Funding and grants
Funding and grants for developers and organizations looking for funding and grants to build high quality FOSS projects in India.
How it works
We offer financial grants to people and organizations building and using Free and Open Source Software in India. The grants are available in the following categories.
FOSS technology: Development of Free & Open Source Software projects.
FOSS education: Running workshops, designing curriculum, building FOSS tools and systems to further FOSS in education.
FOSS community: Using FOSS for social good, defending digital rights and privacy.
FOSS events and hackathons: See the event and hackathon grant program.
Eligibility
Any person or organization building FOSS technologies in India or using FOSS for social good can apply. The applicant must have an Indian Bank account to receive the grant. Grant applications are reviewed by the FOSS United team
Co-sponsored grants
FOSS United allows organisations to co-sponsor specific FOSS projects and grants by providing a framework for fund disbursal and project management. Co-sponsored grants are executed with the combined approval of FOSS United and the grantee. If you are interested in co-sponsoring grants via FOSS United, please write to us.
Recent Grants
TinkerHub Foundation
This is an extension to the previous grants to the TinkerHub foundation to fund its Tinkerspace project, the physical hacker/tinkerer/community space located in Kochi, Kerala.
Website →Parseable
Parseable is an efficient and scalable log storage and management platform. Cloud native by design, Parseable ensures ease of deployment and use. It is compatible with standard logging agents like FluentBit, LogStash etc
Website →Glific
An open source, two-way communication platform for NGOs to chat and communicate with beneficiaries.
Website →Paperd.ink
paperd.ink is a FOSS 4.2" e-paper development board to show calendar, weather, to-do lists, notifications, images and much more.
Website →Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
SMC is a free software collective engaged in development, localization, standardization of Indic language computing resources.
Website →TinkerHub Foundation
A non-profit foundation that organizes large scale workshops, programs, and community events to give hands-on hacking / dev and FOSS experience to budding hackers and students.
Website →Internet Freedom Foundation
IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.
Website →Fika lang
A statically typed functional programming language geared towards building web applications built on top of BEAM, the Erlang VM. Created by its lead developer, Emil Soman, the project's first prototype was presented at FOSS Hack 2020.
Website →TinkerHub Foundation
A non-profit foundation that organizes large scale workshops, programs, and community events to give hands-on hacking / dev and FOSS experience to budding hackers and students. 21L of the grant was co-sponsored by Zerodha.
Website →Internet Freedom Foundation
IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.
Website →Biswas (developer)
Principal developer of the Rebuild Earth / Kerala Rescue project that was instrumental to the rescue efforts during the Kerala floods.
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