Wikimedia Foundation/Advancement/Fundraising

Fundraising

The Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising team cultivates the resources that propel our movement. We engage millions of people from countries across the globe to support Wikipedia and its sister projects. The overwhelming majority of the Foundation's funding comes from millions of individual readers from all over the world giving an average of $11. The Foundation runs fundraising campaigns in 36 countries, 25 languages, and receives donations from over 200 countries. Read the details in our annual fundraising report.

These donations allow the Wikimedia Foundation to:

Support the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia projects, including providing critical services, designing and launching new products to improve user experience, and innovating in areas like machine learning and internet-based collaboration.
Strengthen performance and effectiveness of the Foundation across its functions.
Support the volunteer communities through grants, programs, training, and other activities.
Protect Wikimedia projects and communities against growing external threats such as disinformation and harmful government regulation, to ensure they can continue to thrive in the future.

The team

Megan Hernandez

Vice President of Fundraising

Julia Brungs

Lead Community Relations Specialist

Greg Grossmeier

Director of Engineering

Sheetal Puri

Senior Director of Digital Fundraising

Erica Roden

Director of Fundraising Operations

Caitlin Virtue

Senior Director of Development

How we work

At Wikimedia, collaboration is a pillar of everything we do. Learn more about how the fundraising team and volunteers worked together on various fundraising campaigns in the 2022-2023 fiscal year and how the team plans to further this collaboration to improve our efforts to support the Wikimedia mission. We provide regular updates on all of our fundraising activities at our Fundraising project page here on Meta. To connect directly with the team, leave a message on this talk page.

Sub-teams

Online Fundraising

The Online Fundraising team cultivates donations from millions of people around the globe to support Wikipedia and its partner projects.

Fundraising Operations

The Fundraising Operations team supports our fundraising efforts by providing the systems and processes to ensure our shared fundraising goals are met.

Fundraising Technology

The Wikimedia Foundation is a global leader amongst non-profits in providing donation systems that prioritize broad market support while ensuring the security and privacy of donor data.

Major Gifts & Endowment

The Major Gifts & Endowment team creates opportunities for individuals and organizations with inclination and high capacity to support our mission through donations to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment.

Key resources

The Next Chapter for the Wikimedia Endowment
Love Wikipedia? Get to know the nonprofit behind it by Maryana Iskander
7 reasons you should donate to Wikipedia by Lisa Seitz Gruwell
Foundation 360: Building the relationships and resources we need to thrive, interview with Megan Hernandez

Current fundraising activities

Read more about our current fundraising activities on the Fundraising project page on meta.

Contact us

You can contact the Fundraising team via the meta talk page

You can contact the Endowment team via the meta talk page