On I love Free Software Day (February 14) we published the blog post K-9 Mail is looking for funding to ask users of K-9 Mail for money to support the development of the app. The response was impressive.

I’m guessing most of you are interested in the numbers. So let’s get that out of the way first.

Donations

The total amount of money the K-9 Mail project received in 2021 was €51,002.55 (all fees already subtracted).

Here is the breakdown of the individual channels…

Liberapay

Total received: €44,644.51, $1,886.02, A$46.80, CA$289.24, CHF277.57, CZK600.74, £560.42, HK$468.70, ₪324.29, ¥7,457, MX$294.83, NZ$93.31, PLN130.14, and SEK378.86

January: €766.06
February: €18,998.45, $388.96, CA$135.24, CHF46.15, £142.90, HK$468.70, and MX$294.83
March: €4,174.79, $199.92, CHF53.51, £109.47, and ¥1,844
April: €2,305.03, $180.54, and £71.24
May: €2,546.76, $76.93, A$46.80, CA$18.32, and CHF46.70
June: €2,331.52, $185.94, CA$74.20, CZK296.21, and £114.41
July: €3,829.60, $291.90, CHF131.21, £80.38, ₪46.32, NZ$93.31, PLN52.71, and SEK128.58
August: €3,694.37, $191.05, ₪93.01, and SEK250.28
September: €1,508.05, $45.90, CA$23.58, CZK304.53, ₪184.96, and ¥5,613
October: €1,257.24, $24.24, CA$37.90, £42.02, and PLN20.27
November: €1,595.85 and $18.80
December: €1,636.79, $281.84, and PLN57.16

Liberapay doesn’t expose how many donors made the donations. However, 1,785 successful payments are listed (1,515 payments where processed by Stripe, 270 by PayPal). There were 5 donations over €200, the largest one €1,200. The smallest donation was €0.27.

Payouts

Total payouts: €47,574.95

Stripe: €40,593.45
Paypal: €6,981.50

Fees

Stripe: €1,054.46 (2.5%)
PayPal: €171 (4.1%), $104.87 (5.3%), A$3.20 (6.4%), CA$16.12 (5.3%), CHF19.63 (6.6%), CZK56.06 (8.5%), £29.48 (5.0%), HK$31.30 (6.3%), ₪23.75 (6.8%), ¥543 (6.8%), MX$22.37 (7.1%), NZ$6.69 (6.7%), PLN9.94 (7.1%), SEK16.34 (4.1%)

GitHub Sponsors

Total payouts: €2,107.54

January: €85.27
February: €105.69
March: €170.13
April: €151.72
May: €126.10
June: €132.92
July: €167.02
August: €271.54
September: €186.78
October: €183.34
November: €324.58
December: €202.45

A total of 75 GitHub users gave money via GitHub Sponsors. Only 6 of them via one-time payment.

Direct payments

Total received: €1,320.06

January: -
February: €40.00
March: €810.00
April: €275.00
May: €50.00
June: -
July: €12.00
August: €10.00
September: €60.00
October: -
November: €58.06
December: €5.00

11 people and 1 organization donated via bank transfer. There were 3 donations over €200, the largest one €500.

How was the money spent?

The funding goal was €1,000 per week (because that’s how Liberapay rolls), or €52,000 per year, to allow cketti – the maintainer of K-9 Mail (and the author of this blog post 👋) – to dedicate 80% of his time to work on K-9 Mail.

Since the goal wasn’t exceeded, we didn’t have to figure out what to do with additional funds. All of the money was paid out to cketti (who is starting to like writing about himself in the third person).

To learn what the K-9 Mail project was up to last year, check out 2021 in Review.

Thank you

A big thank you to all of the donors 💖 It’s great to see that K-9 Mail is so valuable to you that you are willing to give money, even though the app is free.

Comments?

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