YunoHost has been around since 2012 and is essentially developed on a voluntary basis and outside the commercial sector.
YunoHost is a modest project in terms of the resources it mobilizes - yet an ambitious one, as much for its activism as for its technical and interface design, as well as for the required perseverance to package and maintain the hundreds of applications in our catalog.
If, like us, you'd like to see the project continue to function, evolve to meet its promises, and allow us to take care of the community, this is where you can donate!
I want to give to YunoHost:
Why support YunoHost in 2025?
YunoHost is a non-profit project that advocates a decentralized Internet, with open, interoperable and sober technologies that respect privacy and (re-)empower the greatest number of people and collectives.
To do so, we aim to collect €28,500 this year, to split between the following three objectives:
1. Preserve what's useful to you €5,500
Donations are used primarily to maintain the existing system, in particular by paying infrastructure costs (YunoHost services and task automation) and allowing the team to meet at least once a year.
2. Make the facilitator position permanent €12,000
Since mid-2024, the team involved in the day-to-day development of YunoHost has been calling on a facilitator (a.k.a “stirrer”) to take care of the collective both humanly and administratively, as well as in its external relations. This new person has been a great help for us since then, so we need more donations to sustain this essential position.
3. Boosting development €11,000
The publication of new large-scale developments depends essentially on the availability of contributors. If the budget allows, the team would like to remunerate certain developments to enable contributors to free up professional time to realize them.
2025 Campaign progress
- Recurring donations:
- One-time donations:
YunoHost in 2024
The project
- 14 years of existence
- about fifteen regularly active core-contributors
- volunteer work that could be valued at least €250,000 a year if remunerated
The community
- ~10,000 instances in 77 countries
- 130 regular or occasional donors in 2024
- 8,700+ accounts on the various project channels (forge, forum, chat)
- 15+ languages supported
The software and its ecosystem
- 540+ apps in the catalog (a brief history)
- 760 Git code repositories (core + apps)
What are your donations used for?
Your donations guarantee our independence: they constitute our entire income in 2024.
Revenues
In recent years, donations were around €15,000 per year, mainly from individuals.
Between 2021 and 2023, the project benefited from grants from the NLnet foundation and the CodeLutin company for a total of around €15,000 which were used to develop features for versions 4 and 11 of the project. The team is regularly applying for new grants.
In addition, YunoHost receives significant in-kind donations in the form of servers or bandwidth from other non-profit organizations as well as from independent web companies such as Globenet, Gitoyen, TetaNeutral and Octopuce.
These in-kind donations are not represented in the graph below.
Expenses
Between 2022 and 2024, the collective spent around €12,500 a year.
In 2025, the creation of the “stirrer” position for the collective will represent an additional expense of €12,000 per year. YunoHost would like to be able to continue its financial contributions to the development of important features for the project and its community. The projected budget for 2025 is therefore around €28,000.
Project expenditure breaks down into the following categories:
- Development: one-off funding linked to the development and maintenance of the project, thanks to both grants and donations received. It should be noted, however, that this amount is negligible in relation to the voluntary work carried out by the team.
- Infrastructure: corresponds to the hosting of the tools used by the project, such as the website, documentation, forum, technical tools, etc. The amount of this expenditure should reduce in 2025 following a migration to a dedicated server from a friendly host provider.
- Events: expenses to enable the team to attend events (e.g. JdLL) and to meet in the same place once a year to work together on fundamental issues.
- Collective facilitation: financial compensation allocated to the tasks of administrative facilitation, animation and coordination of the collective. This is a new type of expense introduced in 2025, decided by the collective given the need to have a person dedicated to these aspects (a.k.a “stirrer”).
- Fees and other expenses: bank charges or donations made to other collectives that support the project in kind.
Roadmap and dreammap
We're publishing a roadmap here to give a clearer idea of what we plan to develop. It does NOT constitutes a promise because it is dependent on the availability and energies of volunteers. It is therefore subject to change at any time.
General questions about donations
Will my donation be tax deductible?
At this time, we do not provide tax-deductible donation receipts. We can, however, issue donation receipts for your accounting purposes.
My donation is not sent to YunoHost but to the Support Self-Hosting association. Is this normal?
Yes, that's expected, Support Self-Hosting is the association that enables the YunoHost project to collect donations and pay expenses.
Can I become a member of the Support Self-Hosting association?
No: this is an association whose members are chosen by co-option.
We don't think you need to be a member of Support Self-Hosting to contribute to the YunoHost project. Anyone can come and help on most of our projects, and we do our best to welcome volunteers.
I can't make a recurring donation, but I'd like to support YunoHost. What can I do?
Thank you for your support and commitment.
You can make a one-off donation directly from the donate.yunohost.org page.
I've made a monthly donation but I've made a mistake in the amount or I'd like to change it. How do I proceed?
We cannot change the amount for future debits.
But you can cancel your previous donation and start a new one by using the “Manage your monthly donation” link on our donate.yunohost.org page.
I am currently making a recurring donation but my credit card has expired. What should I do?
Typically, your recurring donation is automatically interrupted once your card has been deactivated.
To update your bank details with Support Self-Hosting, please complete the form on the donate.yunohost.org page as if it were your first donation.
My organization doesn't have a credit card, but would like to make a donation. How do I go about it?
You can contact us so that we can provide you with an IBAN to make a bank transfer.
I'd like to stop a recurring donation. What can I do?
You can cancel your donation by using the “Manage your monthly donation” link on our donate.yunohost.org page.