-year grantee - 3 years |
| Open Foundation West Africa | Ghana | $156,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wiki in Africa | South Africa | $194,282.00 | Full funding | On-going multi-year funding with a 19% increase in year 2 |
| Wiki Kouman | Cote d'Ivoire | $50,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedians of Kenya UG | Kenya | $19,570.00 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
| Wikimedia Community User Group Cote D'Ivoire | Côte d'Ivoire | $150,000.00 | Full funding | Multi-year grantee - 3 years |
| Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda | Uganda | $91,000.00 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Nigeria User Group | Nigeria | $139,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia South Africa | South Africa | $100,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia User Group Rwanda | Rwanda | $33,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Yoruba Wikimedians User Group | Nigeria | $60,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedians of Arusha | Tanzania | $42,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Tanzania University Students Wikimedians User Group | Tanzania | $30,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Access to Knowledge Africa Initiative | Nigeria | $15,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Dagbani Wikimedians User Group | Ghana | $50,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedians of the Democratic Republic of Congo User Group | Democratic Republic of Congo | $36,960.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos | Nigeria | $11,800.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group | Cameroon | $30,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Wikimedia Ghana User Group | Ghana | $45,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
| Tyap Wikimedians Organisation | Nigeria | $15,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
| WAFTAI - Women's Association For Technology And Innovation - Wiki N'zuñdeuh | Cameroon | $14,817.00 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
| Wikimedia Community Kilimanjaro | Tanzania | $15,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
| TOTAL SPENDING IN THIS FISCAL YEAR: | $1,530,429.00 |
Conference Funds
editFor further information, see Funded Conferences in FY 2023-24.
*For the ESEAP Conference, Wiki Indaba, CEE Meeting, WikiCon North America, Wiki Arabia, Wikimedia Libraries Conference and the Celtic Knot Conference a % of the funding was paid directly by the WMF travel team which will handle flight and accommodation for specific conferences.
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