The world’s first endowment fund dedicated exclusively to open source software. We are building the foundation for truly sustainable funding for OSS maintainers
Joined January 2025
- Tweets5
- Following18
- Followers256
- Likes3
1/5 Today we're launching the Open Source Endowment (OSE) — the world's first endowment fund dedicated to sustainably funding critical open source software. 🌱
$750K+ raised. 60+ founding donors. Built to last forever.
endowment.dev 🧵
4/5 OSE is governed by its donor community.
Core team: board members Konstantin Vinogradov (founding chairman), @chadwhitacre_, Maxim Konovalov; executive director Jonathan Starr; advisors Amy Parker and Vlad-Stefan Harbuz
Everyone who donates $1K+ become Members with a real vote
5/5 Open source runs the modern world. It's time we built something to sustain it.
Two ways to help: → Donate at endowment.dev (any amount welcome) → Nominate critically underfunded OSS projects on our Funding page
Let's build this together. 🌱