Open Collective

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Homebrew is the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) and a non-profit project run entirely by volunteers.

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Estimated Annual Budget
$102,531
Today's Balance
$135,471.24

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Financial Contributions

Recurring contribution
Supporter

At $10/month or more, we’ll prioritise helping you in GitHub discussions, issues and pull requests when you tell us you’re sponsoring Homebrew.

Starts at
$10 USD / month

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Sponsor

All Supporter benefits, plus your OpenCollective name in plain text in our README while your sponsorship is active.

Starts at
$250 USD / month

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Lead Sponsor

All Sponsor benefits, plus your OpenCollective profile image as a linked logo in our README and thanks by name in major and minor release blog posts.

Starts at
$1,000 USD / month

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One-time contribution
Supporter: 12 months

12 months of priority help in GitHub discussions, issues and pull requests. Tell us you’re sponsoring Homebrew when asking for help.

Starts at
$120 USD

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Sponsor: 12 months

All Supporter benefits, plus your OpenCollective profile name in plain text in our README, for 12 months from your contribution.

Starts at
$3,000 USD

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One-time contribution
Lead Sponsor: 12 months

All Sponsor benefits, your linked OpenCollective profile image in our README, thanks by name in major/minor release blog posts for 12 months.

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$12,000 USD

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Top financial contributors

Organizations

1
GitHub Sponsors

$324,302.1 USD since Nov 2021

2
Patreon

$67,019.84 USD since Jan 2022

3
Patreon

$43,855.22 USD since Sep 2024

4
Cybozu

$14,926 USD since Jun 2023

5
Airbnb

$14,000 USD since Mar 2022

6
Bloomberg

$10,000 USD since Feb 2024

7
Open Broadcaster Software

$5,000 USD since Feb 2026

8
Springer Nature

$3,300 USD since Mar 2023

9
WonderProxy

$2,600 USD since Oct 2024

10
Target Tech

$2,500 USD since Feb 2024

Individuals

1
Thinkst Canary

$3,000 USD since Jun 2022

2
Philippe Chaurand

$2,361.35 USD since Dec 2022

3
Thinkst Canary

$2,000 USD since Jul 2024

4
Huyen Tue Dao

$1,000 USD since Sep 2022

5
Mark Sibley-Schreiber

$550 USD since Nov 2025

6
https://twitter.com/doertedev

$500 USD since Dec 2021

7
BernardK

$500 USD since Nov 2022

8
Gabor Nadai

$375 USD since Sep 2026

9
Carlo Zottmann

$335 USD since Dec 2023

10
Infinum

$320 USD since Mar 2022

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News from Homebrew

Updates on our activities and progress.

What We Did in 2025

Another exciting year packed with major releases, foundational infrastructure improvements, cross-platform advancements, and continued enhancements that make package management on macOS and Linux smoother for everyone.🚀 Ma...
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Published on December 24, 2025 by Sean Molenaar

What did we do? 2024 edition

Developments we made · Since the last annual update in December 2023, we have released several minor versions of Homebrew. We also concluded work on our...
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Published on December 29, 2024 by Colin Dean

What did we do? 2023 edition

2023 was a productive year for Homebrew. Herein are things we did thanks to your generous contributions. Developments we made · Moved to Influx from Google Analytics Announced in February and...
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Published on December 17, 2023 by Colin Dean

Budget

Transparent and open finances.

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Today’s balance

$135,471.24 USD

Total raised

$471,380.97 USD

Total disbursed

$335,909.73 USD

Estimated annual budget

$102,531.43 USD

Expenses

All time

Expenses paid

630

Amount disbursed

$335,212.36

Tags# of ExpensesAmount
maintainer-stipend		147$139,183.56
travel		73$63,772.24
agm		70$52,885.87
no tag		60$40,968.91
infrastructure		107$37,904.21
hardware grant		12$36,964.03
Others Combined		161$60,017.28

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Contributions

All time

Contributions received

761

Amount collected

$523,831.29

Tiers# of ContributionsAmount
one-time		646$485,362.99
recurring		115$38,468.30

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About

Homebrew is The Package Manager for Everywhere (macOS, Linux and Windows).

Homebrew is a non-profit project run entirely by volunteers. We need your funds to pay for software, hardware, hosting around continuous integration, maintainer contributions, travel to conferences and future improvements to the project. Every donation will be spent on making Homebrew better for our users.

Our team

Mike McQuaid

Admin

Rui Chen

Admin

Patrick Linnane

Admin

Carlo Cabrera

Admin

Justin Krehel

Admin

Ruoyu Zhong

Admin

Nanda H Krishna

Admin

Sam Ford

Admin

Bevan Kay

Admin

Sean Molenaar

Admin

Michael Cho

Admin