Support the software you use, not just the software you see.
Funding Open Source Software isn’t easy, how do you make sure your money goes to the right places?
ecosyste.ms is the world’s most comprehensive and accurate public dataset about open source software, its production and use. We know which projects are the most used, and we know who’s maintaining them.
We’ve sourced, indexed, and packaged millions of open source components into a few hundred curated funds, dedicated to supporting the work of critical projects and maintainers within their respective communities.
We’ve officially announced ecosyste.ms, read the blog post
Sponsor the technology you rely on, we'll do the rest.
ecosyste.ms has teamed up with the folks behind Open Source Collective to remove the barriers to supporting your critical software dependencies.
Here's how it works
Sponsor the technology you rely on
Choose from our curated funds, called ecosystems, dedicated to supporting the work of critical projects and maintainers within their respective communities.
We give projects their fair share
We allocate the funding to projects according to their usage among the other dependencies in their ecosystem
Projects choose how to get paid
Projects collect their funding however they want to (minus a 10% fee) using their chosen financial tools
Open, transparent, accountable
You see where your money went, and how it has been spent, and the impact of your financial support
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Support ecosystems using your credit card or paypal account, or create an account to use throughout the year. Open Source Collective is a registered vendor to most large open source funders, including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce and many more.
Fund your ecosystems