The FPA members have voted for Q4 2025 grants.

tetektoza will revamp and enhance the selection system around specific bug reports listed in the grant application. He will be awarded a grant of 3,000 EUR.

Pierre-Louis Boyer aka PaddleStroke received two grants, for maintaining and improving the Assembly and Sketcher workbenches, 3,000€ for each grant. Work on Assembly will include both new features and bugfixes, work on Sketcher will be focused primarily on bugfixes.

Morgan Allen received a grant to get his KiConnect PCB to the first public release and then enhance its functionality. The workbench he’s been working on provides bidirectional interoperability between FreeCAD and KiCADs v9+ API. Morgan will be awarded a grant of $5200 for the project.

Additionally, Aleksandr Prokudin will update Ondsel Lens documentation to cover recently added features and write documentation for the Lens addon. Aleksandr will be awarded a grant of 1,000 EUR from the separate Ondsel Onward fund.

We’ll be introducing substantial changes to the 2026 grant program. Stay tuned for updates!