A listing of non-profit foundations that host FOSS projects or are otherwise significant in the open source ecosystem.
Commercial entities and projects that aren’t independent legal entities are not included here, as noted in our data philosophy.
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Apache Software Foundation
Website: https://www.apache.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
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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
Website: https://fsfe.org/
Nonprofit Type: charitable e.V.
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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: charitable
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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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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: charitable
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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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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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Open Collective Foundation
Website: https://opencollective.foundation
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Open Source Collective
Website: https://www.oscollective.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Website: http://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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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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Python Software Foundation
Website: https://www.python.org/psf-landing/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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Raspberry Pi Foundation
Website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/
Nonprofit Type: LimitedByGuaranteeCharity
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Rust Foundation
Website: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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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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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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Wikimedia Foundation
Website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3
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WordPress Foundation
Website: https://wordpress.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c3