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Organizations

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GitHub Sponsors

$274,148.06 USD since Nov 2021

2
Patreon

$67,019.84 USD since Jan 2022

3
Patreon

$29,355.51 USD since Sep 2024

4
Cybozu

$12,426 USD since Jun 2023

5
Airbnb

$11,500 USD since Mar 2022

6
Bloomberg

$10,000 USD since Feb 2024

7
Springer Nature

$3,300 USD since Mar 2023

8
Target Tech

$2,500 USD since Feb 2024

9
Padlet

$1,700 USD since Apr 2022

10
WonderProxy

$1,600 USD since Oct 2024

Individuals

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Philippe Chaurand

$2,361.35 USD since Dec 2022

2
Thinkst Canary

$2,000 USD since Jun 2022

3
Thinkst Canary

$2,000 USD since Jul 2024

4
Huyen Tue Dao

$1,000 USD since Sep 2022

5
https://twitter.com/doertedev

$500 USD since Dec 2021

6
BernardK

$500 USD since Nov 2022

7
Infinum

$320 USD since Mar 2022

8
Mike McQuaid

$286.75 USD since Nov 2021

9
John Kuhl

$250 USD since Nov 2023

10
Carlo Zottmann

$250 USD since Dec 2023

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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

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+$100.00USD
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Today’s balance

$167,283.90 USD

Total raised

$397,258.58 USD

Total disbursed

$229,974.68 USD

Estimated annual budget

$96,421.92 USD

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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.

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