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Your Donation Helps Communities Use Evidence

Air pollution is one of the world's largest health threats, but many affected communities lack the local data needed to understand exposure and advocate for change.

Your donation supports the work that turns air quality monitors into useful community infrastructure: shipping, deployment, maintenance, training, communications, and advocacy.

A Leveraged Contribution

AirGradient's commitment to 5,000 monitors allows us to donate the monitoring hardware required for projects at no cost. This means that external contributions can go directly to the project activities that turn data into action, and are not spent on procuring monitors in the first place.

Your donation does not need to pay for the full cost of hardware.

Your donation is not a profit for air quality monitor manufacturers.

Funding Gap

Clean air remains severely underfunded.

Sources include Clean Air Fund, The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2025, and EPIC, The Case for Closing Global Air Quality Data Gaps with Local Actors.

Development funding for clean airFrom 2019 to 2023, air quality projects made up just 1% of total international development funding.
1%
Outdoor air quality funding fellOutdoor air quality funding dropped from $4.7 billion in 2022 to $3.7 billion in 2023.
-20%
Fossil fuel-prolonging funding roseFunding for fossil fuel-prolonging projects rose to $9.5 billion in 2023, more than 2.5 times outdoor air quality funding.
80%

What Your Donation Supports

Small and large donations contribute to the same path from measurement to action.

Shipping and Deployment

Help get monitors to communities that have little or no public air quality data, and support the installation process.

Training and Maintenance

Support us in training communities to maintain, troubleshoot and operate their monitoring networks.

Data Interpretation

Support our science and communications team in helping communities understand, visualize and communicate what their data means.

Awareness Campaigns

Support communities run education and advocacy campaigns that turn evidence into action.

Project Areas Donations Can Support

Expanding Data Coverage

Deploy larger monitoring networks in under-monitored countries or regions, giving many people access to local air quality data for the first time. Projected cost range $50-100K.

Monitoring Public Spaces

Deploy monitors in schools, hospitals, sport halls, and other public spaces so communities can understand exposure and make protective decisions. Projected cost range $20-50K.

Monitoring Pollution Hotspots

Provide hyperlocal data around pollution hotspots so local agencies and communities can identify sources and target action. Projected cost range $20-50K.

Small Grants Can Build Lasting Monitoring Capacity

Funding for air quality monitoring can create an outsized return because low-cost monitors make dense local networks possible in places that cannot afford regulatory-grade infrastructure. With $20,000, a community could set up around 100 low-cost monitors, potentially covering a small country or a large under-monitored region.

EPIC's research found that $50,000-100,000 per year was the amount most often cited by local air quality actors as meaningful for their work. That level of support can help communities build a monitoring network that sustainably provides data and strengthens advocacy.

In Lao PDR, our project with UNICEF deployed 160 monitors in a country that previously had only one. Around 8 million people now have access to real-time air quality data, with a project cost of $40,000.

These investments matter because air pollution damages health, productivity, and economies. Clean Air Fund's 2025 funding report cites evidence that integrated clean air policies could save more than 2 million lives annually by 2040 and add up to $2.4 trillion each year to the global economy.