The Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit that supports development across the Ethereum blockchain, distributed $32.6 million in grants in the first quarter of 2025.
In an allocation update for Q1 2025, the organization reported spending $32 million on various initiatives through its Ecosystem Support Program (ESP).
Categories included community and educational grants, zero-knowledge and cryptography. Other allocations included execution layers, developer experience and tools, layer-2 networks and overall ecosystem growth and support.
Ethereum Foundation focuses on education and community
Of the 101 grants awarded, 32 went to community and education-focused initiatives. Recipients included educational content creators, conference organizers, bootcamps and hackathons such as ETHPrague and ETHiopia.
Sixteen projects focused on improving the developer experience and tooling. Beneficiaries included projects focusing on creating software-development kits (SDKs), building analytics platforms and validator tooling.
Several projects address Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) accessibility, ecosystem tools and language support libraries.
In addition, 14 grants were awarded to