What is the money used for?

The core services powering Gentoo are provided on machines owned by the Gentoo Foundation. Connectivity, parts, repair, remote hands, hosting and power need all to be paid for Gentoo.

Further details on spending are available in the Gentoo Foundation financial reports.

Gentoo receives donations via Software in the Public Interest (SPI), a U.S. non-profit corporation [501(c)(3)] founded to act as a fiscal sponsor for organizations that develop open source software and hardware. This means that all donations made to SPI and its supported projects are tax deductible for donors in the United States.

Donate via the SPI

Using PayPal

Using Click & Pledge

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Recurring monthly donations via the SPI

Recurring monthly contribution enable Gentoo to forecast budget and future income vs expenditures; and plan for effective replacement of aging systems.

 
Please note that PayPal may require you to create a PayPal account for recurring donations. You may be contacted to confirm your donation is not fraudulent.

Sponsor Gentoo

If you have cool hardware you'd like to see Gentoo run on, or can spare a server or two for us to host services for our community on, we'd be glad to be able to include you in our list of sponsors.
For substantial contributions, we'll even reward you with an entry in our Hall of Fame on the front page.

To learn more, please get in touch with our Public Relations team.

Contribute

If you want to put your skills to good use for the benefit of Gentoo users worldwide, we welcome community contributions.

Gentoo Poster at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, one of the largest Linux conventions in Germany
Our presence there was only possible thanks to your support
Picture by Hanno Böck/CC-0