Funding and grants for developers and organizations looking for
funding and grants to build highquality FOSS projects in India.
We offer financial grants to people and organizations building and using Free and Open Source Software in India. The grants are available in the following categories.
FOSS technology: Development of Free & Open Source Software projects.
FOSS education: Running workshops, designing curriculum, building FOSS tools and systems to further FOSS in education.
FOSS community: Using FOSS for social good, defending digital rights and privacy.
FOSS events and hackathons: See the event and hackathon grant program.
Any person or organization building FOSS technologies in India or using FOSS for social good can apply. The applicant must have an Indian Bank account to receive the grant. Grant applications are reviewed by the FOSS United team
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.
Website →2022
India
₹60,00,000
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
Website →2022
India
₹12,00,000
2022
India
₹6,50,000
An open source, two-way communication platform for NGOs to chat and communicate with beneficiaries.
Website →2021
India
₹15,00,000
paperd.ink is a FOSS 4.2" e-paper development board to show calendar, weather, to-do lists, notifications, images and much more.
Website →2021
India
₹17,00,000
SMC is a free software collective engaged in development, localization, standardization of Indic language computing resources.
Website →2012
India
₹25,00,000
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.
Website →2021
India
₹15,00,000
2021
India
₹60,000
IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.
Website →2021
India
₹25,00,000
2021
India
₹6,00,000
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.
Website →2020
India
₹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.
Website →2020
India
₹24,50,000
IFF is a non-profit organisation that defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.
Website →2020
India
₹1,00,000
Principal developer of the Rebuild Earth / Kerala Rescue project that was instrumental to the rescue efforts during the Kerala floods.
Website →2020
India
₹1,00,000