GitLab Foundation

• GitLab Foundation funds work that increases lifetime earnings through education, training, access to opportunities and systems change, with a priority geographic focus on Colombia, Kenya and the United States, so check your work fits that remit before applying.
• Typical grants run from $50,000 to $400,000, with a median of $250,000 and a largest grant of $1,000,000, and specific programmes have their own ceilings: the AI for Economic Opportunity Fund is stated at $250,000, the Powering Economic Opportunity Fund up to $500,000, and the Learning for Action Fund up to $50,000, so size your request to the relevant fund.
• The foundation accepts applications to fixed deadlines, and for the Powering Economic Opportunity Fund you start with a short concept note setting out how your initiative connects workers to high-quality jobs in growing sectors; the AI for Economic Opportunity Fund has annual calls for applicants, though no recurring submission date or season is stated, so watch for the call.
• Around four in ten grant dollars went to organisations it had already funded in the previous two filings, suggesting it does fund new organisations as well as returning ones, and half of its grants were $250,000 or less, so a modest request is realistic for most applicants.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Digital Green Foundation · Scaling farmer chat to improve self-efficacy and incomes of smallholder farmers in kenya
  $500,0002025 tax year
• Industrial Commons · Economic opportunity for textile workers
  $500,0002025 tax year
• One Acre Fund · To support driving greater income growth: tech-enabled crop commercialization for kenyan smallholders
  $500,0002025 tax year
• Mobile Pathways · To support increasing income for asylum seekers via accelerated authorizations
  $500,0002025 tax year
• Realize Impact · National expansion project aimed to grow risekit's successful platform into two new markets
  $475,0002025 tax year
• Fundación Santo Domingo · Strengthen income generation capacities of migrant polulation, youth, and informal workers.
  $460,0002025 tax year
• Pursuit · To support scaling pre-job training: increasing roi via industry engagement & in-person programs.
  $375,0002025 tax year
• Cal EPIC · Cal epic ev tech training program
  $375,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.