Rust

Fund for the most critical rust packages on crates.io

Fund the Rust Ecosystem

$20,994.68 Donated

$16,032.03 Distributed

7 Funders

563 Projects

Projects

563 Projects

141B Downloads

13.7M Dependent repos

595K Dependent packages

Using data from 595K tracked packages and 13.7M tracked repositories weve determined that the following 563 projects, representing 80% of measurable usage, are the most critical in the Rust ecosystem.

Project	Amount	Downloads	Repos/Packages
futures-rs	$2,714.72	5.06B	397K/16.4K
serde	$2,242.40	2.04B	181K/47.5K
tokio	$1,936.88	2.66B	228K/26K
rand	$1,933.25	2.42B	166K/16.3K
wasm-bindgen	$1,688.89	2.87B	417K/6.04K

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Funding

$20,994.68 Total funded

7 Funders

127 Funded projects

14 Completed allocations

$16,032.03 Total distributed

$0.00 In progress

Donations are distributed on a monthly basis directly to the maintainers and communities behind these projects, where they choose to receive them. Funds are allocated on the basis of a projects criticality, and the total amount of funds available to distribute in a given month.

# Number	Amount	Allocated	Funded projects
14	$3,218.28	April 28, 2026	61
13	$3,647.46	March 28, 2026	68
12	$5,646.89	February 28, 2026	98
11	$2,721.84	January 28, 2026	53
10	$4,062.28	December 28, 2025	75
9	$4,530.46	November 28, 2025	82
8	$5,048.81	October 28, 2025	90
7	$5,595.28	September 28, 2025	99
6	$5,614.93	August 28, 2025	100
5	$5,603.05	July 28, 2025	99
4	$5,592.65	June 28, 2025	99
3	$5,613.38	May 28, 2025	98
2	$8,291.80	April 9, 2025	135
1	$16,869.82	February 27, 2025	87