How we are funded #
To sustain and grow our operations, 2i2c receives funding from the following sources:
- Revenue from managed services. We build self-sustaining cloud services that generate revenue through management and support contracts. See our services page for more information.
- Project-focused grants. We lead and collaborate on several projects that involve developing and supporting infrastructure for research and education. See our projects page for more information.
- Core organizational support. We raise core funding that covers the costs of strategically-critical roles that are not easily linked to specific deliverables and contracts.
2i2c’s Financial and Sustainability Strategy page has our full financial sustainability strategy.
Our accounting dashboards have all our latest costs and revenue.
Major sources of funding #
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has supported 2i2c with three awards over 2i2c's lifetime. In 2020, we received ~$1.4m over 3 years to support capacity building in the Jupyter ecosystem for research and education. In 2022, we received ~$800K over two years to serve open cloud infrastructure to communities in Latin America and Africa. In 2024, we received ~700K over one year for core organizational support for 2i2c's mission.
In 2024, we received ~$1.5M over 2 years from The Navigation Fund to identify and build a scalable sustainability model for 2i2c.
In 2020, we received $500,000 over two years from the Climate Data Lab at Columbia University for managing and developing cloud infrastructure for the Pangeo Project.
Invest in Open Infrastructure along with Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools awarded 2i2c a $5,000 grant to fund JupyterHub cloud infrastructure for projects that did not have their own cloud funding.
