Wikipedia needs your support. Donate as little as $2.75 to support us
Please don't scroll past this 1-minute read, you only had a 5% chance of seeing this message. I ask you to reflect on the number of times you visited Wikipedia in the past year, the value you got from it, and whether you're able to give $2.75 to the Wikipedia Foundation. If you can, please join the 2% of readers who give.
At Wikipedia, we want everyone to have equal access to knowledge, forever
Thank you for considering a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects.
Each year, because of the 2% of readers who give to support our mission, we can expand the reach of free knowledge to new corners of the world. If Wikipedia matters and is useful to you too, please join them and donate $5, $20, $50 or whatever feels right to you today.
Wikipedia is different. No advertising, no subscription fees, no paywalls. Those don't belong here. Wikipedia is a place to learn, free from bias or agenda.
Today, we invite you to donate whatever feels right. Show the world that access to independent and unbiased information matters to you.
Thank you.
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WHERE YOUR DONATIONS GOES:
Technology: Servers, bandwidth, maintenance, development. Wikipedia is one of the top 10 websites in the world, and it runs on a fraction of what other top websites spend.
People and Projects: The other top websites have thousands of employees. We have about 700 staff and contractors to support a wide variety of projects, making your donation a great investment in a highly-efficient not-for-profit organization.
Other ways to give to Wikipedia:
Monthly gift
Visit this page for more details or click here to make an automatic monthly donation.
A monthly donation will process until you ask us to cancel it. If you are a current recurring donor looking to update or cancel your gift, please contact donate@wikimedia.org.
Bank transfer
We accept a range of currencies, and Citibank will convert your currency into USD or EUR.
- For domestic and international transfers in USD, our deposit-only account is
- Bank: Citibank
- Address: 590 Market Street, San Francisco, California, 94104 USA
- ABA/ACH#: 321171184
- Swift Code: CITIUS33
- A/C#: 203129580
- Phone: 415-982-2960
- To donate in £ GBP
- Account Number: 18797250
- Account Title: WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
- Currency: GBP
- IBAN: GB33CITI18500818797250
- Swift Code: CITIGB2L
- Sort Code: 185008
- To donate in € EUR
- Account Number: 18796270
- Account Title: WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
- Currency: EUR
- IBAN: GB12CITI18500818796270
- Swift Code: CITIGB2L
- Sort Code: 185008
The € EUR account is SEPA compliant.
Please note we cannot automatically confirm the receipt of bank transfer donations, so please retain a confirmation of the transfer from your bank. If you would like to receive a tax receipt, we advise contacting your bank to create a transfer via Bill Pay (USA), or donating via a different method.
The Foundation does not charge a transfer fee for donations, but your local bank may. We highly recommend checking with your bank before initiating a transfer to make sure you understand any charges that you may incur by making a donation to Wikimedia.
For more information or if you have any question regarding Bank Transfers, please email donate@wikimedia.org
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Checks & money orders (via mail)
Donations by check and money order are processed at our lockbox, located at the address below. Please make checks payable to "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc." and include a letter with your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and donation amount. Please do not send cash through the mail. Note that we currently cannot accept checks from France, Italy, or Spain.
Please mail your checks or money orders to:
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 98204
Washington, DC 20090-8204
USA
For large checks of $10,000 and over, please email benefactors@wikimedia.org to notify us of your incoming donation.
Donor Advised Funds
Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) allow you to combine the most favorable tax benefits with the flexibility to support your preferred causes. If you’d like to recommend a grant to the Wikimedia Foundation directly from your DAF, please see the links below:
- DAF Direct (Fidelity Charitable, Greater Kansas City CF, Schwab Charitable)
- Vanguard
- American Endowment Foundation
- Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- New York Community Trust
- T. Rowe Price Charitable
- Franklin Templeton Charitable Giving Fund
Please contact us at benefactors@wikimedia.org if you have questions or if your DAF of choice is not listed.
Stock donation
To move stock from your brokerage to ours, please give the broker our name and account information listed below.
- Bank Name
- Bank of America
- Account Name
- Wikimedia Foundation – Gift Account
- Account number
- 16-200-2942639
- DTC Number
- 0955
- Tax ID
- 20-0049703
- Broker contact details
- If you require any assistance making a stock donation, please contact:
- Avi Cohen, Bank of America: avi.cohen@bofa.com
When the transaction is complete, please let us know the stock name and number of shares and we can verify the transaction and issue a thank you letter and tax receipt for your gift. You can do so by emailing benefactors@wikimedia.org.
Please note it can take up to several weeks for the stock to be credited to our account and for us to receive notice. When we get notice that the stock has been received, we will generate an acknowledgment letter that includes the number of shares, stock name, and the date the stock was received.
Endowment gift
The Wikimedia Endowment is our enduring commitment to a world of freely-shared knowledge, now and in perpetuity. As a fund that is invested for long-term growth, it creates a solid financial foundation for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and helps ensure their future. For more information, visit wikimediaendowment.org or email us at endowment@wikimedia.org.
Donate online
Your gift to the Wikimedia Endowment will have a lasting benefit for future generations. You can make a gift today via our online donation form. For information on other ways to give to the Endowment, visit wikimediaendowment.org.
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Qualified Charitable Distributions
If you are a U.S. taxpayer aged 70.5 or older and have an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), you are eligible to make a gift via a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD), also known as an IRA Charitable Rollover. In order to benefit from the tax advantages of satisfying all or some of your Required Minimum Distribution through a QCD, the gift must be issued directly from your IRA custodian. This free tool from our partners at FreeWill can help you navigate this process.
The Wikimedia Foundation directs all QCD gifts to the Wikimedia Endowment, where they are invested to ensure the long-term future of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. For more information, contact endowment@wikimedia.org.
Legacy gift
You can support the future of free knowledge for generations to come by making a gift in your will or other estate plans. A legacy gift costs you nothing now and can be changed at any time, for any reason. Once realized, your gift will be added to the Wikimedia Endowment, where your legacy will live on by providing support to Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
Legacy gifts are exempt from U.S. federal estate taxes. Make a legacy gift online at no cost using FreeWill (in the U.S.) or by including the following sample language in your will:
I give, devise, and bequeath [the sum of _____ USD (or other currency) OR _____ percent of the rest and residue of my estate] to the Wikimedia Endowment (tax identification number 87-3024488), a charitable corporation currently located at 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600, San Francisco, California, United States, to be used for its general charitable purposes at its discretion.
For more information about legacy giving, visit wikimediaendowment.org or contact legacy@wikimedia.org.
Matching gifts
Matching Gifts are a great, easy way to double or even triple your donation to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Click here to see if your employer will match your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation. Matching gift information provided by HEPdata.
If you have questions regarding your employer's matching gift, please email matching@wikimedia.org.
To nominate or register the foundation to receive matching gifts, please provide the following contact information:
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 98204
Washington, DC 20090-8204
USA
Email: matching@wikimedia.org
Volunteer Hour Match
Many companies will match an employee's time spent volunteering (this includes tasks like editing Wikipedia or its sister sites, patrolling Wiki pages for vandals, and contributing to the MediaWiki software) with a financial gift to the nonprofit. Learn more about the Volunteer Hour Match program.
If you have questions regarding the Volunteer Hour Match program, please email matching@wikimedia.org
Payroll deduction
Some employers in the United States and Canada offer an easy and convenient way to give to the Wikimedia Foundation through a payroll deduction. Please check with your organization for availability and send any necessary paperwork to:
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 98204
Washington, DC 20090-8204
USA
Combined Federal Campaign
Many federal and state employees choose to give to the Wikimedia Foundation via the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), a workplace giving program. If you would like to give the Wikimedia Foundation as part of the Educate America! CFC, please reach out to your human resources department for instructions to give.
Our CFC number is 61478.
