Monthly budget, October 2026
16% of ₹2,23,417 monthly goal
Starts again from zero on the 1st of every month.
Funding Closet Republic
Closet Republic is run by volunteers and funded by donations. Here is where the money goes.
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Where the money stands
Budget
Monthly Budget
| Subject | Budget | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Servers, domains, apis and Testing | 10,000 | Monthly server maintenance charges |
| Contributors Fees | 40,000 | Monthly minimum wages of developers and artists |
| Legal Fund | 50,000 | Monthly contribution to legal fund |
| Wellfare Fund | 68,000 | Monthly contribution to wellfare fund |
| Infrastructure Fund | 37084 | Monthly contribution to Infrastructure fund |
| Total | 155084 |
Legal fund is only used in emergency cases, legal name and gender change for contributors, takedown notices, signing up new developers/artists/writers on role, etc. and is not predictable for the month.
Wellfare Fund estimate for four contributors
| Subject | Budget | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Health of contributors | 20,000 | Monthly fees to cover up health checks, consults, medications of contributors. Limit up to 5000 per contributor, excess gets carried over to next month. |
| Living allowance | 20,000 | Monthly living allowance for contributors, 5000 each, fixed. |
| Transport allowance | 8,000 | Monthly allowance for transport, excess gets carried over. |
| skill up allowance | 20,000 | Monthly allowance for contributor's to upgrade contributor's hobbies, skills, knowledge etc. 5000 max each. excess carried over. |
| Total | 68,000 |
Infrastructure Fund (Yearly)
| Subject | Budget | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Computers and accessories fund | 400,000 | Need based. Used only if a skilled contributor does not have gear to use their full potential. Max 1L per contributor. If there is excess fund, it will be carried over to next years fund. |
| Office rental | 20,000 | monthly (proposed) office rental and utilities bill. |
| Misc IT and infrastructure equipment | 25,000 | For access points, accessories and router in office. |
| Total | 445,000 |
Writers seeking funding
These writers are looking for support for their work on Closet Republic.
