Merge pull request #636 from bastelfreak/finance

add finance report for 2025

Author: bastelfreak

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+title: Vox Pupuli finance report 2025
+date: 2026-03-08
+github_username: bastelfreak
+---
+
+We want to provide a report about all spendings and contributions from 2025!
+
+How went 2025 for Vox Pupuli, from a financial point of view?
+
+As a brief reminder, we accept donations via [open-collective](https://opencollective.com/vox-pupuli) and [GitHub sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/voxpupuli).
+GitHub sponsors money is forwarded to open-collective.
+Both organisations take a fee for processing funding, so we prefer open-collective.
+
+### In 2025
+
+* We received $5,895 via GitHub Sponsors at open-collective
+* We received $14,450 directly at open-collective
+* we made a profit of $10,052 in 2025
+* We paid $2,285 for processing fees
+* We spent $8,006
+
+### Overall
+
+* We raised $35,775
+* We have $23,434 on the bank account
+* We disbursed $12,341
+
+**A big thank you to [saz](https://github.com/saz/) for being our first contributor in February 2023**
+
+### Top five contributors all time GitHub + open-collective
+
+* [betadots GmbH](https://www.betadots.de/) with $7,382 USD since Mar 2025
+* Microsoft with a $5,000 onetime donation
+* Anonymous onetime donation of $4,961
+* [Xyntion GmbH](https://www.xyntion.consulting/) $3,649 USD since Feb 2025
+* [Bert Hajee](https://www.enterprisemodules.com/) $3,300 USD since Jul 2023
+
+### 2025 breakdown
+
+{: .table .table-striped .table-hover }
+| Purpose | costs | explanation |
+|---------|-------|-------------|
+| GitHub CI / security scanning | $375   | Our sponsoring from GitHub only covers public repos, we pay for private repos |
+| tuta.com                      | $41    | email hosting / mailing lists |
+| inwx.com                      | $855   | costs for various domains |
+| VoxConf 2025 community Dinner | $1,217 | we sponsored the dinner |
+| CfgMgmtCamp 2025 funding      | $4,267 | hotel/flight costs |
+| Voxes finger puppets          | $1243  | swag for conferences |
+| hetzner.com                   | $6     | Backup storage (not covered by our sponsoring) |
+
+We do not have the time to write such reports on a regular basis.
+If you like numbers and want to help out, [please reach out to us](https://voxpupuli.org/connect/).
+All our spending, incoming contributions, and overall raised status is always visible on [our open-collective page](https://opencollective.com/vox-pupuli).