An alphabetical listing of non-profit foundations that host FOSS projects or are otherwise significant in the open source ecosystem.
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AlmaLinux OS Foundation
Website: https://almalinux.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Apereo Foundation Inc
Website: https://apereo.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
The Apereo Foundation works internationally to increase the awareness, development and adoption of open source software in support of academia: education, scholarship, research and community. Apereo projects and communities span educational disciplines and technologies, operational infrastructure and practices, and research activities and interests; 'for academics, by academics.' -
Apache Software Foundation
Website: https://www.apache.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Beneficent Technology Inc
Website: https://benetech.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
Benetech’s nonprofit software empowers communities with software for social good. Learn how all humanity can benefit from the technology we’re developing. -
BioBricks Foundation
Website: https://biobricks.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Bytecode Alliance Foundation
Website: https://bytecodealliance.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
We develop runtime environments and language toolchains where security, efficiency, and modularity can all coexist across a wide range of devices and architectures -
Clojurists Together Foundation
Website: https://www.clojuriststogether.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
The Clojurists Together Foundation is a trade organisation, dedicated to funding and supporting open source software, infrastructure, and documentation that is important to the Clojure and ClojureScript community. -
Commonhaus Foundation
Website: https://www.commonhaus.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
Building a forever home for open source projects. -
Creative Commons
Website: https://creativecommons.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Django Events Foundation North America
Website: https://www.defna.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Django Software Foundation
Website: https://www.djangoproject.com/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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.NET Foundation
Website: https://dotnetfoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Drupal Association
Website: https://www.drupal.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Eclipse Foundation AISBL
Website: https://eclipse.org/
Nonprofit Type: Belgian charitable; Nonprofit501c6
The Eclipse Foundation provides its global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable, and business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. -
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Website: https://www.eff.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
Defending your rights in the digital world -
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Website: https://www.erlef.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
Supporting the next generation of advanced, reliable, realtime applications -
Foundation for Public Code vereniging
Website: https://publiccode.net/
Nonprofit Type: algemeen nut beogende instelling
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FreeBSD Foundation
Website: https://www.freebsd.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Website: http://www.fsf.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.
Website: https://fsfe.org/
Nonprofit Type: charitable e.V.
Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. -
Free Software Support Network
Website: http://freesoftwaresupport.net/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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F# Software Foundation
Website: https://foundation.fsharp.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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The Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
Website: https://www.gentoo.org/
Nonprofit Type: New Mexico non profit
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GNOME Foundation
Website: https://www.gnome.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Haiku, Inc.
Website: https://www.haiku-inc.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Haskell-org Inc.
Website: https://www.haskell.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Identity Commons Inc
Website: https://idcommons.net
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
Website: https://www.isc.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Open Source Matters
Website: https://www.opensourcematters.org/
Nonprofit Type: charitable
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KDE e.V.
Website: https://ev.kde.org/
Nonprofit Type: DEAssociation
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Kuali Foundation Inc.
Website: https://www.kuali.co/about
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Linux Foundation
Website: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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LF Charities Inc
Website: https://lf-charities.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
A non-profit fiscal host working closely with the LF. -
Linux Kernel Organization
Website: https://www.kernel.org/nonprofit.html
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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LLVM Foundation
Website: https://foundation.llvm.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Mozilla Foundation
Website: https://www.mozilla.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
Website: http://www.netbsd.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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NumFocus, Inc.
Website: https://numfocus.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Oasis Open
Website: https://www.oasis-open.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Open Collective Foundation
Website: https://opencollective.foundation
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
Past fiscal host for FOSS projects; shutting down in 2024 -
Open Education Global Inc
Website: https://www.oeglobal.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Open Information Security Foundation
Website: https://oisf.net/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
Building community and supporting open source security technologies like Suricata. -
One Laptop Per Child Association Inc.
Website: https://laptop.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Open Molecular Software Foundation
Website: https://omsf.io
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
The Open Molecular Software Foundation -
Open Compute Project Foundation
Website: https://opencompute.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
Open Compute Project -
Open Connectivity Foundation Inc
Website: https://openconnectivity.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Open Home Foundation
Website: https://www.openhomefoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: stiftung
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OpenID Foundation
Website: https://openid.net/foundation/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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OpenJS Foundation
Website: https://www.openjsf.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Open Source Robotics Foundation Inc
Website: https://www.openrobotics.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Openstack Foundation
Website: https://openinfra.dev/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Openstreetmap Foundation
Website: https://osmfoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: LimitedByGuaranteeCharity
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Open Technology Fund
Website: https://www.opentech.fund/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
OTF | Supporting Internet Freedom Worldwide -
Open Transit Software Foundation
Website: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Open Source Collective
Website: https://www.oscollective.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
Our mission is to promote sustainability and health in the open source ecosystem, while working to benefit all those who create and use open source software. -
OSET Institute
Website: https://www.osetinstitute.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Website: https://www.osgeo.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c4
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Open Source Initiative
Website: http://opensource.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Open Web Application Security Project
Website: https://www.owasp.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Participatory Culture Foundation
Website: https://pculture.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Yet Another Society, (DBA) The Perl And Raku Foundation
Website: https://www.perlfoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Plone Foundation
Website: https://plone.org/foundation/committees/ip/policy
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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United States Postgresql Association
Website: https://postgresql.us
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Processing Foundation, Inc.
Website: https://processingfoundation.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Python Software Foundation
Website: https://www.python.org/psf-landing/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Rails Foundation
Website: https://rubyonrails.org/foundation
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Raspberry Pi Foundation
Website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/
Nonprofit Type: LimitedByGuaranteeCharity
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Raspberry Pi Foundation North America Inc
Website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Ruby Central, Inc.
Website: https://rubycentral.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Rust Foundation
Website: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Sahana Foundation
Website: https://sahanafoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Linux Expo of Southern California
Website: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Software Freedom Conservancy
Website: https://sfconservancy.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Software Freedom Law Center
Website: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Signal Foundation
Website: https://signalfoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Software in the Public Interest
Website: https://www.spi-inc.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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The Document Foundation
Website: https://www.documentfoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: charitable
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Technology Matters
Website: https://techmatters.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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TeX Users Group
Website: https://tug.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Wikimedia Foundation
Website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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WordPress Foundation
Website: https://wordpress.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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XIPH ORG Foundation
Website: https://xiph.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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XMPP Standards Foundation
Website: https://xmpp.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
Table of contents
- Foundations By Category
- Non-Foundation FOSS Entities
- Selected Commercial Entities
- Software Projects Hosted At Foundations