Every year, we donate $100 to a charity on behalf of each moderator on the Stack Exchange network. In 2025, we donated a total of $49,300 USD to seven different organizations focusing on different causes that are important to Stack Exchange communities. The amount that went to each charity was determined by the percentage of moderators that selected that organization from a poll.
This year, we added the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), as moderators had asked us to include a charity focused on animal welfare. Moderators also specifically asked us to include the Internet Archive, an organization whose mission is near and dear to many Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange users, and which turned out to be the second most highly selected charity of the bunch (after Doctors Without Borders, which has been the top selected charity over the last several years).
Learn more about the organizations and see how the funds were distributed:
$14,983 to Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
Doctors Without Borders is an independent global movement providing medical aid where it’s needed most.
$13,292 to Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Their mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
$5,558 to Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis—for the trans community, by the trans community.
$4,833 to Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
3,867 to International Fund for Animal Welfare
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is a global non-profit helping animals and people thrive together. They rescue, rehabilitate, and release animals, and restore and protect their natural habitats.
$3,625 to Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organization working to build an alliance to protect forests, improve the livelihoods of farmers and forest communities, promote their human rights, and help them mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis.
$3,142 to Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization which aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science by equipping young women with the necessary computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Including these most recent donations, Stack Overflow has donated nearly three-quarters of a million dollars—$731,800 USD—over the years on behalf of moderators, who devote countless time and energy to keeping these sites functional, safe, and educational spaces for people all around the world to share information and learn from one another.
In addition to showing appreciation for the network’s moderators, we want to thank all users for their questions, answers, comments, votes, flags, and everything else you do to create and curate this vast library of knowledge! Giving back to the broader global community, through donations to charities doing meaningful work, is our way of honoring all community members whose contributions are the basis of the Stack Exchange network.
