Funding and Grants
The FOSS United grants program aims to provide financial support to FOSS creators,
maintainers, projects and events all over India. To date, we have disbursed over INR 3
crores towards Indian FOSS projects and maintainers. All FOSS United grantees are
listed here.
We fund FOSS projects by raising funds from the tech industry, either through our
Industry Partnership Program, individual donations, or by reaching out to companies
that might be interested in co-sponsoring certain projects or organizations.
To read more about the structure of the grants program, evaluation criteria and more, please go through our grants thesis.
If you're a FOSS project or developer in need of financial support, please apply. For any questions, please reach out to us at grants@fossunited.org.
Project Grants
Project grants are largely “non-thematic”. In the past, we have funded developer tools, consumer apps, non-profit foundations, FOSS mirrors, Open Hardware projects, individual contributors, and even new programming languages!
Recent Grants
A professional, cross-platform subtitle editing application built with Flutter. Subtitle Studio provides powerful tools for editing, synchronizing, and managing subtitle files with an intuitive, modern interface.
Privacy respecting, free software, collaboration and communication services - https://git.fosscommunity.in/community
This special edition is being organized alongside ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026, and aims to bring together database practitioners, systems engineers, and researchers to discuss how modern data systems are designed, scaled, and operated in production. The programme includes talks on: distributed databases and storage systems database internals and performance engineering AI and agentic workloads on databases production failures, bottlenecks, and operational learnings research ideas meeting real-world systems More about the conference: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/special-edition-on-databases/
BarCamp Bangalore is an open, volunteer-led, participant-driven unconference where attendees propose and run sessions themselves. It celebrates peer-to-peer learning, spontaneous discussions, and community-led knowledge sharing across a wide range of topics rather than a fixed agenda. We are planning a full-day unconference that brings together a diverse and engaged audience including software professionals, entrepreneurs, students, professors, venture capitalists and angel investors, photographers, social-change activists, NGO policy makers, bloggers, consultants, reporters, and more. Over the years BarCamp Bangalore has attracted thousands of participants, hundreds of session proposals, and extensive community engagement both in person and online. The event will offer multiple parallel session tracks where participants can share ideas, discuss real-world challenges, showcase projects, lead workshops, and network with other passionate individuals. It is a unique opportunity for people to connect, learn, collaborate and co-create in an inclusive environment that encourages experimentation, creativity, and community building.
Bringing systems engineers, tooling teams, and Rust contributors to Bengaluru for a focused day of talks, community, and hiring conversations around real Rust work.
Follow-on fellowship grant of INR 6L to support contrapunctus’ work in the OSM ecosystem. Last year, contrapunctus travelled to events all over the country to host workshops, events and give talks.
Fellowship to support Aravinda’s work on Sanka and a plethora of other projects, mostly around FOSS Kannada tooling!
Policy in Action Program (Summer cohort) by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Akshit and Niya were provided a grant to pursue the program.