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Project Funding Overview

OpenRefine relies on a combination of volunteer contributions and financial support to sustain its development. This diversified funding keeps our core team in place, supports essential infrastructure, and enables strategic community outreach.

Operating Budget​

We are seeking your support to fund OpenRefine's core team, a small group of part-time staff who maintain the project's infrastructure, respond to community needs, review and guide volunteer contributors, handle security reports, and steward the ecosystem of extensions and reconciliation services.

Our annual operating budget is US$140 000 (or appx US$11,500 per month), covering:

  • US $7,500 per month for OpenRefine Developer & Contributor Engagement lead
  • US $2,500 per month for project coordination
  • US $70 per month for essential software licenses (Figma and Discourse)
  • 15% of donations to our fiscal sponsor, Code for Science and Society, to handle administration and compliance

Additional funding enables us to organize community events, conduct outreach efforts, and undertake special projects. OpenRefine maintains a curated list of goalposts based on the interests and priorities of our community. We are currently seeking resources to achieve them. You can help by forming partnerships between your organization and OpenRefine or providing financial support.

Individual and corporate donations​

OpenRefine is a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science & Society, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization in the USA. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by US law (Tax ID: 81-3791683).

Ways to donate:

We would like to thanks our current donors.

Grants​

Since 2018, OpenRefine has relied on grants to sustain its development. Below, you can find information on past, current, and under-application grants. Please note that the actual execution of the grant may differ in terms of budget, scope, and timeline from the initial application.

Applying​

OpenRefine is actively applying to grant opportunities listed in this section. We will update this section with the latest information as we progress. If you're interested in partnering with us for a grant, contact us.

Active Grants​

OpenRefine is currently working on the following grants.

2022 EOSS-5​

Completed Grants​

OpenRefine completed the following grants.

2023 Wikimedia Foundation​

2021 EOSS-Diversity​

2023 NFDI​

2022 NFDI​

  • CS&S code: ORefine: General
  • Status: Awarded - Completed
  • Amount: EUR 10,000
  • Source: NFDI4Culture
  • Start date: July 2022
  • End date: December 2022
  • Relevant link:

2021 Wikimedia Foundation​

2019 EOSS-1​

2018 Google News Initiative​

Unsuccessful applications​

We applied for the following grant opportunities, but our proposals were not selected.

2025 NLNet: Hardening OpenRefine’s Extension Architecture​

2025 NLNet: Native In-App Reconciliation of Arbitrary Local Data Sets​

2025 Digital Science Catalyst Grant​

2025 Research Software Maintenance Fund​

2024 Wikimedia Foundation​

2024-DEF​

2023 EOSS-6​

2023 Mozilla Infrastructure Fund​

2021 EOSS-4​