Been doing some research into GitHub Sponsors the past few days.
Out of 27k accounts analysed:
~12k had at least one sponsor,
~2k had at least 10 sponsors,
~900 have more than 100 sponsors 78 more than 1000 (past or present)
About 10% of GitHub sponsor accounts are organizations, 90% individuals.
Primary programming languages of GitHub sponsors accounts, based on their featured repositories:
JavaScript: 10.57%
TypeScript: 10.26%
Python: 9.76%
PHP: 4.77%
C#: 4.39%
Go: 3.65%
Java: 3.56%
C++: 3.15%
Rust: 3.05%
C: 1.85%
HTML: 1.74%
Shell: 1.57%
Swift: 1.37%
Ruby: 1.33%
Kotlin: 1.29%
Dart: 1.02%
Jupyter Notebook: 0.64%
Vue: 0.64%
CSS: 0.6%
Lua: 0.51%
PowerShell: 0.38%
Elixir: 0.36%
R: 0.35%
Clojure: 0.33%
Scala: 0.25%
Andrew Nesbitt
planetf1