# Funders

Open source in academia would not be possible without extensive funding support. This support breaks down in two main ways: governmental bodies and private philanthropy. There are exceptions.

Each country tends to have their own particular funding landscape.

This list is incomplete. Please add to it!

## National Governments

### UK

- [Alan Turing Institute](https://www.turing.ac.uk/)

### USA

- [National Science Foundation](./national-science-foundation.md)
  - [NSF POSE grants](./nsf-grants/pose.md)
  - [NSF Safe-OSE](./nsf-grants/safe-ose.md)
  - [NSF GEO OSE](./nsf-grants/geo-ose.md)

### Aotearoa New Zealand

New Zealand has a complicated funding relationship. Previously, the sciences were all held under the same department, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. This was split in 1992 into separate [Crown Research Institutes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Research_Institute) (CRIs).

A full list is [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Research_Institute).

## Philanthropies

- [The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation](https://sloan.org/)
- [Chan Zuckerberg Initiative](https://chanzuckerberg.com/)
- [Ford Foundation](https://www.fordfoundation.org/)

## Individual Funding Opportunities

The following funding opportunities have been taken from the [open-funding](https://github.com/ralphtheninja/open-funding) GitHub repository and are subset of funding specifically relevant to academia. Sorted alphabetically.

- [Chan Zuckerberg Initiative](./czi.md)
- [Cisco Research Grants (web3 related)](./cisco.md)
- [Protocol Labs Research (web3 related)](./protocollabs.md)
- [Top10vpn Research Grant](./top10vpn.md)