> The Apache Software Foundation does a decent job at > fundraising, and even employs a few people to do stuff > like administration. Most of the projec

> The Apache Software Foundation does a decent job at > fundraising, and even employs a few people to do stuff > like administration. Most of the projects get by with > companies that pay people to work on them, which seems > to work out pretty well. The ASF budget is roughly 1.2 million a year, the bulk of which goes to maintaining infrastructure for 200+ projects. https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2014/board_minutes_2014_08_20.txt https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2014/board... As a 501c(3) non-profit, it is constrained as to what it can do with donations.