Thunderbird reports income and expenditures for 2023, total donations exceed 1.26 billion yen, with Japan tied for 4th place at around 50 million yen
State Of The Bird: Thunderbird Annual Report 2023-2024 - The Thunderbird Blog
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-report-2023-2024/
The total amount of donations received by Thunderbird in 2023 is $8.6 million, up 34.5% from the previous year. More than 300,000 individuals have donated to Thunderbird, and the total number of donations has exceeded 515,000. In addition, it appears that 26% of donations were monthly regular donations.
What's notable about donations to Thunderbird is that the majority of donations were small: the average donation was $16.90, and the median was $11.12.
Some have suggested that Thunderbird has 'super donors' who donate large amounts of money, but Thunderbird says, 'No, we just have a super community.' 61% of donations were less than $20, and 95% of transactions were less than $35. Thunderbird emphasizes that there were only 56 donations over $1,000 in a year, which is only 0.0007% of all donations.
Below is a graph showing which countries donated to Thunderbird. The graph on the left shows which countries donated the most, in order of most to Thunderbird: Germany (29%), the United States (20%), France (6%), the United Kingdom (4%), Japan (4%), and others (37%). Although detailed figures have not been disclosed, donations from Japan amounted to about 4% ($344,000, or about 50 million yen in Japanese yen) of the total donations ($8.6 million). The graph on the right shows the percentage of donations, in order of most to none: Germany (22%), the United States (15%), France (6%), the United Kingdom (5%), Japan (4%), and others (48%).
According to Thunderbird, donations have been received from more than 200 countries, but half of all donations come from five countries: Germany, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan, accounting for 63% of the total donations.
Below is a graph showing how Thunderbird uses these donations. The largest expense is employee salaries (68.2%), followed by infrastructure and operational costs to build Thunderbird (13.9%). Other expenses include donation processing fees (7.6%), G&A (6.6%), marketing & community (2.0%), and travel expenses (1.7%).
Thunderbird is based on the following three values, and we ask that users who share these values support Thunderbird:
・Privacy is important
We don't collect your data or spy on you. What you do with Thunderbird is up to you and not our concern.
- I believe in digital wellbeing
Thunderbird has no dark patterns. We don't want you to doomscroll your email. The app is meant to help you, not hurt you. We want Thunderbird to help you be more productive.
- Believes in open standards
Email works because it is based on open standards. Large providers have undermined these standards to lock you into their platforms. We support and develop standards for the benefit of everyone.
You can donate to Thunderbird here:
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https://www.thunderbird.net/ja/donate/
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