Drupal Association Launches Sustaining Members Program for Infrastructure Funding

Organizations that rely on Drupal can now join the Drupal Sustaining Members program, a funding initiative from the Drupal Association for shared project infrastructure. The Association announced the programme in a LinkedIn post, describing Drupal as a 25-year-old project used by more than 1 million websites worldwide.

The announcement matters because it creates a formal annual funding path for organizations that depend on Drupal but do not support it through licence fees. The Drupal Sustaining Members page states that Drupal is supported by collective contributions from those who use, build, and support the project.

According to the programme page, annual membership funds the Drupal Association’s management and maintenance of infrastructure used for collaboration, development, distribution, and community functions. The listed infrastructure includes Drupal.org, code repositories for Drupal core and contributed modules and themes, Automated Updates, software packaging and distribution services, .zip and .tar releases, the Composer package endpoint, issue tracking tools, project contribution workflows, and continuous integration and testing systems.

The page also says member funding supports Drupal maintenance, testing, core development, security tooling, vulnerability monitoring, rapid response infrastructure, AI readiness, composable architectures, accessibility improvements, DrupalCons, community events, contribution days, and community programmes.

Organizations can become Drupal Sustaining Members by donating $5,000 USD or more annually, with possible adjustments based on the cost of living in the organization’s headquarters location. The programme lists four tiers: Silver from $5,000 to $19,999 USD, Gold from $20,000 to $49,999 USD, Platinum from $50,000 to $99,999 USD, and Diamond at $100,000 USD or more.

Membership benefits listed on the page include a Drupal Sustaining Member badge, Drupal.org logo placement, social promotion for higher tiers, quotes for press releases and promotional use, tax receipts, and a planned ESG Toolkit later in 2026. The source material does not provide budget allocations, named funding commitments from participating organizations, technical implementation timelines, or governance changes connected to the programme.