The PHP Foundation — The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language banner text stub We support, advance, and develop the PHP Language Sponsor Our Mission The PHP Foundation is a collective of people and organizations relying on the PHP language. Its mission is to ensure the long-term prosperity of the PHP language. The PHP Foundation focuses on providing financial support and guidance to PHP language developers to support its goals of improving the language for its users, providing high-quality maintenance, and improving the PHP language project to retain current contributors and to integrate new contributors. The PHP Foundation aims to promote the public image of the PHP language in the interest of retaining existing and gaining new users and contributors. Read our announcement for more details. Latest news Aug 13, 2026 PHP Ambassadors: Six Weeks In When we launched the PHP Ambassador Program on June 19, 2026, we honestly didn’t know what to expect... Aug 04, 2026 Anne McCarthy Joins The PHP Foundation Board The PHP Foundation Governing Board consists of a variety of folks from across the PHP ecosystem that... Aug 03, 2026 Kicking off the PHP Onboarding Initiative Special Interest Group One of the most common pieces of feedback we hear from the PHP community is that the newcomer experi... Subscribe to The PHP Foundation newsletter Our Work The foundation contracts 10 part-time and full-time developers who work on maintenance and new features for PHP. The foundation team contributes in many forms: filing issues, reviewing pull requests, participating in discussions on mailing lists, triaging issues, submitting RFC proposals, writing documentation, maintaining project infrastructure, fixing bugs, and implementing features. Total by The PHP Foundation in 2024 1976 commits Total by The PHP Foundation in 2024 1278 reviews Proposals authored or co-authored by The PHP Foundation developers in 2024 13 RFCs 2024 Impact Report Our Members In alphabetical order, the ten founding members of the foundation are: Acquia, Automattic, Craft CMS, JetBrains, Laravel, PrestaShop, Private Packagist, Symfony, Tideways, Zend by Perforce. In addition to the Governing Board, The PHP Foundation has an Advisory Board with representatives from Automattic, JetBrains, Private Packagist, Symfony, Tideways, Zend by Perforce, Moodle, Shopware, Laravel, Ardennes-étape, Les-Tilleuls.coop / API Platform, Aternos GmbH, PrestaShop, and CraftCMS. The foundation is always open to new sponsors. If your company has been benefiting from PHP over the years, but not sure how it might give back to the ecosystem, now there's a clear and obvious choice. Platinum Sponsors JetBrains Automattic Sovereign Tech Agency Gold Sponsors Laravel GoDaddy.com team.blue Silver Sponsors 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 Past Sponsors Livesport s.r.o., Acquia, shopware AG, OP.GG, EC-CUBE, Spryker, Polcode, BASE, Inc., Digital Scholar, RAKUS, Cambium Learning, Inc., Paycom, PrestaShop, Ardennes-étape. organizations support the PHP Foundation Become a sponsor of The PHP Foundation response.json()) .then((json) => { const unique = [...new Map(json.map(item => [item.name, item])).values()] this.sponsors = unique.sort((a, b) => b.totalAmountDonated - a.totalAmountDonated).slice(0, 40) this.sponsorsCount = json.length this.isLoaded = true }); } }" x-init="fetchSponsoringUsers()" class="mt-8"> More than of individuals support The PHP Foundation Join the movement