The Godot Foundation is a Dutch non-profit organization registered as "Stichting Godot" that financially supports the Godot Project, an open source game engine. The Foundation was formed on August 23rd, 2022 to administer charitable contributions that are made to the Godot Engine.
The Godot Foundation uses charitable contributions on behalf of the Godot Project, in particular for:
- Hiring developers to work part-time or full-time on Godot Engine, and related projects
- Hiring artists to create high quality demo artwork under a permissive license
- Purchasing hardware required to develop Godot and other foundation projects
- Paying for hosting of some web services
- Covering travel costs to some important industry events (e.g. GDC, Gamescom)
- Producing merchandise for events (T-shirts, banners, stickers, etc.)
