Donating and sponsoring
Donating to FreeCAD
Thanks for your interest in helping the FreeCAD project with donations.
FreeCAD is a fast-growing project, developed by a community of developers and users working mostly on a voluntary basis, motivated mainly by their will to build a great, free 3D parametric modeller. The development of FreeCAD happens mostly because of the energy of all these people, without the need for money.
However, money can help the project to achieve many other goals. It can help some of its developers to work more frequently or more regularly on the project, by paying for their time so they can dedicate more of it to FreeCAD, or it can help the community to send people to CAD-related events, so we can showcase FreeCAD and interest professional users. It can also help to organize events ourselves so community members can meet, pay for server space and web services, and many other things.
There are several ways you can donate money and help the FreeCAD project, being an individual, a company or an institution, depending on your preferences. The money you donate to the FreeCAD project will be received and handled by the FreeCAD Project Association (FPA), a non-profit association created by FreeCAD administrators and core developers. The FPA will redistribute the money it gathers to FreeCAD developers and sponsor itself several projects, efforts and ideas to fuel the development of FreeCAD.
Remember, however: FreeCAD is free, and will always be free. You are not required, and never will be, to donate anything in order to use FreeCAD, neither to modify or distribute it. Your donation will be welcome, and can help a lot, but you will never be required to pay anything to access any of the FreeCAD features.
Gold sponsors
Kanardia develops and manufactures high-performance avionics for ultralight aeroplanes, helicopters, and autogyros.
Microsoft is donating hardware to the FreeCAD project.
JetBrains is donating software licenses to the FreeCAD project.
Libre Space Foundation is the non-profit foundation for open source hardware and software in space.
Epiray manufactures equipment for thermal laser epitaxy.
3BM Ingenieursbureau is a cooperative of practical engineers acting in construction.
Early sponsors
Aleph Objects was a small manufacturing company based in Loveland, Colorado. They are the creators of Lulzbot 3D printers.
Imetric 4d Information Technology Company · Medical & Health.
KiCad Services Corp is a full-service commercial support corporation, formed with the mission of helping professional users succeed and thrive with KiCad.
OpeningDesign An (uberly) transparent and open source architectural studio.
Wetpaint Designs is a small scale manufacturer and product design firm.
Silver sponsors
Route4Me Route Planner - trusted for last-mile route planning and route optimization.
Chudovo is an international software development company with representative offices in Kyiv, Cologne, New York, Tallinn and London. It has been working on the market since 2006. Company has domain expertise in video security, logistics, medicine, finance.
Anonymous user.
Colombe DU POUGET DE NADAILLAC is a French C, C++ and Python developer who develops under UNIX her own parametric drone aircraft with FreeCAD and sometimes even contributes to it by fixing bugs she encounters.
Packt Publishing is a publisher of books about open-source software.
PCBWay is a manufacturer of PCB boards, 3D-printed and CNC-produced parts.
Bronze sponsors
Artem Vasiatkin
Bystroushaak
Hydroexigiantiki SA
flightmansam
Ustun Design
Glen G
Elevated Sensors
MabeeSteve
Mario Zuena
Genysys Engine ltd
JR
Vinicius Dupuit
Brian Smith
Un voyageur avec serviette
David Yeung
Amplituda d.o.o.
plasmapotential
RobotMachines
Damian Toczek
Flaviu Tamas
Lex Heles
Brian Smith
Kliment / Future Bits
James Debono
Ian Rees
Ton Roosendaal
Robert
Lukas Alberts
Marius Grunca
Markus Vogt
Jose Alonso Mendoza
Q1 2026 grants announced
The FPA members have voted for Q1 2026 grants. The following work will be paid for once completed: The total non-Ondsel allocated funding is EUR 10,721 against a budget of EUR 10,000. However, the “CAM/BIM: 2D Nesting Tool for FreeCAD” grant has been recently cancelled due to the developer’s inactivity, which freed up EUR 1,650, […]