Finance Reports

I treat all Patreon donations as if it's not my own money, instead still belonging to the people who are investing in the platform.

All spendings, savings and allocations of the income each month is detailed in the public spreadsheets below.

In a nutshell:

• The Patreon income is first used to cover the running costs (server hosting and other necessary services).
• Then, I (Greg Zaal) personally take 20% of the remainder as a salary to cover my time working on building, maintaining and improving the website, as well as checking, processing and uploading HDRIs from the various HDRI authors.
• The remainder (~75% of the original income) is shared between the HDRI authors whose work was published that month, relative to the number of HDRIs they each published. For more details on how this amount is shared, look at one of the months below.
• Half the AdSense money is added straight to the Patreon donations and used as described above. The other half is added to the savings tables below.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at [email protected].

Detailed Monthly Reports

May 2020April 2020March 2020February 2020January 2020December 2019November 2019October 2019September 2019August 2019July 2019June 2019May 2019April 2019March 2019February 2019January 2019December 2018November 2018October 2018September 2018August 2018July 2018June 2018May 2018April 2018March 2018February 2018January 2018December 2017November 2017October 2017

For a quick visual overview of how HDRI Haven has grown over time, I recommend checking out the Graphtreon page.

The following tables show my personal monthly savings towards improving the content on this site.

As I'm no longer the only photographer publishing work on HDRI Haven, this only includes my small portion of the Patreon income. Other photographers may be spending or saving their earnings differently.