Meet the 2025-2026 Box Impact Fund Grantees

Again this year, the Box Impact Fund is pleased to support organizations that are using AI and data-driven tools to tackle urgent challenges across Box.org’s focus areas: child welfare, crisis response, and environmental protection. This year’s grantees are tackling a wide range of challenges — protecting wildlife, sustaining water access, strengthening disaster response mapping, improving labor protections in supply chains, expanding educational access for children in areas of conflict — but they share a focus on turning complex, on-the-ground realities into usable insight and action.

We’re so proud to support these inspiring organizations with $25,000 grants to help expand existing initiatives or launch new programs in order to advance their mission-driven services.

Environment | Solar Chapter (Indonesia)

• Solar Chapter is a nonprofit organization committed to supporting community development in Nusa Tenggara Timur by working to expand access to clean water and empowering young people to lead local change.
• This grant will help Solar Chapter build out its community-driven platform, Mengalir, which maps water access conditions in eastern Indonesia, and promotes more effective, data-informed interventions, by connecting and validating data from communities, local governments, and NGOs.
• “The Mengalir.co initiative will significantly support the systematic mapping of clean water service conditions across East Nusa Tenggara. The platform will strengthen policy planning processes by informing development planning from district to provincial level. - Regional Development Planning, Research, and Innovation Agency (BAPPERIDA) Team of East Nusa Tenggara

Environment | The Jane Goodall Institute (US)

• The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), inspired by Dr. Jane Goodall's vision of a compassionate, sustainable world where people, animals, and the environment thrive together, advances integrated conservation solutions that help protect wildlife, restore habitats, inspire communities to flourish sustainably, and inspire young leaders worldwide to drive meaningful change.
• The grant will enable JGI to maintain and update its integrated science and knowledge platform, which leverages AI to digitize research, automate chimpanzee identification, digitize decades of chimpanzee research, and analyze real-time field data. This support will also fund an AI chatbot for local decision-makers, and help JGI scale these advanced tools across Africa to strengthen forest protection, support communities, and accelerate science.
• "Science powers everything we do at the Jane Goodall Institute. This support from the Box Impact Fund will help us advance our digital transformation by connecting decades of research with near real-time data from forest monitoring, bioacoustics, and camera traps. By using generative AI to turn complex data into actionable insights, we can expand access to critical knowledge, support community-led conservation across Africa, and carry forward Dr. Goodall's vision for a thriving planet." — Dr. Lilian Pintea, Vice President of Conservation Science, JGI USA

Crisis Response | Children in Conflict (Netherlands)

• Children in Conflict, the U.S.-based partner of the War Child Alliance, works to protect, educate, and support the mental health of children affected by conflict around the world. Through evidence-based programs — including their personalized digital learning platform, Can’t Wait to Learn — the group partners with governments, educators, and local organizations to help children heal, learn, and build the foundations they need for life, even under the most challenging circumstances.
• This grant will help Children in Conflict pilot the use of AI to accelerate the creation and translation of educational game content — math-oriented games in particular — in order to support the educations of millions of vulnerable children during emergency periods in conflict-affected regions.
• “We’re thrilled to receive support from the Box Impact Fund to accelerate our digital transformation journey. This grant will enable us to harness AI to drastically reduce the time it takes to adapt the Can’t Wait to Learn platform for new crisis contexts.Working alongside our partners, we’ll be able to reach thousands more crisis-affected children with proven, culturally-relevant learning opportunities when they need them most, and for years to come.” - Luke Stannard, Director, Can’t Wait to Learn

Crisis Response | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (US)

• The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is an international non-profit that creates open GIS tools which empower communities to generate accurate, accessible geographic data. These tools revolutionize disaster management, reduce risks, and contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals by building mapping capacity in the world's most vulnerable regions.
• The grant will support HOT’s programs for training community members in drone operations and AI-assisted mapping, building local capacity for future emergencies and developing a sustainable and proactive approach to disaster response.
• "We’re grateful to the Box Impact Fund for supporting HOTas we extend disaster response to affected areas in Jamaica and other Caribbean territories, deepen our engagement with national and regional disaster-preparedness agencies,and further develop our AI platform for buildings and damage assessments. This investment will help us mitigate crisis impacts, boost response efficiency, and accelerate the ability of agencies to deliver timely support to communities most in need." - Senior Program Manager, Philip Hippolyte

Child Welfare | charity: water (US)

• charity: water is a nonprofit organization that bringssafe, clean drinking water to people around the world. With a radically transparent model that sends 100% of public donations straight to the field, charity: water funds water projects in areas of greatest need, relying on the expertise of local partners to implement projects sustainably. Since 2006, the organization has delivered 197k+ water projects across 29 countries, helping almost 21 million people gain access to clean water, hygiene, and improved sanitation.
• With this grant, charity: water plans to enhance its sensor technology with AI-powered monitoring to help maintain remote water systems, supporting more reliable, sustainable access to clean water for millions of people. Time spent collecting water not only keeps children out of school but the water collected often carries diseases that, when consumed, make everyone sick. Clean water changes everything — unlocking better health, more time in school, and real opportunity, especially for children and women.
• "The Box Impact Fund will help us bring AI-powered monitoring to rural water systems in underserved communities. By analyzing sensor data to detect potential pump failures early, we can help our local partners keep clean water flowing for children who depend on these systems, and further our goal of serving 30 million people by 2030." - Brian Hoyer, Chief Water Programs Officer

Child Welfare | GoodWeave International (India, Nepal, Bangladesh)

• GoodWeave International works to stop child and forced labor in global supply chains by bringing visibility and accountability to every level of production. They apply a market-based approach of partnering with brands, suppliers, and communities to trace supply chains down to informal and home-based worksites, and use inspections and data-driven monitoring to improve accountability in South Asian carpet, home textile, and apparel sectors.
• The grant will help GoodWeave International upgrade its supply chain transparency platform to improve how it captures, reports on, and addresses child labor and other labor violations across carpet, textile, and apparel supply chains in South Asia.
• “Our supply chain transparency platform is central to how we identify labor risks and work with brands and exporters to address them. Support from the Box Impact Fund will allow us to upgrade our reporting features, reduce manual data processing, and make reports accessible in local languages, while training our teams in India, Nepal and Bangladesh to use the system more effectively. These improvements will help us share timely, actionable insights and support faster corrective action to protect children and workers in high-risk worksites.” -Jon Jacoby, CEO

Congratulations to this year’s grantees! We look forward to seeing these important projects benefit the communities you serve. 

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