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)
Medical doctors With out Borders is an unbiased world motion offering medical support the place it is wanted most.
$13,292 to Internet Archive
The Web Archive is constructing a digital library of Web websites and different cultural artifacts in digital kind. Like a paper library, they supply free entry to researchers, historians, students, individuals with print disabilities, and most of the people. Their mission is to supply Common Entry to All Information.
$5,558 to Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit group providing direct emotional and monetary help to trans individuals in disaster—for the trans neighborhood, by the trans neighborhood.
$4,833 to Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Digital Frontier Basis is the main nonprofit group defending digital privateness, free speech, and innovation.
3,867 to International Fund for Animal Welfare
The Worldwide Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is a worldwide non-profit serving to animals and folks thrive collectively. They rescue, rehabilitate, and launch animals, and restore and defend their pure habitats.
$3,625 to Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance is a world non-profit group working to construct an alliance to guard forests, enhance the livelihoods of farmers and forest communities, promote their human rights, and assist them mitigate and adapt to the local weather disaster.
$3,142 to Girls Who Code
Ladies Who Code is a nonprofit group which goals to help and enhance the variety of girls in pc science by equipping younger girls with the required computing expertise to pursue twenty first century alternatives.
Together with these most up-to-date donations, Stack Overflow has donated almost three-quarters of one million {dollars}—$731,800 USD—over time on behalf of moderators, who commit numerous time and vitality to holding these websites useful, secure, and academic areas for individuals all world wide to share data and be taught from each other.
Along with exhibiting appreciation for the community’s moderators, we wish to thank all customers for his or her questions, solutions, feedback, votes, flags, and every little thing else you do to create and curate this huge library of data! Giving again to the broader world neighborhood, via donations to charities doing significant work, is our approach of honoring all neighborhood members whose contributions are the premise of the Stack Change community.
