Omidyar Network is a philanthropic organization with a mission to bend the arc of the digital revolution towards shared power, prosperity, and possibility. We envision a world where our shared humanity steers our digital future. So far, we have committed more than $1.94 billion to initiatives that share our vision.
Digital technology is a powerful and ubiquitous force, shaped by people, that can make wondrous things happen when guided well. We believe in working together to guide tech’s trajectory through intentional choices. We partner with and invest in some of the world’s brightest visionaries and innovators to guide our digital future towards the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Omidyar Network works across the social and business sectors, operating a hybrid structure that combines a Limited Liability Company and a 501(c)(3) foundation.
Omidyar Network was founded in 2004 by Pierre and Pam Omidyar.
Omidyar Network is supported financially by the Omidyars and is part of the The Omidyar Group, which represents a collection of philanthropic, personal, and professional interests of the founders.
To date, we have committed more than $1.94 billion to initiatives that share our vision.
We are committed to integrating our values—boldness, connection, curiosity, integrity, and respect—into our culture, operations, investments, and relationships.
We are also committed to building belonging through a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for all our employees, contractors, and partners.
We are committed to fostering a sense of belonging through a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for all our employees, contractors, and partners.
This means every team member at Omidyar Network is responsible for modeling the mindsets, principles, behaviors, and actions necessary to embed these values internally and externally.
Additionally, in our strategy, we support the individuals and organizations working to make the world of tech more diverse, equitable, and inclusive because we firmly believe that if the people who make technology products, investments, and governance decisions change, the rest of the system will shift positively and become more dynamic with an injection of new perspectives.
Learn more about our commitment to belonging.
Our Priorities
Our investments span the key societal drivers of technology: policy, markets, culture, and technology itself. This includes supporting individuals and organizations that are:
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Areas Beyond Our Strategy
We only focus on areas where we have expertise and where we see systemic gaps in funding. This means we are not supporting several important aspects of digital tech system, including but not limited to:
If you are seeking funding in one of these areas, we encourage you to visit sites like Candid to research funders with the same strategic objectives. Please do not submit a funding request to Omidyar Network for these types of projects; we do not accept unsolicited proposals.
We focus our impact within the United States while maintaining awareness of European tech policy and other global developments.
In 2025, we published some of the policy priorities that we hope federal and state government leaders will prioritize. This includes, but is not limited to:
Omidyar Network primarily focuses its policy work in the US while maintaining awareness of European regulations and other international frameworks.
Omidyar Network has a hybrid structure that includes a Limited Liability Company (LLC) and a 501(c)(3) foundation.
We make grants to nonprofit organizations to fund everything from research to convenings and white papers to general operating support. Our LLC enables us to invest in innovative for-profit startups and in not-for-profits beyond public charities, such as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations.
We provide both general operating support and project support grants. General operating support, also known as core support funding or core operating support, provides unrestricted funds to support the partner’s general operations. Project support grants are restricted to a specific project or program to be carried out by the partner.
In our current strategy, we’re reviving elements from our work prior to 2018, particularly our focus on investing in technology companies with innovative ideas and governance models.
For example, in 2024 Omidyar Network led a consortium of philanthropies that invested in Anthropic, a leading generative AI company recognized for its commitment to transparency, accountability, and safety. Together, we are applying “constructivist“ investing principles and helping Anthropic adhere to its social and mission commitments.
Read our point of view and framework on impact investing.
We do not accept funding requests or proposals. We do not have the capacity to manage and vet the hundreds of unsolicited requests that come in each week, so we regret that we cannot accept uninvited business plans, funding proposals, or personal funding requests.
We pride ourselves in funding emerging areas of work, often with early-stage organizations and visionary leaders.
Omidyar Network proactively invests based on strategic priorities and typically sources opportunities through research, introductions by existing partners, referrals from other funders, events, and media. We actively look outside our established networks for organizations we don’t already work with and who may think differently.
Our programs and policy staff primarily lead the individual funding decisions, relying on multi-year organizational priorities approved by our executive team for guidance. Depending on the size and type of award, an investment committee, including representatives from our board of directors and our executive, programs and policy, legal, finance, communications teams, may also review the funding opportunity.
Organizations that receive grants from Omidyar Network have complete control over how to manage their programs and operations. They have autonomy and independence with their priorities, policies, actions, and public statements.
Additionally, the freelance journalists who participate in our Reporters in Residence program maintain complete editorial control and discretion over their work. They are free to pursue the tech-related stories they deem most important.
In our capacity as an impact investor, Omidyar Network staff members may be invited to serve on the boards of technology companies. In that capacity, they may be responsible for governance, but not management of the venture.
Omidyar Network takes a systems approach to tracking progress and impact. That means we pay the most attention to the big picture, namely, whether and how the conditions for systems change are in place. Are leaders properly resourced, incentivized, and held accountable for their performance? Are networks of partners and stakeholders activated? Additionally, we look for green shoots or indicators that conditions are durably shifting.
We see ourselves as one of many leaders in a system, and we acknowledge that, while our work can create ripples, we alone cannot shift the tides. This is why we approach our measurement from a point of contribution, acknowledging how our shared efforts with other partners result in progress and focusing on the learning and insights that can point toward the next best actions we might collectively take.
From 2023–2024, our average investment was $205,000.
We know it takes many to change a system. In addition to providing financial support to nonprofit partners and responsible technology companies, we collaborate with others to co-fund around shared priorities, collaborate on advocacy, co-host events, share expertise, and more.
We hope you will join us, whether you represent a philanthropist, investor, technology company, academic or research institution, journalist, government agency, or civil society organization, or are simply someone who cares about steering tech’s outsized role in our lives.
Contact us to explore a strategic partnership. Please note that we do not accept unsolicited funding requests or proposals.
We share open career opportunities on the Greenhouse recruiting platform as they become available.
Learn more about working at Omidyar Network.
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