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Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. It is the host of Wikipedia.¹

History

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced the launch of the Wikimedia Foundation on June 20, 2003.²

In January 2016, WMF announced the creation of the Wikimedia Endowment, a $100 million fund managed by the Tides Foundation.³

Organization

WMF has been a client of The Bridgespan Group,⁴ Democracy Partners⁵ and williamsworks.⁶

Personnel

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Funding

Donors to the Wikimedia Foundation include:⁷

21st Century Fox
4Subsea
A & M Inspection Services
Abbott Laboratories
AbbVie Foundation
Abe Farag Family Foundation
Aber D. Unger Foundation
Academy Place Foundation
ACON Laboratories
Acton Family Giving
Adam J. Weissman Foundation
Adobe
Advisory Board Crystals
Aetna Foundation
Affinity Answers
Agilent Technologies
Aidan Products
Airbnb
Airbus
Albert E. Harrison Foundation
Albert Hans
Alcon Vision
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Allstate
Alpine School District
A-Mark Foundation
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
AmazonSmile Foundation
American Endowment Foundation (AEF)
American Express
American Express Foundation
American International Group (AIG)
America’s Charities
Ameriprise Financial
Amgen Foundation
Amont Foundation
Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) (in-kind)
Analog Devices
Answers Corporation
Aon
Aon Foundation
Apple
Apple Pickers Foundation
Applied Materials Foundation
Arcadia Fund
Ares Software
Argosy Foundation
Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Foundation
Art Blocks
Aruba Networks
Ascend Capital
Ashok K. Moza Foundation
ASML
Aspera
Astex Pharmaceuticals
Astox Pharmaceuticals
AstraZeneca
AT&T
AT&T Foundation
Atlassian
Austin Community Foundation
Autodesk
Autodesk Foundation
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
Avago Technologies
Awareness Publishing
Axiom Works
Ayco Charitable Foundation
BAE Systems
Bailey Family Foundation
Ball Corporation
Bank of America
Bank of New York Mellon (BNY)
Bard Consulting
Barnik Tarbut Foundation
Baseline Telecom
Battelle Memorial Institute
Bayer Family Foundation
Beauchamp Place Communications
The Behemoth
Belay Foundation
Bell Charitable Foundation
Belmonte Foundation
BeneWiki
Bessemer Trust
Best Buy Children’s Foundation
BiblioLabs
Biegelsen Foundation
Big Wheel Brigade
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bing
Biogen
BlackRock
Bloomberg L.P.
BLT Communications
Blue Sky Scrubs
Bluestem Asset Management
BMO Financial Group
BMT Micro
Boeing
Bohemian Foundation
Booz Allen Hamilton
Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Boulder Labs
BP Foundation
Brave Software
Bread Financial
Brickell Analytics
Bridgeville Animal Hospital
Bright Funds
Brightwater Fund
Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)
Broadcom
Brooks Family Foundation
Broyhill Family Foundation
Bruce & Erica Greer Family Foundation
Bruce Ford Brown Charitable Trust
Burt and Diana Cutler Family Foundation
CA Technologies
Cadence Design Systems
Caithness Foundation
Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation
Cameron Foundation
Canadian Pacific Railway
Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
Caremed Health Corporation
Cargill
Carmax Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Cascade Asset Management
Casual Connect
Caterpillar Foundation
Caulkin Family Foundation
CDK Global
Cedar Street Advisors
Cedarcide
Century Arts Foundation
Chalmers University of Technology Department of Signals and Systems
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)
Charina Endowment Fund
Charitable Flex Fund
Charlene and David Howe Foundation
Charles Maxfield Parrish and Gloria F. Parrish Foundation
Charles R. Schwab
Charles Schwab Foundation
Charles Spear Charitable Foundation
Chevron
Christopher Ruddy
Ciena
Cigna Foundation
Cisco
Citrix Systems
Clorox Company
Clorox Company Foundation
Cloudera Foundation
Coca-Cola Company
Coleman Foundation
The College Board
Coltman Family Foundation
Columbia Pictures
Combined Federal Campaign (CFC)
Comcast
Community Foundation Sonoma County
Comscore (in-kind)
Conger Family Foundation
ConocoPhillips
Constellation Energy
Cooper-Siegel Family Foundation
Costco
CouponFollow
CRAIC Technologies
Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund
Craigslist
Craigslist Charitable Fund (CCF)
Crankstart Foundation
Crete Family Foundation
Critical Mass
Crossref
CrowdStrike
Crown Clothing Corporation
CyberGrants
Dalio Foundation
Dallas Foundation
Damial Foundation
Danem Foundation
Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation
Database Consulting Group (DCG)
Dauber Foundation
David and Amy Fulton Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
David S. Howe Foundation
Davis-King & Associates
DECA
Dell
Denker Foundation
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
Dev Bootcamp
Dierdre Moire Corporation
Dillon Fund
DirecTV
Disruptor Foundation
DocuSign
Dolby
Douglas B. Marshall Jr. Family Foundation
DraftKings
Dr. Dobb’s
Dr. Jack Widrich Foundation
DRB Systems
Dream Town Realty
DreamHost
Drollinger Family Charitable Foundation
Dropbox
Drucilla Cooper Memorial Fund
Duke Energy
The Durst Organization
D.W. Gore Family Foundation
eBay
eBay Foundation
Educational Networks
Eggplant Systems and Design
Elasticsearch
Electronic Arts (EA)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (in-kind)
Elevate Prize Foundation
Eli Lilly
Elia Games
Elizabeth Ireland Graves Foundation
Ellis Family Fund
Elon Musk
Elsevier Foundation
Emigre Fonts
Empax
Energy Income Partners (EIP)
Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF)
Epic Games
Erasmus Foundation
Eric Anderson Foundation
Ericsson
eSolutionsFirst
Etsy
Evari GIS Consulting
Evolve Collaborative
EvoSwitch (in-kind)
EWCY Foundation
Exbrook (in-kind)
Exelon
Expedia
ExxonMobil Foundation
F5
Fenwick & West
Feral Interactive
Fia Ewald Consulting
Fieldstead and Company
First National Bank
Fiserv
Flightkeys
Florida First Capital Finance Corporation (FFCFC)
FM Global
Ford Foundation
Foresite Capital Management
Forward Faster
Foundation for a Better World
Foundation for Community Empowerment (FCE)
Fournier Family Foundation
Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation
Frank and Denise Quattrone Foundation
Frank Reynolds Architects
Freddie Mac Foundation
Freeman Foundation
Friends of The Web
Frost Bank
Frumkin Falco Family Foundation
Fulcrum Foundation
Fund for Second Nature
Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association
Gay Chemists Support Fund
GC Companies
GE Foundation
Geisel Family Foundation
Genentech
General Electric (GE)
General Mills Foundation
George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation
Gilead Sciences
GitHub
Giuliani Family Foundation
GivingForce Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline
Glenair
Global Eye Investments
Global Impact
GlobalGiving
Goldman Sachs
GoHealth
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Foundation
Google
Google.org
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Grace Jones Richardson Trust
Grainger Foundation
Grand Rapids Community Foundation
Graphics Press
Grattan Institute
Hallick Family Foundation
Hamilton Foundation
Hard Money Home
Harnisch Family Foundation
Healers Who Share
Hearst
Heartsprung Fund WA
Helen Ingham Foundation
Hellman Family Foundation
Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation
Hexza Corporation Berhad
Highland Vineyard Foundation
Hillspire
Hitz Foundation
Home Depot Foundation
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Horizons Ventures
Hospira
Hotger
Houser Foundation
Houston Endowment
Howard Gilman Foundation
HPE Accelerating Impact
HSBC
Hull Family Foundation
Hulston Family Foundation
Humble Bundle
Hummingbird Foundation
IBM
IJzerlo Holding
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
IMC Chicago Charitable Foundation
Indeed
Indie Prize
Indigo Trust
Init7 (in-kind)
Insight Designs
InstaForex Companies Group
IntegraScan
Intel
Intergrid Mideast Group
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Intetics
Intuit Foundation
Intuitive Foundation
Intuitive Surgical
Invest in the Future Foundation
Iolo
iPodRip
IQVIA
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America
Jack Dorsey
James and Angela Thompson Foundation
Jellyvision
Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
JobDiva
Joby Foundation
John and Frances Beck Foundation
John Arnold
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
John Deere
John Hancock Financial Services
John P. McCaskey Foundation
John Stossel
John Templeton Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Juniper Networks
Juno
JustGive
Kalpatharu Foundation
Kaphan Foundation
Kara Fund
Kaz Foundation for Social Advancement
KDSM Fund
Keel Foundation
KeepCalling
Kellogg Company
Kennisnet (in-kind)
Keough Family Foundation
Keysight Technologies
Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark Foundation
King Baudouin Foundation
KLA Foundation
KLA-Tencor
Kleinschmidt Family Foundation
Klorfine Foundation
Knight Foundation
Koppelman Family Foundation
La Vida Feliz Foundation
Ladders
Lam Research
Lamb & Barnosky
Lana Wachowski
Las Vegas Media
LATI
Laura Arnold
Lawrence E & Elaine Smith Irell Foundation
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence W. Inlow Foundation
Leaseweb (in-kind)
LegitScript
Leo Model Foundation
Leon Levy Foundation
Li Lu Humanitarian Foundation
LibertyVPS
Liberum
Lilly Wachowski
Lincoln Loop
LinkedIn
LinkResearchTools (LRT)
Liz Simons
Local Independent Charities of America
Lone Pine Capital
Lopker Family Foundation
Luetschine Consulting
MABTOOLS
Macquarie Group Foundation
Maple Tree Fund
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Marc Haas & Helen Hotze Haas Charitable Foundation
Marc Haas Foundation
Marcy and Leona Chanin Foundation
Mark Heising
Markle Foundation
Martin & Ottaway
Mary H Storer Foundation
Mastercard
Match Group
MathWorks
Matshym Foundation
Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
May Family Foundation
MBI Benefits
McKesson Foundation
McKinsey & Company
McMaster-Carr
Medtronic Foundation
Meltwater
MerchantOS
MerchLogix
Merck Foundation
Merrill Family Charitable Foundation
Metropolitan Arts Partnership
Micron
Microsoft
Middle Road Foundation
Midvale Foundation=
Million Children Foundation
Milner Family Foundation
Minassian Media
Miron Enterprises
Mitchell Kapor Foundation
Moneta Asset Management
Montgomery Family Foundation
Morgan Stanley
Morino Institute
Motorola Solutions Foundation
MRC Holland
MUFG Union Bank
Murphy USA
Musk Foundation
Mycelium Foundation
nafSadh
Naida S. Wharton Foundation
Nancy Conger Weldon Charitable Foundation
National Christian Foundation
National Instruments
National Philanthropic Trust
Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU)
Nead Werx
Neeru Khosla
NetApp
Netflix
Network for Good
New York Community Trust
Newgen KnowledgeWorks
Newsmax Media
Nicholas Pritzker
Nike
Nintendo
Niverplast
Nmap Project
No Starch Press (in-kind)
Noble Energy
Nora Roberts Foundation (NRF)
Nord Family Foundation
Nordic Naturals
Nordstrom
North American Herb & Spice
Northern.tech
Northwater Capital Management
Novartis
NVIDIA
NYSE Euronet Foundation
Ocean Rain Foundation
Okta
Old Stones Foundation
Omidyar Group
Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network Fund
One Point of Light Foundation
OnVerify
Open Data Institute (ODI)
Open Geo Group
Open Knowledge Association (OKA)
Open Society Institute (OSI)
Oracle
Oregon Community Foundation
Osborne Partners
Others Foundation
P&C Collins Fund
Pale Blue Dot
Palo Alto Networks
Pan Am 103 Lockerbie Legacy Foundation
Paradox Interactive
Paramount Pictures
Partnership for Giving (P4G)
Pata Industrial Company
Pavel Durov
PayPal
PCH Integrated Regulatory Services
Pearl M. & Julia J. Harmon Foundation
PediaPress
Peil Charitable Trust
Pentair
PepsiCo Foundation
Perforce Foundation
Perkins Coie (in-kind)
Pew Charitable Trusts
Pfizer
Pfizer Foundation
PG&E Corporation Foundation
Phillips 66
Pieper Electric
Pinion Street Foundation
Piper Sandler Companies
Pittsburgh Foundation
PixInsight
PlayStation Cares
Pond Family Foundation
Porphyry Road Foundation
Post Investment Group
Prague & Company
Precor
Prickett, Jones & Elliott
Princess of Asturias Foundation
Princeton Area Community Foundation
Progressive Insurance Foundation
PromoPro
Prudential Financial
Prudential Foundation
PSW Group
Purjes Foundation
Qamcom
Qatar Foundation
Qualcomm
Quality Logo Products
Ranae DeSantis Foundation
Rau Abhari Fund
Raymond Family Foundation
Raytheon
Red Hat
Red Oak Foundation
Redner Family Foundation
RefME
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
RELX Group
Renée B. Fisher Foundation
Reprise Software
Reservoir Labs
RetailMeNot
Revada Foundation
Reynolds American Foundation
Richard Henry and Kathryn Hood Harjes Foundation
Richard Lounsbery Foundation
Rick and Susan Goings Foundation
Riot Games
Ripples a Not-For-Profit Corporation
Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Roblox
Roche Diagnostics
Rochelle and David A. Hirsch Foundation
Rockefeller & Co.
Rockefeller Foundation
Ron Unz
Rothschild Foundation
Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre
Royce Family Foundation
Ruby Family Foundation
Runtime Design Automation
Russell Investments
Russel Simmons
S&P Global
S5 Consulting
Salesforce.org
Samsung
San Diego Foundation
San Francisco Foundation
SanDisk
Santa Barbara Foundation
Santa Fe Community Foundation
SAP
Savings.com
Schaible Seidlitz Foundation
Schneider Electric Foundation
Scooter Software
Seattle Foundation
Select Equity Group Foundation
Selz Foundation
Semantic Arts
Serad Holdings
ServiceNow
Shanbrom Family Foundation
Shankar Ramaswamy
Shell
Shell Oil Company Foundation
The Shifting Foundation
Siegel Family Endowment
SigmaZone
Sigrid Rausing Trust
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)
Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Silverleaf Foundation
Simons Foundation
Simply Science
Sims/Maes Foundation
SingleHops
Skinner Fund
Skowronski Family Foundation
Skyemar Foundation
Snyder White Oaks of Delaware Foundation
Socialtext
Soros Fund Charitable Foundation
Southway Builders Charitable Trust
SpaceX
Sparkjoy Foundation
Splunk
Sports Reference
Spotify
Sprague Foundation
Stack Exchange
Standard Insurance
Stanton Foundation
Starbucks
Startpage
State Farm Companies Foundation
State Street
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Steven Ayers Investment Management
Steven Pinker
Strompolos Family Foundation
StrongAuth
Stryker
Strypemonde Foundation
Sun Microsystems (in-kind)
SurveyMonkey
Susan Isabel Foundation
Susan Pritzker
Swift River Fund
Symantec
Synchrony Financial
Synopsys
Syntris Business Systems
T. Rowe Price Charitable
Tableau Foundation
Tableau Software
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Tarbell Family Foundation
TD Ameritrade
Teamtrio Fund
Telcordia Technologies
Tele2 (in-kind)
TeliaSonera (in-kind)
Tesla Government
Texas Gulf Bank
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Foundation
Texland Petroleum
Textron
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thistledown Foundation
Thomas Rosato Foundation
Thomson Reuters
Thorlabs
Thrivent Financial Foundation
Tides Foundation
Tikvah Philanthropic Fund
Time Warner Telecom
Titcomb Foundation
T-Mobile
Towanda Charitable Foundation
Toyota InfoTechnology Center
Tradebot Ventures
Traductions Serge Bélair (TRSB)
TransUnion
Traust
Tripadvisor
Truist
Tungare Manohar Family Foundation
Twig Foundation
Twilio
Twitter
Two Sigma
U-blox
UBS
Unger Foundation
United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
United Technologies
UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealthcare
University Library at California State University, Northridge
USA Networks
V&B Philanthropy
Vanguard
Varian Medical Systems
Vast Action
Verisign Cares
Veritas Technologies
Verizon Foundation
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
ViacomCBS
ViaSat
Villazzo
Vinod Khosla
Vint Cerf
Visa
Voya Foundation
VMware Foundation
Wakimoto Charitable Foundation
Walt Disney Company
Walt Disney Company Foundation
Wargaming.net
WarnerMedia
Washakie Foundation
WatchMouse (in-kind)
Waymo
Wells Fargo
Wendroff & Associates
WePay
WestWind Foundation
Wikia
WikiHow
Wikiwand
William & Karen Tell Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
William H. Hurt Foundation
Willowridge Partners
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (in-kind)
Windmill Foundation
Wisdom for the World Foundation
Wix
Wohler Technologies
The Wonderful Company Foundation
Wonderful Giving
WoodNext Foundation
Workday
Xcel Energy Foundation
Xilinx
Xmind
XX-Net
Yahoo
Yardi Systems
Yee Family Foundation
Yellow River Foundation
Yelp
Yelp Foundation
Yetadel Foundation
Yola
YourCause
Zegar Family Fund
Zephyr Charitable Foundation
Zoline Foundation
ZX Lidars

Chapters

Wikimedia Australia
Wikimedia Austria
Wikimedia CH
Wikimedia DC
Wikimedia España
Wikimedia France
Wikimedia Germany
Wikimedia Hungary
Wikimedia Indonesia
Wikimedia Israel
Wikimedia Italia
Wikimedia Netherlands
Wikimedia Sweden
Wikimedia Ukraine
Wikimedia United Kingdom

External links

Seitz-Gruwell, L. (2023, October 23). 7 reasons you should donate to Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20240329224400/https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/10/23/7-reasons-you-should-donate-to-wikipedia/ ↩︎
Wales, J. (2003, June 20). Announcing Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia-l. https://web.archive.org/web/20130330033331/https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html ↩︎
Dredge, S. (2016, January 15). Wikipedia launching $100m fund to secure long-term future as site turns 15. The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20240827214852/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/15/wikipedia-fund-future ↩︎
Our Clients. Bridgespan. Retrieved August 12, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220812141521/https://www.bridgespan.org/about-us/our-clients ↩︎
Client List. Democracy Partners. Retrieved July 26, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230726023456/https://www.democracypartners.com/?q=page/client-list ↩︎
Forsyth, P. (2017, February 8). Wikimedia Foundation strategy consultant Williamsworks also brings background in crisis reputation… The Signpost; Medium. https://web.archive.org/web/20230808201543/https://medium.com/wikisignpost/wikimedia-foundation-strategy-consultant-williamsworks-also-brings-background-in-crisis-reputation-d58648cd1a50 ↩︎
Full list of references available on the White Rose Wiki. ↩︎