Post #4042121
2026-07-23 17:09 UTC
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
https://sponsors.ecosyste.ms/reciprocity
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@andrewnez@mastodon.social 2026-07-23 17:24
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