2024 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to support digital rights, online privacy, and a better Internet ecosystem
2024 marks DuckDuckGo's 14th year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. We are proud to donate to diverse group of organizations around the world that promote privacy, digital rights, access to information online, and a healthier online ecosystem.
This year, we’re donating $1,100,000, bringing DuckDuckGo's total donations since 2011 to $6,950,000. Everyone using the Internet deserves simple and accessible online protection; these organizations are all pushing to make that a reality. We encourage you to check out their valuable work below, alongside details about how our funds were allocated this year.
$100,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
“EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.”
$75,000 to Public Knowledge
"Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy on behalf of the public interest."
$50,000 to ARTICLE 19
"Established in 1987, ARTICLE 19 is an international non-profit organization that defends freedom of expression, fights against censorship, protects dissenting voices, and advocates against laws and practices that silence individuals, both online and offline."
$50,000 to Demand Progress
"DPEF educates our members and the general public about matters pertaining to the democratic nature of our nation’s communications infrastructure and governance structures, and the impacts of corporate power over our economy and democracy."
$50,000 to European Digital Rights (EDRi)
"The EDRi network is a dynamic and resilient collective of 50+ NGOs, as well as experts, advocates and academics working to defend and advance digital rights across Europe and beyond. For over two decades, it has served as the backbone of the digital rights movement and has achieved landmark successes in digital rights in Europe."
$50,000 to Fight for the Future
"Known for organizing some of the largest and most effective online campaigns in history, Fight for the Future’s mission is to ensure a just Internet and technology that is a force for empowerment and liberation, free of surveillance, censorship, and abuse of personal data."
$50,000 to The Markup
"The Markup challenges technology to serve the public good by producing investigative journalism, unique tools, and accessible resources to inspire action and agency."
$50,000 to OpenMedia
"OpenMedia is a community-driven organization that works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. We operate as a civic engagement platform to educate, engage, and empower Internet users to advance digital rights around the world."
$50,000 to Restore the Fourth
“Restore the Fourth opposes mass government surveillance, and organizes locally and nationally to defend privacy and the Fourth Amendment.”
$50,000 to Signal
“Signal Technology Foundation protects free expression and enables secure global communication through open source privacy technology.”
$50,000 to the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.)
“The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) advocates and litigates for privacy, working to abolish local governments’ systems of discriminatory mass surveillance."
$50,000 to Tech Policy Press
“Tech Policy Press promotes discussion, debate, and analysis of issues and ideas at the critical intersection of technology and democracy.”
$50,000 to the Tech Oversight Project
"Through engaging with lawmakers, exposing false narratives and bad actors, and pushing for landmark legislation, the Tech Oversight Project seeks to hold tech giants accountable for their anti-competitive, corrupting, and corrosive influence on our society and the levers of power."
$25,000 to Algorithmic Justice League (AJL)
“AJL’s harms reporting platform aims to capture people's lived experiences with AI harms, connect them with resources, and identify areas where there are no or few resources.”
$25,000 to Bits of Freedom
“Bits of Freedom shapes tech policy in order to facilitate an open and just society, in which people can hold power accountable and effectively question the status quo.”
$25,000 to the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
"The Competition Law Forum is a centre of excellence for European competition and antitrust policy and law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)."
$25,000 to the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2)
“UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), housed in the UCLA Division of Social Sciences, is a critical internet studies community committed to reimagining technology, championing social justice, and strengthening human rights through research, culture, and public policy.”
$25,000 to Creative Commons (CC)
“Creative Commons (CC) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to building and sustaining a thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture that serves the public interest.”
$25,000 to Digital Rights Watch
"Digital Rights Watch is Australia's leading digital rights organisation. They defend and promote privacy, democracy, fairness and fundamental rights in the digital age."
$25,000 to Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF)
"The Society for Civil Rights e.V. (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. or "GFF") is a donor-funded organization from Germany that defends fundamental and human rights by legal means. The organization promotes democracy and civil society, protects against disproportionate surveillance and advocates for equal rights and social participation for everyone."
$25,000 to noyb
"noyb is committed to the legal enforcement of European data protection laws and has filed more than 850 cases against numerous intentional infringements by Big Tech companies - to make online privacy a reality for everyone."
$25,000 to the Open Home Foundation
“The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes - and for every person who lives in one. It is best known as the organization that owns and governs Home Assistant, among many other projects crucial to the open home."
$25,000 to the Open Rights Group (ORG)
"Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, working to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online."
$25,000 to the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF)
"Open Source Technology Improvement Fund helps critical open source projects with their security needs and is grateful for the continued support from DuckDuckGo. This funding is pivotal to ongoing operations, as it is one of our only donation sources that is not tied to any deliverable or project. Over the past year, OSTIF has been able to sustainably help critical open source projects improve their security posture, and in the process have found and fixed over 150 bugs and vulnerabilities."
$25,000 to Perl and Raku Foundation
"The Perl and Raku Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) which fulfills a range of activities including the collection and distribution of development grants, sponsorship and organization of community-led local and international Perl conferences, and support for community resources and user groups."
$25,000 to Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
"Privacy Rights Clearinghouse focuses on increasing access to information, policy discussions, and meaningful rights so that data privacy can be a reality for everyone."
$25,000 to Proof
"Proof is a new nonprofit journalism studio that is working to redefine and reimagine trustworthiness in news and investigative reporting."
$25,000 to the Tor Project
"At the Tor Project, we believe everyone should be able to explore the internet with privacy. We advance human rights and defend your privacy online through free, open source software and the decentralized Tor network."
