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How Public Lab is Funded

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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.

Current Support

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
$1,575,000 Support for community science capacity building

National Academies' Gulf Research Program
$294,912 Youth-led community science projects in the Gulf region

11th Hour Project
$160,000 General operating support

Wayne Resa subgrant
$118,000 AEROKATS and ROVER Education Network

Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program
$30,203 General operating support

United Nations Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
In-kind support for Public Lab Google Summer of Code students

Save the Hills Alliance
$1,500 Sand Sentinel program

We'd also like to thank the following supporters who have gone above and beyond in FY19: Chris Jochnick, Christina Xu, Elaine Garvey, Eric Berliner, Glorianna Davenport, Gwen Ottinger, Hillary Hartley Janet Haven, Jeff Goldenson, Katherine Barry, Micah Sifry, Michael Ma, Patrick Coyle, Rajul Pandya


Past Support

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
* $500,000 General support, Knight News Challenge
* $350,000 Support for the Homebrew Sensing Project, Knight News Challenge
* $150,000 General Operating support
* $16,000 Match for 1,000 backers on Infragram Kickstarter
* $10,000 Support for 2014 Public Lab Barnraising

The 11th Hour Project, a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation
* $350,000 Support for development of the Oil and Gas Accountability Toolkit
* $350,000 Community Networks for Oil and Gas Accountability
* $230,000 Support for community development of low cost tool for monitoring sand frac operations and pilot testing of tool
* $50,000 Support of DIY water turbidity monitoring in communities affected by frac sand mining
* $26,000 Archiving and updating the bucket monitoring tool and method

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
* $374,745 Support for research on the capacity of Public Lab’s model of community science to both build confidence in scientific concepts and increase civic engagement, to be completed in partnership with the University of California, Davis
* $5,000 Support for partnership building with AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange

Kickstarter (crowdfunded)
* $110,538 - 1,633 backers Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit
* $71,373 - 1,556 backers Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project
* $41,357 The Community Microscope Kit * $34,646 - 463 backers Balloon Mapping Kits
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$12,259 Kickstarter Gold: Balloon mapping kits
* $8,285 - 145 backers [Grassroots mapping the Gulf oil spill with balloons and kites]
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jywarren/grassroots-mapping-the-gulf-oil-spill-with-balloon)

* _$4,291 BabyLegs Marine Microplastics trawler

Autodesk Foundation Fund, a corporate advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
* $100,000 General operating support
* $100,000 General operating support
* $25,000 General operating support
* $15,000 Student Intern program
* $15,000 Student Intern program

Claneil Foundation Emerging Leaders Fund
* $230,000 General operating support
* $5,000 Support for 2018 Barnraising

Rita Allen Foundation
* $50,000 General support
* $150,000 Support for a snapshot evaluation of Public Lab and development of an evaluation framework for co-created citizen science projects in partnership with UC-Davis

National Academies' Gulf Research Program
* $158,000 Support for building scientific literacy and resilience through community science in the Gulf of Mexico

Foundation to Promote Open Society, a part of the Open Society Foundations
* $150,000 Support for launching the Public Lab data advocacy initiative

Google
* $15,000 Support for development of Infragram
* $85,800 Support for MapKnitter v2

Ashoka
* Recognition of 2010-20 Executive Director, Shannon Dosemagen, as an Ashoka Fellow

Fund for Shared Insight, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc., with support from Rita Allen Foundation
* $60,000 Support under the Listen for Good to develop a robust systems for collecting and using feedback from stakeholders

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
* $52,185 To train community members and wetland restoration advocates to monitor and track progress at eight ongoing urban wetland restoration projects near Lake Pontchartrain.
* $10,000 Air Quality Monitoring program for Cypress Hills school in Brooklyn, NY

Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh
* $50,000 General operating support

Brown University, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
* $10,271 Providence, RI mapping project
* $25,000 Support for StoryMap project

National Geographic Society
* $31,300 2019 Science for Action Convening in Galveston and Houston

Stanford University Digital Impact Grant
* $28,600 Community Data Privacy Toolkit

New World Foundation
* $25,600 Preparing crowdsource disaster response to fracking emergencies in partnership with Northeastern University Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute

United Nations Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
* $25,000 Support through the second Catalytic Grant cycle for PublicLab.org features

Google Summer of Code
* $10,300 web development support 2019
* $7,200 web development support 2018
* $5,200 Google Code In 2018
* $5,200 web development support 2017
* $4,700 web development support 2016
* $3,842.21 web development support 2014
* $3,213.86 web development support 2013

Passport Foundation
* $20,000 Support for indoor air quality monitoring project

Threshold Foundation
* $19,650 General support

Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation
* $15,000 General support

Raspberry Pi Foundation
* $13,000 Support for development of curriculum around near-infrared imaging

National Science Foundation
* $10,987 "EAGER: Collaborative Research: SmartPhone App for Residential Testing of Formaldehyde (SmART-Form)," award number 1645090

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

Points of Light Civic Accelerator
* $10,000 Investment in development of Civic Information Starter Kit program

Shpilman Institute for Photography
* $10,000 Evaluation of work at Gulf Coast, New York and Montana sites

Patagonia
* $9,000 Gulf Coast Restoration - monitoring wetlands through community-led aerial imaging

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
* $5,000 General operating support

UNICEF Rio
* $4,500 To implement a week long training on aerial mapping in Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Microsoft
* $4,000 In support of the spring 2015 Barnraising in Chicago, IL

MapBox
* $4,000 In support of the spring 2015 Barnraising in Chicago, IL

DenizenMedia.org
* $3,250 Balloon Mapping Kits, 2 day workshop, remote support

New Knowledge Foundation Ltd.
* $3,000 Partnership support on behalf of their EECapacity Project, an effort funded by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency through a cooperative agreement with Cornell University, in collaboration with the North American Association for Environmental Education under Assistant Agreement No. NT-83497401-0

Environmental Defense Fund
* $2,500 Development of near-infrared imaging for agricultural use

Rackspace
* $2,000 Support for 2013 Public Lab Barnraising
* In-kind donation Server space for MapKnitter.org and Public Lab Archive

American Anthropological Association, Anthropology and Environment Section
* $2,000 In support of hydrogen sulfide sensing tool development

iLab iLand
* $1,000 Development of urban mapping workshop with iLand fellows

Mozilla Open News
* $1,000 Support for ProPublica/Public Lab mapping in Louisiana

DevelopmentSeed
* $1,000 To support printing the July 2011 Wilkinson Bay Grassroots Mapping Forum

Awesome Foundation Boston
* $1,000 Grassroots Mapping of the BP oil spill

MakerBot
* In-kind donation Ten MakerBot Replicator1 3D printers

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Civic Media
* In-kind support Staff and research equipment * In-kind donation Server space at MIT Media Lab for Public Lab infrastructure

National Affordable Housing Network, Butte, MT
* In-kind support Butte site


Non-profit papers

Public Lab Tax Exemption Letter Public_Lab_Tax_Determination_Letter.pdf

Public Lab 2018 Financial Statements Public_Lab_2018-19.pdf

Public Lab 2017 Financial Statements Public_Lab_2017-18_990.pdf

Public Lab 2016 Financial Statements Public_Lab_2016-17_990.pdf

Public Lab 2015 Financial Statements Public_Lab_2015_990s.pdf (_Audit available upon requests)

Public Lab 2014 Financial Statements Public_Lab_2014_990.PDF (Audit available upon request)

Public Lab 2013 Financial Statements PublicLab_2013_990s.PDF (Audit available upon request)

Public Lab 2012 Financial Statements PublicLab_2012_990s.pdf (CPA review available upon request)

Public Lab 2011 Financial Statements Public_labs_990_2011-2012.pdf (CPA review available upon request)