Internet Society
Fredericksburg, VA · EIN 54-1650477. Reported 84 grants totalling $5,868,916 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Internet Society, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 20% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 35% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $35,000. Half of what it reported fell between $18,500 and $87,500; the smallest was $5,040 and the largest $600,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Oregon Foundation | Eugene, OR | $1,200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ietf Tr | Reston, VA | $325,743 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Nations Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nethope Inc | Falls Church, VA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | Detroit, MI | $240,662 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aspiration | San Francisco, CA | $192,768 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Duval County Public Schools | Jacksonville, FL | $180,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City of Wilson | Wilson, NC | $179,862 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| District of Columbia Government Octo DC Net | Washington, DC | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment | Houston, TX | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Montgomery County Government | Rockville, MD | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pcs for People | Saint Paul, MN | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Roanoke Connect Holdings LLC | Aulander, NC | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Union Community Development Inc | Houston, TX | $174,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Internet Security Research Group | Sacramento, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Williston | Williston, FL | $131,708 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United States Telecommunications Training Institute | Washington, DC | $120,140 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Association for Progressive Communications | San Francisco, CA | $112,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Code for Science and Society Inc | Portland, OR | $108,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Freedom House Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas A&m University San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $87,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Internet Society | Palo Alto, CA | $80,039 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nanog Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $61,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oxfam-America Inc | Boston, MA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equitable Origin Inc | Austin, TX | $59,494 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Internet Society of Puerto Rico Chapter Inc | San Juan, PR | $55,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| World Wide Web Foundation | Washington, DC | $55,168 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Institute for Local Self Reliance Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc | Piscataway, NJ | $51,451 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Auamo Collaborative | Hilo, HI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| People-Centered Internet | Palo Alto, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Villanova University | Villanova, PA | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District | Hoopa, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yurok Telecommunications Corporation | Klamath, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bear Rvr Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria | Loleta, CA | $39,889 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Creative Commons Corporation | Mountain View, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Access Now | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | Fairfax, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Local Connectivity Lab | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Internet Society Chapter of Greater Nyc | New York, NY | $21,671 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marconi Society Inc | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Democracy and Technology | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Copia Institute | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| The Greater Wash DC Ch of the Int Society | Washington, DC | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ietf Administration LLC | $12,915 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Media Factory LLC | Wilmington, DE | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Connect Humanity | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ipnsig Inc | Elk Grove, CA | $8,466 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arthur C Clarke Foundation of the United States Inc | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peeringdb Inc | Seattle, WA | $5,040 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 54 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Nethope Inc
Empowering People to Take Action - Ietf Trust LLC
Technology & Standards Development - People Centered Internet Inc
Strengthening the Internet - Internet Society Chapter of Greater Nyc
EMPOWERING THE Ppl. TO TAKE ACTION - The Greater Wash DC Ch of the Int Society
EMPOWERING THE PPL. TO TAKE ACTION & GROWING THE INTERNET
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 30 | $2,094,688 | $39,944 |
| 2022 | 20 | $1,989,293 | $75,250 |
| 2023 | 15 | $498,960 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 19 | $1,285,975 | $26,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
22% of its giving went to organizations in Oregon. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $35,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oregon.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Internet Society's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1551 Emancipation Highway 1506, Fredericksburg, VA, 22401.
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