funds

Curated Support For Your Critical Software Dependencies.

Ecosystem Funds provides a simple 'turnkey' solution for funding your critical open source software dependencies, turning a process that can take months into a five minute conversation with your CTO.

URL	funds.ecosyste.ms
Repository	ecosyste-ms/funds

Supporting the software we use, not just the software we see

Building an empirically complete picture of your software's 'deep dependencies' can take months of investigative work and analysis to uncover projects that are looking for your support, and to get it to them.

But, fundamentally, you know what technologies you utilise... right?

ecosyste.ms is built on Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq, and APISIX. With a broad understanding of the technologies we depend upon it should be possible to hand the responsibility of getting financial support to the packages, and the people behind them to someone. Right? Well, now you can.

How It Works

Sponsor the technology you rely on, we'll do the rest.

No, really, we mean it. You select one or more open source ecosystems and donate a single or recurring sponsorship. We handle everything else.

We'll direct your money (minus a 10% management fee) to the right people, using the tools projects themselves have chosen to manage their finances. We support funding through GitHub Sponsors, Thanks.dev, StackAid, LF Community Bridge, and of course Open Collective. If a project hasn't listed a funding source, we invite maintainers to collect their donation on behalf of their community, or to let us know where they would like to do so. If they still don't accept your donation, it will be redistributed to the fund for other projects. This process will continue monthly, supported by our amazing team.

Getting Started

Find an ecosystem using our search and donate a single or recurring sponsorship.

We handle everything else: we'll direct your money (minus a 10% management fee) to maintainers, using the tools they have chosen to manage their finances. We allocate 100% of the donations in every fund with a balance of $1,000 or more, on a monthly basis. Every donation and payment is traceable through both Ecosystem Funds and Open Collective.

Donations can be made directly through funds.ecosyste.ms or, if you have an account, on Open Collective. Companies who wish to make a large donation, or start a Fund of their own, can request an Invoice from Open Source Collective — who are already an approved vendor to most large open-source-supporting organisations.

Who Are Open Source Collective?

Open Source Collective in the non-profit organisation supporting over 2,500 open source projects on the Open Collective platform. Since 2017 Open Source Collective have been working to create a more sustainable open source ecosystem.

Open Source Collective funded the development of Ecosystem Funds, to help organisations make more informed decisions about the projects they support. Open Source Collective is combining ecosyste.ms' knowledge and Open Collective's transparent fundraising and money management to create a uniquely traceable system for supporting your dependencies. You'll see exactly where your money went, and how it has been spent, all supported by their fiscal sponsorship program and team.