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Revision as of 23:51, 21 April 2009
As a nonprofit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation relies on the expertise & generosity of thousands of people all around the world.
Note: All figures are in US dollars and reflect gifts received after July 1, 2008.
Major benefactors ($50,000 or more)
- We are grateful to the Stanton Foundation for a generous grant of $890,000, made in November 2008. This grant will fund a project team that will make Wikipedia's writing and editing interface easier to use for first-time authors. The Stanton Foundation is a private foundation created to further philanthropic goals set by the late Dr. Frank Stanton. This funding is project-specific, and does not apply to the Wikimedia Foundation's annual fundraising goals. (Press release)
- We would like to thank an Anonymous Donor for a generous gift of $250,000 in November 2008.
- We are very thankful for the generosity of Arcadia, a grant-making fund based in the United Kingdom. Arcadia donated $177,376 (£100,000) to the Wikimedia Foundation via the Charities Aid Foundation in September 2008. These general-use funds have been donated by Arcadia "to help with Wikipedia's costs, in recognition of its remarkable achievement in diffusing knowledge and facilitating access to it on a worldwide basis."
- We appreciate the generosity of the Stanton Foundation, which has donated $262,000 to support the purchase of database servers, application servers, network equipment and other hardware. The Stanton Foundation is a private foundation created to further philanthropic goals set by the late Dr. Frank Stanton. This grant was made in July 2008.
- On March 25, 2008, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced an annual donation of $1 million for three years. A representative of the Sloan Foundation stated that "Wikipedia represents a quantum leap in collecting human knowledge from diverse sources, organizing it without commercial or other bias, and making it freely available to people everywhere." (Press release)
Patrons ($15,000+)
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Leading donors ($5,000 to $14,999)
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Sustaining donors ($1,000 to $4,999)
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Special Thanks to our Chapters
The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:
Equipment and Services
- Sun Microsystems
- A contribution of a next-generation platform comprising of Sun server and storage systems (Sun Fire(TM) X4100, X4150 and X4500 servers and Sun StorageTek(TM) 2530 disk arrays) work with an open source MySQL(TM) database to allow Wikimedia enhance its test and development capabilities and to create a better and faster user experience.
- Yahoo!
- Hosting capacity for Wikimedia projects in Yahoo's Asian facilities. Wikipedia content integrated into French-language Yahoo Search shortcuts as a test project. (PR: FR, EN)
- The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)
- Two free Gigabit Ethernet ports for peering in Amsterdam.
- Init7
- Partial IP transit in Amsterdam.