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+0.36 Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)
184 points by kvinogradov 6 hours ago | 119 comments on HN | Neutral Landing Page · v3.7 ·
Summary Labor Rights & Digital Commons Advocates
The Open Source Endowment Foundation's homepage advocates for sustainable funding of critical open-source software through a community-driven endowment model. The content strongly engages with human rights principles related to labor rights, fair compensation for unpaid maintainers, freedom of expression through code sharing, and democratic participation in governance, while emphasizing solution-oriented approaches to addressing systemic underfunding and infrastructure fragility.
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HN Discussion 18 top-level · 22 replies
kvinogradov 2026-02-26 16:13 UTC link
Over the last few years I've talked with hundreds of people in the dev community, and almost everyone shared the same concern: there's no sustainable funding for critical OSS maintenance, and without it the modern world runs on an increasingly fragile foundation.

I have personal experience with university endowments, and at some point noticed that the open source world is remarkably similar to a top research university. They share the same reputation-based culture and functions — collaborative creation of IP as a public good, educating each other within thematic clusters, and commercializing only a small fraction of what they produce.

For universities, humanity has just two sustainable funding models: public spending or private endowments. Government support won't work for OSS at scale — it's too globally decentralized. And yet nobody had built an OSS-focused endowment before. After understanding why, I started building one together with other OSS folks.

Today we're publicly launching the Open Source Endowment — a community-driven endowment fund dedicated to sustainably funding maintainers of the most critical open source projects. All donations are invested in a low-risk portfolio, and only the investment income (~5%/year) is used for grants, making it independent of annual budgets and tech market volatility.

We recently received US 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity status. The fund is at ~$700K, formed by 60+ founding donors — including founders of HashiCorp, Elastic, ClickHouse, Supabase, Vue.js, Pydantic, Nginx, Gatsby, n8n, and curl. Everyone is welcome to join them and participate in governance.

There's no perfect model for distributing OSS grants. Our approach: make it open, data-driven, measurable, and developed by people with skin in the game — donors. I tested this by personally donating $5K to 800+ Python projects in Dec 2024 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312469). We're now looking to grow our donor community and together finalize the first model for grants in Q2 2026.

This is a pure community charity, and there are two things I'd love from HN:

1) Join as a donor — any amount — and help make OSE the most efficient long-term funding solution for OSS maintainers

2) Nominate OSS projects you think are critically underfunded on the Funding page at endowment.dev

vicamelnikova 2026-02-26 16:18 UTC link
Really happy to see this initiative come to life
ymolodtsov 2026-02-26 16:21 UTC link
Considering what's happened with Tailwind, this seems to be a very useful initiative.

Plus, OS maintainers now have to deal with agents and vibe coders who can commit plausibly-looking code that doesn't actually do what it's supposed to, so the volume of work for them is only growing.

kchumachkov 2026-02-26 16:21 UTC link
Happy to support it. Well done Konstantin and the team
janober 2026-02-26 16:35 UTC link
Really cool initiative, excited to be part of it!
talboren 2026-02-26 16:51 UTC link
Inspirational stuff here Konstantin! Happy that I have the chance to take part in it!
nazgulsenpai 2026-02-26 16:51 UTC link
> 500+ OSS dependencies in an average app

insert Electron joke

edit:formatting

nwellnhof 2026-02-26 17:31 UTC link
Do I get this right that you can only nominate projects on Github? It should be known by now that a centralized platform like Github is the complete antithesis to open source.
tabbott 2026-02-26 17:37 UTC link
It's an interesting idea. The current endowment size of less than $1M is immaterial; the question with a project like this will always be how it is able to raise capital.

A way something like this could be interesting is if founders started donating 5% of equity when they started a company to an open source foundation like this one.

It doesn't impact the founder much financially: Success is very binary for founders. But in aggregate, if thousands of startup founders do this, there would be some hits and some of those hits could generate a significant endowment.

(You can also try to get people to donate who feel their success was built on top of open source, but I feel that after 10 years building a company to IPO, one's attention as a founder has likely been on business metrics and spending time with business people, not on technology and spending time with technologists, and that shift in attention can reduce people's feeling of gratitude for the amazing inheritance that is open-source software).

dvh 2026-02-26 18:03 UTC link
This is for critical oss but how to fund non-critical oss?
numbsafari 2026-02-26 18:14 UTC link
Something I’ve been curious about for a while is why more universities don’t get involved in sponsoring critical projects. In theory it could provide an interesting non-academic path for students and professors and, as you’ve pointed out, the funding model of the U would make sense here.

I’m curious… would you consider having a “faculty” of “tenured” maintainers who receive livable funding and support based on a history of significant contribution? I could imagine something like “named chairs” and professorships you see for some tenured folks in academia. This could be useful for key project leaders, and contributors. In addition, any kind of function to train and develop the next generation of maintainers?

shimman 2026-02-26 18:34 UTC link
Highly skeptical of undemocratic organizations whose founder immediately talks dismissively of government programs. Comments from OP aren't helping either.

Just another Silicon Valley bro that wants to be in-charge of something with zero democratic control. Very typical in the current environment, which is why it should be soundly rejected.

yoyohello13 2026-02-26 18:43 UTC link
Great to see some positive stuff being created!
trueismywork 2026-02-26 19:07 UTC link
The need to create this is the failure of tax based revenue model of the govt
giancarlostoro 2026-02-26 19:54 UTC link
Funny I was just commenting about something like this regarding Docker[0]. I feel like major corporations could and should adopt OSS projects in this manner especially critical software they all rely on, so that these projects don't have to worry about doing the most ridiculous of things to attain funding to keep themselves going. It's why I imagine Anthropic went ahead and just bought out Bun immediately, Bun was trying to monetize shortly before Anthropic bought them out, now they don't have to worry about that.

In a different world we would incentivize tech giants to sponsor critical open source projects by turning their donations into more serious tax write offs, up to a certain amount, and reviewed by experts within the industry, affiliated and unaffiliated with the companies doing the funding.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154059

kvinogradov 2026-02-26 19:58 UTC link
Here are more details on the story and thinking behind key features of the Open Source Endowment: https://kvinogradov.com/osendowment
tristor 2026-02-26 20:03 UTC link
I like the concept, I cannot donate today but I intend to do so in the future. I would definitely like to understand more about the distribution model, however.
beanjuiceII 2026-02-26 20:27 UTC link
i just want the money how do i get it thx
bombcar 2026-02-26 16:57 UTC link
How is this different than something like https://opencollective.com (which, for example, Actual Budget uses: https://opencollective.com/actual )
whit537 2026-02-26 17:20 UTC link
Agreed. Tailwind shows that a class of business models that were traditionally used to subsidize Open Source are vulnerable now that AI intermediates between downstream and upstream devs. It was always a tenuous funding arrangement, though, because it goes against the true economic grain of OSS as a "gift community." OSE aligns much more closely with the nature of OSS. I doubt we'll be able to help Tailwind in the short run, but hopefully we can address the problem at a deep enough level in the long run to avoid future Tailwinds (as it were).
whit537 2026-02-26 17:31 UTC link
Glad we found some common ground together. ;^)
briffle 2026-02-26 17:31 UTC link
So what is your proposed solution?
whit537 2026-02-26 17:39 UTC link
We discussed this prior to launch, and obviously decided to launch as you see it. :) Our reasoning was that a) standardizing on GitHub URLs makes it easier to do automated analysis as part of the funding model, and b) any project important enough to matter will have at least a GitHub mirror. If you have counter-examples to (b), please comment them on GitHub (see what I did there?) or here and I will copy/paste for you. :)

https://github.com/osendowment/endowment.dev/issues/34

mannanj 2026-02-26 17:42 UTC link
I'm not an expert here on equity, 5% feels a bit high. I like the idea - even 1% would be significant. In general, could we start to hold accountable and start using public status and tracking of organizational commitment to the open source software they use and make profit off of - that might help a lot as well.

We in general are too naive and fail to hold accountable others and ourselves from contributing back when we use resources from the common public. Open source is like imo the common welfare/public resource. If others are abusing it, its time to call them out for what they are really doing: framing, abusing and stealing from the public and maybe we need to be more serious about this and change the public access (maybe hybrid-open source for companies who use OS software) and create systems to legally enforce these.

the_biot 2026-02-26 17:42 UTC link
The FAQ, under "How can OSE evolve in the long term, especially in an AI-powered world?" appears to state a very pro-AI view.

I think this is hopelessly naive. The LLMs crapping out code are shamelessly ripping off open source code, sans copyright notice. It makes no sense for a foundation supporting open source to also support this massive copyright massacre.

Also, I think you're going to get flooded with requests to give money to vibe-coded crap, because if you have no skills or shame but want to make a little money off your AI-generated crap, why not try and extract money from this initiative? The curl guy showed this is very real.

whit537 2026-02-26 17:44 UTC link
Thanks for the idea, tabbott. Made a ticket to track:

https://github.com/osendowment/foundation/issues/24

kvinogradov 2026-02-26 17:51 UTC link
Consider this as a nonprofit startup that has just raised a pre-seed round. The current size of $700K is indeed immaterial, as our plan is to scale it significantly in the coming years.

The closest real-world comparable to what we are building is the Wikimedia Endowment, whose former Director is among OSE’s advisors. Like Wikimedia, we aim to be supported not only by large donations but also by contributions from large community — in our case, 150M+ GitHub users.

Our target audience is diverse - from highly successful founders to everyday developers. The Open Source Endowment is prepared to accept donations in both cash and stock from these groups.

While 5% of equity may be too much, 1% seems achievable. I am personally ready to commit 1% of the carried interest from my own VC fund to the endowment.

whit537 2026-02-26 18:19 UTC link
I love this. Reminds me of MacArthur Foundation's genius grants as well. Linux Foundation has fellows, but it's a small % of budget.
mentalgear 2026-02-26 18:21 UTC link
This would very much make sense and generate direct real world products. However, I fear academia is in itself a very competitive space for resources that doesn't necessarily want to open up for outsiders.
alexchamberlain 2026-02-26 18:32 UTC link
> Government support won't work for OSS at scale — it's too globally decentralized... We recently received US 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity status.

If this is successful in the first iteration, I'd love to see a UK and EU based charities too. That would allow european donors to support on a gross pay basis, and may simplify grants to european nationals too. (I'm sure similar things apply in other jurisdictions too.)

EarlKing 2026-02-26 18:42 UTC link
Well, speaking in the case of the US, this would constitute product development which is well outside the scope of what a 501(c)(3) organization should be doing, which could thereby jeopardize their tax status? Or, in the case of a state-run university, this raises all kinds of issues regarding how tax money is being given away to random schmoes instead of benefitting the public at large.

So, yeah, there's plenty of reasons why they don't do that.

Open source wouldn't have a funding problem if people would stop being so averse to just paying for what they use. Maybe... the world should stop expecting something for nothing.

whit537 2026-02-26 18:43 UTC link
Our bylaws are pretty standard:

https://endowment.dev/docs/bylaws/

What part of them is "undemocratic" in your view?

3rodents 2026-02-26 18:48 UTC link
The project has involvement from people who have spent decades dedicated to these ideas — it doesn’t seem like a vanity project or a play for control. The most cynical view is that it is beneficial to the OP because it provides access to potential investments, which, sure, isn’t a pure philanthropic venture, but that seems a pretty small price to pay. The people involved are the people you would surely want running this project.
nightpool 2026-02-26 18:51 UTC link
What government programs in the US are stably funding open-source developers? I think most government-funded open source projects are very gunshy about looking for new funding because of the Trump administration completely politicizing grants and funding. I would not want to have to sign an anti-BDS pledge to get my open source project funded, and I would imagine that goes for many people in the community. Also, what "dismissive comments" are you referring to? The only one I saw was "Government support won't work for OSS at scale — it's too globally decentralized". Which is a fair criticism—open source projects are incredibly globalized, and getting e.g. New York State to fund an open source project that has contributors from Ukraine, India and China is a headache I don't think anyone would want to try and go through. There's just no benefit to the state administrators to fund that kind of project—they want to support parochial, home-grown projects with local ties.
trueismywork 2026-02-26 19:02 UTC link
They do. Most big breakthrough software even today is made by university and national labs
trueismywork 2026-02-26 19:03 UTC link
Tax dollars to find software
verdverm 2026-02-26 19:10 UTC link
UBI is the most likely outcome from Ai, then we can vote for raises... that'll be fun

Maybe a US VAT tax on the way there

whit537 2026-02-26 19:11 UTC link
Germany is making it work† but seems quite far off to say the least in the US. "Voluntary tax" like this is provocative in its own right, will be interesting to see what gets unlocked more broadly if this succeeds.

https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund

giancarlostoro 2026-02-26 19:45 UTC link
Just for the love of all things, do not let this become like Wikipedia or Mozilla. The moment you start paying for irrelevant things, you lose donors current and in the future. Nothing more frustrating than those two orgs in terms of where they spend their donor funds.
kvinogradov 2026-02-26 20:26 UTC link
It is great to see that governments are also funding open source, but I don't think it is sustainable and scalable because:

1) In every country, most politicians and citizens have no clue about the problem we are discussing here. Thus OSS won't have a meaningful share in the gov budget.

2) If an OSS-advanced country funds open source now (like Germany - kudos to them!), it might easily change later with a new administration (like the support of nuclear plants in Germany).

3) If a very stable OSS-advanced country perpetually support open source, that creates a freerider problem - nowadays it seems that German taxpayers are supporting OSS, but others do not and unlikely will.

Meanwhile, private funding is sustainable (endowment model) and scalable because of aligned incentives — people voluntarily join, not taxed.

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Open source software is fundamentally a medium for free expression and code sharing. The content advocates for supporting OSS creators and sustaining this infrastructure.

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The entire endowment structure exists to solve the problem of underfunded and unpaid labor in open source maintenance.

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The endowment provides structural support for the technical infrastructure enabling global knowledge sharing.

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The endowment supports the stable functioning of infrastructure on which health and welfare systems depend.

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The endowment model provides structural support for sustainable, long-term funding of critical infrastructure.

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The 501(c)(3) nonprofit structure with stated commitments to transparency and accountability reflects institutional recognition of human rights principles.

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The endowment aims structurally to prevent infrastructure failures that could endanger public welfare.

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The structure of preserving principal 'in perpetuity' reflects respect for property rights and resource stewardship.

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Epistemic Quality
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Propaganda Flags
3 techniques detected
appeal to authority
Multiple founder and executive testimonials: 'Mitchell Hashimoto Co-founder, HashiCorp,' 'Chad Whitacre Head of Open Source, Sentry,' establishing credibility through named authority figures.
bandwagon
Large donor list (61 total donors, 44 members) and testimonials create social proof of widespread support from tech leaders.
causal oversimplification
Statement 'Maintainer burnout and lack of funding often lead to bugs and serious security incidents' — causal relationship implied but not fully evidenced.
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Event Timeline 20 events
2026-02-26 20:01 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 20:01 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 20:01 eval_failure Evaluation failed: Error: Unknown model in registry: llama-4-scout-wai - -
2026-02-26 20:01 eval_failure Evaluation failed: Error: Unknown model in registry: llama-4-scout-wai - -
2026-02-26 19:59 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-26 19:59 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 19:59 eval_failure Evaluation failed: Error: Unknown model in registry: llama-4-scout-wai - -
2026-02-26 19:59 eval_failure Evaluation failed: Error: Unknown model in registry: llama-4-scout-wai - -
2026-02-26 19:58 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-26 19:57 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-26 19:56 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 19:54 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-26 19:53 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-26 19:51 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-26 18:43 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 18:41 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 18:41 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 18:41 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 18:40 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
2026-02-26 18:39 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers - -
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build d633cd0+ahgg · deployed 2026-02-26 22:27 UTC · evaluated 2026-02-26 22:10:52 UTC