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 on the grantees page.
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 a grant. For any questions, please reach out to us at events@fossunited.org (for Events) or grants@fossunited.org (for Projects) respectively.
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
The grant contributes to FOSS training program for underprivileged communities.
Webminal is a free, browser-based Linux terminal and learning platform. The grant supports infrastructure and maintainer stipends.
Surge is an, open-source download manager. The grant covers infrastructure, and milestone-based stipends for two maintainers over three months.
SciPy India is one of India's longest-running community conferences dedicated to scientific computing using free and open source software.
CogniCraft 2026 is a four-week RSET Kochi event for where participants design cognitive assistive technologies for neurodivergent individuals.
The event will bring together 600+ professionals and students and is inviting talks and workshops exclusively on FOSS tools, from programming and SRE to geospatial and hobby projects.
The fellowship supports Pradyot’s work on improving Array API Standard support across the scientific Python ecosystem, including fixing MLX compatibility gaps, extending it to array-api-extra and SciPy.
This grant supports Soham's work on ROCm backporting, GPU benchmarking, and reproducible Linux GPU-compute workflows for older AMD hardware.