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Grants Overview

The GraphQL Community Grant program is funded by the GraphQL Foundation and run by the GraphQL Technical Steering Committee (TSC). The goal of the program is to provide financial support and incentives for key technical and community initiatives within the GraphQL Foundation's projects.

The GraphQL Community Grant program accepts applications at any time and reviews them at least twice per year. Grant applications are reviewed by the TSC based upon funding that is received as membership dues for the GraphQL Foundation. This is one way in which the GraphQL Foundation directly supports the ongoing health of the GraphQL developer ecosystem.

We encourage you to be creative in your grant application, and propose tasks that are easy to describe, achievable in three months, and bounded in scope.

Examples include:

  • Finishing an outstanding RFC task that has been untended
  • Getting a major pull request to a Foundation project ready to be merged
  • Community advocacy, such as writing a deep-dive blog documenting a specific feature, writing a whitepaper, or developing newcomer onboarding guides and materials
  • Maintaining projects or core systems hosted in GraphQL repositories
  • Other user experience improvement ideas for the graphql.org website and/or github.com/graphql

We are not funding work on projects outside https://github.com/graphql/ at this time.