April 2026 Finance Report

Thank you to everyone who donated in April. Your support keeps GhostBSD running and growing.

In April 2026, GhostBSD received 1,806.43 CAD in donations: 484.43 CAD from Patreon (352.29 USD) and 1,322.00 CAD from PayPal.

Compared to March 2026 (1,364.91 CAD), this is an increase of +441.52 CAD (+32.3%). Compared to April 2025 (1,206.05 CAD), this is an increase of +600.38 CAD (+49.8%), making it our best month of the year so far. A big part of that comes from IncogNET renewing its Bronze sponsorship for a full year, along with several generous one-time donations.

The 2026 year-to-date total is 5,945.76 CAD, putting us at 19.8% of our annual goal of 30,000 CAD.

Expenses

Infrastructure Costs

  • So You Start: 161.14 CAD, dedicated servers, web hosting, and 6 IPs for jails
  • Storj: 148.28 CAD, package distribution
  • Home server (power + connectivity): 160.00 CAD

Other Expenses

  • Claude Pro: 32.20 CAD

Total Expenses: 501.62 CAD

Net for April: 1,304.81 CAD

Server Fund

1,300.00 CAD from April goes toward the server fund, bringing the total set aside to approximately 8,000.00 CAD. This fund is working toward purchasing an Ampere ARM server to add ARM build support in the future.

Contributors/Sponsors

See the Donors List: https://www.ghostbsd.org/donors

See the Patron List: https://www.ghostbsd.org/about/patreon


Thank you all for your support and donations. It keeps the project infrastructure running and helps build a better GhostBSD for the future.