PHP Foundation The PHP Foundation

Sponsor The PHP Foundation

PHP works for you. Help keep it fast and secure.

Fund the engineers who maintain the PHP language. As a developer, as a company or as a long-term partner, from $5 a month.

  • ✓ Receipts & invoices handled
  • ✓ Card, bank or PayPal
  • ✓ Transparent finances
Your money pays the people who build PHP Meet the developers you fund →
Nils Adermann
“Every company using PHP applications depends on a small group of people who keep the language secure. Funding them is the cheapest insurance your stack will ever have.”
Nils Adermann · Co-creator of Composer & Packagist, Private Packagist · PHP Foundation Board

Companies already sponsoring PHP

JetBrains Automattic Sovereign Tech Agency Alpha-Omega GoDaddy.com team.blue Private Packagist Craft CMS Zend by Perforce Tideways Symfony Corp Mercari Inc. Les-Tilleuls.coop pixiv Inc. Aternos GmbH Sentry Team Cybozu Manychat Passbolt CH Studio TYPO3

People

The people you fund

Your money goes to engineers working on PHP itself. Each of them maintains code that runs in production on millions of servers every day.

Derick Rethans Derick Rethans Core Developer Works on: Xdebug, date/time & core maintenance Jakub Zelenka Jakub Zelenka Core Developer Works on: OpenSSL, FPM & security releases Gina Peter Banyard Gina Peter Banyard Core Developer Works on: Type system & language consistency Arnaud Le Blanc Arnaud Le Blanc Core Developer Works on: Lazy objects, JIT & performance Saki Takamachi Saki Takamachi Core Developer Works on: BCMath & precise number handling Shivam Mathur Shivam Mathur Core Developer Works on: setup-php, CI & Windows builds Volker Dusch Volker Dusch Ecosystem AI Security Engineer in Residence Works on: Ecosystem security Ilija Tovilo Ilija Tovilo Core Developer Works on: Property hooks & the PHP engine

See the whole team and what they shipped recently.

No accounting overhead

You shouldn't have to chase anyone for a proper invoice. Sponsoring PHP should be as easy as paying for any other SaaS subscription.

✉ Forward to your finance team
Automatic receipts
Every payment gets a receipt with your company name and address, ready to expense.
Invoice before you pay
If your process needs a PO or an invoice first, email us and we'll send one.
Pay your way
Credit card, bank transfer (ACH or wire), PayPal, or through GitHub Sponsors on your existing GitHub bill.
Vendor documents ready
Tax ID & W-9 and address come from our fiscal host, Open Source Collective.
Fully transparent
Every incoming and outgoing dollar is public on Open Collective.
No contract, no lock-in
Monthly contributions can be changed or cancelled at any time from your Open Collective account.

Partnerships

Silver, Gold or Platinum

You reach a level with one payment or with monthly contributions over the year.

Silver

$12,000 /year

or $1,000/month · How it counts

  • Your logo on our website
  • Use of our logo on your website
  • Mention on social media
  • Mention in our newsletter
  • Mention in the "new sponsors" post
  • Advisory Board seat
Become a Silver partner

Gold

$24,000 /year

or $2,000/month · How it counts

Everything in Silver, plus

  • Membership intro post
  • Logo in our GitHub README
  • Listed in our reports
  • Your logo on slides by Foundation members
Become a Gold partner

Platinum

Flagship

$100,000 /year

or $8,500/month · How it counts

Everything in Gold, plus

  • Dedicated social media post every quarter
  • Co-authored case study
Become a Platinum partner

How it works

How yearly and monthly contributions count

  • As soon as your total contributions pass a level's threshold, through one donation or monthly payments added up, you become a sponsor at that level.
  • Sponsors are removed from the list at the end of each calendar year if their total contributions for that year are below the threshold for their level.

For example, if you contribute $1,000 monthly starting in January, your total reaches $12,000 in December. That makes you a Silver member for the rest of the year and all of the next.

Common questions

Is a small amount worth it?

Yes. A lot of PHP development is paid for by many small contributions. $100 a month from a few hundred companies keeps several engineers working full time.

Who do we actually pay?

The PHP Foundation operates under Open Source Collective, which handles banking, taxes and legal work. Payments go through Open Collective. Official info & docs.

Can we get an invoice instead of paying by card?

Yes. Email us your company details and the amount, and we'll send an invoice you can pay by bank transfer.

Is this tax-deductible?

No. Our fiscal host, Open Source Collective, is a US 501(c)(6) non-profit, so contributions are not charitable donations. Most companies book them as a business expense or sponsorship. Please check with your accountant how this applies in your country.

How is the money spent?

Mostly on paying core developers to maintain PHP, fix security issues and build new features. All expenses are public.

Will our logo be shown?

Companies reaching Silver, Gold or Platinum get their logo on our website. Every contributor is listed on our Open Collective page.

Need to convince someone internally?

Our sponsorship deck covers what the Foundation does, what it has achieved and how sponsorship works.

Download the sponsorship deck