Funding and Grants

Support by monetary means for initiatives that foster FOSS culture in India.

The FOSS United grants program aims to provide financial support to FOSS creators, maintainers, projects and events all over India. To date, we have disbursed over INR 3 crores towards Indian FOSS projects and maintainers. All FOSS United grantees are listed here.
We fund FOSS projects by raising funds from the tech industry, either through our Industry Partnership Program, individual donations, or by reaching out to companies that might be interested in co-sponsoring certain projects or organizations.

To read more about the structure of the grants program, evaluation criteria and more, please go through our grants thesis.

If you're a FOSS project or developer in need of financial support, please apply. For any questions, please reach out to us at grants@fossunited.org.

Project Grants

Project grants are largely “non-thematic”. In the past, we have funded developer tools, consumer apps, non-profit foundations, FOSS mirrors, Open Hardware projects, individual contributors, and even new programming languages!

25
Completed
0
Pending

Event Grants

Our approach towards funding events has evolved to support events that directly benefit the FOSS community. To apply for a FOSS event grant, please send us a detailed proposal at grants@fossunited.org

69
Completed
0
Pending

Fellowships

We provide grants to individuals contributing to FOSS projects and communities. These grants help developers, students, and community organizers dedicate time to FOSS work.

4
Completed
0
Pending

Recent Grants

Project Grants

Open source services - Search engine, Forge Repo, QR generator, Private Bin and more

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
30,000

FOSS Training Program

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
5,00,000

A fast fuzzy text search engine

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
3,00,000
Event Grants

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
15 Dec 2025
AMOUNT
1,00,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
15 Nov 2025
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
15 Nov 2025
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
Fellowship Grants

Advay Udupa and Aarav

Blender Kannada Tutorials Series

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
18,000

As part of the NAST Fellowship conducted by The Takshashila Institution, Arpit worked on the project "Balancing Innovation and Risk Management in Open-Source Adoption for Critical Sectors"

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
1,20,000

For the inaugural Season of Commits (2025), Prerak Singh will be working on PyDataStructs.

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
75000