December 22, 2025
Did you know that your support for the FreeBSD Foundation directly improves the FreeBSD you use every day?
FreeBSD doesn’t just happen. It’s built, tested, maintained, secured, and improved by a global community. Your donation helps make that possible in ways that directly benefit you, including:
- A stronger, more reliable FreeBSD. More than half of the Foundation’s budget goes directly into software development projects, such as advancing laptop and desktop usability and strengthening security.
- Smoother updates and releases you can count on. Your support keeps FreeBSD’s build, testing, and CI infrastructure running, ensuring stable upgrades and dependable releases.
- A community that strengthens the system you rely on. Your donation helps grow contributor participation, expand education and events, and keep the ecosystem healthy for the long term.
When FreeBSD grows stronger, the systems and projects you build on top of it do too. FreeBSD is powered by its community and supported by you.
Please consider donating today! We can’t do it without you.
Sincerely,
Deb Goodkin
Executive Director
FreeBSD Foundation
Where the Funding Goes
Here’s a quick breakdown of where most of our funding goes. This chart illustrates the overall 2025 budget, showing that 62% of the funding is allocated to software development work. Check out the budget summary for more information on the budget breakdown.
