💵 Financial report (2025-02) #5503
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Details about donation platforms and fees
Open Collective is the fiscal host for golangci-lint.
The GitHub Sponsors donations are transferred automatically to Open Collective about the 22nd of each month (Open Collective receives them about the 26th).
All donations after the 22nd are transferred the next month. I don't control this date.
The first recurring donation or recurring donation changes can be prorated depending on the billing cycle: for example, a $2 donation can become $0.97/$0.77/$-1.03/... (yes it can be a negative number)
This explains why there are decimal numbers even if donations are integers.
The thanks.dev platform is only related to dependencies, as golangci-lint is a tool and not a library, the system is not adapted for the project.
The donations seem to appear inside the interface about the 13th of each month.
The thanks.dev donations are not transferred automatically to Open Collective.
When I will transfer them, fees will be applied, but they are not a part of this report as I don't know them for now.
There are between 10% and 20% fees on transactions, this is related to payment platforms like Stripe, PayPal, and Open Collective.
You can see the details of the fees on golangci-lint profile on Open Collective
I live in France, I should convert USD to EUR (currently $1 is between 0.90€ and 0.95€).
I should also pay taxes: I don't know exactly how many, but it is at least 22%.
Here is the financial data (extracted from Open Collective and thank.dev).
I only keep the last 3 months for better readability.
This month, JetBrains contacted us to help the project by giving a one-time donation and free licenses to active maintainers.
This has a positive impact on the numbers, which is great, but it is a one-time donation, so next month those numbers will go down unless there are new donations.
The theoretical Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is related to recurring donations only and without considering prorated amounts, fees, taxes, etc.
So those numbers are higher than the reality.
The theoretical MRR is important because it is a good indicator of growth and sustainability.
Golangci-lint theoretical MRR:
My personal (related to different OSS I maintain) theoretical MRR:
The situation has improved a bit, but this is still not sustainable.
I tried to contact some companies, but without success.
I'm still thinking about improvements to the funding strategy.
No answers from OSS funding programs.
The answer I was expecting should arrive around 2025-02-15, we can say that it is an implicit refusal.
Even if some people try to insult me by calling my activity "money begging", as I financially rely on you, OSS users, I'm not asking for charity:
I do a job. I do a job of improving and maintaining software for all of you, and I'm proud of doing that for you.
To all current, new, and future donors: thank you ❤️
So I will repeat my "beggar's mantras":
OSS are free to use but not free of work.
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