Donating to the Foundation

The OpenBSD foundation exists as a place where donations can be made to further OpenBSD, OpenSSH, and related software projects. We are a Canadian federally incorporated not-for-profit corporation, which means funds directed to us must be directed towards our stated objects, other than what we require for operating overhead. We endeavour to keep our overhead as small as possible.

We are not a registered charity, in the sense that we do not issue tax deductible receipts. The reporting overhead (accounting and legal costs) to operate a registered charity in Canada is prohibitive without a sizable revenue stream. Currently, this would divert a great deal of resources that could be better utilised in helping build good free software. We can issue receipts for donations which while not deductible as charitable donations in Canada may be used for accounting and/or tax purposes.

The Foundation will work in cooperation with the OpenBSD development team to ensure funds are applied to areas of greatest need - Normally this includes paying for infrastructure costs (networking) and for developer events for collaborative development effort (hackathons). See Here for a list of what we have been involved with recently, and our 2024 Fundraising Campaign