# Google.org

> Google.org is a VC fund in Mountain View backing Non Profit and Education. See 124 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 124
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 81%
- Fund size: $12M
- Last fund: May 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/Googleorg
- Website: http://www.google.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/google

Google.org is a platform that pulls together Google's philanthropic efforts. Google.org funds teams with big ideas that have a long-term global impact.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Google.org. Shizune tracks 7 team members at Google.org. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/google-org?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$6.8M |
| Grant | $250k–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Non Profit | 43 | 35% |
| Education | 42 | 34% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 11% |
| Training | 11 | 9% |
| Health Care | 9 | 7% |

105 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 104 | 84% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 5% |
| Seed | 3 | 2% |
| Series A | 1 | 1% |
| Series B | 1 | 1% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 58 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 6% |
| India | 6 | 5% |
| Canada | 5 | 4% |
| Australia | 4 | 3% |

20 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jen Carter | Product Manager & Head of Technical Team | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jen-carter |
| Justin Steele | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-steele |
| Nick Cain | Sustainability and Climate Lead, Google.org | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-cain |
| Rowan Barnett | Head of Google.org, Europe, Middle East & Africa | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rowan-barnett |
| Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brigitte-hoyer-gosselink |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Open Health Stack Software Foundation | Open Health Stack Software Foundation is a neutral, community-owned home for open-source building blocks accelerating next-gen. OHS-SF aims to accelerate "next-gen" digital health aligned with the "Full-STAC remedy" approach by lowering the cost of innovation and promoting open standards for health. | $3M | Grant | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Earth Fire Alliance | The Earth Fire Alliance thinks that a coordinated worldwide response to the wildfire catastrophe is feasible and that a data-driven approach will shift our financial and attentional priorities from reactive suppression to proactive stewardship, which includes beneficial fire practices and adaptability. | $15M | Grant | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| ISTE | ISTE is a non-profit organization that serves educators and education leaders committed to empowering connected learners in a connected world. It is engaged in providing of professional learning resources such as webinars, online courses, consulting services for schools and districts, books, and peer-reviewed journals and publications.It alsoprovides innovative educational tech resources to support professional learning for educators and education leaders. ISTE  is also the organizer of the ISTE Conference and the widely adopted ISTE Standards for learning, teaching, and leading in the digital age.ISTE serves more than 100,000 education stakeholders throughout the world.It is based in Arlington, Virginia. |  | Grant | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| The AI Education Project | The AI Education Project is a non-profit that creates equitable learning experiences that excite and empower students with AI literacy. |  | Grant | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Hamm Institute for American Energy | Hamm Institute for American Energy is an energy research and development institution. | $225K | Grant | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| University of Arkansas at Little Rock | The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a metropolitan research university offering various undergraduate and graduate programs. It is part of the University of Arkansas System and offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across a wide range of disciplines. It also offers various student services, including academic advisingand health services. The university engages with the community through cultural programs and facilities. | $1M | Grant | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| ReflexAI | ReflexAI provides organizations with tools that transform how they train, develop, and empower their frontline teams. It aims to bring machine learning and natural language processing to mission-driven and people-centric organizations. | $4M | Grant | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| Cedars Sinai | Cedars-Sinai is a non-profit, academic, community-centric medical center in Los Angeles, California. Recognized internationally, Cedars-Sinai brings together top healthcare professionals collaborating to provide exceptional patient care. |  | Grant | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Infectious Disease Institute at Makerere University | The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is a leading center focused on tackling infectious diseases. IDI aims to strengthen health systems through research, capacity building, and innovative interventions against diseases like HIV, TB, and emerging threats. |  | Grant | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| UW Medicine | UW Medicine is a clinical research and healthcare system that provides a higher degree of healthcare for pre-med students. UW Medicine health professionals provide the most up-to-date care for each individual patient through these integrated programs, lead one of the world's largest and most comprehensive medical research programs, and provideinnovative learning programs for students, trainees, and practitioners in the health professions. UW Medicine, as the region's only comprehensive clinical, research, and learning health system, provides a higher level of healthcare, ranging from primary and preventive care to the most highly specialized care for the most complex medical conditions. |  | Grant | Jan 26, 2026 |  |

10 of 124 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BlackRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AT&T](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-t) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Environmental Defense Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/environmental-defense-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hewlett-packard-enterprise) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Omidyar Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omidyar-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Open Society Foundations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/open-society-foundations) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Google.org invest in?

Google.org invests primarily in Non Profit, Education and Information Technology startups, most often at Grant and Funding Round stage. Most of the 124 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Google.org's check size?

Google.org typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6.8M at Seed and $250k–$5M at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Google.org participates in.

### How do I contact Google.org?

Public channels for Google.org include X (Twitter), the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Google.org?

The team at Google.org includes Jen Carter (Product Manager & Head of Technical Team), Justin Steele (Director) and Nick Cain (Sustainability and Climate Lead, Google.org), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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