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.