Our Sponsors

Schmidt Futures awarded Hypothesis a $25,000 grant to support our work in community annotation of COVID claims in the news to counter misinformation.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Hypothesis a multi-year grant to support initiatives to scale the use of open, standards-based web annotation and the Hypothesis annotation tool suite in scholarship and research, with a focus on the arts and humanities.

Schmidt Futures awarded Hypothesis a $20,000 sponsorship in support of a workshop to develop a joint roadmap for open science software tools.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Hypothesis a grant to support a workshop to develop a joint roadmap for open science software tools.

MDPI made a $10,000 donation to Hypothesis in support of its open source project.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Hypothesis a multi-year grant to support initiatives to develop infrastructure for digital publishing.

Year 3 of a multi-year grant, Bringing Open Annotation to the Biomedical Sciences: Enhancing Collaboration, Discovery and Reproducibility.

The Omidyar Network Fund awarded Hypothesis $500,000 to support general charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Hypothesis $394,465 to investigate and establish sustainable business models for the Hypothes.is web annotation platform.

The Shuttleworth Foundation awarded Hypothesis, and founder Dan Whaley, a one year fellowship / co-investment project funding to support high visibility / large scale demonstrations of open annotation across diverse Annotating All Knowledge Coalition communities, and to research self-sustainable business models within the non-profit sector.

Year 2 of a multi-year grant, Bringing Open Annotation to the Biomedical Sciences: Enhancing Collaboration, Discovery and Reproducibility.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Hypothesis $35,000 to support the I Annotate 2015 annual conference, with a focus on launching annotation at scale.

Subcontract from AAAS Science in the Classroom to collaborate on a grant-funded initiative to generate annotated articles from Science Magazine for use in classrooms.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Hypothesis $20,000 to support the I Annotate 2015 annual conference, with a focus on launching annotation at scale.

Subcontract from the National Writing Project to collaborate on developing learning opportunities for educators that enable them to use web annotation and social reading/commenting strategies with their students as part of the Letters to the Next President project.

The Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund, made a $5000 contribution towards a one-day Journalism + Annotation Workshop at the New York Times Building, co-sponsored by Hypothesis and the Poynter Institute.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation made a $5,000 contribution towards a one-day Journalism + Annotation Workshop at the New York Times Building, co-sponsored by Hypothesis and the Poynter Institute.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Hypothesis a multi-year grant to support the development of annotation services for digital scholarly materials, including support for the I Annotate annual conference, I Annotate 2014: Annotato Ergo Sum.

Year 1 of a multi-year grant, Bringing Open Annotation to the Biomedical Sciences: Enhancing Collaboration, Discovery and Reproducibility.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded a grant to Hypothesis focused on Peer Review, including partial support for the 2014 I Annotate annual conference, Annotato Ergo Sum.

The Shuttleworth Foundation awarded Hypothesis, and founder Dan Whaley, a one year fellowship/co-investment project funding to continue work on the development of an open-source annotation tool, Hypothesis.

Jeff Brody of Redpoint Ventures donated $25,000 to Hypothesis to launch The Open Annotation Fund, with the intent of creating a grantmaking process to solicit and receive proposals to expand the existing universe of open source software that implements or works with open annotation.

The Shuttleworth Foundation awarded Hypothesis, and founder Dan Whaley, a one year fellowship/co-investment project funding to focus on creating infrastructure to enable the crowdsourced peer-review of information everywhere.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded Hypothesis with a grant focusing on Journalism and Media Innovation.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Hypothesis a $48,500 grant, Creating Minds and Books in Browsers IV.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Hypothesis a $46,500 grant (via Planetwork as a fiscal sponsor) to support the inaugural year of the annual I Annotate conference, I Annotate 2013: Annoto Ergo Sum.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded a grant to Hypothesis, Open, Digital Annotation for Scholarly Communication.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded a Hypothesis sponsored workshop of 50 world leaders in reputation modeling, distributed systems, identity, language, and economics to think through the challenges of designing a global annotation platform.