A user suggested a promo idea for KDE plushies here: https://discuss.kde.org/t/idea-for-kde-promotion-plushies/25019
I don't expect this to be a massive funding opportunity, but I think its still worth doing.
- I don't know the margins, but it should give a little bit of money to KDE.
- Linux content creator Brodie Robertson has offered to promote the idea. I suspect other content creators would do the same.
- Having plushies for events
- ...
The original poster suggested 2 companies YouTooz and Makeship. There are probably a ton more.
Fellow open source project godot did this: https://forum.godotengine.org/t/help-yourself-to-a-godot-plush/67981
If there are questions, maybe we can reach out to them.