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Support OpenRefine

Why Your Support Matters​

OpenRefine is a free, power tool for working with messy data and improving it. Our mission is to empower everyone to meaningfully engage with data by providing an accessible, open-source tool and nurturing a diverse, supportive community. Your sponsorship fills the funding gap beyond grants, ensuring the project remains healthy and community-driven. You can make a one-time gift or become a monthly sponsor at any level.

Funding Tier​

We are funded by grants and gifts from institutions and individuals like you. Our annual operating budget is US$140 000 (or appx US$11,500 per month) to support our core team for maintenance, coordination, licensing, and administration. Details on fund usage and other sources of funding are available on our funding page.

Available funding tier are:

  • Sustainer: up to $500 per year. Covers essential day-to-day infrastructure including forum hosting, software licenses, and routine maintenance.
  • Sponsor: up to $5,000 per year. Enables us to represent OpenRefine at conferences and expand our community outreach.
  • Partner: up to $50,000 per year. Underwrites multiple months of core-team development, feature work, and contributor support.
  • Patron: over $50,000 to $200,000 per year. Fully sustains OpenRefine’s annual budget, funding our entire core team for a full year.

See our current backers and active grants

You can also support OpenRefine via GitHub Sponsors.

OpenRefine is a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science & Society Inc.. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law in the US. Tax ID 81-3791683.