💵 Financial report (2025-06)

[ldez]

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 on the 22nd of each month (Open Collective receives them on 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 randomly inside the interface.
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 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 0.85€ and 0.86€).
I should also pay taxes: I don't know exactly how many, but it is at least 25%.

Here is the financial data (extracted from Open Collective and thank.dev).
I only keep the last 3 months for better readability.

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Donation platform balances:

	2025-04	2025-05	2025-06		AVG (3 months)	AVG (one year)
GitHub Sponsors	$1219.54	$1020	$1032.07		$1090.54	$568.62
Open Collective	$19	$36	$21		$25.33	$10.77
Thanks.dev	$22.38	$22.41	$22.82		$22.54	$6.50
Total	$1260.92	$1078.41	$1075.89		$1138.41	$585.89
Fee	$-126.19	$-112.82	$-112.35		$-117.19	$-59.70
Total	$1134.73	$965.59	$963.54		$1021.22	$526.19
€	1009.90€ (0.89)	840.01€ (0.87)	819.01€ (0.85)

The change rate USD to EUR is still decreasing, this is becoming a real problem:

• In January, it was ~0.97 ($1000 => 970€)
• In June, it was ~0.85 ($1000 => 850€)
• In July, it could be 0.84 or less

In 4 months, we lost ~14% only because of the conversion rate.

For example, this month we got ~$2 less than the previous month, but after conversion, it's more than 20€.
This is the difference between a coffee and about 3 days of food.

I recommend reading this post to have a detailed explanation of the money flow.

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Theoretical Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) explanation

The theoretical Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is related to recurring donations only and does not consider 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.

The numbers, related to GitHub Sponsors, are from the ~22nd of a month to the ~22nd of the next month (take a look at the section "Details about donation platforms and fees" for the explanation of this range)

Golangci-lint theoretical MRR:

	2025-04	2025-05	2025-06
Theoretical MRR	$1012	$1005	$1031

My personal (related to different OSS I maintain) theoretical MRR:

	2025-04	2025-05	2025-06
Theoretical MRR	$145	$145	$146

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I think we can say that my May email campaign to companies was a failure: only one answer and not positive.

I still have hope, so I'm still looking to contact companies that use golangci-lint.

If you have any contacts to share, don't hesitate to get in touch with me in DM on the social networks, Gopher Slack, or by email (info at golangci dot com).

No news about OSS funding programs.

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To all current, new, and future donors: thank you ❤️

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