2023 – 2024 Annual Report

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Stories

Funding recipients: Where your support makes an impact

By funding four distinct projects in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Endowment made a major impact both online and offline, benefiting millions of people across Wikipedia and its sister projects. As a long-term financial anchor, the Endowment secures the future of these platforms while simultaneously enhancing their present-day accessibility and technical infrastructure to ensure free knowledge remains available to all.

The Wikimedia Endowment uniquely balances immediate and long-term impact — improving key Wikimedia projects today while safeguarding the broader knowledge ecosystem for future generations. By maintaining and advancing Wikipedia’s reach, the Endowment remains the only fund with the dual ability to directly enhance Wikimedia’s core platforms while preserving their sustainability for years to come.

The Endowment’s four funded projects in the 2023-2024 fiscal year were:

  • Kiwix: The offline reader and nonprofit organization is empowering users in regions with limited internet access — enabling offline access to Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base.
  • Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions: The projects are expanding knowledge across languages to ensure Wikipedia remains a truly global resource.
  • Machine Learning: This project is leveraging AI to ensure Wikipedia’s content is high quality, accurate, and up to date.
  • Wikidata: This project is strengthening Wikipedia’s interconnected knowledge structure, making it more accessible and useful across languages and platforms.

Look ahead to 2024-2025

Introducing the FY 2024-25 funding recipients

The Endowment made a new round of funding to support work for the 2024-25 period— again focusing on projects that are advancing Wikipedia’s technical infrastructure.

Together, Into Tomorrow

“Magic” happens when you fund the Wikimedia Endowment

Wikipedia has now existed for a generation of people around the world. Its very first article appeared online in January 2001, followed by other articles that quickly signified that Wikipedia would be a serious and popular compendium of knowledge. Every year, more than a billion people use Wikipedia and its sister projects, which now form the largest shared knowledge source in human history. For future generations, though, these achievements won’t matter if Wikipedia doesn’t exist for them, too. Wikipedia itself would just be something to read about — like learning about an old encyclopedia from the 19th century that once made an impact on people’s lives.

The Wikimedia Endowment is our commitment to Wikipedia’s future — its future as a viable and impactful knowledge resource that will continue to be as important to people’s lives as it is today. We share this commitment with every donor who gives to the Wikimedia Endowment. Whether you’ve donated $10 or $10,000, you’ve helped secure the future of Wikipedia. You’ve joined with other Endowment donors and with everyone else who supports the Wikimedia projects and are making them better now and for years to come. That includes the volunteer editors who are adding the knowledge we all use. That includes the people working on all the projects that the Endowment is funding. We’re all working together. In unison. For a cause that we all care about: Wikipedia.

There’s so much to be proud of. So, thank you. Not just for your past support but for your future support. We’re working with you to bring Wikipedia well into the future, where Wikipedia’s even-more-robust knowledge base will do what it always has done: Give everyone insight about subjects they deeply care about. A single Wikipedia article can change how someone sees the world. A single donation to the Wikimedia Endowment can change how the Endowment grows and helps the Wikimedia projects. The result of a donation is something magical: The knowledge that you made a difference. As the Wikimedia Endowment continues to grow and to be even more impactful, we look forward to making a difference with you for many years to come.

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WIKIMEDIA COMMUNITY

A global tapestry of stories

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Financial ACCOUNTABILITY

Financials

JULY 1, 2023 – JUNE 30, 2024

REPRESENTED IN US DOLLARS

Beginning assets (market value as of July 1, 2023)119,412,698
Gifts received13,416,423
Investment gains\losses16,449,928
Total149,279,049
Expenses
Fundraising1,170,684
General & Administrative674,988
Programmatic:3,107,755
– Funding for Wikimedia Projects 2,878,345
– Other229,410
Total Expenses4,953,427
Market value as of June 30, 2024144,325,622
Change in market value in FY 23-2424,912,924
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Donors

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We are deeply grateful to the generous benefactors of the Wikimedia Endowment. Your unwavering support guarantees the long-term sustainability and growth of Wikimedia projects, enabling millions around the world to access free, encyclopedic knowledge for generations to come.

  • Arcadia
  • King Baudouin Foundation
  • Alex & Patricia Farman-Farmaian
  • MathWorks
  • I.W. Foundation
  • Ike and Ellen Kier
  • Gupta Family Foundation
  • The Aber D. Unger Foundation
  • Steven and Sandra Berglund
  • Graeme Birchall
  • Kevin Bonebrake and Winnie Scheuer
  • Samuel Bowen
  • Chris and Jennifer Brahm
  • Annette Campbell-White
  • In honor of David Colander
  • Guy and Helen Connolly
  • Disney Employee Matching Gifts
  • Peter Gadwa
  • Emily and Sam Glick
  • Edwin A. Goodman
  • Holly Gray
  • Marie Griffin and Robert Coffey
  • Kiwan Gu
  • The Keough Family Foundation
  • Jeremy Levine & Yael Taqqu
  • In memory of Richard and Virginia Neufeld
  • Manish Pandya
  • Madeleine Richard
  • Tim and Mary Riordan
  • Edward and Elaine Shoben
  • Doug Standing
  • Albert & Candace Staton
  • Diana Strassmann and Jeff Smisek
  • Fred Thorlin
  • Cynthia C. Wainwright and Stephen Berger
  • K.L. Won
  • Anonymous donors
  • Kathleen and Jack Applewhite
  • Brent Blumenstein and Anne Ryan
  • Roger and Helen Bohl
  • Charles H. and Ellen D. Brown
  • David Carter
  • In memory of Dileep Jivanlal Champaneria
  • Niranjan and Savita Chandragiri
  • Crystal Chen
  • Juan Cockburn
  • John Dove
  • The Eubanks Memorial Trust
  • Jennifer V. Furman
  • Mary and Paul Henry
  • P. Goetze
  • Jack Goodman
  • Loretta Montanari Gottshall
  • Alan Gould
  • Terence E. Gray
  • Jack Hetherington
  • David A Johnson
  • Jay Jones
  • Elizabeth and Albert Kidd
  • Kim and Jesse Kinder
  • Sally Lawrence and David Lai
  • Phillip Lawson
  • Jerry LeClaire
  • Richard Lenon and Leslie Hsu
  • Ken Lipper
  • Scott Mackie and Alison Platt
  • In memory of my sister MADELEINE
  • Alexander Main
  • Goran & Kelly Marnfeldt
  • Sydney McDole and Naresh Lakhanpal
  • Minassian Media
  • Perry Mitchell
  • Mildred B and Radhe Mohan For The Mohan Family Fund
  • Jasmine Nabi
  • Anil Nai
  • Robert Ordal
  • Terry Rossow
  • Philip and Reggie Roy
  • Scott Satterwhite
  • Rogil Schroeter
  • The Sigler Family
  • Martin Smith
  • Mike Speciner
  • Bill Spindler
  • In Memory of Marilyn McDonald
  • Bruce G. Stewart
  • Elizabeth Story
  • Jon Thaler
  • Michael Thonis
  • Kit Transue
  • Jack Triplett
  • Caitlin Virtue
  • Beverly and Darrell Weaver
  • Bruce Whiting
  • Anonymous donors

WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION

The Wikimedia Foundation

Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is ensuring that Wikipedia’s promise and potential are being fulfilled in its 2023/24 Annual Report. Explore the stories, initiatives, and achievements here.

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And that’s 2024 wrapped

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