GitLab Foundation

The GitLab Foundation is committed to helping people grow their lifetime earnings through education, training, access to employment, and systems change on a global scale. Our North Star is to maximize increases in lifetime earnings for every dollar we invest, with an ambitious target of generating over $100 in lifetime earnings gains per dollar spent. We focus on supporting individuals earning below a living wage, to enable them to achieve meaningful, sustained improvements in their lives. Our vision is a world in which one million more people can afford a better life.

Building upon our core work of high-impact grantmaking and systems change, in 2025 the GitLab Foundation launched two new strategic initiatives to extend its impact further: 1) an advisory services practice that supports peer foundations in impact modeling and measurement, and 2) a donor engagement strategy designed to attract and mobilize additional values-aligned capital. Together, these ventures position the GitLab Foundation to have a growing influence in the sector.

The GitLab Foundation is an independent private foundation affiliated with GitLab Inc. We currently operate in Kenya, Colombia, and the United States, partnering with organizations that share our commitment to expanding opportunity at scale. You can learn more about the GitLab Foundation by visiting our website and reviewing our public Handbook.