Platinum members
AWS, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Mozilla provide the largest share of foundational funding, supporting core infrastructure and staff engineers.
Funding
Funding Rust
Rust is free, open source, and built to last. Individual donors and corporate sponsors keep the language secure, well-documented, and welcoming for everyone.
Our supporters make Rust possible
The Rust programming language is developed in the open by a global community. Funding pays for the work that no single volunteer can sustain alone: security response, infrastructure, documentation, and the maintenance that keeps the ecosystem healthy for the long term.
Every contribution — a one-time donation or a recurring sponsorship — goes toward stable, predictable support for the people behind Rust.
Individual support
Sponsor individual contributors
Rust is built by people. Sponsoring individual contributors is the most direct way to fund the maintenance, reviews, and design work that keeps the project moving.
Mara Bos
Library & language
David Tolnay
Crates & ecosystem
Manuel Drehwald
Tooling
Martin Nordholts
Compiler
Nia
Documentation
rami3l
Community
Roland Xu
Infrastructure
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Corporate sponsors
Companies that invest in Rust
Organizations that depend on Rust give back through the Rust Foundation, funding security, infrastructure, and the people who maintain the language.
Gold & Silver members
Hundreds of companies — from startups to global platforms — sponsor Rust at levels that fit their teams and their reliance on the ecosystem.
In-kind contributions
Compute, CI capacity, conference space, and employee time are just as valuable as direct funding. Many sponsors contribute both.
How funds are used
Funding is directed through the Rust Foundation and project teams, with a focus on work that is difficult for volunteers to sustain:
- Security response and the Rust Security Response Working Group.
- Build and release infrastructure, including CI capacity and crates.io.
- Documentation, mentorship programs, and community events.
- Grants and fellowships for individual contributors.
The Rust Foundation
The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit that stewards the language, holds the trademark, and manages funding for the ecosystem.
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