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About sponsorships, fees, and taxes
Learn about sponsorships, payment, and tax information for {% data variables.product.prodname_sponsors %}.
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About sponsorships

{% data reusables.sponsors.sponsorship-details %}

You can sponsor an account on behalf of your personal account to invest in projects that you personally benefit from. You can sponsor an account on behalf of your organization for many reasons.

  • Sustaining specific libraries that your organization's work depends on
  • Investing in the ecosystem you rely on as an organization (such as blockchain)
  • Developing brand awareness as an organization that values open source
  • Thanking open source developers for building libraries that complement the product your organization offers

We may share certain limited tax information with sponsored accounts. For more information, see Tax information.

You can choose whether to display your sponsorship publicly. One-time sponsorships remain visible for one month.

If the sponsored account retires your tier, the tier will remain in place for you until you choose a different tier or cancel your subscription. For more information, see AUTOTITLE and AUTOTITLE.

If the account you want to sponsor does not have a profile on {% data variables.product.prodname_sponsors %}, you can encourage the account to join. For more information, see AUTOTITLE and AUTOTITLE.

Note

{% data variables.product.github %} is not responsible for how developers represent themselves nor does {% data variables.product.github %} endorse any sponsored open source projects. The claims are solely the responsibility of the developer receiving the funds. Make sure you trust a person before offering a sponsorship. For more information, see the {% data variables.product.prodname_sponsors %} Additional Terms.

About billing and sponsorship payments

GitHub provides the following billing methods to show love and support to your fellow collaborators and developers in the form of paid sponsorships: debit or credit cards, and Patreon. For additional information on your preferred funding, please click on any of the links below.

Note

When sponsoring through GitHub, your balance will be charged effective immediately. {% data reusables.sponsors.prorated-sponsorship %}

Alternatively, enterprises and organizations may opt to be billed by recurring invoice. For additional information on billing by invoice, please click on AUTOTITLE.

Warning

As of February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors does not support PayPal. While this only affects GitHub Sponsors, please note that it is still possible to fund GitHub Pro, GitHub Copilot, Actions and Packages, Storage, Codespaces and Git LFS Data using PayPal.

{% ifversion enterprise-orgs-sponsors-with-cc %}

When an enterprise opts to pay by credit card, it can enforce policies within its organizations that allow sponsoring of open source contributors by payments from the same card that was used for billing. For additional information, please click on AUTOTITLE.

{% endif %}

Using the sponsorships dashboard for organizations

You can use the sponsorships dashboard to see an overview of active and past sponsorships. Organization owners can use the dashboard to see how much they are paying, make changes to sponsorships, and export their sponsorships as a CSV file. Non-members and people signed out of {% data variables.product.github %} can see public sponsorships and organization members can see public and private sponsorships.

You can access the sponsorships dashboard through your organization's profile.

{% data reusables.profile.access_org %} {% data reusables.user-settings.access_org %}

  1. Under your organization name, click {% octicon "heart" aria-hidden="true" %} Sponsoring.

Sponsorship fees

{% data reusables.sponsors.no-fees %}

For more information on fees and billing, see AUTOTITLE.

Tax information

As a sponsor, you acknowledge that we may disclose to the owner of each account you sponsor the following limited information about your sponsorship payments to the account, since the inception of the Sponsors Program:

  • Transaction date
  • Amount paid
  • The country, state, and province from where payment was made
  • Whether payment was made by a business or individual

This information is necessary to enable payment and reporting of any taxes arising from such sponsorship payments.

{% data reusables.sponsors.sponsorships-not-tax-deductible %}