KDE receives a lot of money from commercial interests, Gnome not so much.
> The GNOME Foundation works to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is composed entirely of free software. It was founded on 5 March 2001 by Compaq, Eazel, Helix Code, IBM, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and VA Linux Systems.
Also here is Red Had boasting about how much they pay for Gnome https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/gnome-desktop...