Funds part of a Project of the Collective will be granted to the creator of the project upon reaching and publishing for free under the MIT license either the finished project or a milestone of the project.

Milestones are a set amount of money defined during the project application and can only be claimed if the partial work is published under the MIT license for anyone to access. Milestones are meant to outline when a substantial portion of the work has been financed, to signal to the project creator that they can start working on the project and get paid upon completing that portion. If the project creator reached a milestone, but the amount of money for the milestone has not been reached in terms of donations yet, the project creator may claim the money that has been donated so far immediately, and the rest of the funds when the milestone is reached in terms of funding.

To protect the interests of donators, project owners may not claim money unless they reach a milestone (in which case only the defined amount of money for that milestone may be claimed) or when the project is finished. The project owner may claim the money immediately, and claim the funds of the project once again one month after in case additional tip money has been collected for the project in the month after finishing the project.

Funds part of the entire collective may be used for two purposes:

It may be redistributed to the different community projects supported by the Collective (in proportions equal to the amount of work, activity and relation to the cause of the collective of each project)
It may be claimed or issued as a grant to any GDevelop community member that has done a valuable, MIT licensed, free & non-commercial, non-commissioned contribution to GDevelop in-line with the values of the Collective as compensation proportional to the importance, time and efforts of the contribution.