Libre Financing
= Directory of Free Software Financing
URL = https://github.com/BigoudOps/Libre-financement
Description
"Ways to finance the development of free/libre software, excluding GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi: grants, private funds, foundations, corporate programs, platforms, licensing models, and the French framework. For each program: amount, required license, conditions, application process, examples, and sources.
All information was collected from the official pages of the programs in October 2026. Anything not stated on a page is written as "not specified". Deadlines and open/closed statuses are not listed here: they change, the official page of each program is authoritative.
Directory
Public grants: NLnet, Sovereign Tech Fund, Sovereign Tech Fellowship, Sovereign Tech Standards, Prototype Fund, Restack, CodeSupply
Private funds: GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, FLOSS/fund, Alpha-Omega, Open Technology Fund, Codex for Open Source, Prototype Fund Suisse, TeX Development Fund
Foundations and fiscal sponsorship: Open Source Collective, Software Freedom Conservancy, SPI, NumFOCUS, Open Collective Europe, Commonhaus, Linux Foundation, Apache, Eclipse, OpenJS, Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, Open Collective Foundation (ended)
Corporate programs and fellowships: Google Summer of Code, Outreachy, LFX Mentorship, Patreon, credits and licenses (GitLab, Docker, Sentry, Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, JetBrains, HackerOne), Google Season of Docs (ended)
Web3 and science: Ethereum Foundation, Stellar, Zcash, Filecoin, Solana, NumFOCUS, NSF PESOSE (formerly POSE), CZI EOSS (ended), Web3 Foundation Grants Program (ended)
Companies: Open Source Pledge, thanks.dev
Platforms: Open Collective, Liberapay, Tidelift, funding.json, FUNDING.yml, Kickstarter, Ulule Communities and distributions: KDE e.V. (sprints), GNOME Fellowship
Business models: Fair Source, dual licensing, open core
Paid services: Nextcloud, Plausible, Ghost, Discourse, Home Assistant, Castopod, ZAP, MISP
France: micro-entrepreneur, CAE, association, endowment fund, Acre, Arce, Adie History: NGI Zero Commons Fund, BlueHats Prize, Sovereign Tech Challenge, NGI Fediversity, MOSS, Mozilla Builders Accelerator (2024), Digital Square Notice G (2022)