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- Free allowance
- Quoted from the programme page: 'It is $10,000 per project.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe project must already be a maintained open-source project with demonstrated traction, and the USD 8,000 balance is conditional on two security check-ins at 6 and 12 months, so the money is spread over a year of work.
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Quoted from the programme page: 'It is $10,000 per project. All funding goes directly to the maintainers that are invited into the program. The funding is broken into tranches aligned to program schedules: $6,000 during program, $2,000 at 6 month check-in, and $2,000 at 12 month check-in.' The same page lists 'Cloud Credits: $10,000 in Azure credits. Eligible projects have potential to receive up to $150,000 in free Azure infrastructure credits from Microsoft for Startups.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; cash-grant-plus-credits |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The project must already be a maintained open-source project with demonstrated traction, and the USD 8,000 balance is conditional on two security check-ins at 6 and 12 months, so the money is spread over a year of work. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | This is the only record that pairs cash with a cloud credit: USD 10,000 cash through GitHub Sponsors plus USD 10,000 of Azure credits, with a separate conditional route to as much as USD 150,000 of Azure infrastructure credit through Microsoft for Startups, so it composes with any Azure GPU quota the corpus records elsewhere. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The two first-party sources disagree on the cloud credit and the disagreement is the finding: the programme page prints 'Cloud Credits: $10,000 in Azure credits' with a conditional path to USD 150,000 through Microsoft for Startups, while a GitHub blog post describes session 4 as giving '$100K of Azure Credits'. A reader should confirm with the programme before planning around either. Seventy-one projects had already passed through the programme by one of the posts, which is a large cohort for a fund this small and is the reason to rank it high: the odds are not Alpha-Omega odds. Two conditions do real work: the maintainer must sit in a GitHub Sponsors-supported region, and the project needs visible traction. A provider record for GitHub already exists in the corpus (github-actions, github-codespaces, github-student-developer); this is a separate programme with its own money and was absent from every GitHub record, so it is recorded as its own finding rather than as a duplicate. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | github.com/open-source/github-secure-open-source-fund | quoted the USD 10,000 per project with the 6,000 / 2,000 / 2,000 tranche split, the Azure credit sentence 'Cloud Credits: $10,000 in Azure credits. Eligible projects have potential to receive up to $150,000 in free Azure infrastructure credits from Microsoft for Startups', and the eligibility list: 'Anyone who is a current maintainer of an open source project', 18 or older, active GitHub profile, 'Be located in one of the regions supported by GitHub Sponsors' |
| 2026-10-22 | github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/investing-in-the- | quoted 'Session 4 runs late April with each project receiving $10,000, Copilot Pro, $100K of Azure Credits, and 3 weeks of security education' and 'an additional $5.5 million in Azure credits and funding' [this figure conflicts with the $10,000 Azure credits printed on the programme page; see notes] |
| 2026-10-22 | github.blog/open-source/maintainers/securing-the-supply-chai | reported: 'each project receives $10,000 USD via GitHub Sponsors', a 3-week sprint inside a 12-month engagement, and that 71 projects had taken part by that post |
| 2026-10-22 | opensource.org/blog/improving-open-source-security-with-the- | third-party confirmation of the USD 10,000 per project figure and the three-week programme shape |
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