Institutional and funding partners#
napari is developed by a global community of scientists, with many working as volunteers, improving napari for their own use while sharing their work with the world. We appreciate their efforts!
We have also received generous direct funding and in-kind support that enables us to develop faster:
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has long supported napari in numerous ways (listed in reverse chronological order):
CZI is currently supporting napari with a grant for scaffolding sustainability of the project (2025-2028, $1.7m)
CZI is currently supporting napari with a grant to seed sustainability of the project (2022-2025, $200,0000).
CZI is matching funds donated to the project up to $100,000.
The CZI Imaging Tech team, in an effort led by Justin Kiggins, developed and maintained the original version of napari-hub, which helps users discover napari plugins (2021-2025).
CZI funded two grant rounds to support the napari community in developing and maintaining plugins (2021, 2022).
The CZI Imaging Tech team, led by Nick Sofroniew and Justine Larsen, contributed development and design effort for the project (2019-2023) and funded contributors at Quansight Labs to work for the project (2021-2023).
napari co-founder Juan Nunez-Iglesias has been supported by a CZI Imaging Software Fellowship (2018-2025)
NumFOCUS serves as the fiscal home of the napari project. As part of this fiscal sponsorship, NumFOCUS provides Small Development Grants for napari, funding current efforts to improve handling of physical units.
As described in our governance document, project supporters are represented by a seat on the napari steering council. The current representative of the napari Institutional and Funding Partners is Kyle I. S. Harrington (CZI).
If you or your organization are interested in also supporting the napari
project and becoming an Institutional and Funding Partner, please email the
napari steering council at napari-steering-council@googlegroups.com.