Expand your operational impact with a grant from New Relic.
We’re awarding $100,000 in grants to eligible nonprofit organizations in 2023!
Grant size will be determined by New Relic and will range from $5,000 to $25,000 per project. We’re looking to support nonprofits with strategic or innovative technology needs, digital transformation projects, and creative solutions to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
The application process is open to all eligible nonprofits from June 5 to June 23, 2023. Grant recipients will be announced in September 2023. To determine eligibility, please see our FAQ below.
Projects that support digital transformation.
We’re interested in funding projects that focus on:
- Server enhancements, from on premises to the cloud
- Addressing accessibility across digital properties or programs
- Implementing paperless processes or improvement programs
- Integrating organizational change management into technology initiatives
- Fundraising or donor/constituent engagement systems
- Enhancing volunteer management systems, processes, and programs
- Integrating systems/applications
- Training and collaborative application of data science, systems engineering, software engineering, and/or cybersecurity subject matter
- Observability enablement
What We’re Evaluating
Frequently Asked Questions
US-based nonprofits with verifiable 501c3 status. Organizations must act in accordance with and have a policy consistent with the New Relic anti-discrimination policy. Organizations may not discriminate against a person or a group on the basis of sex, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, religion disability, ethnic group, marital status, military or veteran status, nor any other class status protected by applicable local law.
Projects must be for digital transformation and must not include impact reporting, website development, or campaign management.
Nonprofits are not required to be New Relic Observability for Good customers (but they can be!), nor will being a New Relic customer impact funding decisions.
Organizations with a need to fund digital transformation projects for nonprofits to implement, adopt, or create digital tools and technologies, including but not limited to:
- Server enhancements, from on premises to the cloud
- Addressing accessibility across digital properties or programs
- Implementing paperless processes or improvement programs
- Integrating organizational change management into technology initiatives
- Fundraising or donor/constituent engagement systems
- Enhancing volunteer management systems, processes, and programs
- Integrating systems/applications
- Training and collaborative application of data science, systems engineering, software engineering, and/or cybersecurity subject matter
- Observability enablement
If your project is not listed but is about evolving digitally, we encourage you to apply.
Yes, grantees will be expected to use the full grant within a 12-month period and provide a short report sharing outcomes achieved by the project. We will also ask grantees to send an update video near the end of the year to describe how the grant was utilized.
By applying for this grant, you agree that if accepted you will permit New Relic to use your organization's name and logo in connection with this grant program (on our website, in documentation, promotions for future grant rounds, etc.).
New Relic, Inc. maintains a Donor Advised Fund with Vanguard Charitable Foundation. The New Relic, Inc. philanthropic donor-advised fund (“DAF”) is an individual account owned and controlled at Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program (“Vanguard Charitable”) where New Relic, as a donor, may contribute assets and designate account advisor(s) to select investment allocations and recommend grants to specific charities.