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. See our OpenAPI spec.
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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 -
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 -
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
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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
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Open Compute Project Foundation
Website: https://opencompute.org
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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Open Connectivity Foundation Inc
Website: https://openconnectivity.org/
Nonprofit Type: Nonprofit501c6
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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 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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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