Wikimedia Foundation Multi-Year Funding Grant

Wikimedia Foundation Multi-Year Funding Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Wikimedia Foundation Org
Amount: US $10,000 - US $550,000
Last Updated: November 21, 2025

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation Multi-Year Funding program offers general support funds for individuals and organizations committed to enhancing the diversity and quality of free knowledge. This initiative promotes equity and empowerment through sustained investment, aiming to help grantees achieve their objectives over a three-year period. Applicants must demonstrate a solid history of impactful work, compliance with reporting standards, and transparency in governance to qualify for this funding opportunity.

Overview

Welcome to Wikimedia Foundation Funds! The Wikimedia Foundation supports individuals and organizations around the world to increase the diversity, reach, quality, and quantity of free knowledge. We promote knowledge equity aligned with the strategic direction of the Wikimedia movement. Our funding programs are focused on decentralized decision-making, regional committees, and reaching underrepresented communities. Our people-centred approach is built on the principles of equity & empowerment, collaboration & cooperation, and the promotion of innovation and learning Mission Statement The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. Wikimedia Foundation Multi-Year Funding Multi-year funding is multi-year General Support Funds for individuals, groups, or affiliates that require sustained investment over time to be able to achieve its goals. In Fiscal Year 2022-23 and 2023-24, we have introduced several multi-year options. After evaluating these different options in terms of process efficiency, uptake of these options, Regional Fund Committees (RFC) considerations, current regional budget realities, and funding equity principles in our funding strategy, one multi-year base funding for 3 years option remains available as per Fiscal Year 2024-25 for those in the grantee community who wishes to: Have stability in funding for 3 years in a row. Plan to introduce only small changes in programs and metrics in Year 2 and Year 3 compared to Year 1, and no annual growth above the regional growth rates defined for each of the 3 respective fiscal years of the duration of the multi-year grant. All growth decisions will still be subject to Regional Fund Committees' (RFCs) considerations. May want to include inflation compensation: the RFCs will decide individually about inflation compensation for each multi-year base funding, based on IMF inflation rates and regional budgets available, considering also the growth history for each grantee. The RFCs will also consider historical data on grantees’ underspending in their funding decisions. If you wish to: Ask for multi-year funding for only 2 years, please follow the renewal process or submit a new application if greater funding changes are planned for your Year 2. Ask for greater increases than the regional growth rates in Year 2 or Year 3, please submit a new application each year for the Regional Fund Committee consideration. Apply for renewal, follow the renewal process.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Multi-year base funding (3 years) applicants must have at least 2 years of General Support Fund annual plan implemented, be in good standing, compliant regarding their affiliate reporting, and have at least one impact report already available to be assessed for multi-year base funding. To be awarded a multi-year grant, grantees must have a proven track record of Wikimedia-related work done with impact for a number of years, a robust plan of implementation, demonstrated strategic strength and transparent and strong reporting and evaluating systems. Grantees must also provide transparency in financial and governance practices, including publically available detailed financial reporting and/or audits, up-to-date organization websites and/or Meta-Wiki pages with public documentation of details about their governance structures and their practices (e.g. meetings, decision-making workflows), and demonstrated support from the community of their activity plans (e.g. publically available general assembly meetings with agenda, attendee lists, notes of discussions and decisions made by the community). Such documentation can be provided in local languages, no translations required, and linked to the application’s main texts (no need to separately upload to the Grantee Portal). Note: Regional Fund Committees maintain the decision autonomy to reject multi-year proposals based on strategic weakness, reporting weakness, organizational instability or budgetary constraints.