Who Funds FOSS Foundations?
summary
A dataset called ffoundations.info maps 35 foundations by scraping sponsorship prospectuses and project pages, plus US 990 filings via ProPublica; modeled outputs show CNCF sponsorships around $42M, Apache reports ~$2M in in‑kind cloud credits, and a Platinum ASF level is $125,000. Average annual revenue across 42 C3s is $4.9M (dropping to $2.7M excluding Wikimedia/Mozilla/EFF), while the Linux Foundation’s 2022 net assets are ~$114M versus $90M for many C3s combined. Microsoft appears as a much broader annual sponsor than expected.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Introduction and overview
- 7:05Sponsorship models of foundations
- 18:23Financial data of US nonprofits
- 29:58Summary and next steps
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