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About CiviCRM

CiviCRM is an open source project with the mission to ensure that nonprofit and civic sector organizations around the world have access to a world-class CRM that they are free to download, modify and use regardless of their budget, mission or operational focus.

CiviCRM is powered by an amazing community of contributors and supporters, and is built and maintained by a Core Team of 7 individuals. It is independent and self-funded. 

The legal entity behind CiviCRM is CiviCRM LLC, a California-based limited liability company.

This is version 2 of our monthly report demonstrating CiviCRM’s ongoing performance. We’re using this to replace the annual report format. Archives of past reports can be found here. We will update this report on the first of each month we relevant metrics and commentary. Last modified: 08 July, 2026
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The Scorecard

Health Score

It’s getting dicey
6.76% from previous month
This report contains a lot of information. If you’re short on time, use this health scorecard to get an idea of where we’re at.

Key Report Takeaways

  • We continue to see growth in the ecosystem, though some stats are showing signs of slowing down.
  • Core Team funding of the project fell to 37% in June, however this is due to a delay in payment of a few large receivables. Reliance on Core Team funding is too high and is currently delaying our own priorities, specifically: remote forms, Oauth work, FormBuilder payments, accessibility improvements and version 2 of the River framework.
  • Overall health score is in decline and we’re only halfway into the year. We’re expecting a hit to this in the next several months as we anticipate much higher than usual expenses as a result of CiviCamp Toronto and a miscalculation in our partner RevShare.
By no means is this health score perfect nor does it account for every possible metric in the CiviCRM ecosystem. It reconciles a few metrics that are representative of the project and its capacity as a whole, specifically:
  • Ecosystem Growth
    A growing ecosystem means increased potential support and capacity.
  • Source of Income
    The more community funding, the more flexible we are to make foundational improvements in the product.
  • Financial Runway
    Our capacity to sustain the project based on current trends.
All metrics assessed use a rolling 12 month comparison in order to establish recent trends.
The result? The closer this health score is to 100, the more we can focus on product development without worrying about sustaining the project. The closer to 0, the less we focus on product development and the more we are required to focus on sustaining the project.
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The Ecosystem

CiviCRM Installations

0

This metric represents the total number of voluntary, anonymous installation pingbacks to us. It may include development or test sites, though we do our best to filter those. It does not include installations that have disabled the pingback.

Some trends

  • 22.62% vs. previous month
  • 4.90% vs. previous 3 months
  • 80.41% vs. previous year

More statistics are available to supporters at https://civicrm.org/core-stats

And growing!

By nearly all metrics, CiviCRM is growing… so much so that, as we said, we’re investigating if there is an issue with the stats! That said, we see strong growth in other areas of the project such as website stats (traffic to civicrm.org and civicrm.com is up 43.27% vs. previous year), Spark and Academy subscriptions, user and site registrations, and overall downloads.

The CiviCRM ecosystem includes organizations, service providers, independent developers and nonprofit consultants, and individual users, all located around the world and bringing different skills and experiences to the community.

As an open source project, CiviCRM is sustained by both financial supporters and active contributors.

Partners

0

1.82% vs. previous month

CiviCRM Partners are the experts at implementing, customizing and supporting CiviCRM. They generously fund and sustain the project.

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Contributors

0

1.03% vs. previous month

Contributors support CiviCRM through code contributions, including new features and bug fixes. They are critical for CiviCRM’s development.

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Members

0

No change since previous month

Members are end user organizations and individuals that voluntarily fund and help sustain CiviCRM on an ongoing basis. Members rock!

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Spark Growth

0

Year over year growth in the number of CiviCRM Spark subscriptions.

Some trends

  • 0.00% vs. previous month
  • 10.10% vs. previous 3 months

CiviCRM Spark is a lightweight, SaaS product produced and maintained by the CiviCRM Core Team. It’s intended to be a fast, easy and inexpensive option for organizations that are new to CiviCRM or new to CRM’s, in general.

We’re continuing to focus on scaling Spark as we believe it represents a powerful onboarding channel for the ecosystem. We’re getting bogged down on support requests and are making a foundational change by shifting to CiviCRM Standalone.

While growth has slowed down a bit, Spark is still growing. Furthermore, it’s benefitting from support for various partners that have opted to sponsor Spark and help it grow:

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The Numbers

Budget shortfall

0

For the past 12 months, up to 31/03/2026.
104.07% from previous month

This is Our Challenge

The sustainability of CiviCRM, as a project, is based on an under-funded Core Team. Despite amazing community support, we have historically bootstrapped our way to sustainability.

Unfortunately, this approach leads to inconsistent development efforts, unnecessary pauses, sporadic surges in new features, etc., all of which causes unnecessary inefficiencies.

If this concerns you, please learn more about how to help or jump right in and…

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Our Financials

April 1, 2026: Core Team pay increase

We took a 5% pay raise effective April 1, 2026 to offset the increased cost of living and reverse the 3.83% pay cut we were experiencing as a result. This means that our budget will feel increasing pressure, sooner.

CiviCRM is sustained by the support of its generous community along with the work of the CiviCRM Core Team. We do not receive investment funding from venture capitalists. Our ‘shareholders’ are our community.

We attempt to run a sustainable project by balancing the cost to maintain the software along with implementing new developments. A focus on the latter tends to result in budget shortfalls, like what we are currently experiencing. A focus on the form tends to result in product stagnation. 

Let’s get a little more granular

We use the charts below to group income and expenses into major categories. A more detailed Profit and Loss statement can be found in the extras below.

Some notes about our Monthly Income by Source…

  • Core Team income (earned income and subscriptions) has risen to 38.61% of budget. This is a mixed blessing. Yes, it funds us. But it tends to shift our priorities to those that are paying for our work.
  • Regarding the RevShare: The % shared back to CiviCRM LLC does not increase otherwise effective the rates charged by the processors to end user organizations. CiviCRM LLC does not enter into contracts that adversely affect payment processing rates for end users.
  • We’ve seen a definite decline in the RevShare and are projecting a downward trend in the months ahead. This is due to a number of factors including changes to the Stripe agreement, impending deprecation (date unknown) of the iATS Payments extension, and provider interest in the RevShare model.
  • That big spike up in income is the result of event income from CiviCamp Toronto, CiviBRM, and CiviCRM Paris. Expect to see the expenses float up in the next month.

Some notes about our Monthly Expenses by Source…

  • We don’t much care for this expense breakdown because it doesn’t offer much value. We’re currently working on an alternative approach to demonstrating how funds are used within the project.
  • Labor continues to lighten up a bit mostly due to paternity leave for a few CT members. Our productivity has taken a bit of a hit as a result. We expect the cost of labor to rise in the coming months.
  • Core Team labor represents 79% of the budget, which is about what we’ve historically averaged. We expect this metric to climb as we add on some additional staff capacity.

How we can fix this budget shortfall, together

We believe strongly in the power of community. More than anything, it is what drives this amazing open source project. As we stated at the top of this page, CiviCRM is completely independent and self-funded. And we aim to keep it that way. But we cannot do it without the CiviCRM community!

Grow the ecosystem

Perhaps the most important thing we can do is grow the ecosystem. Both our RevShare and Subscriptions income scale with the size of our userbase. This is a longer term strategy and is in progress, led by the efforts of the CiviCRM Marketing Team in conjunction with the Core Team.

How you can help

  • Register your organization on civicrm.org and share some details about your organization. This helps us understand who is using the software and how.
  • Support our offsite promotion on Mastodon, Blue Sky and LinkedIn to help us raise brand awareness.
  • Share a review of CiviCRM, good or bad, and how it’s worked for your organization. Send us an email to info@civicrm.org and we’ll publish it on civicrm.com.
  • Recommend CiviCRM to peer organizations that may benefit. Encourage them to attend an event or local meetup to learn more.

Grow member support

While we have seen growth in the CiviCRM partner program, member support from end user organizations is painfully low. In fact, only 0.15% of end users support CiviCRM as members.
If just 1% of end user organizations joined as members, at the lowest level, it would eliminate our current shortfall. Please, join us and help sustain CiviCRM for everyone.

You can support as an individual member as well

We recently rebooted our individual giving program and have seen wonderful success. We call is the Coffee Club.
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Host more local events

CiviCRM benefits from events in two primary ways: 1) they can generate funds for the Core Team and 2) they can help raise brand awareness.

Events can range in size from informal meetups to larger CiviCamps that often include trainings and sprints. Events are not limited to in-person, though. They can be online trainings and general webinars as well.

View upcoming events
Contact us to host an event
And don’t forget to mark your calendars for Paris 2026 CiviConf & CiviSprint (5-9 october 2026).
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Environmental Impact

We continued to support the work of Ecologi throughout 2025 and remain committed to funding opportunities that have a meaningful impact on the environment and on global climate change.

3 Years of Climate Action

100 Tonnes of CO2e Avoided

100 Green Trees Planted

Join our efforts and support Ecologi today!
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