In previous positions I managed to get the company I worked for to set aside a budget each year for contributions to open source projects that were important to

In previous positions I managed to get the company I worked for to set aside a budget each year for contributions to open source projects that were important to us. This was considerably more money than I could afford to contribute personally. And across more projects. When doing this it is important to communicate clearly if these are one-off contributions or if the projects can expect an annual contribution. Sadly, I didn't trust the bean counters at my employer, so I made it clear that "these are one off contributions - do not plan for future contributions from XYZ Corp". Still we managed to contribute for a handful of years. (They stopped contributing after I left the company. Actually, the entire division, bean counters and all, was scrapped. And sadly, they did not communicate that they would stop funding these projects. This is unfortunate)