A surprisingly large portion of revenue comes from individual contributions. However, unlike many other foundations, there is no multi-tier membership where TDF gets a big chunk of money from ‘gold’ or ‘platinum’ members. The advisory board also became a source of revenue for TDF members have to pay a fee to join. Later on, many other companies and organizations joined the board, including Intel, AMD, Gnome Foundation and KDE e.V. Initially, Google, SUSE, Red Hat and Free Software Foundation joined the advisory board. In 2011, TDF created an advisory board for companies and organizations to work together on the development of the project.
Collabora has been instrumental in bringing many features to LibreOffice, including collaborative editing. However, later on, many SUSE developers moved to Collabora Productivity, a company that offers solutions based on LibreOffice. SUSE used to be the largest contributor, followed by Red Hat and Canonical. Many companies dedicated developer resources to continue the development of LibreOffice. When LibreOffice was announced, almost all major desktop Linux distributions switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice as the default office suite.
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