GitHub Sponsors Crosses $100M, With Acceleration Driven by Corporate Money

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GitHub announced July 21 that more than $100 million has now flowed to open source maintainers through Sponsors, supporting 70,000+ maintainers and organizations from 280,000+ sponsors across 103 regions. The acceleration is the real signal: the first $10M took nearly two years, the most recent $10M took five months, and organization-funded sponsorships average nearly 15x the value of individual ones. GitHub concedes the funding gap remains enormous and names maintainer burnout as one of the biggest software supply chain risks.