OSS.Fund Open Source Funding Directory

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

Allows simple funding development of existing or new features for Github based projects using Chrome extension.

Allows creators to receive support and share premium content with a link or a button on their website.

Supports multiple online creators with one single subscription or with one-time donations

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

A self hosted Python and PostgreSQL based donation collection platform for groups and individuals.

A predictable fundraising, income streams, surplus redistribution, and sustainable growth to open source and public goods.

Allows the developer community to financially support the people who design, build, and maintain the open source projects they depend on, directly on GitHub.

Allows fundraising through donation campaigns and follow up with marketing campaigns.

Houdini is an all-in-one, self-hosted, open source fundraising software developed in Ruby on Rails.

A decentralized technical knowledge base for the Ethereum ecosystem by incentivising creators and the community.

A friendly way to ask fans to support your work for the price of a coffee.

Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform where people who benefit from free work support creators.

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

Provides tools for collectives to receive money and mechanisms to spend their money in a transparent way.

Allows open source consumers to send requests for implementations to the open source project teams.

Empowers membership businesses for creators through regular donations.

A peer-to-peer decentralized stack for building and sustaining open source software together

Enables creators get earnings through tips from people who enjoy their creative work regardless of audience size or algorithm.

A not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend FLOSS projects.

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

A tool for attributing credit to contributions based on metrics that describes how important they were.

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

A tool that helps you see if any of the software you depend on has authors seeking for donations

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

A hosted fundraising platform (based on Houdini listed below) for people at all technical skill levels with possibility to get assistance from the support team too.

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

A Linux Foundation project to help advance sustainability, security, and diversity in open source technology by enabling developers to raise and spend funding.

Dev protocol is a decentralized middleware that enhances individual activities and supports sustainability through staking.

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

Fundition is a decentralized, peer-to-peer crowdfunding and collaboration platform, built on the Steem blockchain.

A collective financing and distributed collaboration platform for projects for giving individual rewards, and generating collective returns.

A developer autonomous community that bring together developers, investors and IT experts.

A crowdfunding and on demand campaigning platform with marketplace.

Kickstarter helps artists, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality.

NouGit is an open source development accelarator platform with market place and social networking features combined.

A decentralized network run by the community and contributors, with a sustainable economy and value redistribution.

Permissionless Software Foundation is decentralized autonomous organization with the purpose to foster the growth of open source software.

Pledgecamp is a decentralized ecosystem for crowdfunding with blockchain protected investments.

Launch a tradable repo token in one click and earn passive income from trading fees.

A nonprofit cooperative for funding public goods – things like software, music, journalism, and research.

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

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

FOSSA helps improve the overall security of the Internet through activities such as bug bounties, hackathons, and having it sponsored by EU budget.

Google Summer of Code connects student developers with open source projects to work on a 10 week programming project during their break from school.

Financially supporting organizations and people that contribute to an open information society with ideas to fix the internet since 1997.

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

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

A stipend program by Google that bring open source projects and technical writers together, to the benefit of both.

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

Algora is a developer tool & community simplifying bounties, hiring & open source sustainability.

Bepro is a task-based marketplace created to help organizations and builders thrive.

Blocklancer is a freelancing platform on the Blockchain that enables the cooperation between the freelancer and the clients.

Decentralized task based bounty platform with Ethereum based staking and arbitration.

Bountify is a marketplace for bounties on solutions to coding problems and tough tech questions.

Bountysource is the funding platform for open-source software by creating/collecting bounties and pledging to fundraisers.

BountyHub is a platform where developers can put bounties on their Github issues or earn money by solving them.

A platform, used to conduct research into the use of incentives and prediction markets and tooling for open-source projects.

Allows freelancers and clients connect remotely through smart contracts and exchange digital services for monetary value.

Fiverr is an online marketplace for freelance to offer digital services to customers worldwide.

A decentralised marketplace for requesting development bug fixes, security audits, etc to the Open Source developer community.

Gitcoin is the easiest way to leverage the open source community to incentivize or monetize work.

An issue bounty platform for Git-powered projects with an integrated payment system.

Decentralized transparent not-for-profit donation platform supporting open source projects with Ethereum donations.

A decentralized bug bounty platform for cybersecurity and cooperation between ethical hackers and customers.

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

Allows open source project owners to fund Github issues and developers to hunt the issues.

We bring together digital products developers, outsource developers, investors and IT experts.

Allows project creators to raise funds and kickstart their projects. The focus of the platform is moving into launching and listing ICOs.

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

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

Earn rewards for completing bounties in a high-quality, impactful manner.

Blockchain and crypto focused bounties platform.

Upwork connects businesses of all sizes to freelancers, independent professionals, and agencies for all their hiring needs.

Analyzes your open source software dependencies to find which projects you rely on, and then provides a way for you to easily support them all.

CodeBuddy plugs into your IDE, understands your problem’s context, and instantly matches you with subject matter experts.

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

Decentralized censorship-resistant Git hosting service and monetization platform through paid feature branches and bug fixes.

Monthly subscription platform supporting creative through blockchain technology that let’s creators get paid in crypto.

Open source project sponsorship platform for tiered support such as Gold, Silver, Bronze sponsors, etc.

Connecting enterprise developers who are using open source with the contributors who are creating open source.

OpenTeams is the services marketplace where open source software users can find, vet, and contract with service providers.

Otechie is a professional chat widget and messenger designed to help you collaborate with your clients.

Professional assurances directly from the open source experts who know it best.

Bytepack helps you package and delivering software products to third parties, such as developers and enterprises.

Code Code Ship integrates with popular package managers like npm and rubygems to provide all the necessary tools to sell your code on a subscription basis.

An online-store-like platform for selling access to public or private repositories, packages, etc.

Gumroad is an online platform that facilitates the sale of products by creators directly to consumers.

A community marketplace where makers sell their side-projects, unused domains and online businesses.

A techno-legal vending machine (platform and tools) for dual-licensed open software.

A marketplace for selling private npm packages through API and npm install command.

A cross-platform package manager for usage insights and payment collection.

A platform for open source projects offering paid subscriptions for open core, dual licensing, support, models.

From every T-shirt you buy apt-get-shift donates 50% of the proceedings to that same project it represents.

Coil enables real-time payments to content owners in digital assets using Web Monetization API

Egghead offers web courses for web development professionals and open source contributors

Ghost is a and open source blogging platform designed to simplify the process of online publishing for creators and publishers.

A self-publishing platform for selling in-progress and completed e-books and online courses.

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

Lock access to any page of your website such as courses, video tutorials and turn it into members-only.

Paid newsletters where readers pay directly to writers, bloggers, thinkers, and creatives of every background.

A platform for online education through courses and coaching

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

Connecting designers, developers, and tech-savvy audiences with relevant brands through curate publishers and advertisers.

CodeFund is an ethical ad platform that funds contributors of the open source ecosystem.

An ethical ad platform that targets developers on Read the Docs sites.

Infatica is a global ethical proxy network designed for residential, mobile and datacenter IPs for any white hat use cases.

AWS credits to open source projects used to perform testing, CI/CD, or storage of artifacts on AWS.

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

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

Saasify handles all of the SaaS boilerplate, including user accounts, subscription billing, developer docs, and a polished marketing site.

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

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

Codeheat is a coding contest by FOSSASIA and OpnTec where students and professionals contribute to Open Source software and Open Hardware projects.

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