Add support to pull from GitHub Sponsors metadata

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[DuaneOBrien]

What would implementing this look like for Back Your Stack?

[DuaneOBrien]

Considerations when developing this feature:

FUNDING.yml can be located in a .github/ directory within a repository, or in the root of a repository named .github owned by an individual or an organization, and sometimes you can find both.

Currently, as far as I know, there's no information in the API to indicate if a repo or individual is sponsored or not, so you end up having to test every repo. I've found it easiest to just ask the API for the file, but it's inefficient (my hit rate is ~ 4%).

It might be worth having a conversation with GitHub about surfacing Sponsorship information in the API, returning has_funding and funding_url along with the rest of the repo information.

https://api.github.com/repos/chalk/chalk