Project Grants

We fund FOSS projects by raising funds from the tech industry, either through our Industry Partnership Program or by reaching out to them upon receiving requests from FOSS projects/organizations.

25
Total Grantees
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2025 (7)

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
2024 (1)

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
2023 (3)

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
2022 (3)

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
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