💵 Financial report (2025-12)

[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 0.84€ and 0.85€).
I should also pay taxes: I don't know exactly how many, but it is at least 25%.

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Happy new year!

Sorry for the late report, but I'm facing some difficulties.

Because problems never come alone, there is a problem with OSC and Wise; this has a drastic effect on my incomes.

And, as in November, I was forced to recalculate by hand the GH donations for December (and November).
Because of the dates of the transfers from GH to Stripe and Stripe to OSC, the amount from GH (Stripe) inside OSC is a partial sum, and transferred in January...

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

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

Donation platform balances:

	2025-10	2025-11	2025-12		AVG (3 months)	AVG (one year)
GitHub Sponsors	$1222.67	$1553.55	$1553		$1443.07	$1386.19
Open Collective	$19	$19	$539		$192.33	$64.63
Thanks.dev	$20.93	$23.78	$24.21		$22.97	$20.68
Total	$1262.6	$1596.33	$2116.21		$1658.38	$1471.5
Fee	$-129.59	$-212.65	$-111.83		$-151.36	$-143.91
Total	$1133.01	$1383.68	$2004.38		$1507.02	$1327.59

We have a one-time donation from Gitea ($500): this solidarity touches me deeply ❤️.

We have 38 recurring sponsors in December.

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I was sick for most of the month, but I'm working on something for the community (not related to code).

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