Vox Pupuli finance report 2025 Edit

Published on Mar 8, 2026 by bastelfreak.

We want to provide a report about all spendings and contributions from 2025!

How went 2025 for Vox Pupuli, from a financial point of view?

As a brief reminder, we accept donations via open-collective and GitHub sponsors. GitHub sponsors money is forwarded to open-collective. Both organisations take a fee for processing funding, so we prefer open-collective.

In 2025

  • We received $5,895 via GitHub Sponsors at open-collective
  • We received $14,450 directly at open-collective
  • we made a profit of $10,052 in 2025
  • We paid $2,285 for processing fees
  • We spent $8,006

Overall

  • We raised $35,775
  • We have $23,434 on the bank account
  • We disbursed $12,341

A big thank you to saz for being our first contributor in February 2023

Top five contributors all time GitHub + open-collective

  • betadots GmbH with $7,382 USD since Feb 2023
  • Microsoft with a $5,000 onetime donation
  • Anonymous onetime donation of $4,961
  • Xyntion GmbH $3,649 USD since Feb 2023
  • Bert Hajee $3,300 USD since Jul 2023

2025 breakdown

Purpose costs explanation
GitHub CI / security scanning $375 Our sponsoring from GitHub only covers public repos, we pay for private repos
tuta.com $41 email hosting / mailing lists
inwx.com $855 costs for various domains
VoxConf 2025 community Dinner $1,217 we sponsored the dinner
CfgMgmtCamp 2025 funding $4,267 hotel/flight costs
Voxes finger puppets $1243 swag for conferences
hetzner.com $6 Backup storage (not covered by our sponsoring)

We do not have the time to write such reports on a regular basis. If you like numbers and want to help out, please reach out to us. All our spending, incoming contributions, and overall raised status is always visible on our open-collective page.