It used to be that a majority of board members worked in companies in the geo data business, it used to be that major tagging schemes were supported and proposed by corporate entities, it used to be that people were employed to do marketing for OSM by outside companies, it used to be that major bits of “core” OSM software was written and maintained by employees of companies interested in OSM.
The last has been replaced by the OSMF employing staff and naturally this could give donors some leverage, particularly if the donations are earmarked, but it is less influence than if they were employees of third parties that could move them to different projects at a drop of the hat.
LC == local chapter.
PS: long arguments can be had over why all of that has changed, a lot went away before Linux Foundation/Overture so that can’t be all of it. IMHO it is simply that the long grind that it has taken and continues to take to build a good world wide geo-database has a time scale that is totally unsuitable for startups and big corporate interests. It isn’t a coincidence that the only Overture member that has any real interest in OSM is Tomtom.