Directory

Directory

Browse live and historical platforms for open source donations, grants, bounties, support, services, infrastructure, events, and more.

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Algora

Algora

Algora helps maintainers and contributors earn through bounties, contract work, and open source recruiting.
AWS Promotional Credit

AWS Promotional Credit

AWS provides cloud credits to eligible open source projects to offset infrastructure costs such as CI, storage, and testing.
BackYourStack

BackYourStack

BackYourStack scans your dependencies and surfaces the open source projects in your stack that are already set up to receive funding.
BEPRO Network

BEPRO Network

Bepro is an on-chain task marketplace where organizations launch paid work and contributors earn crypto for completing it.
Bounties Network

Bounties Network

Bounties Network is a decentralized marketplace for posting tasks and paying contributors with Ethereum-based bounties.
BountyHub

BountyHub

BountyHub is a platform where developers can put bounties on their GitHub issues or earn money by solving them.
Buy Me a Coffee

Buy Me a Coffee

Buy Me a Coffee lets creators accept tips, memberships, and product sales through a lightweight profile page.
Carbon Ads

Carbon Ads

Carbon Ads is a curated advertising network that helps developer and creator sites monetize through native ads.
Claude for Open Source

Claude for Open Source

Claude for Open Source offers approved maintainers and contributors free Claude Max access to reduce coding and review overhead.
Code Code Ship

Code Code Ship

Code Code Ship helps developers sell paid packages, licenses, and premium versions through language-native package workflows.
CodeBuddy

CodeBuddy

CodeBuddy is a software-development services business that combines productized engineering help with an AI-assisted build workflow.
Codeheat

Codeheat

Codeheat is a FOSS contributor contest where participants earn prizes, certificates, and recognition for open source contributions.
Codementor

Codementor

Codementor is an on-demand marketplace for software developers with live 1:1 help, long-term mentorship, freelance jobs and code reviews.
CodeRabbit for Open Source

CodeRabbit for Open Source

CodeRabbit gives open source projects free AI code review tooling and has committed sponsorship money to OSS maintainers.
Codex for Open Source

Codex for Open Source

Codex for Open Source gives selected maintainers free OpenAI coding access, API credits, and review tooling to reduce maintainer workload.
CommitChange

CommitChange

CommitChange is an all-in-one nonprofit fundraising platform for donations, campaigns, events, and donor management.
Commons Stack

Commons Stack

Commons-based microeconomies to sustain public goods through a library of open-source decentralized components.
Community Bridge

Community Bridge

Community Bridge, now part of LFX Crowdfunding, lets open source projects raise donations and reimburse contributors through a Linux Foundation-managed platform.
Dev Protocol

Dev Protocol

Dev Protocol is a decentralized protocol for funding creators and communities through token-based support and incentive mechanisms.
Dosu

Dosu

Dosu helps maintainers generate documentation, answer repository questions, and reduce support overhead with GitHub-connected AI workflows.
Egghead

Egghead

egghead offers developer courses, workshops, and educational products for professional software engineers.
EthicalAds

EthicalAds

EthicalAds is a developer-focused ad network for documentation sites, technical blogs, and other publisher properties with technical audiences.
eventyay

eventyay

eventyay is an open source event management solution for virtual and onsite events.
FairOSS

FairOSS

FairOSS is a public benefit corporation with a mission to sustain the production and maintenance of freely shareable intellectual property.
Fiverr

Fiverr

Fiverr is a global freelance marketplace where individuals sell digital services, project work, and packaged expertise.
Fund Request

Fund Request

FundRequest is a decentralized request marketplace where projects can attach token funding to issues, fixes, and other developer tasks.
Ghost

Ghost

Ghost is an open source blogging platform designed to simplify online publishing for creators and publishers.
Gitcoin

Gitcoin

Gitcoin runs web3-native grant rounds and other funding mechanisms for public-goods and Ethereum ecosystem projects.
GitHub Sponsors

GitHub Sponsors

GitHub Sponsors lets developers and organizations financially support the open source people and projects they depend on, directly on GitHub.
Gitpay

Gitpay

Gitpay is an open source issue-bounty platform for Git-based projects with built-in payment and assignment workflows.
Giveth

Giveth

Giveth is a crypto-native donation platform for nonprofits, social-impact work, and public-goods projects.
Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code funds new contributors to work with open source organizations on mentored software projects.
Goteo

Goteo

Goteo is an open source civic crowdfunding platform for projects that aim to create social, commons-based, or public-interest value.
Gumroad

Gumroad

Gumroad helps creators sell digital products, memberships, and other downloadable goods directly to their audience.
Hacken Proof

Hacken Proof

HackenProof is a web3-focused bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure platform for crypto projects.
HackerOne

HackerOne

HackerOne is a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform that connects businesses with penetration testers and cybersecurity researchers.
Hopsie

Hopsie

Hopsie is a nonprofit fundraising platform for donation forms, campaigns, donor management, and follow-up email workflows.
Houdini

Houdini

Houdini is a self-hosted open source fundraising stack for nonprofits and NGOs.
Indiegogo

Indiegogo

Indiegogo is a mainstream crowdfunding platform for campaigns, pre-orders, and post-campaign sales through InDemand.
IndieMaker

IndieMaker

Indiemaker is a marketplace for buying and selling side projects, micro-SaaS products, domains, and small online businesses.
Infatica

Infatica

Infatica sells residential, mobile, and datacenter proxy access, with an opt-in peer network and affiliate revenue program.
Issue Hunt

Issue Hunt

IssueHunt lets maintainers fund GitHub issues and lets contributors earn rewards by resolving them.
Kickstarter

Kickstarter

Kickstarter helps creators raise all-or-nothing campaign funding for products, creative work, and other launch-style projects.
Ko-fi

Ko-fi

Ko-fi lets creators accept tips, memberships, commissions, and product sales directly into their own payment accounts.
Leanpub

Leanpub

Leanpub is a self-publishing platform for selling in-progress and finished ebooks and online courses.
Liberapay

Liberapay

Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform designed for funding creators, projects, and other commons-oriented work.
LibreSelery

LibreSelery

Continuous and automated donation distribution to your project contributors and dependencies. Integrated into GitHub Actions
Memberful

Memberful

Memberful is fully hosted platform for selling memberships and associated access to digital content, email newsletters, and online communities.
MemberSpace

MemberSpace

MemberSpace lets website owners put memberships, subscriptions, and other paid access controls around content and communities.
NLnet

NLnet

NLnet funds people and organizations building open source, open standards, open hardware, and other digital commons technologies.
NumFOCUS

NumFOCUS

NumFOCUS provides funding and resources for open source scientific computing projects.
Open Collective

Open Collective

Open Collective gives groups a transparent way to raise, hold, and spend money with public budgets and expense workflows.
Open Gift

Open Gift

OpenGift lets companies and developers fund software challenges and earn from collective financing of open source work.
Open Source Design

Open Source Design

A community of designers and developers pushing open design processes and improving design of open source software.
Open Source Lab

Open Source Lab

The Open Source Lab is a nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies by providing hosting to open source projects.
Open Source Security Foundation

Open Source Security Foundation

A Linux Foundation initiative to provide a forum for a collaborative, cross-industry effort for ensuring open source security.
OpenTeams

OpenTeams

OpenTeams provides custom AI and open-source-based software solutions for enterprise and public-sector customers.
Opire

Opire

Opire is a bounty platform where anyone can put bounties on any GitHub issue, which are only paid out once resolved.
Patreon

Patreon

Patreon helps creators run membership businesses with recurring subscriptions, communities, and one-time digital sales.
Permissionless Software Foundation

Permissionless Software Foundation

The Permissionless Software Foundation is a BCH-focused open source organization that funds software through tokens, services, and community governance.
Pond

Pond

Pond runs bounties, hackathons, and launch programs for AI and Web3 startups that want users, contributors, and market traction.
PrivJs

PrivJs

PrivJs is a marketplace for selling premium npm packages and other developer tooling through a managed registry.
Radicle

Radicle

Radicle is a peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git for sovereign, local-first software collaboration.
Scarf

Scarf

Scarf helps open source maintainers and companies measure package usage and identify commercial leads from OSS adoption.
Season of Docs

Season of Docs

Google Season of Docs funds open source organizations to improve documentation by hiring technical writers.
Shukran

Shukran

Shukran is a digital tipping platform for hospitality, travel, and service workers.
Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit fiscal sponsor and services organization for free and open source software projects.
Software in the Public Interest

Software in the Public Interest

A non-profit organization to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.
Sovereign Tech Fund

Sovereign Tech Fund

The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure.
StackAid

StackAid

Distributes your subscription fee among your projects’ direct and indirect dependencies based on your project configuration.
Staroid

Staroid

Staroid is a hosting platform that turns open source projects into running services to fund project contributors.
Status

Status

Status supports open source contributors through ecosystem funding, grants, and public-good crypto initiatives.
Storj Network

Storj Network

Storj is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted cloud storage platform that uses cryptography to secure your files.
Substack

Substack

Substack lets writers and creators sell paid newsletters, memberships, and other subscription publishing products.
Teachable

Teachable

Teachable lets creators sell courses, coaching, digital downloads, and membership-style education products.
Thanks

Thanks

Thanks is a small CLI that scans your npm dependencies and surfaces maintainers who accept donations.
Tidelift

Tidelift

Tidelift pays maintainers through enterprise subscriptions that fund security, maintenance, and long-term support work.
Tipeee

Tipeee

Tipeee is a financing platform for Internet content creators allowing them to receive tips from their communities.
Udemy

Udemy

A marketplace for teaching and learning, through online video courses.
Upwork

Upwork

Upwork is a large freelance marketplace where companies hire independent professionals and agencies for project-based work.

Emerging platforms

Emerging platforms are in development or not broadly available yet.

Historical records: 33 discontinued listings

Historical records are kept for research and comparison, not as active recommendations.

Amazon Smile

Amazon Smile

Amazon donates 0.5% of the eligible net purchase price to the charitable organisation of choice, such as OSS foundations.
Apt-get Shirt

Apt-get Shirt

Apt-get Shirt sold project-themed merchandise and donated part of each sale to the represented open source project.
Beerpay

Beerpay

Beerpay was a GitHub-linked service for tipping maintainers and attaching cash bounties to open source features or issues.
Blocklancer

Blocklancer

Blocklancer was a blockchain-based freelance marketplace for paid client work and dispute-managed project delivery.
Bountify

Bountify

Bountify was a bounty marketplace for coding problems and technical questions.
Bounty Source

Bounty Source

Bountysource was an open source funding platform for issue bounties and project fundraisers.
Bugmark

Bugmark

Bugmark was an experimental platform for applying prediction-market mechanics to open source issue funding.
Bytepack

Bytepack

Bytepack was a hosted service for packaging and selling software to developers and enterprise customers.
CodeFund

CodeFund

CodeFund was an ethical advertising network that shared revenue with open source projects and developer-focused websites.
Coil

Coil

Coil was a web-monetization platform that streamed micropayments to creators as subscribers consumed content.
Coinlancer

Coinlancer

Coinlancer was a blockchain-based freelance marketplace for remote service work and escrowed payments.
Core Infrastructure Initiative

Core Infrastructure Initiative

A Linux Foundation initiative to collaboratively identify, fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure that are in need of assistance.
Ellcrys

Ellcrys

Ellcrys was a decentralized git-hosting and software-ownership protocol that aimed to combine collaboration, governance, and revenue sharing.
Flattr

Flattr

Flattr was a micro-donation platform that let users support multiple creators through one subscription or one-off donations.
Flossbank

Flossbank

Funds entire dependency tree’s as they’re used with a combination of donation and ad revenue.
FOSS Pay

FOSS Pay

FOSS Pay was a self-hosted donation collection tool for groups and maintainers who wanted Stripe-backed payments without a hosted marketplace.
Fosshost

Fosshost

Fosshost is a not-for-profit provider of free to use and accessible cloud-hosting services to the free and open source software community.
Free and Open Source Software Audit

Free and Open Source Software Audit

FOSSA was an EU-backed programme for funding security audits, bug bounties, and related support for critical open source software.
Fundabit

Fundabit

Fundabit was a crypto subscription platform for creators selling memberships and recurring access paid in tokens.
Fundition

Fundition

Fundition was a blockchain-based crowdfunding platform built around Steem and Tron with a no-fee pitch for founders and backers.
GitFund

GitFund

GitFund was an issue-prioritization and sponsorship experiment that let supporters donate against specific GitHub feature requests.
Gitstore

Gitstore

Gitstore was a storefront for selling access to repositories, packages, and other developer assets through subscription or one-time purchase plans.
Hit Chain

Hit Chain

HitChain, later rebranded to HitHub, was a decentralized developer community that mixed code collaboration, token incentives, and crypto funding ideas.
IT Sphere

IT Sphere

IT Sphere was a blockchain-oriented platform that pitched itself as a meeting point for developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and technical experts.
Katalyse

Katalyse

Katalyse was a token-sale and fundraising platform for crypto projects that wanted ICO launch, listing, and investor-onboarding support.
Kauri

Kauri

Kauri was a decentralized technical knowledge base for Ethereum developers that rewarded contributors for tutorials and documentation.
License Zero

License Zero

License Zero was a dual-licensing toolchain for selling paid commercial-use permissions for open source software.
Lyfevest

Lyfevest

Lyfevest was pitched as a subscription service for connecting enterprise users of open source with the contributors building those projects.
NouGit

NouGit

NouGit was a decentralized platform that combined open source collaboration with tokenized rewards and bounties.
Open Source Coin

Open Source Coin

Oscoin was a proposal for a decentralized network and economic layer designed to support open source collaboration and value redistribution.
Saasify

Saasify

Saasify was a toolkit and hosted service for turning APIs or serverless functions into SaaS products with billing, docs, and a marketing site.
Utopian

Utopian

A provider of free crowdsourcing services to open source projects by incentivizing contribution.
XS Code

XS Code

XS Code was a platform for selling paid subscriptions, commercial licenses, and premium support on top of open source projects.