[throwaway89201]

> Just a few weeks ago WPEngine donated $75,000 to the Foundation for their conference.

Conferences are generally sponsored, and not merely donated to.

I'm not at all familiar with Wordpress, the foundation or the company. If I look at the Foundation's financial report of 2023 [1] they expended $4,275,813 for their conferences, and got 88% of it covered by sponsorship – so there were a lot more or bigger sponsors. It doesn't seem that the development of Wordpress is covered by conference sponsorship.

In fact, there doesn't seem to be any money going into the development of Wordpress at the foundation at all. So again, I don't know much about Wordpress, but a quick glance seems to imply that much of the 'official' development is going on at Automattic.

[1] https://wordpressfoundation.org/about/financials/2023-financ...