Archive:Benefactors/2010–2011

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+) Ron Unz $35,000 Anonymous $33,000 Anonymous $31,000 Anonymous $25,000 Anonymous $25,000 http://www.twosigma.com/ Two Sigma Investments, LLC] $25,000

Leading donors ($5,000 to $14,999) USA Networks $10,000 Elon Musk $10,000 Mitchell Kapor Foundation $10,000 Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation $10,000 Ruth Ann Harnisch $10,000 Anonymous (6) $10,000 Graphics Press, LLC $8,000

Ryan and Lisa McCorvie $7,500 Savings.com $5,000 A. Jean Mahoney and Robert Sparks $5,000 John Babcock $5,000 Jonathan Starr $5,000 Anonymous (10) $5,000

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

Cheapstingybargains.com www.divorce360.com MerchantOS Point of Sale Since1910 CouponCabin.com iPodRip Empax Inc. Go Health Insurance www.idealo.co.uk www.newyorkbiz.com Pepermunt.net SingleHop Dedicated Servers Orville Baggett John Baldridge William Benter Allen Berry Best Buy Children's Foundation Tag Team Awards Christian Boiron Jeanne Busch David Bydeley Lincoln Cassady Sorin Cismas Pawel Ciszewski Joseph DeRisi Alex Dingle Drucila Cooper Memorial Fund Edgar Durbin Douglas Ferguson Adam Fila Gordon Lyon, Nmap Project

Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Patrick Hanna Don Husby 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 Tetsuya Nagase Svein Ølnes Motohisa Oono John Prikkel Koyama Ryusuke Anna Scott Jon Shapiro Martin Sinner Derek Sivers Paul Trickey Karl Voskuil Milan Votava Laurelle Wildman Wohler Technologies, Inc. Susane Woodward Anonymous (81)

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

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.

Kennisnet

Hosting capacity for Wikimedia projects in Amsterdam. (PR: EN, NL)

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.