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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.

Foundation Support

Arcadia
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Press release)
Stanton Foundation (Press release)

Major Benefactors ($50,000+)

The Hellman Family Foundation

Anonymous

Patrons ($15,000 - $49,000)

Ron Unz

Two Sigma Investments, LLC

Anonymous (4)

Leading donors ($5,000 to $14,999)

USA Networks

Elon Musk

Mitchell Kapor Foundation

Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation

Ruth Ann Harnisch

Graphics Press, LLC $

Ryan and Lisa McCorvie

Savings.com

A. Jean Mahoney and Robert Sparks

John Babcock

Jonathan Starr

James and Angela Thompson Foundation

Anonymous (16)

Sustaining donors ($1,000 to $4,999)

Orville Baggett
John Baldridge
William Benter
Allen Berry
Best Buy Children's Foundation Tag Team Awards
Christian Boiron
Jeanne Busch
David Bydeley
Lincoln Cassady
Cheapstingybargains.com
Sorin Cismas
Pawel Ciszewski
CouponCabin.com
Joseph DeRisi
Alex Dingle
Drucila Cooper Memorial Fund
www.divorce360.com
Edgar Durbin
Empax Inc.
Douglas Ferguson
Adam Fila
Go Health Insurance
Gordon Lyon, Nmap Project
Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
Patrick Hanna
Don Husby
www.idealo.co.uk
iPodRip
Tetsuya Isozaki
Joichi Ito

Paul Johansen
Jennifer Kapila
Marc Labelle
Lawrence Lessig
Alexander Lindsey
William A. Linton
Jacob Malmberg
Christine Marcellus
Lars Petter Mathiassen
Mark Melton
MerchantOS Point of Sale
Tetsuya Nagase
www.newyorkbiz.com
Svein Ølnes
Motohisa Oono
Pepermunt.net
John Prikkel
Koyama Ryusuke
Anna Scott
Jon Shapiro
Since1910
Martin Sinner
SingleHop Dedicated Servers
Derek Sivers
Paul Trickey
Karl Voskuil
Milan Votava
Laurelle Wildman
Wohler Technologies, Inc.
Susane Woodward
Anonymous (85)

Special Thanks to our Chapters

The Wikimedia Foundation would like to thank the following chapters for their donations:

Switzerland: Wikimedia CH

$29,173.00

Italia: Wikimedia Italia

$ 4550.00

$ 3035.99

Donations of Goods and Services

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)
EvoSwitch
Init7
Kennisnet
LeaseWeb
Sun Microsystems
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati

2005 - 2007 Donors

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 ''Note: All figures are in US dollars and reflect gifts received after July 1, 2008.''
+=== Foundation Support ===
-=== Major benefactors ($50,000 or more) ===
+; [http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk Arcadia]
-* 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 releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|Press release]])
+; [http://http://sloan.org Alfred P. Sloan Foundation] ([[Press releases/Sloan Foundation Support|Press release]])
+; '''Stanton Foundation''' ([[Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|Press release]])
+=== Major Benefactors ($50,000+) ===
-* We would like to thank an '''Anonymous Donor''' for a generous gift of $250,000 in November 2008.
+: The Hellman Family Foundation
+: Anonymous
+=== Patrons ($15,000 - $49,000) ===
-* We are very thankful for the generosity of '''[http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk 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."
+: Ron Unz
+: [http://www.twosigma.com/ Two Sigma Investments, LLC]
-* 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.
+: Anonymous (4)
-* 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 releases/Sloan Foundation Support|Press release]])
-=== Patrons ($15,000+) ===
-: Ron Unz $35,000
-: http://www.twosigma.com/ Two Sigma Investments, LLC] $25,000
-: Anonymous $33,000
-: Anonymous $31,000
-: Anonymous $25,000
-: Anonymous $25,000
 === Leading donors ($5,000 to $14,999) ===
+: USA Networks
-: John Babcock $5,000
+: Elon Musk
-: Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation $10,000
+: Mitchell Kapor Foundation
-: [http://www.edwardtufte.com/ Graphics Press, LLC] $8,000
+: Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation
-: Ruth Ann Harnisch $10,000
+: Ruth Ann Harnisch
-: Mark Heising and Liz Simons $5,000
+: [http://www.edwardtufte.com/ Graphics Press, LLC] $
-: Mitchell Kapor Foundation $10,000
-: Ryan and Lisa McCorvie $7,500
+: Ryan and Lisa McCorvie
+: [http://www.savings.com Savings.com]
-: Elon Musk $10,000
+: A. Jean Mahoney and Robert Sparks
-: USA Networks $10,000
+: John Babcock
-: [http://www.savings.com Savings.com] $5,000
+: Jonathan Starr
-: A. Jean Mahoney and Robert Sparks $5,000
+: James and Angela Thompson Foundation
-: Jonathan Starr $5,000
+: Anonymous (16)
-: James and Angela Thompson Foundation $10,000
-: Anonymous (6) $10,000
-: Anonymous (10) $5,000
 === Sustaining donors ($1,000 to $4,999) ===
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 ::: $ 3035.99
-=== Equipment and Services ===
+=== Donations of Goods and Services ===
+; [http://www.ams-ix.net The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)]
+; [http://www.evoswitch.com EvoSwitch]
+; [http://www.init7.net Init7]
+; [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet]
+; [http://www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb]
 ; [http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems]
+; [http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati]
-: 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.
-; [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet]
-: Hosting capacity for Wikimedia projects in Amsterdam. (PR: [[Press releases/Kennisnet supports Wikimedia Projects|EN]], [[Press releases/Kennisnet supports Wikimedia Projects/Nederlands|NL]])
-; [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo!]
-: Hosting capacity for Wikimedia projects in Yahoo's Asian facilities. Wikipedia content integrated into French-language Yahoo Search [http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=guatemala&meta=vl%3D shortcuts] as a test project. (PR: [[Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation annonce le soutien de Yahoo!|FR]], [[Press releases/Wikimedia announces Yahoo support|EN]])
-; [http://www.ams-ix.net The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)]
-: Two free Gigabit Ethernet ports for [[w:peering|peering]] in Amsterdam.
-; [http://www.init7.net Init7]
-: Partial IP transit in Amsterdam.
 ===[[/2005 - 2007 Donors|2005 - 2007 Donors]]===