Power the future of FreeBSD

December 22, 2025

Did you know that your support of the FreeBSD Foundation directly improves the FreeBSD you use every day?

FreeBSD doesn’t just happen. It is built, tested, maintained, secured and improved by a global community. Your donation helps make this possible in ways that directly benefit you, including:

A stronger, more reliable FreeBSD. More than half of the Foundation’s budget goes directly to software development projects, such as promoting laptop and desktop user and strengthening security.
Smoother updates and releases you can count on. Your support keeps FreeBSD’s build, test, and CI infrastructure running, ensuring stable upgrades and reliable releases.
A community that strengthens the system you rely on. Your donation helps grow contributor participation, expand education and opportunities, and keep the ecosystem healthy for the long term.

As FreeBSD grows stronger, so do the systems and projects you build on top of it. FreeBSD is powered by its community and supported by you.

Please consider donate today! We can’t do it without you.

yours,
Deb Goodkin
Executive Director
FreeBSD Foundation

Where the funding goes

Here’s a quick breakdown of where most of our funding goes. This graph illustrates the overall 2025 budget, showing that 62% of the funding is allocated to software development work. Look at the budget summary for more information on the budget breakdown.