All Grantees

Browse all FOSS United grantees disbursed for Projects, Events, and Fellowships.

98
Total Grantees
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2025 (27)

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

Zasper is a 4X Better IDE than JupyterLab

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
9,00,000
CO-SPONSOR
Zerodha

CircuitVerse is a free, open-source platform which allows users to construct digital logic circuits online.

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
1,00,000

mirror.albony.in is a student run service which provides mirrors for various opensource projects and linux distributions.

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
50,000

Open-source development and hosted services.

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
20,000

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

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
31 Oct 2025
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
SFLC

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
04 Oct 2025
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
MEC

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
26 Sep 2025
AMOUNT
5,000
CO-SPONSOR
Hack Club

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
29 Aug 2025
AMOUNT
20,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
16 Aug 2025
AMOUNT
7,000
CO-SPONSOR
Walchand Linux Users’ Group

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
11 Jul 2025
AMOUNT
15,000
CO-SPONSOR
OSDC

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
28 Jun 2025
AMOUNT
3,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
23 Jun 2025
AMOUNT
2,500
CO-SPONSOR
CITRA NITC

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
21 Mar 2025
AMOUNT
1,00,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
14 Mar 2025
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
FOSS Cell NITC

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
01 Mar 2025
AMOUNT
6,000
CO-SPONSOR
Prav

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
15 Feb 2025
AMOUNT
Rs. 50,000
CO-SPONSOR
Saurabh Minni

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
17 Jan 2025
AMOUNT
33,000
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

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

YEAR
2025
AMOUNT
90,000
2024 (8)

This is an extension to the previous grants to Rethink DNS which building a WireGuard client, an OpenSnitch-inspired firewall and network monitor + a pi-hole-inspired DNS over HTTPS client with blocklists.

YEAR
2024
AMOUNT
7,00,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
21 Dec 2024
AMOUNT
Rs. 50,000
CO-SPONSOR
Janastu

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
16 Nov 2024
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
02 Oct 2024
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
31 Aug 2024
AMOUNT
1,62,000
CO-SPONSOR
Aryank Kaushik

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
05 Apr 2024
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
15 Mar 2024
AMOUNT
Rs. 40,000
CO-SPONSOR
NIT Calicut

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
19 Jan 2024
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Aryan Kaushik
2023 (25)

FSCI hosts free software powered and privacy respecting services for general public. These services are run by volunteers in their free time.

YEAR
2023
AMOUNT
1,00,000

Firefiles, is an attempt to build open‑source alternative to Dropbox which lets us setup a cloud drive with the backend of your choice and lets you seamlessly manage your files across multiple providers.

YEAR
2023
AMOUNT
6,00,000

Rethink DNS + Firewall for Android is DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, firewall, and connection tracker for Android built by Murtaza Aliakbar and Mohammed Hussain.

YEAR
2023
AMOUNT
3,00,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
19 Oct 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Ansh

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
28 Apr 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Manish Kumar Barnwal

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
16 Apr 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Sinu V Mathew

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
07 Apr 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Mrinal Jain

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
18 Mar 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
Adithya Anilkumar

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
18 Mar 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Shreyash Kadam

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
15 Mar 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Ashutosh Aswal

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
04 Mar 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Melvin Thomas

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
02 Mar 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Steffy Senson

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
24 Feb 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 30,000
CO-SPONSOR
Maya Menon

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
17 Feb 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Amit Goyal

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
10 Feb 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
Nazim Jabir

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
04 Feb 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Aditya Kharote

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
04 Feb 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Deepanshi Sharma

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
03 Feb 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Siddharth Dayalwal

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
02 Feb 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Mandar Kasangottuwar

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
28 Jan 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
Vijayalakshmi

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
26 Jan 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Diya Liza Varghese

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
21 Jan 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Nandu Kannan

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
20 Jan 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Aman Syed

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
07 Jan 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Varsha Jaiswal

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
01 Jan 2023
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
Jai Sadana
2022 (27)

Sayan develops Skytable, a FOSS realtime NoSQL database.

YEAR
2022
AMOUNT
6,50,000

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.

YEAR
2022
AMOUNT
60,00,000
CO-SPONSOR
Zerodha

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

YEAR
2022
AMOUNT
12,00,000

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
23 Dec 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Jai Sadana

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
17 Dec 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Ashish Mathew Philip

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
17 Dec 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 1,50,000
CO-SPONSOR
Ananya R

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
10 Dec 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Mind Empowered Charitable Trust

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
09 Dec 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Niranjan B

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
02 Dec 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
N Anbarasu

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
01 Dec 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Kunaal Kiran Kumar

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
25 Nov 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Kanishak CHaurasia

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
25 Nov 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Suraj Kumar P

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
23 Nov 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Sarthak Arya

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
18 Nov 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Ansh Goyal

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
12 Nov 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
Sonika Rajesh Pillai

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
12 Nov 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Siddhesh Kulthe

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
05 Nov 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 50,000
CO-SPONSOR
Saurabh Minni

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
05 Nov 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Riya P Mathew

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
27 Oct 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Abhinav T B

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
30 Sep 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Raghav Trivedi

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
02 Sep 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Aditya Mishra

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
01 Jul 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Neha Susan Manoj

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
13 May 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Pratham

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
06 May 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Madhav Budhiraja

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
26 Feb 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 10,000
CO-SPONSOR
Kumaraguru T

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
11 Feb 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
Divya Prakash

Event grant for FOSS community.

DATE
20 Jan 2022
AMOUNT
Rs. 25,000
CO-SPONSOR
Barun Acharya
2021 (7)

A fullstack MVC web framework for Node.js created by Harminder Virk.

YEAR
2021
AMOUNT
6,00,000

SMC is a free software collective engaged in development, localization, standardization of Indic language computing resources.

YEAR
2021
AMOUNT
25,00,000
CO-SPONSOR
Zerodha

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.

YEAR
2021
AMOUNT
25,00,000
CO-SPONSOR
Zerodha

paperd.ink is a FOSS 4.2" e-paper development board to show calendar, weather, to-do lists, notifications, images and much more.

YEAR
2021
AMOUNT
17,00,000
CO-SPONSOR
Zerodha

IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.

YEAR
2021
AMOUNT
25,00,000

An open source, two-way communication platform for NGOs to chat and communicate with beneficiaries.

YEAR
2021
AMOUNT
15,00,000
CO-SPONSOR
Zerodha

Sayan develops Skytable, a FOSS reqltime NoSQL database.

YEAR
2021
AMOUNT
60,000
2020 (4)

IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.

YEAR
2020
AMOUNT
1,00,000

Principal developer of the Rebuild Earth / Kerala Rescue project that was instrumental to the rescue efforts during the Kerala floods.

YEAR
2020
AMOUNT
1,00,000

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 2020-08-01.

YEAR
2020
AMOUNT
5,00,000

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.

YEAR
2020
AMOUNT
24,50,000
CO-SPONSOR
Zerodha