Material-UI provides React components for faster and easier web development. You can build your own design system, or start with Material Design. Think Material-UI as "Raw material for building UIs 🏗".

Funding goals: Material-UI Inc. has a matching fund to hire a new open-source developer on Material-UI anytime an incremental level of $80k/year of donations is reached. The matching fund goes up to 50% to cover the salary.

The project is well known for its a set of React components that implement Google's Material Design specification. Following the vision of the project, we focus on growing the project in two distinct directions:

Unstyled components + different themes (fluent, bootstrap, ant design, etc). Most of the problems solved by Material-UI can be reemployed outside of the Material Design specification. We work on helping developers implementing custom design systems.
More components. We want Material-UI to become a one shop component store for developers building applications (dashboard, admin, etc.) and websites (landing pages, corporate pages, etc.). We work on adding new valuable components. For instance, we have recently introduced: Slider, Tree View, Rating, Skeleton, and Autocomplete. There are a lot more to come.

Maintaining and developing new features takes a considerable amount of time.

If you run a business that is using Material-UI in a revenue-generating product, are a freelancer and Material-UI helped you in your work, or a person just using it in a fun project, your contributions will help to make Material-UI better.