foundations.md

Open Source Software Foundations

Some of the foundations help channel money from corporations to the support of open source software. Some of this financial support is used for conferences, some for supporting developers or writing documentation.

• Apache Software Foundation

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation part of Linux Foundation

• Digital Freedom Foundation

• The Document Foundation (LibreOffice)

• Drupal Association

• Eclipse Foundation

• Free Software Foundation - FSF

• Free Software Foundation Europe

• Gnome Foundation

• KDE e.V.

• Linux Foundation

• Linux Professional Institute

• Mozilla Foundation

• NetBSD

• OASIS Open

• Open Bioinformatics Foundation

• Open Education Consortium

• Open Source Automation Development Lab

• Open Source Geospatial Foundation

• Open Source For America

• Open Source Matters

• Open Source Initiative

• OpenStack Foundation

• Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab

• Software Freedom Conservancy

• Software Freedom Law Center

• Software in the Public Interest

• Perl and Raku Foundation

• Python Software Foundation

• The PHP Foundation

• OpenJS part of the Linux Foundation (NodeJS)

This list is based on Open source organizations by OpenSource.com