The Blender Foundation is an independent organisation (a Dutch "stichting"), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals:

• To establish services for active users and developers of Blender
• To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license
• To establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation's goals and cover the foundation's expenses
• To provide individual artists and small teams with a complete, free and open source 3D creation pipeline.

The Blender Foundation has offices in the Amsterdam Blender Institute. Revenues from e-shop and publishing enable Ton Roosendaal and a small staff to work full-time on Blender, organize activities like for Siggraph or the Blender Conference, support development/documention projects, maintain and host blender.org services, and pay for bookkeeping and administration expenses.

Blender is a true community effort. Maintenance, new projects and roadmaps are all defined via open accessible channels and projects at blender.org. You can read about this on our Getting Involved pages.

In the past years Blender Foundation has accepted large donations from entrepreneurs and companies to fund development support and present on Siggraph. We currently employ a variating team of 4 developers for general support and bug fixing. 

More focused or specific development support goes via the Open Projects, organized by the Blender Institute, which allows large or more complex development targets to be realized, in conjunction with high quality content development.

Use the contact information below if you want to discuss these opportunities.

For monthly subscriptions you can sign up for the Development Fund.

Stichting Blender Foundation

Entrepotdok 57A
1018 AD Amsterdam
the Netherlands

foundation(at)blender(dot)org