--- title: 2026 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1M to privacy and... description: DuckDuckGo is donating $1,000,000 in 2026 to organizations working on privacy, security, and digital competition. This is DuckDuckGo's 16th year of such... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/2026-duckduckgo-charitable-donations-1m-to-privacy-and-digital-competition-non-profits-around-the--gttds1yir twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 2026 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1M to privacy and digital competition non-profits around the world | daily.dev og:description: DuckDuckGo is donating $1,000,000 in 2026 to organizations working on privacy, security, and digital competition. This is DuckDuckGo's 16th year of such... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/2026-duckduckgo-charitable-donations-1m-to-privacy-and-digital-competition-non-profits-around-the--gttds1yir og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gTtds1yIr.png og:image:alt: 2026 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1M to privacy and digital competition non-profits around the world og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 2026 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1M to privacy and digital competition non-profits around the world **[Spread Privacy](https://daily.dev/sources/spreadprivacy)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DuckDuckGo is donating $1,000,000 in 2026 to organizations working on privacy, security, and digital competition. This is DuckDuckGo's 16th year of such giving, bringing total donations since 2011 to more than $9 million. Recipients include Public Knowledge ($75,000), Signal ($50,000), EFF, Tor Project, noyb, and Internet Archive ($25,000 each), plus the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund and the Perl and Raku Foundation. OSTIF says its Project VLAT initiative, which combines frontier AI models with Senior Security Researchers, has triaged and fixed over 500 findings with security impact across open source projects. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much money did DuckDuckGo donate to nonprofits in 2026 and who got the most? DuckDuckGo donated $1,000,000 in 2026 to privacy, security, and digital competition nonprofits worldwide. Public Knowledge received the largest single grant at $75,000. This marks the company's 16th consecutive year of giving, bringing its total donations since 2011 to more than $9 million across organizations like EFF, Signal, Tor Project, and noyb. _Developers tracking who funds open source and privacy tooling can follow such announcements on daily.dev._ ### What is OSTIF's Project VLAT and what has it accomplished? Project VLAT is an Open Source Technology Improvement Fund initiative that pairs frontier AI models with senior security researchers to find and fix vulnerabilities in open source projects. It has already triaged and fixed over 500 findings with security impact, with several hundred more in progress across critical open source ecosystems, funded partly through DuckDuckGo's donations. _Developers evaluating AI-assisted security auditing tools can track efforts like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations](https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-impact-reaches-100-million-in-donations-qc0qti361) · Cloudflare · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Companies Put $12.5M Into Open Source Security to Fix a Problem Their Tools Helped Create](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-companies-put-12-5m-into-open-source-security-to-fix-a-problem-their-tools-helped-create-fqepn8wn7) · It's Foss · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Supporting Open Source in 2026: Why It Matters More Than Ever \($50,000\) – Frontend Masters Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/supporting-open-source-in-2026-why-it-matters-more-than-ever-50-000-frontend-masters-blog-3kjvrqonx) · Frontend Masters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Securing the AI software supply chain: Security results across 67 open source projects](https://daily.dev/posts/securing-the-ai-software-supply-chain-security-results-across-67-open-source-projects-akkukhsvk) · GitHub Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/2026-duckduckgo-charitable-donations-1m-to-privacy-and-digital-competition-non-profits-around-the--gttds1yir) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"2026 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1M to privacy and digital competition non-profits around the world","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/2026-duckduckgo-charitable-donations-1m-to-privacy-and-digital-competition-non-profits-around-the--gttds1yir","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/2026-duckduckgo-charitable-donations-1m-to-privacy-and-digital-competition-non-profits-around-the--gttds1yir"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T21:23:37.767Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T21:32:28.837Z","description":"DuckDuckGo is donating $1,000,000 in 2026 to organizations working on privacy, security, and digital competition. 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