autodesk foundation
FY26 Impact highlights
FY26 Impact highlights
Catalyzing innovation & enabling Autodesk impact
Advancing impact with philanthropy
Advancing impact with philanthropy
Philanthropy plays a vital role in advancing Autodesk’s vision of a better world designed and made for all. Autodesk contributes financial resources, technology, and talent to the Autodesk Foundation to address some of the world's most pressing challenges.
The Autodesk Foundation has a dual purpose:
Enabling Autodesk impact
Enabling impact across Autodesk through employee giving and volunteering and Autodesk software donations
Catalyzing innovation
Catalyzing industry innovation by investing in a portfolio of nonprofits and startups
Enable Autodesk impact
Enable Autodesk impact
Autodesk employee giving and volunteering is encouraged by Autodesk and rewarded by the Autodesk Foundation through matching funds and volunteer dollars. This work enables employees to deepen their own impact, while driving purpose and retention.
Through its Technology Impact Program, Autodesk facilitates software donations to organizations that change the world through design and make. Both of these functions accelerate progress of Autodesk’s impact strategy, which spans improving Autodesk operations, partnering with Autodesk customers, and advancing industries for sustainability.
Enabling Autodesk impact FY26
$2.5 million
in Autodesk employee giving in FY26
28,700
Autodesk employee volunteer hours, including Pro Bono Consulting hours
31%
of Autodesk employees logged a donation and/or volunteering time in FY26
* These impact metrics rely on data aggregated and sourced from financial reports, annual reports, organizational key performance indicators, and self-reported data from the Autodesk Foundation portfolio.
† Cumulative data from organizations, since their inception, that were a part of the Autodesk Foundation portfolio during 2023.
Technology Impact Program reach FY26
$50 million
in Autodesk software donated to nonprofits and start-ups worldwide
3,445
organizations using donated Autodesk software to support impact outcomes
* These impact metrics rely on data aggregated and sourced from financial reports, annual reports, organizational key performance indicators, and self-reported data from the Autodesk Foundation portfolio.
** In FY23 and FY24, we estimated that approximately 20% of employee volunteer hours occurred during company time. In FY25, the estimate increased to 32%, reflecting improved tracking through Benevity reporting.
†Autodesk calculates its product donations at commercial value. These data do not include the value of products granted to students, faculty, and educational institutions at no cost through the Autodesk Education Community.
How we enable Autodesk impact
We build a bridge between philanthropy and business
We operate in close collaboration and draw on the strengths, insights, and best practices of both corporate and philanthropy to amplify our collective impact.
We fuel a culture rooted in purpose
We foster opportunities for employees to engage with giving and volunteering in ways that reflect their own passions.
Catalyze innovation
Catalyze innovation
The Autodesk Foundation invests in a global portfolio of startups and nonprofits that are transforming Autodesk’s industries to be more sustainable and resilient. Funding and in-kind support from the Autodesk Foundation helps spark disruptive innovation and de-risk transformative design and make-based solutions.
By combining catalytic capital, Autodesk technology, and the talented community of Autodesk employees, the Autodesk Foundation accelerates the growth of organizations on a path to scale.
Portfolio investments FY26
$16.1 million
in flexible, catalytic capital in the form of impact investments and unrestricted grants
$9.5 million
in-kind support contributions, including Autodesk technology and Autodesk employee expertise
65
total nonprofits and start-ups included in our portfolio in FY26
91
countries reached*
*Reach reflects office locations or program reach of portfolio organizations.
Portfolio impact in 2025<sup>**</sup>
29.9 million
individuals reached with resilient solutions in housing and infrastructure, energy access, agricultural productivity, and workforce development (cumulative)†
2.8 million
metric tons CO2e emissions reduced
438,000
individuals obtained quality jobs‡
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**Impact metrics are self-reported by portfolio organizations annually. In 2025, 76% of the portfolio reported.
† Cumulative data from organizations, since their inception, that were part of the portfolio in 2025.
‡ We define a quality job as one that delivers financial security, a safe and healthy work environment, career growth, and meaningful agency and autonomy.
How we catalyze innovation
We embrace innovation and risk tolerance
Creating a robust portfolio of early-stage innovation requires both expertise and intuition, and an openness to learning and adapting as we go. We use philanthropy to de-risk technologies with calculated risk tolerance.
We lead with flexible, catalytic capital
Flexible capital builds trust that allows for innovation. We deploy flexible capital and partner with the portfolio organizations to achieve milestones on their path to scale.
We fund at the forefront of sustainability and workforce
Connecting industry challenges and solutions with the innovation ecosystem has opened doors to fund solutions at the forefront. We apply our Autodesk industry knowledge to address the most pressing sustainability and workforce industry challenges.
