Organisation·Founded 2017
“The OpenMined Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit creating open-source network technology that enables access to insights in non-public data without needing a copy or direct access.”In its own words: openmined.org
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Nonprofit foundation and global community building open-source privacy tools such as PySyft that let researchers gain insights from non-public data, including AI models, without a copy or direct access.

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Received $20M from 6 funders

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Checked 26 Oct 2026

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8 grants totalling $20M, newest first.

2025 1 grant · $11M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Jun 2025Coefficient Giving$11MSecure Enclaves for LLM Evaluation source
2024 3 grants · $2M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Nov 2024AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Forum)~$250kAISF Round 1 (PI Andrew Trask): technical AI governance infrastructure for structured model access. Amount undisclosed (grants were $150k–$400k); share of >$3M across 12 grants. Amount here is an estimate: an equal share of the round's >$3M. source
May 2024Foresight Institute: Funding~$75kPySyft — supporting technical partnership with the UK AI Safety Institute on privacy-preserving AI safety research infrastructure. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — source
2024Future of Life Institute$1.7MFederated infrastructure for data provider compensation and control. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants source
2023 1 grant · $6M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Sep 2023Navigating Transformative AI$6MGrant "to support work on developing software that facilitates access to advanced AI systems for external researchers and auditors while preserving privacy, security, and intellectual property.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source
2022 2 grants · $338k
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Apr 2022Navigating Transformative AI$28kGrant to "support research on the intersection between privacy-enhancing technologies and technical infrastructure for AI safety." The webpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy-enhancing_technologies is linked.. From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source
2022Alfred P. Sloan Foundation$310kCredit from the Sloan Foundation to OpenMined (OpenMined’s Open Collective transactions). source
2021 1 grant · $338k
DateFunderAmountPurpose
2021Alfred P. Sloan Foundation$338kCredit from the Sloan Foundation to OpenMined (OpenMined’s Open Collective transactions). source