Grants & Ventures

In addition to traditional grantmaking to support people and organizations working toward our missions in Science, Education, and within our communities, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes venture investments in impact-focused companies, builds tools and products that we can scale and give away for free, and supports capacity building to achieve progress across our work.

"Ventures at CZI" team member meeting with developers in Africa about work on distributed engineering teams of global companies.

November 15, 2017 | Vivian Wu, Ventures at CZI, in Nairobi, Kenya, meeting with Andela developers Cecilia Wahome and Linnette Wanjiru. Andela connects brilliant technical talent globally with forward thinking companies to build the best distributed engineering teams. Photograph by Robert Opiyo

Supporting Our Mission Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

If interested in funding opportunities, updates or requests for applications, see respective contact information below:

Supporting Our Mission

Grants

We make grants to people and organizations working in support of our missions in Science, Education — as well as giving directed to our local community.

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Ventures

We invest venture capital in companies around the world that are developing transformative solutions to the issues at the heart of CZI’s mission while building scalable, sustainable businesses.

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CZI is composed of four funding entities: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LLC; the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation (a 501(c)(3) private foundation); the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy, (a 501(c)(4) organization).