Open Research Funders Group

The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is a partnership of philanthropic organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs and other forms of scholarship. Collectively, the ORFG members hold assets in excess of $255 billion, with total annual grantmaking in the $12 billion range.

We believe openness is better for philanthropy, better for research, and better for society. Open research accelerates the pace of discovery, reduces information-sharing gaps, encourages innovation, and promotes reproducibility.

The ORFG has built a coalition of interested parties to develop actionable principles and policies that promote greater dissemination, transparency, replicability, and reuse of papers, data, and a range of other research types.