How LibreOffice / The Document Foundation (+ Collabora Online) is funded

origin: EU
host: The Document Foundation (Stiftung, Berlin); Collabora Productivity (UK)
host type: foundation (DE) + companies
licence: MPL-2.0

Channel	Finding	Label	Ev.
employer developers	Collabora, allotropia and TDF in-house staff employ most core developers	inference	B
foundation budget	TDF income €2,175,997 in 2025	fact	B
public grants	openDesk (Collabora Online); occasional NGI grants	fact	C
corporate sponsorship	TDF advisory-board fees (small)	fact	B
commercial model	Collabora Online subscriptions; allotropia LTS builds	fact	B
donations	individual donations are TDF's largest income line	fact	B

dominant channel: individual donations (TDF) + employer-developers (Collabora)

top funder: individual donors / Collabora

top funder share: unknown

funder nationality: DE / UK

public money: true

evidence: B

note: amounts cross-referenced with data/funding/eu.json

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