Status: Active
Partners: Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative
Team members: Gail Steinhart, Karl Huang, David Riordan

Overview

At Invest in Open Infrastructure, our work to increase investment in open infrastructure relies on a deep understanding of how infrastructure is funded, and by whom.

The 2025 grant funding data dashboard provides a snapshot of the grant funding landscape of open infrastructure for research and scholarship. It currently builds on an updated dataset that includes 641 awards totaling approximately $550M USD from 2001 through late 2024 as part of IOI’s 2025 State of Open Infrastructure Report.

This dashboard can be a useful resource for stakeholders in the open infrastructure space — funders, adopters, open infrastructure services, and others — looking to:

• Better understand the flow of grant funding for open infrastructure services, e.g. which funders are investing in which open infrastructures, the types of support,
• Explore grant funding temporal trends and distribution across geographical regions, and
• Identify gaps in grant funding and make more informed funding and investment decisions.

Dashboard

Data and methodology

The dashboard supports Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)’s 2025 State of Open Infrastructure Report. Please see the report for notes on the methodology used here.

A snapshot of the 2025 data used to populate the dashboard is available for download, and includes detailed documentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15198420 

The data supporting the analysis in the Open Infrastructure Grant Funding chapter of our 2024 State of Open Infrastructure report is available at: https://zenodo.org/records/10934085 

This work was generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Arcadia Fund.

Feedback

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