Become an Open Food Facts patron
Every month, we serve 8 million visitors, and many times that through the API. Your support is essential to:
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keep Open Food Facts open & available to all,
- support infrastructure, the website, mobile app and API with a small permanent team
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remain independent of the food industry,
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support the community
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support science
Partners of Open Food Facts
Building the food transparency commons together
Open Food Facts is a citizen project of general interest, built by tens of thousands of volunteers worldwide who believe everyone has the right to know what's in their food. Since 2012, we've grown from a small community project into a global database used by millions of people and thousands of apps and research projects—all while maintaining our independence and commitment to the common good.
Our independence: A cornerstone of trust
We are strictly independent from the food industry. To ensure we remain an unbiased source of information, we do not accept any financial support from companies or foundations connected to the food industry. This independence is not negotiable—it's what allows us to provide objective, transparent information that truly serves the public interest, free from commercial influence or conflicts of interest.
While we refuse industry funding, we warmly welcome collaboration with food producers who want to contribute to transparency by automatically integrating data and photos of their products into our open database. Transparency benefits everyone: consumers, honest producers, and public health.
Every contributor is a partner
You are a partner of Open Food Facts. Whether you've scanned a single product, made a monthly donation of 2 euros, or contributed code to our platform—you are part of this collective effort. Open Food Facts belongs to everyone who contributes to it. Each individual donor, each volunteer, each person sharing their time or resources is a true partner in building this commons for food transparency.
Our funding model reflects our values: we grow through individual donations and grants from public institutions and foundations committed to the common good. This community-based support ensures we remain accountable to citizens, not to corporate interests.
Funding the commons vs. project-by-project funding
Most of our financial support comes in the form of project-specific grants—funding designated for particular developments like our mobile app, environmental or health impact, or advanced search features. While these targeted grants are valuable and allow us to achieve important milestones, they don't cover the day-to-day costs of running a living, growing commons.
The infrastructure that supports millions of users (servers, databases, maintenance, community support…) requires stable, unrestricted funding. This is where individual donations make all the difference. When you donate to Open Food Facts without restrictions, you help us keep the lights on, respond to urgent needs, and invest in the long-term sustainability of this shared resource.
Think of it this way: project grants build new features, but general contributions maintain the foundation. Both are essential, and both make you a valued partner in our mission.
A big thank you to all our partners!
From individual citizens contributing a few euros each month, to foundations supporting ambitious development projects, to public institutions championing transparency—every partner plays a vital role. Together, we're building something that belongs to everyone and serves the common good.
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Garapena
The development of the Open Food Facts database and mobile application is carried out with the financial support of the French public health agency Santé publique France .
The internationalization and extension of the Eco-Score and the development of the new Open Food Facts mobile app is supported by Google.org through its Google Impact Challenge for Climate and Google Fellowship programs.
28-5-2021: Open Food Facts laureate of the Google Fellowship and the Google Impact Challenge for Climate
The development of the new Open Food Facts cross-platform mobile application is sponsored thanks to the generous award of the Ford Foundation and Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS), with the support of Open Collective.
The development of privacy-first and personalized healthier product recommendations in the new Open Food Facts cross-platform mobile application is possible thanks to the support of NLNet Foundation and the European Union.
The development of the Folksonomy Engine project to make Open Food Facts more useful to many more people is possible thanks to the support of the NLNet Foundation and the European Union.
Open Food Facts-erako bilaketa aurreratuen gaitasunen garapena, besteak beste, Search-a-licious bilaketa-motorra, bilaketa-funtzio pertsonalizatuak eta Folksonomy Engine proiektua, NLNet Fundazioak eta Europar Batasunaren NGI Search programakbabesten dute.
Hobekuntza hauek bilaketa-gaitasun azkarragoak, garrantzitsuagoak eta eleaniztunagoak ahalbidetzen dituzte, erabiltzaileen pribatutasuna babestuz.
The backend of the Open Food Facts database, web site and API is written in the Perl programming language, and part of the development is supported by The Perl Foundation .
Web hosting and technical infrastructure
The site and the Open Food Facts database are hosted on servers generously provided by the Free Foundation .
10-9-2018: 2 new servers to host Open Food Facts thanks to the Free Foundation
Artificial intelligence algorithms and many Open Food Facts projects are running on servers generously provided by the OVHcloud .
Open Food Facts-ek Europako Batzordearen eta DRG4Food programaren finantza-laguntza jaso du NutriSight garatzeko, produktuen irudietatik nutrizio-informazioa automatikoki ateratzeko diseinatutako teknologia bat.
DRG4Food EBko proiektu bat da, eta bere helburua Erantzukizun Digitalaren Helburuak (DRG) ezarriz datuetan oinarritutako elikadura-sistema batean konfiantza sustatzea da.
Open Food Facts-ek Accélérateur d'initiatives citoyennes (AIC)erakundeak babesten du, Frantziako Gobernuak Direction Interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM)bidez abian jarritako programa.
AICk laguntza metodologikoa, teknikoa, administratiboa eta finantzarioa eskaintzen du interes publikoaren zerbitzura dauden herritarren ekimenei beren ereduak sendotzen eta garapen-mugarri kritikoak lortzen laguntzeko.
Scientific collaborations
The Nutri-Score was developed by the EREN Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team which uses the Open Food Facts database to check the validity of Nutri-Score in different countries.
NutriNet-Santé is a cohort study that tracks the nutrition and health of volunteers for several years. EREN uses NutriNet data cross-referenced with Open Food Facts data to study the long-term effects of food additives.
→ Participate in Nutri-Net to help research (For French residents).
Open Food Facts DIVINFOODproiektuko bazkidea da, Europar Batasunaren Horizon 2020 ikerketa eta berrikuntza programak finantzatua.
Proiektuaren helburua gutxiegi erabiltzen den agrobiodibertsitatea azpimarratuko duten elikadura-kateak garatzea da, biodibertsitatearen gainbehera konpentsatzeko eta elikadura-sistema jasangarriei laguntzen dieten produktu osasuntsu eta lokalen kontsumitzaileen eskaera asetzeko.
The AFNIC foundation for Digital Solidarity supports the development of a united internet, training and awareness of its uses, by supporting local and structuring digital solidarity initiatives and research projects on the theme of digital solidarity.
The foundation is supporting Open Food Facts's environmental and educational efforts to make food not only good for you, but also good for the planet.
ADEME fights against global warming and the degradation of resources.
Open Food Facts uses data on the environmental impact of food taken from ADEME's Agribalyse database.
Other supports
XWiki regularly hosts Open Food Facts events such as the Open Food Facts association general assembly in its office in Paris.