OpenRefine Backers
Thank you for supporting OpenRefine in 2025 and 2026! We are proud to list your name on this page, which celebrates everyone who made a financial contribution to OpenRefine at any level.
Previous donors are listed in our Year in Review post:
You can donate here
Patron
Over $50,000 donated in 2025. Fully sustains OpenRefine’s annual budget, funding our entire core team for a full year.
Partner
Between $5,000 and $50,000 donated in the last 12 months. Underwrites multiple months of core-team development, feature work, and contributor support.
- FLOSS/fund (one-time)
Sponsor
Between $500 and $5,000 donated in the last 12 months. Enables us to represent OpenRefine at conferences and expand our community outreach.
- Vanguard Charitable (one-time)
Sustainer
Up to $500 donated in the last 12 months. Covers essential day-to-day infrastructure including forum hosting, software licenses, and routine maintenance.
- RefinePro (recurring)
- ostephens (recurring)
- DaxServer (recurring)
- timtomch (recurring)
- trantor (recurring)
- One anonymous donors (recurring)
- EstebanMH-SiB (recurring)
- Balise42 (recurring)
- btseee (one-time)
- Joel Gardner (one-time)
- Jasmine Saffold (one-time)
- Nicolas Semrau (one-time)
- Jessica Talisman (one-time)
- John Andersson (one-time)
- Fumichika Kinoshita (one-time)
- Sharon Mizota (one-time)
- Nikhil Raj (one-time)
- Dan Pobst (one-time)
- Mita Williams (one-time)
- Shaun Spalding (one-time)
- and 2 anonymous donors (one-time)
Service & Infrastructure Partners
We’re also grateful to the following projects for their in-kind support:
- Coverall, Weblate, and GitHub for providing their infrastructure and software free of charge to OpenRefine.
- Discourse for offering us a 50 % charity discount on forum hosting.
Help us reach our funding goal, donate here