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Fellowships

Fellowship grants support individuals contributing to FOSS projects and communities. These grants help developers, students, and community organizers dedicate time to open source work.

10
Total Grantees
₹ 19,79,500
Total Grants Disbursed
2026 (5)

Follow-on fellowship grant of INR 6L to support contrapunctus’ work in the OSM ecosystem. Last year, contrapunctus travelled to events all over the country to host workshops, events and give talks.

YEAR
2026
AMOUNT
₹ 6,00,000

Fellowship to support Aravinda’s work on Sanka and a plethora of other projects, mostly around FOSS Kannada tooling!

YEAR
2026
AMOUNT
₹ 6,00,000

Policy in Action Program (Summer cohort) by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Akshit and Niya were provided a grant to pursue the program.

YEAR
2026
AMOUNT
₹ 40,000

High School Achievers program by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Arya was provided a grant to cover the fees of the fellowship.

YEAR
2026
AMOUNT
₹ 16,500

FOSS United Foundation has joined the CoRE Stack Innovation Challenge to support the work on 3 POCs, under the Season of Commits program.

YEAR
2026
AMOUNT
₹ 1,20,000
2025 (5)

Blender Kannada Tutorials Series

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
₹ 18,000

Policy in Action Program by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Ansh was provided a grant to cover for partial travel expenses and course fees.

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
₹ 30,000

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
₹ 75,000

Supporting the OpenStreetMap(OSM) community mapping parties across the country.

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
₹ 3,60,000