Foundation Health Metrics

The Foundation lens surfaces foundation-level health metrics in two places: the health section of the Foundation overview (/foundation/overview) and the dedicated Health Metrics page (/foundation/health-metrics). This article explains both.

Health metrics on the Foundation overview

The Foundation overview shows a row of health metric cards — including total value of projects, total projects, active members, project health scores, active contributors, maintainers, and events. Selecting an available card opens a drawer with charts and additional detail.

Unavailable metrics

Cards load independently. A missing or failed metric does not hide other available Foundation Health cards.

• Data not available yet means the analytics response explicitly identifies a missing measurement for the selected foundation. That missing value is not replaced with a measured zero, and this state does not offer Retry.
• This metric could not be loaded means the request failed. Select Retry on that card to retry its failed request without reloading successful metrics.
• You do not have access to this metric is an access restriction. Contact your administrator if you need access.
• Access could not be verified means access could not be checked temporarily. Select Retry to check again.

Some analytics responses fill missing periods with zeros without identifying whether measurements exist. Active Members, Events, monthly maintainer trends, and Project Health Scores can still show zero or flat results in that case; this view cannot confirm analytics coverage from those results alone.

If a headline metric is available but its supporting data is missing, fails to load, or cannot be accessed, the measured value remains visible with Additional details are unavailable. The drawer stays unavailable until its required data loads successfully. Retry is offered only for failed requests or temporarily unverifiable access, and only reloads those supporting requests.

Organization Dependency

The Foundation overview includes an Organization Dependency card among its health metrics. It shows how concentrated contributions are across organizations: the group of organizations whose contributors performed 51% or more of all contributions, compared with all other organizations.

The card's number is how many organizations are in that group, with Contribution concentration across organizations under it. A smaller number means the foundation depends on fewer organizations.

Select the card to open the Organization Dependency drawer:

1. The same count, next to a description of the group of organizations whose contributors performed 51% or more of all contributions.
2. A bar chart of Contribution Share (%) with two bars: the group, labelled with its size and share, such as 3 Orgs (54%), and everyone else, such as 120 Other Orgs.
3. Looking for detailed contribution metrics?, which links to the foundation's contribution patterns, activity breakdowns and participation trends in LFX Insights.

This card is about the foundation's contributors as a whole. For one organization's involvement in the foundation, see Organization involvement in a foundation.

The card is visible to board members, executive directors, LF Staff, users with a writer role on the foundation (including root writers), and users with tenant-wide auditor access.

Health Metrics page

The Health Metrics page (/foundation/health-metrics) is available to executive directors and LF Staff from Metrics → Health Metrics in the left navigation. Use the year filter at the top of the page to switch between year to date (YTD) and completed calendar years. The page includes:

• Participating Organizations — active and new member organizations by engagement level
• Net Promoter Score — member satisfaction from NPS surveys
• Membership Churn Per Tier — churn rate, members lost, and value lost by membership tier
• Outstanding Balance — unpaid membership invoices
• Events — total, upcoming, and past events, plus sponsorship progress toward goal
• Training & Certification — training enrollment and revenue by program type
• Code Contribution — total and new contributors, plus all-time committer, maintainer, and reviewer counts
• Board Meeting Participation — board meeting attendance

Related

• Dashboard overview — lens and persona concepts
• Navigate Your Dashboard — switch lenses and project context
• Organization involvement in a foundation — one organization's contributors, maintainers, events and training in the foundation
• Social Listening — foundation social sentiment and mentions