2025 marks DuckDuckGo's 15th 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 a diverse group of organizations around the world that promote privacy and security, digital competition, and a healthier online ecosystem.

This year, we’re donating $1,100,000, bringing DuckDuckGo's total donations since 2011 to $8,050,000. 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.

$100,000 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.

$75,000 to ARTICLE 19

ARTICLE 19 is an international think-do organisation, that takes its name from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and works to propel the freedom of expression movement, fighting censorship, defending dissenting voices and advocating against laws and practices that silence.

$75,000 to the Digital Progress Institute

The Digital Progress Institute seeks to bridge the tech-telecom policy divide through incremental, bipartisan measures in line with its principles of bringing about ubiquitous broadband, 5G and beyond, privacy for every American, real competition in digital markets, and a full-stack framework for Internet policy issues.

$50,000 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.

$50,000 to European Digital Rights (EDRi)

With more than two decades of advocacy experience, European Digital Rights (EDRi) is the go-to, nongovernmental network working on EU and national laws and policies on privacy, freedom of expression, participation online, data protection and technology policy. EDRi unites over 50 organisations from across Europe (and beyond).

$50,000 to the Foundation for American Innovation

The Foundation for American Innovation, a think-and-do tank based in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, CA, advances technology, talent, and ideas that support a better, freer, and more abundant future.

$50,000 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.

$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 that disproportionately impact vulnerable communities.

$50,000 to Tech Policy Press

Tech Policy Press publishes reporting, analysis, and perspective on events, issues, and ideas at the 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.

$30,000 to the Internet Security Research Group

Our mission at ISRG is to reduce financial, technological, and educational barriers to secure communication over the Internet. We operate three projects (Let’s Encrypt, Prossimo, and Divvi Up) that improve the security and privacy of billions of people using the Internet.

$25,000 to Algorithmic Justice League (AJL)

The Algorithmic Justice League is on a global mission to prevent AI harm using research, advocacy, and art.

$25,000 to the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) hosts the Competition Law Forum, a centre of excellence for European competition and antitrust policy and law. 

$25,000 to Bull Moose Project

The Bull Moose Project Foundation develops and promotes policies that promote fair markets, support American innovation, and hold Big Tech accountable for anti-competitive and anti-consumer conduct.

$25,000 to Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project

The Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project (CAMP) is a think tank dedicated to addressing the issue of monopoly power in Canada and around the world. CAMP produces research, commentary, and policy to make our economies more fair, free, and democratic.

$25,000 to Consumers International

Consumers International is the global membership organisation for consumer rights groups. Founded in 1960, we bring together over 200 member organisations in more than 100 countries, with a mission to empower and champion the rights of consumers everywhere and to build a fair, safe and sustainable marketplace.

$25,000 to Demand Progress

DPEF empowers people to understand how our communications and governance systems should serve democracy — and how corporate power threatens our economy and our democratic future.

$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 Internet Archive

The Internet Archive's mission is to provide “Universal Access yo All Knowledge” by preserving and providing free access to digital materials and cultural heritage serving as a digital library for researchers, historians, scholars, and the public to read, learn, and explore for free.

$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)

In the past year, OSTIF collaborations led to the fixing of over 130 findings with security impact. Our security uplifts to open source projects wouldn't be possible without the continued support from DuckDuckGo. We are honored to be part of this program and contribute to a more secure Internet ecosystem.

$25,000 to Perl and Raku Foundation

The Perl and Raku Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl and Raku programming languages, through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code.

$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 Restore the Fourth

Restore the Fourth advocates with federal, state and local elected officials, to defend privacy and freedom from unreasonable government surveillance.

$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.

$20,000 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.