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

55 points by jviotti ↗ HN
In the lines of the Mozilla Technology Fund, and others.

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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.

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?
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

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Seems like they aren't funding projects right now.
GitHub, a16z, Stability, Nat Friedman.
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 :(