Awesome Donations
A list of organizations, projects, tools, apps, websites and developers that you can support financially.
Please add your favourite software to the list!
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.
The Linux Foundation
Note
Donations don't fully go to the Linux kernel! The Linux kernel is just one of the things they fund. Source
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.
Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.
- Donate, check, Paypal, Flattr and wire transfer
Software Freedom Law Center
The Software Freedom Law Center provides pro-bono legal services to developers of Free, Libre, and Open Source Software.
- Donate Supported methods include: check, Network for Good (U.S. only), Paypal and Flattr.
Mozilla Foundation
Warning
This is not the same as the company making the Firefox browser or the Thunderbird mail app!
If you want to donate to Thunderbird, do it here
There is no way to donate to Firefox currently. Annoy Firefox or Mozilla on Bluesky.
- donate: PayPal / Credit Card, Bitcoin, Cheque, Bank Transfer
Tor Project
Creators of the Tor Network, the Firefox-based Tor-Browser, OnionShare and more
- Donation Website (no onion address)
- Donations via Crypto accepted: BTC, DOGE, ETH, XMR, LTC, XLM, ZEC (possibly incomplete)
Software in the public interest
SPI is a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. They act as a fiscal sponsor to many free and open source projects.
Critical Infrastructure Software
- GnuPG (Encryption) – credit card, Paypal, and SEPA transactions
- LUKS / cryptsetup - Help the project Translations
- OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD – Like the other OpenBSD sub-projects, funding is generally done via the same donation framework.
- OpenSSL – Github Sponsors, Sponsors list
- Veracrypt - Donation page (bank transfer, paypal, crypto) Liberapay
VideoLan
Developing VLC on all platforms, libdvdcss, x264, x265. Critically for free media playback
Code Platforms
- Codeberg - Donation page
- forgejo (FOSS git forge software, used by Codeberg) - Liberapay
- Radicale (decentralized git forge) - funded by Radworks Tally website where you can "connect your wallet"
Linux Distributions
- Arch Linux – click & pledge
- Debian – USA ePay
- Gentoo
- KDE Neon (KDE directly)
- Kubuntu
- Linux Mint
- PostmarketOS (Linux on phones, tablets and Chromebooks)
- TAILS (privacy-centered live system) – Wire Transfer, PayPal, Bitcoin, Freedom of the Press foundation bundle (Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin)
- QubesOS
- Ubuntu (these projects are semi-independent from Ubuntu and take donations)
- Lubuntu - Donation page, Patreon, Liberapay, Paypal, TeeSpring purchases -
⚠️ WARNING, lubuntu.net is a fake website, lubuntu.me is the real one - Ubports (porting Ubuntu to phones and more) - Shop, including donations
- Ubuntu Unity - no donations currently
- Xubuntu - Donation page
- Lubuntu - Donation page, Patreon, Liberapay, Paypal, TeeSpring purchases -
- Whonix
- Xubuntu - Bountysource, Unixstickers, Canonical (Paypal), time
Android:
Unix-like:
Hardware Donations:
- Fedora Project
- OpenSuse (Send them a mail at donations@opensuse.org)
Linux Desktops
- Budgie
- GNOME
- KDE Plasma
- Lomiri (Desktop based on Ubuntu's Unity) - see "ubports" under Linux Distributions
- LXQt - OpenCollective Page
- Mate - Donation Page (Paypal, BTC), Ubuntu Mate
- XFCE - Donation Page
Linux Software
- Ardour DAW
- Arkenfox user.js (Firefox hardening) (no donations yet)
- Audacity No money donations anymore
- BlissOS / Waydroid
- Bottles (Easy Wine Configuration)
- Calibre E-Book Manager (Javascript button on the top right)
- Clementine (audio player) – no money accepted
- Cryptomator
- Cryptsetup / LUKS (no Donation possible currently)
- DeaDBeef (audio player) – PayPal, Flattr
- EasyEffects Liberapay Patreon PayPal
- ffmpeg, the cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video - Donation page
- Mozilla Firefox Donation to Mozilla Foundation (indirectly to Firefox, as the Corporation is managing it)
- FreeTube Liberapay BTC Monero XMR
- Freeplane Mindmap Tool (No money donations but help in Forums wanted)
- Geany (text editor) – Paypal
- GIMP (image manipulation) – PayPal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Wire Transfer, Cheque
- InkScape (vector graphics) – Paypal, cash, cheque or international money order in US funds
- JamesDSP for Linux KoFi PayPal
- KeePassX (password management) – Flattr, PayPal
- KeePassXC (password management, spiritual successor to KeePassX) – Paypal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Dash, Patreon
- Krita
- LibreOffice (powerful office suite) – Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin, Flattr, Wire Transfer
- Librewolf – Core Contributors - maltejur,
- Lynis Security Audit Tool (FOSS, enterprise solutions available)
- LyX (WYSIWYG LaTeX editor) – PayPal
- Mumble (VoIP conference software) – Paypal, Bitcoin
- Monero
- OBS
- GNU Octave
- OpenAndroidInstaller – Liberapay
- OpenShot (video editing) – PayPal
- OpenSnitch
- Pidgin (instant messaging) – donation page
- Pinta – (no donations)
- Piper TTS – (no Donations available)
- PipeWire – donation page
- qBittorrent
- QEMU – Paypal
- QGis
- Remmina Remote Desktop
- RustDesk – Github Sponsors KoFi
- Signal
- SimpleX Chat
- StirlingPDF (PDF-Editor with Web-Frontend) – Github Sponsors Paypal
- Syncthing
- Tenacity (Audacity Fork) – (no money donations yet)
- The Document Foundation (Libreoffice)
- Thunderbird
- Typst Markup Language in Rust
For Companies:
Android Software
Repositories & Tools
- Accrescent (a security-focused store, aiming to be an alternative to Google Play) - Donation Page (Taproot, XMR, ETH, SegWit), Github Sponsors
- AuroraStore (Free Google PlayStore Client) - Liberapay
- F-Droid - Donation page
- IzzyOnDroid - OpenCollective, Services by the developer
- Obtainium (A tool to get apps from various sources) - Github Sponsors, Ko-Fi, Monero XMR
Apps
- Aegis Authenticator
- Anki (Company, no Donations but paying the iOS App or help in the Forum helps)
- Conversations (XMPP Chat) - Professional support, Buy the app in the Google PlayStore. Web hosting
- Fedilab and lots of others
- FlorisBoard Patrick Gold
- Fossify Apps (SimpleMobileTools Fork) - Github Sponsors, Main Maintainer: Github Sponsors, Patreon, Liberapay, Paypal (or search for "naveen3singh" to avoid fees)
- [Ironfox](Donation page
- Jerboah for Lemmy
- Magisk (WARNING many fake websites!) (No Donations), Github Sponsor of "diareuse", Github Sponsor of "yujincheng", Github Sponsor of "osm0sis"
- OSMAnd Android navigation (no donations but purchases)
- SimpleMobileTools Tibor Kaputa - SMT was sold as he didn't get enough donations. You can still donate to him. Fossify is the continued fork
Online Software / Services
- BeaconDB (free network geolocation) - Liberapay. Contributors: sim6 (freelance work), Mikaela (freelance work)
- CryptPad (Service and Software)
- Nextcloud (Help wanted, no donations)
- i2p Invisible Internet Protocol (They have a hall of fame but no donation way to be found?)
- Lemmy
- Leon Tiekötter
- Liberenet Liberapay
- RiseUp
- Tiekötter (He hosts several awesome projects like SearX)
Software Modifications
Hardening, Forks, Configurations
Firefox
- Betterfox - Github Sponsors
- Phoenix - Donation page (Crypto, others on request)
- Torproject (many privacy improvements and hardening) - see above
Thunderbird
Safari hardening
Websites, Information
- PrivacyGuides.org - OpenCollective Github Sponsors Donation Page List of contributors (Github list of contributors
Open Hardware / Open Firmware
- 3mdeb (Company, no donations but buying their Coreboot hardware helps)
- Coreboot
- Dasharo (no donations but purchases of Hardware)
- Libreboot Patreon
- MrChromeBox (Coreboot for Chromebooks)
- NovaCustom (Company)
- Starlabs Systems
- Skulls (preconfigured Coreboot) Github Sponsors
- Heads OpenCollective Github Sponsors
Donation services
- BuyMeACoffee
- Flattr
- Github Sponsors (allows to see what dependencies you use. also linked on repos)
- Ko-Fi
- Liberapay
- Magic Grants
- OpenCollective
- Patreon
Donate Code
Translations!
A lot of FOSS projects are primarily in english, you can help translate them!
TODO: make a list
ToDo
- more android apps
- Windows / Mac FLOSS
- get more contributors
- advertise!
Linux Distributions
- Ubuntu/Canonical
- Ubuntu-based distributions (
Xubuntu, Lubuntu, ...)
- Ubuntu-based distributions (
- Slackware