The GSR Foundation backs bold, tech-enabled solutions that reduce exclusion and expand opportunity, especially for communities often left behind by innovation.
Founded in 2022 with support from GSR, a leading crypto market maker, the Foundation operates as an independent grantmaker investing in practical, community-led uses of frontier technology to solve real-world challenges.
Their mission is simple but urgent: ensure that progress includes everyone. Whether it’s supporting blockchain for humanitarian aid, AI-powered learning tools, or last-mile internet connectivity, the GSR Foundation works alongside impact-driven organizations to remove barriers, build capacity, and share learning openly.
Rather than open calls, the Foundation takes a proactive approach, seeking out promising partners, offering flexible funding (especially for overhead and salaries), and co-creating lightweight, trust-based grantmaking processes. They believe learning is an outcome, risk is part of progress, and that “doing good” doesn’t always need polish, it just needs purpose.
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The Foundation’s early portfolio includes partnerships with UNICEF’s CryptoFund, Mercy Corps Ventures, and Silverleaf Academy.
Their focus areas span Blockchain for Good, Education Infrastructure, and Internet Provision, with a shared throughline: using technology to unlock access, inclusion, and agency.
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As our first Flagship Partner, the GSR Foundation is helping us expand the Web3 Impact Toolkit to reach more nonprofits and changemakers worldwide. Their support enables the development of new learning modules, self-serve tools, and storytelling resources that help mission-driven teams explore blockchain for good—confidently and responsibly.
For nonprofits, NGOs, and social innovators exploring Web3, one of the biggest challenges isn’t the technology itself, it’s access to trusted, values-aligned pathways in. The GSR Foundation is helping build those pathways by investing in infrastructure like the Toolkit, and in the people and communities it serves.
The GSR Foundation supports organizations using technology to reduce exclusion. Their flexible funding supports:
They focus on teams that combine technical innovation with practical action, and who are committed to sharing what works (and what doesn’t) for the benefit of the wider field.
The Foundation’s growing portfolio includes partnerships with: