Ever wondered how much circular funding there is within GitHub Sponsors?
Active Mutual Pairs: 155
Total Mutual Pairs: 845
Accounts Sponsoring Each Other: 255
Sponsorship Triangles: 42
Sponsorship Clusters: 26
Largest Cluster: 27 accounts
Replying to @andrewnez@mastodon.social
Similar looking data for Open Source Collective:
- $41.9M in total contributions to OSS collectives
- 1.8% ($763k) flows collective-to-collective at all
- 0.17% ($69,647) is in an actual loop
- The loops are dependency funding: eslint/jest/vite/webdriverio/verdaccio/11ty, parcel/rspack/swc
So on both platforms, 98%+ of open source funding is net new money in, not recirculation
Replying to @andrewnez@mastodon.social
@andrewnez Very nice! Now if we could only build the dependency graph for AI software and hardware corporations...