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What are you trying to do with your open source project?
Compare grants, sponsorships, bounties, paid support, content revenue, infrastructure credits, and other sustainability options.
What do you need right now?
Get funding
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Direct money for OSS work
Donations, grants, bounties, and crowdfunding for maintainers and contributors.
Earn revenue
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Turn expertise into income
Support, services, content, licensing, and commercial access models.
Reduce overhead
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Lower the cost of maintenance
Infrastructure, tooling, credits, events, and operational support.Popular starting points
Live options with clear maintainer fit
GitHub Sponsors
GitHub Sponsors lets developers and organizations financially support the open source people and projects they depend on, directly on GitHub.
Open Collective
Open Collective gives groups a transparent way to raise, hold, and spend money with public budgets and expense workflows.
Ko-fi
Ko-fi lets creators accept tips, memberships, commissions, and product sales directly into their own payment accounts.
NLnet
NLnet funds people and organizations building open source, open standards, open hardware, and other digital commons technologies.
Sovereign Tech Fund
The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure.
Tidelift
Tidelift pays maintainers through enterprise subscriptions that fund security, maintenance, and long-term support work.
Scarf
Scarf helps open source maintainers and companies measure package usage and identify commercial leads from OSS adoption.
CodeRabbit for Open Source
CodeRabbit gives open source projects free AI code review tooling and has committed sponsorship money to OSS maintainers.
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Reviewed against public sources
Verified listings surface source-backed status, fees, and fit.