2024 – 2025 Annual Report – Wikimedia Endowment

2024 – 2025 Annual Report – Wikimedia Endowment
Annual Report 2024-2025
In a world where knowledge is contested, pressured, and manipulated, permanence is power. The Wikimedia Endowment exists to provide that permanence. It is not just a financial instrument: it is a structural safeguard for free knowledge. When information becomes unstable, truth becomes vulnerable. Corporations rely on monetization. Disinformation thrives on volatility. An endowment does the opposite: it creates stability, independence, and long-term resilience.
President’s Message
“The Wikimedia Endowment exists because defending knowledge requires permanence. It is a long-term commitment to independence.”
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
President of the Wikimedia Endowment
Since our founding, Wikipedia has been free to access and edit. We didn’t want knowledge confined to an ivory tower. We wanted a public square open to all. And with that vision came a pledge of bold transparency: anyone, anywhere can read our editors’ discussions, explore our metadata, and trace our edit history. Participation, transparency, and accuracy are why people turn to Wikipedia when the stakes are highest, from pandemics to natural disasters.
Knowledge is Power. Throughout history, those who seek to control people have tried to control knowledge itself. Today, civic spaces are shrinking, and misinformation spreads faster than ever, eroding trust in the sources people rely on. In this fragile moment, the power of knowledge — and the ability to protect it — has never been more urgent.
The Wikimedia Endowment exists because defending knowledge requires permanence. Annual fundraising sustains Wikipedia day to day, but an endowment allows us to plan beyond the news cycle and beyond the latest technological disruption. It is a long-term commitment to independence, ensuring that Wikipedia can remain accurate, neutral, and accessible no matter how the world changes. By building enduring financial support, the Endowment strengthens the ability for volunteers to collaborate freely, protects the infrastructure that keeps knowledge open, and ensures that the power of knowledge cannot be captured, silenced, or sold.
We are living in an era where knowledge itself is contested. There are attempts to not only censor information but also to undermine trust in truth. Doctors, journalists, and academics are under attack. The next billion internet users will come online in the coming years, many in regions with fragile institutions and low press freedom. The Endowment helps ensure that when they do, Wikipedia will be a safe, trusted, and participatory space — a platform owned by the people with knowledge written by people.
The question is not only who creates knowledge, but who holds the power that knowledge brings. Your support ensures this power remains in the people’s hands. Together, we can defend facts, foster collaborative knowledge creation, and equip the next generation with the tools to understand and share the facts. Your support is not just an investment in Wikipedia: It is an investment in the future of human knowledge itself.
Remember the question posed on the day Wikipedia first went live:
“Who knows where it will go?” Well, the power to answer that question remains in our hands.
We can allow the world to descend into misinformation and let our trove of knowledge decay. Or we can work together to defend facts, debate, and deliberation. We can create knowledge the way humans were meant to — collaboratively. And we can share that power with every person, in every corner of the world.
To everyone who has already supported the Wikimedia Endowment, thank you. Your contributions are not just donations. They are acts of defense and protection. As the world around us continues to evolve, we need to remain equally resilient and innovative in our response to new challenges. Through the Wikimedia Endowment, your support becomes lasting protection for free knowledge in an uncertain world.
You are the people ensuring Wikipedia remains free, accurate, and neutral. At the core, you are the defenders of human knowledge and the power it carries. Together, we are not just preserving knowledge. We are sustaining the power it gives to people everywhere. Thank you for standing with us — and for helping shape where we go next.
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
President, Wikimedia Endowment
Table of Contents
Table of contents
President's Message
Treasurer’s Note
The Power of Performance
The Power of Community
Endowment-Funded Initiatives
Donor Stories
Wikimedia Community
Financial Accountability
Leadership
Donors
Wikimedia Foundation
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President’s Message
Treasurer’s Note
The Power of Performance
The Power of Community
Endowment-Funded Initiatives
Donor Stories
Wikimedia Community
Financial Accountability
Leadership
Donors
Wikimedia Foundation
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Treasurer’s Note
“The Wikimedia Endowment is more than a financial vehicle; it is a covenant with the future.”
Dhaval Patel
Treasurer of the Wikimedia Endowment
Since its inception in 2016, the Wikimedia Endowment has grown steadily, establishing itself as a reliable steward of free knowledge in an uncertain world. In contrast to many young endowments, which typically focus on building a corpus before spending, the Wikimedia Endowment began funding grantmaking initiatives in 2023 after reaching $100 million in value. Grantmaking continued throughout fiscal year 2024–25 in alignment with its spending policy. This milestone reflects both the confidence of our donors and the discipline of our investment strategy.
Our investment portfolio has delivered positive growth with a focus on long-term stability. This disciplined approach allows the Endowment to support the infrastructure and innovation that sustains Wikipedia and its sister projects. The Endowment serves as a critical resource for supporting Wikipedia as one of the last reliable, human-led knowledge spaces on the internet — “the last good place on the internet” — a place where the power of knowledge remains in the hands of the people.
The Endowment’s spending policy balances two essential goals: providing stable funding for the technical advancement of the Wikimedia projects while preserving the principal to safeguard long-term purchasing power. Guided by a commitment to responsible stewardship, the Endowment protects its long-term value while supporting initiatives that expand access to information, strengthen the technical infrastructure of the projects, and safeguard Wikipedia’s independence. Our target spending rate is 4% of the rolling average market value over the prior three fiscal years, with flexibility between 2.5% and 4% as approved by the Finance Committee.
Through annual budgeting and proactive planning, the Endowment allocates resources carefully to support strategic initiatives across the Wikimedia ecosystem. This framework allows grantmaking and technical investments to proceed responsibly while maintaining the long-term integrity of the corpus.
Donor contributions are central to this success. Each contribution reinforces the stability and independence of Wikimedia projects.
The Wikimedia Endowment is more than a financial vehicle; it is a covenant with the future. It allows Wikipedia to navigate uncertainty, invest in innovation, and defend human knowledge against volatility, misinformation, and the pressures of an increasingly digital world.
We are profoundly grateful to the donors who have entrusted us with this responsibility. Your support is not only an investment in Wikipedia’s present, but a commitment to its enduring role as a global public good.
Dhaval Patel
Treasurer, Wikimedia Endowment
“I have always believed that knowledge is the greatest power we have to change the world for the better—and Wikipedia plays a vital role in shaping that knowledge at a global scale. Such an important resource must remain for future generations, especially in an era of misinformation and growing distrust.”
—Donor from Canada—
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The power of performance
Growing a lasting foundation for the future
The Endowment’s steady growth has strengthened its ability to support Wikimedia projects over time. Beginning in 2023, the Endowment also began funding grantmaking initiatives.
The power of community
Our Donors, our Foundation
A global community of 255,237 donors across 71 countries is helping build a lasting foundation for free knowledge.
Endowment-funded initiatives
Powering the Future of Knowledge: 2024-2025 Innovations Strengthening the Wikimedia Ecosystem
The Wikimedia Endowment was created to help ensure that Wikipedia and its sister projects endure for generations to come. In a world where access to reliable information cannot be taken for granted, the Endowment serves as a long-term safeguard for the knowledge that millions of people rely on every day.
While the Endowment’s core purpose is to provide enduring financial stability for the Wikimedia projects, it also enables strategic investments that strengthen the knowledge ecosystem today.
Endowment grantmaking focuses on areas where long-term technological innovation and access to information intersect. These investments help Wikimedia projects remain resilient in a rapidly changing digital landscape: expanding access to knowledge, strengthening the technical infrastructure that powers Wikipedia, and ensuring that future generations can both use and contribute to the world’s shared knowledge.
During the 2024–2025 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Endowment provided $3.4 million in funding for Wikimedia projects, supporting initiatives that extend the reach of Wikimedia’s knowledge across languages, connect new generations of readers to Wikipedia, enable access to knowledge in low-connectivity environments, and strengthen the underlying software that sustains Wikimedia projects. Together, these efforts benefit millions of people around the world while helping secure the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia movement.
Abstract Wikipedia
Abstract Wikipedia represents a major step toward making encyclopedic knowledge accessible across languages. The initiative focuses on building a system where knowledge can be captured in a language-independent format and then rendered into many different languages.
Kiwix
Kiwix helps bring Wikipedia and other free knowledge resources to people without reliable internet access. The platform allows entire collections of educational content, including Wikipedia, to be stored offline and accessed through a simple reader on phones, computers, or portable devices.
Future Audiences
As the ways people access information evolve, Wikimedia Endowment-funded initiatives are exploring how to connect new generations to free knowledge. The Future Audiences initiative supports experimentation with new formats and platforms that introduce Wikipedia’s content to younger and emerging global audiences.
MediaWiki platform improvements
Behind every Wikimedia project is MediaWiki, the open-source software platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects. Maintaining and evolving this infrastructure is essential to ensuring that millions of volunteers can continue creating, improving, and sharing knowledge.
“With the proliferation of AI-generated misinformation, Wikipedia is becoming ever more important as a source of
accurate, verified knowledge. It’s my go-to source before anything else.”
—Donor from Australia—
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Donor stories
Defenders of human knowledge
Wikipedia exists because people around the world believe knowledge should be open, collaborative, and accessible to all. The Wikimedia Endowment helps ensure that this commitment can endure for generations to come.
Protecting knowledge requires permanence and resilience. Through their generosity, supporters of the Endowment help safeguard the independence and stability that allow Wikipedia and its sister projects to remain free, trusted, and accessible around the world.
The stories in this section reflect the individuals and families whose gifts help ensure that the power of knowledge remains in humanity’s hands.
Sustaining the Power of Knowledge
Wikipedia exists because people around the world believe knowledge should be open, collaborative, and accessible to all. The Wikimedia Endowment helps ensure that this commitment endures for generations.
In a moving tribute to their daughter, Betty and Nathan Wadewitz have become members of the Wikipedia Legacy Society
For Betty and Nathan Wadewitz, the power of knowledge is personal. In a moving tribute to their daughter Adrianne, whose passion and scholarship enriched Wikipedia for a decade, they have joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society, ensuring that knowledge remains free, accurate, and in the hands of people everywhere.
“It makes a lot of sense to have a will” — Why a 25-year-old biologist joined the Wikipedia Legacy Society
At just 25 years old — the same age Wikipedia has now reached as a global knowledge resource — Kenny Cox is already thinking about the future of knowledge.
For Debra Scarborough, donating from her IRA account gives Wikipedia the community support “you need”
During her career as a medical librarian, including many years with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Debra Scarborough supported doctors, educators, and others by providing medical information that informed and influenced their decisions.
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Wikimedia community
A global tapestry of stories
Explore a dynamic map highlighting the experiences and contributions of Wikimedians worldwide.
CLOSING THE GENDER GAP
She writes bona fide biographies about women
Leeds, England
A curator and numismatist, Lucy Moore has edited Wikipedia since 2019. Her strong sense of justice led her to start editing on gender-related topics and she mostly writes biographies about women. Editing Wikipedia, she says, has made her “a better person.”
MAKING LIVES COME ALIVE
Her words make craft artists come to life
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mary Mark Ockerbloom works with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. Her personal editing often focuses on craft artists such as “Jan Yager” or women in history such as “Marie Meyer (aviator).” Mary is also a Wikimedian-In-Residence who writes about science.
79,000 EDITS AND COUNTING
The Wikimedian of the Year wears many hats on Wikipedia
Singapore
Robert Sim specializes in expanding coverage of Singapore-related topics on English Wikipedia. He’s also an administrator whose editing work is fundamental to Wikipedia’s ongoing knowledge expansion.
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
West Africa is where it started for Konan N’da N’dri
Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
Konan has made over 19,000 edits across Wikimedia projects, and also reviews contributions as a patroller — an editing position that’s crucial for the Wikimedia projects.
TECH CONTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR
Encouraging people is his gift to Wikipedia
Paderborn, Germany
Eugene Agbor Egbe has mentored over 1,000 aspiring and seasoned Wikimedia tech contributors, helping to spark long-term involvement across the African continent.
MEDIA CONTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR
Vera de Kok specializes in good photos of Wikipedia subjects
Delft, the Netherlands
The photographer has uploaded more than 85,000 files to the Wikimedia projects, including 7,500 of her photos, which are now in over 4,000 locations across 134 language versions of Wikipedia.
WIKIPEDIA’S NEW GENERATION OF CONTRIBUTORS
Youth conference inspires ideas for Wikipedia’s future
Prague, Czech Republic
Young contributors from around the world met and brainstormed key ways to grow their ranks on the Wikimedia projects.
ADDING NATIVE KNOWLEDGE
Languages like Quechua are finding a home on Wikipedia
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Volunteers with the Wikimedistas de Bolivia team are uploading Quechua materials to Wikimedia Commons and doing other things that are making native languages more accessible.
WIKIMEDIA LAUREATE
Anne Clin does it all on Wikipedia
Worldwide
She has been a prominent editor and organizer for nearly two decades across the Wikimedia projects, doing everything from becoming an administrator to being on English Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee, which acts as a court of last resort for editing disputes.
SPOTLIGHT ON ORAL TRADITIONS
The Yorùbá language goes on stage in Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
By organizing a major storytelling event in Nigeria, the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group contributed to the broader Wikimedia movement’s mission to document and preserve local knowledge in oral and multimedia formats.
THE NEXT GENERATION
Youth in Iraq learn from experienced contributors
Baghdad, Iraq
Thanks to the Iraqi Wikimedians User Group, a “Wikipedia for Youth” event in Baghdad inspired participants to get actively involved in Wikipedia. On display: Mentoring, contests, fun, and more!
READING WIKIPEDIA IN THE CLASSROOM
Wikipedia’s impact in Yemen gets a big boost
Sana’a, Yemen
A training in Yemen benefited teachers right away, and then promised to benefit those teachers’ students. The sessions also expanded Yemen’s Wikimedia community and promoted Yemeni culture through Wikipedia.
ALL EYES ON BEAUTIFUL INSECTS
A project devoted to butterflies and the Wikimedia projects
Majuli, India
Butterflies dazzle in photos that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Behind the camera: veteran Wikimedia contributors and people new to the field of butterfly documentation.
COMBATING HARMFUL CONTENT
Indonesian volunteers get important new trainings
Jakarta, Indonesia
Wikimedia’s Indonesian chapter partnered with UNESCO on workshops for Wikimedia contributors to address harmful content, particularly misinformation and hate speech. The sessions were in the national language (Bahasa Indonesia) and nine indigenous languages.
THE ART OF KNOWLEDGE
Japan editathon lets contributors go behind closed doors
Tokyo, Japan
At the Tokyo National Museum, septuagenarian contributor Yuriko Kadokura continued to add knowledge across Wikipedia — one article at a time.
CELEBRATING AFRICAN WOMEN
Online event draws contributors from across the continent
Worldwide
Special meetup and edit-a-thon was dedicated to highlighting the contributions of African women in the Wikimedia movement.  Many participants shared their stories of resilience, dedication, and commitment.
MAKING AN IMPACT WITH WORDS
She calls herself “a passionate free knowledge ambassador”
Nairobi, Kenya
A top volunteer contributor from Kenya, Carol Mwaura says her background as a librarian prepared her well to participate in the Wikimedia projects. Besides editing, she helps organize events like Wikimania.
FIREPROOFING HISTORY
Edit-a-thon focuses on 2025 L.A. fires
Los Angeles, CA
At a museum, volunteer editors “preserved” knowledge about landmarks lost to the Los Angeles wildfires that damaged or destroyed 16,000 structures and cherished spots.
A “HOBBY” FUELED BY DISCIPLINE
Twenty years (and counting) of editing Wikipedia
Cambridge Bay, Canada
In a remote part of Canada, a grandfather has become a prolific Wikipedia editor, with over 250,000 edits since 2005. His speciality: Articles related to Canada’s north.
“100 DAYS, 100 EDITS”
Researchers from 11 institutions collaborated to improve Wikipedia
Worldwide
Ahead of a seminal United Nations conference, researchers made 100 improvements to climate change content on Wikipedia, helping to address misinformation and raise public understanding about climate change.
DECADES IN THE MAKING
Historic gathering happens in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
For the first time, a regional Wikimedia conference was held in Central Asia. Participants came from Asia, Europe, and North America, and sessions were held in English, Russian, and Uzbek.
“AN IMPORTANT CAUSE”
Learning to edit in Ukraine’s capital
Kyiv, Ukraine
In a program called “Wikipedia for 55+,” Wikimedia Ukraine inspired older people to begin editing the encyclopedia.
INCUBATING A NEW WIKIPEDIA
Volunteers gave the Ga language a big boost
Accra, Ghana
New effort to translate 5,000 user interface messages made Wikipedia’s platform more user-friendly for native speakers of a language in Ghana.
IMPROVING A PROMINENT WIKIPEDIA
Launch draws journalists and others to learn how to edit
Cebu City, Philippines
The Cebuano language — one of the largest in the Philippines — has a new “WikiClub,” which gives volunteers a place to meet and partner as they contribute to the Cebuano Wikipedia.
BOOSTING A LANGUAGE IN INDIA
Workshops and trainings lead to new milestone
Bengaluru, India
Tulu, a Dravidian language spoken by millions of people in India, now has a home on Wikisource, a Wikimedia site that’s a library of free textual sources.
BREAKTHROUGH IN BANGLADESH
Participants united to bolster Wikipedia in the Bangla language
Gazipur, Bangladesh
First-ever Bangla Wikiconference brings together volunteer contributors from Bangladesh, India, and Nepal to connect, share experiences, and improve their work on the Wikimedia projects.
ART+FEMINISM
Awards helped usher in a “landmark” event
Wa, Ghana
On a Wikipedia language edition that’s incubating, an in-person training and edit-a-thon added articles about female artists from Northern Ghana’s Upper West Region.
KNOWLEDGE EQUITY
New digital integration will enhance use of African knowledge
Abuja, Nigeria
Trainings and a workshop laid the foundation for ​​a project that will help African library resources be interlinked with Wikipedia and Wikidata.
CLOSING CONTENT GAPS
Knowledge effort inspires more volunteers to add articles
Worldwide
Through words and images, the International Roma Day edit-a-thon made Roma contributions to societies more visible across Wikipedia.
WIKIPEDIAN IN RESIDENCE
1,000 musicians are now recognized at a higher level
Lausanne, Switzerland
At the Montreux Jazz Archive, a volunteer contributor expanded Wikidata’s ability to cite female musicians who’ve performed at Switzerland’s famous jazz festival.
WOMEN IN STEM
Celebrating “Ada Lovelace Day” in a unique way
Canberra, Australia
Edit-a-thon improves almost 100 Wikipedia articles about pioneering women in the interdisciplinary field of cybernetics.
“Wikipedia is a treasure trove of vetted, reviewed knowledge
that improves every year. In a time of growing distrust,
it remains one of the most reliable sources of information available.”
—Donor from USA—
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Financial accountability
Financials
JULY 1, 2024 – JUNE 30, 202
REPRESENTED IN US DOLLARS
Beginning assets (market value as of July 1, 2024)
144,325,622
Gifts received
11,863,214
Investment gains\losses
18,559,291
Foreign currency loss
-6,648
Total
174,741,479
Expenses
Fundraising
1,126,016
General & Administrative
528,442
Programmatic:
3,679,208
Total Expenses
5,333,666
Market value as of June 30, 202
169,407,813
Change in market value in FY 24-25
25,082,191
Leadership
Leadership during the 2024-2025 Financial Year
Board of Directors
Annette
Campbell-White
Board Chair and Founder, Kia Ora Foundation
Phoebe Ayers
Librarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laura Duchâtelet
Founder, LD&U
Mayree Clark
Founder, Eachwin Capital
Peter Baldwin
Co-Founder, Arcadia Fund
Patricio Lorente
General Secretary of Administration, National University of La Plata
Doron Weber
Vice President of Programs, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia Project
Alexander M. Farman-Farmaian
Vice Chairman, Partner and Portfolio Manager, Edgewood Management
Lisa Lewin
Senior Advisor, Primary Venture Partners
Staff Leadership
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
President, Wikimedia Endowment
Dhaval Patel
Treasurer, Wikimedia Endowment
Charles M. Roslof
Secretary and Legal Counsel, Wikimedia Endowment
Donors
Merci
धन्यवाद
Gracias
ありがとう
شكراً
Danke
Asante
շնորհակալություն
Thank you!
Thank You to Our Defenders of Knowledge
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
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