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Internet Freedom Fund
The Open Technology Fund's flagship fund for internet freedom worldwide — censorship circumvention, privacy and secure communications, digital-security capacity building, and applied research. Concept notes are accepted on a rolling basis; most requests fall between $50,000 and $200,000 (range $10,000-$900,000), open to individuals and organizations of any nationality except those under OFAC sanctions, with priority for those working in repressive environments.
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Awards
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RecipientAmountDateEvidence
- Amigo: Secure, Shutdown-Resilient Group MessagingAmountFunding to date $172,270 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- Anti-Censorship IXPAmountFunding to date $50,000Date–
- BitpartAmountFunding to date $614,456 (most recent grant 2023)Date–
- Connection LabsAmountFunding to date $137,474 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- Countering Digital Censorship in PakistanAmountFunding to date $212,540 (most recent grant 2024)Date–
- dCommsAmountFunding to date $416,434 (most recent grant 2024)Date–
- Decentralized and private DNS lookup with Quad9AmountFunding to date $556,730 (most recent grant 2023)Date–
- Deep Packet Resistance with AI-driven Deflect & CenoAmountFunding to date $510,393 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- Defending and Documenting Digital Threats in TaiwanAmount$563,785 (2023, 30 months, Internet Freedom Fund)Date–
- Design from the MarginsAmountFunding to date $673,232 (most recent grant 2023)Date–
- Developing Test Lists for Censored Online ContentAmountFunding to date $360,529 (most recent grant 2024)Date–
- Documenting and preventing information controls during the electoral period in the DRCAmountFunding to date $345,946 (most recent grant 2023)Date–
- Enabling secure Signal workflows in Tails via Flatpak integrationAmountFunding to date $399,733 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- Fake Antenna Detection ProjectAmountFunding to date $424,144 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- Global GatheringAmountFunding to date $305,443 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- Increasing Internet Security Through Shorter-Lived TLS CertificatesAmountFunding to date $800,000 (most recent grant 2024)Date–
- Internet Architecture in the Public InterestAmountFunding to date $469,713 (most recent grant 2023)Date–
- InterSecLabAmountFunding to date $699,988 (most recent grant 2024)Date–
- Investigating Protocol-Agnostic Methods to Fingerprint Obfuscated Circumvention TrafficAmountFunding to date $298,113 (most recent grant 2024)Date–
- IRBlock: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of the Great Firewall of IranAmountFunding to date $150,000 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- Mapping China's Capabilities in Police Cloud Platforms to Improve Protection of Vulnerable PopulationsAmountFunding to date $54,333 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- MESH ForensicsAmountFunding to date $133,551 (most recent grant 2025)Date–
- NasNet Panel: Autonomous, Censorship-Resistant ConnectivityAmountFunding to date $283,303 (most recent grant 2026)Date–
- NoScriptAmountFunding to date $945,000 (cumulative; most recent grant 2024)Date–
- OONI Anonymous CredentialsAmountFunding to date $289,307 (most recent grant 2025)Date–