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Projects aligned with public infrastructure, research, ecosystem priorities, or social good. Can be high-value, but competitive and time-bound.
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8 live listings
Live listings are platforms currently available to open source projects.

Gitcoin
Gitcoin runs web3-native grant rounds and other funding mechanisms for public-goods and Ethereum ecosystem projects.

Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code funds new contributors to work with open source organizations on mentored software projects.

NLnet
NLnet funds people and organizations building open source, open standards, open hardware, and other digital commons technologies.

NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS provides funding and resources for open source scientific computing projects.

Open Source Security Foundation
A Linux Foundation initiative to provide a forum for a collaborative, cross-industry effort for ensuring open source security.

Season of Docs
Google Season of Docs funds open source organizations to improve documentation by hiring technical writers.

Sovereign Tech Fund
The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure.

Status
Status supports open source contributors through ecosystem funding, grants, and public-good crypto initiatives.
Historical records: 2 discontinued listings
Historical records are kept for research and comparison, not as active recommendations.

Core Infrastructure Initiative
A Linux Foundation initiative to collaboratively identify, fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure that are in need of assistance.

Free and Open Source Software Audit
FOSSA was an EU-backed programme for funding security audits, bug bounties, and related support for critical open source software.