Grant funding data dashboard

Status: Active
Partners: Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative
Team members: Sarah Lippincott, Katherine Skinner, Karl Huang, Cameron Neylon

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 2026 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 1,065 awards totaling approximately $663M USD from 2001 through late 2025 as part of IOI’s 2026 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 2026 State of Open Infrastructure Report. Please see the brief 2026 dashboard methodology page for a quick overview or consult the dataset and report for full notes on our methodology.

We have created dashboards for earlier years of State of Open Infrastructure reports as well. Please visit the 2025 dashboard (corresponding to the 2025 State of Open Infrastructure report) and the 2024 dashboard (corresponding to the 2024 State of Open Infrastructure report).

This work was generously supported by the sponsors and partners of the State of Open Infrastructure 2026 report. Special thanks go to Crossref, the report’s Supporting Sponsor, and to our Community Supporters: the Research Data Alliance (RDA), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and Cassyni.

We realize there’s a lot of information in the dashboard. The IOI team can help guide you through the best use of the dashboard!

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