How Public Lab is Funded
The funders listed below support the Public Lab nonprofit organization. Other Public Lab community members and project partners have received funding from different organizations which are not listed below. Public Lab also creates earned revenue through sales of open hardware kits in the Civic Information Starter Kit program area.
2014
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Knight News Challenge - $183,000 ($350,000 awarded over two years, beginning in 2014) Support for the Homebrew Sensing Project
The 11th Hour Project, a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation - $110,000 ($230,000 awarded over two years, beginning in 2014) Support for developing a lowcost tool for monitoring sand frac operations and pilot testing of tool
Rita Allen Foundation - $50,000 General support
Rackspace - $24,000 In-kind donation of server space for MapKnitter.org and Public Lab Archive
Passport Foundation - $20,000 Support for indoor air quality monitoring project
Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation - $15,000 General support
2013
Kickstarter (crowdfunded) - $71,373 - 1,556 backers Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project
Environmental Leadership Program (through the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation) - $10,000 Support for joint proposal to develop a community urban garden management toolkit with Ironbound Community Corporation in New Jersey
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - $10,000 Support for 2013 Public Lab Barnraising
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - $10,000 Air Quality Monitoring program for Cypress Hills school in Brooklyn, NY
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - $10,000 Match for 1,000 backers on Infragram Kickstarter
Points of Light Civic Accelerator - $10,000 Investment in development of Civic Information Starter Kit program
Patagonia - $9,000 Gulf Coast Restoration - monitoring wetlands through community-led aerial imaging
Rackspace - $2,000 Support for 2013 Public Lab Barnraising
2012
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Knight News Challenge- $200,000 ($500,000 awarded over two years, beginning in 2011) General support
Kickstarter (crowdfunded) - $110,538 - 1,633 backers Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit
Kickstarter (crowdfunded) - $34,646 - 463 backers Balloon Mapping Kits
DenizenMedia.org - $3,250 Balloon Mapping Kits, 2 day workshop, remote support
Environmental Defense Fund - $2,500 Development of near-infrared imaging for agricultural use
iLab iLand - $1,000 Development of urban mapping workshop with iLand fellows
2011
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Knight News Challenge- $300,000 ($500,000 awarded over two years, beginning in 2011) General support
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Civic Media- In-kind support Staff and research equipment support
National Affordable Housing Network, Butte, MT- In-kind support Butte site support
Shpilman Institute for Photography- $10,000 Evaluation of work at Gulf Coast, New York and Montana sites
UNICEF Rio- $4,500 To implement a week long training on aerial mapping in Rio de Janiero, Brazil
American Anthropological Association, Anthropology and Environment Section- $2,000 In support of hydrogen sulfide sensing tool development
DevelopmentSeed- $1,000 To support printing the July 2011 Wilkinson Bay Grassroots Mapping Forum
2010
Kickstarter (crowdfunded) - $8,285 - 145 backers Grassroots mapping the Gulf oil spill with balloons and kites
Awesome Foundation Boston- $1,000 Grassroots Mapping of the BP oil spill
Non-profit papers
Public Lab Tax Exemption Letter PublicLab_EIN_letter.pdf
Public Lab 2012 Financial Statements PublicLab_2012_990s.pdf
Public Lab 2011 Financial Statements Public_labs_990_2011-2012.pdf