The Blender Foundation is an independent organisation (a Dutch “stichting”), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals:

-To establish services for active users and developers of Blender

• To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license

• To establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation’s goals and cover the foundation’s expenses

• To provide individual artists and small teams with a complete, free and open source 3D creation pipeline.