sponsors

Starting today you'll see a project or a user's past sponsorships (either one-time, or recurring) displayed on their Sponsors profile in addition to the current sponsorships, which have always been displayed. This gives a better picture of the all-time sponsorship activity – let us know what you think in our feedback discussion!

As previously mentioned, starting today, all Sponsors profiles will have custom amounts enabled by default. This means if you have a GitHub Sponsors profile, people can sponsor you for a dollar amount they choose, rather than just the amounts you published. This will simplify setting up Sponsors profiles as well as make it easier for users to make sponsorships.

For maintainers who did not have custom amounts previously enabled, and therefore had no minimum, we set a minimum based on their lowest tier value. If you prefer to change your minimum custom amount, you can do so via the Sponsors dashboard. Learn more about managing sponsorship tiers.

Today, we're adding support for users to create a GitHub Sponsors profile and choose to receive sponsorship payouts via a fiscal host. This will give maintainers more flexibility and choice in how they receive funding. This has already been possible for organizations creating a GitHub Sponsors profile, and that remains unchanged. Users and organizations can still choose to use a Stripe Connect account instead of a fiscal host if they prefer. Learn more about signing up for a GitHub Sponsors profile using a fiscal host.

In order to streamline sponsoring maintainers, we're changing the custom amount settings for GitHub Sponsors. Starting October 3rd, 2022, all Sponsors profiles will have custom amounts enabled by default.

• On that date, if you haven't enabled custom amounts previously, we will set your minimum custom amount to either your lowest published monthly tier or your lowest published one-time tier, whichever is higher. If you wish to change the minimum, you can enable custom amounts on your Sponsors dashboard (if not already enabled), and then set it to your preferred minimum.
• If you set a minimum custom amount before October 3, 2022, it will remain unchanged.

GitHub Sponsors is now available in 30 new regions! Waitlists are gone and you can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, The Gambia, Gibraltar, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, The Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, The United Arab Emirates, and Uruguay.

As always, you can sponsor projects from wherever GitHub does business and join the Sponsors waitlist if we're not yet in your region.

The GitHub Sponsors Explore page, which lists your sponsorable dependencies, has been updated with improved functionality. See how many of your or your organization's dependencies come from a single maintainer, how close the maintainers are to their funding goals, group by multiple ecosystems, find maintainers who accept one-time payments and more.

You can now sign up to be sponsored via GitHub Sponsors if you have a bank account and tax residence in Brazil. Read about the rollout on our blog and stay tuned for more news on expansion.

As always, you can sponsor projects from wherever GitHub does business and join the Sponsors waitlist if we’re not yet in your region.

You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account and tax residence in India. Read about the rollout on our blog and stay tuned for more news on expansion.

As always, you can sponsor projects from wherever GitHub does business and join the Sponsors waitlist if we're not yet in your region.

You can now offer private repository access linked to a sponsor tier. GitHub will keep the list of collaborators in sync with your sponsors. You could use this for early access, a private Discussion or for sponsors-only access to your projects. Learn more about setting it up in the documentation.

You can now add custom parameters to your sponsorship URL in order to see what links your sponsors are coming to you from. Learn more about formatting your custom URLs and how to export the metadata in the documentation.

Sponsors will now be asked to provide location information for the purposes of taxes. Accordingly, maintainers will now see the VAT status and location of their sponsors in their transaction export. This information is to assist users in calculating their sales tax obligations.

Learn more in the documentation.

Developers using GitHub Sponsors now have the ability to control Custom Amounts on their Sponsors profile with more granularity. Users can enable Custom Amounts for use with a recurring sponsorship, a one-time sponsorship, both, or neither.

Organizations can now join GitHub Sponsors using a personal bank account, in addition to using a business bank account or a fiscal host.

Learn more about setting up GitHub Sponsors for your organization.

GitHub Sponsors now lets makers write welcome messages that are automatically sent to new sponsors at specific tiers.

GitHub Sponsors now suggests sponsorship tiers when new makers set up their sponsors profile.

You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account and tax residence in Bulgaria, Romania or any of the other regions where Sponsors is available.

Not in a supported region? Get on the waitlist. You’ll also receive tips, updates, and news about availability in new countries, including your own.

Companies can now invest in open source with GitHub Sponsors!

• We’re launching GitHub Sponsors for companies in beta on December 8 (Tuesday) at Universe.
• Self-service (payment via credit card or PayPal) orgs can sign up right away. During the beta, companies with invoiced accounts are not yet supported but can join a waitlist for updates.
• Companies will be charged a 10% fee after the beta. We’re waiving the fee during the beta to thank early adopters for getting the program jump-started. After the beta, we will charge sponsors a 10% fee on top of the sponsorship amount to cover our operational costs.
• We’ve added more discoverability with an improved Explore page.

Learn more

You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account in Cyprus or any of the other 34 regions where Sponsors is generally available.

Not in a supported region? Get on the waitlist. You’ll also receive news about general availability in new countries, including your own.