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Funding
Donations, grants, crowdfunding, and sponsor programs for open source maintainers.
Donations
Voluntary support from users, companies, and community members.
Amazon Smile
Amazon donates 0.5% of the eligible net purchase price to the charitable organisation of choice, such as OSS foundations.
BackYourStack
BackYourStack scans your dependencies and surfaces the open source projects in your stack that are already set up to receive funding.
Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Me a Coffee lets creators accept tips, memberships, and product sales through a lightweight profile page.
CommitChange
CommitChange is an all-in-one nonprofit fundraising platform for donations, campaigns, events, and donor management.
Flattr
Flattr was a micro-donation platform that let users support multiple creators through one subscription or one-off donations.
Flossbank
Funds entire dependency tree’s as they’re used with a combination of donation and ad revenue.
FOSS Pay
FOSS Pay was a self-hosted donation collection tool for groups and maintainers who wanted Stripe-backed payments without a hosted marketplace.
Fountain
A predictable fundraising, income streams, surplus redistribution, and sustainable growth to open source and public goods.
GitFund
GitFund was an issue-prioritization and sponsorship experiment that let supporters donate against specific GitHub feature requests.
GitHub Sponsors
GitHub Sponsors lets developers and organizations financially support the open source people and projects they depend on, directly on GitHub.
Giveth
Giveth is a crypto-native donation platform for nonprofits, social-impact work, and public-goods projects.
Hopsie
Hopsie is a nonprofit fundraising platform for donation forms, campaigns, donor management, and follow-up email workflows.
Ko-fi
Ko-fi lets creators accept tips, memberships, commissions, and product sales directly into their own payment accounts.
Liberapay
Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform designed for funding creators, projects, and other commons-oriented work.
LibreSelery
Continuous and automated donation distribution to your project contributors and dependencies. Integrated into Github Actions
Open Collective
Open Collective gives groups a transparent way to raise, hold, and spend money with public budgets and expense workflows.
Open Gift
OpenGift lets companies and developers fund software challenges and earn from collective financing of open source work.
Patreon
Patreon helps creators run membership businesses with recurring subscriptions, communities, and one-time digital sales.
Shukran
Shukran is a digital tipping platform for hospitality, travel, and service workers.
Software in the Public Interest
A non-profit organization to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.
StackAid
Distributes your subscription fee among your projects’ direct and indirect dependencies based on your project configuration.
Thanks
Thanks is a small CLI that scans your npm dependencies and surfaces maintainers who accept donations.
Tipeee
Tipeee is a financing platform for Internet content creators allowing them to receive tips from their communities.
Crowdfunding
Campaign-based or pooled support from a broader community.
Commons Stack
Commons-based microeconomies to sustain public goods through a library of open-source decentralized components.
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 is a decentralized protocol for funding creators and communities through token-based support and incentive mechanisms.
FairOSS
FairOSS is a public benefit corporation with a mission to sustain the production and maintenance of freely shareable intellectual property.
Fundition
Fundition was a blockchain-based crowdfunding platform built around Steem and Tron with a no-fee pitch for founders and backers.
Goteo
Goteo is an open source civic crowdfunding platform for projects that aim to create social, commons-based, or public-interest value.
Hit Chain
HitChain, later rebranded to HitHub, was a decentralized developer community that mixed code collaboration, token incentives, and crypto funding ideas.
Indiegogo
Indiegogo is a mainstream crowdfunding platform for campaigns, pre-orders, and post-campaign sales through InDemand.
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 was a token-sale and fundraising platform for crypto projects that wanted ICO launch, listing, and investor-onboarding support.
Kickstarter
Kickstarter helps creators raise all-or-nothing campaign funding for products, creative work, and other launch-style projects.
Permissionless Software Foundation
The Permissionless Software Foundation is a BCH-focused open source organization that funds software through tokens, services, and community governance.
Pledgecamp
Pledgecamp is a blockchain-oriented crowdfunding project built around escrow, backer insurance, and smart-contract infrastructure.
Repo.trade
Repo.trade is an early-stage platform that tokenizes GitHub repositories and routes auction and trading proceeds back to repository owners.
Snowdrift
A nonprofit cooperative for funding public goods – things like software, music, journalism, and research.
Utopian
A provider of free crowdsourcing services to open source projects by incentivizing contribution.
Grants
Institutional or programmatic funding for specific open source outcomes.
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.
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.
Gitcoin
Gitcoin runs web3-native grant rounds and other funding mechanisms for public-goods and Ethereum ecosystem projects.
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code funds new contributors to work with open source organizations on mentored software projects.
NLnet
NLnet funds people and organizations building open source, open standards, open hardware, and other digital commons technologies.
NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS provides funding and resources for open source scientific computing projects.
Open Source Security Foundation
A Linux Foundation initiative to provide a forum for a collaborative, cross-industry effort for ensuring open source security.
Season of Docs
Google Season of Docs funds open source organizations to improve documentation by hiring technical writers.
Sovereign Tech Fund
The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure.
Status
Status supports open source contributors through ecosystem funding, grants, and public-good crypto initiatives.
Bounties
Task-based funding for issues, features, audits, and contribution work.
Beerpay
Beerpay was a GitHub-linked service for tipping maintainers and attaching cash bounties to open source features or issues.
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 is a decentralized marketplace for posting tasks and paying contributors with Ethereum-based bounties.
Bountify
Bountify was a bounty marketplace for coding problems and technical questions.
Bounty Source
Bountysource was an open source funding platform for issue bounties and project fundraisers.
BountyHub
BountyHub is a platform where developers can put bounties on their Github issues or earn money by solving them.
Bugmark
Bugmark was an experimental platform for applying prediction-market mechanics to open source issue funding.
Fund Request
FundRequest is a decentralized request marketplace where projects can attach token funding to issues, fixes, and other developer tasks.
Gitpay
Gitpay is an open source issue-bounty platform for Git-based projects with built-in payment and assignment workflows.
Hacken Proof
HackenProof is a web3-focused bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure platform for crypto projects.
HackerOne
HackerOne is a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform that connects businesses with penetration testers and cybersecurity researchers.
Issue Hunt
IssueHunt lets maintainers fund GitHub issues and lets contributors earn rewards by resolving them.
NouGit
NouGit was a decentralized platform that combined open source collaboration with tokenized rewards and bounties.
Opire
Opire is a bounty platform where anyone can put bounties on any GitHub issue, which are only paid out once resolved.
Pond
Pond runs bounties, hackathons, and launch programs for AI and Web3 startups that want users, contributors, and market traction.
Revenue
Paid support, subscriptions, content, and other income paths for maintainers and contributors.
Support & Services
Revenue from support, consulting, implementation, and expert help.
Algora
Algora helps maintainers and contributors earn through bounties, contract work, and open source recruiting.
Blocklancer
Blocklancer was a blockchain-based freelance marketplace for paid client work and dispute-managed project delivery.
CodeBuddy
CodeBuddy is a software-development services business that combines productized engineering help with an AI-assisted build workflow.
Codementor
Codementor is an on-demand marketplace for software developers with live 1:1 help, long-term mentorship, freelance jobs and code reviews.
Coinlancer
Coinlancer was a blockchain-based freelance marketplace for remote service work and escrowed payments.
Fiverr
Fiverr is a global freelance marketplace where individuals sell digital services, project work, and packaged expertise.
Lyfevest
Lyfevest was pitched as a subscription service for connecting enterprise users of open source with the contributors building those projects.
Open Source Design
A community of designers and developers pushing open design processes and improving design of open source software.
OpenTeams
OpenTeams provides custom AI and open-source-based software solutions for enterprise and public-sector customers.
Otechie
Otechie is a browser-based support and collaboration tool for developers who provide live technical help to clients.
Scarf
Scarf helps open source maintainers and companies measure package usage and identify commercial leads from OSS adoption.
Tidelift
Tidelift pays maintainers through enterprise subscriptions that fund security, maintenance, and long-term support work.
Upwork
Upwork is a large freelance marketplace where companies hire independent professionals and agencies for project-based work.
Commercial Access
Revenue from licensing, premium access, hosted usage, or open-core packaging.
Bytepack
Bytepack was a hosted service for packaging and selling software to developers and enterprise customers.
Code Code Ship
Code Code Ship helps developers sell paid packages, licenses, and premium versions through language-native package workflows.
Gitstore
Gitstore was a storefront for selling access to repositories, packages, and other developer assets through subscription or one-time purchase plans.
IndieMaker
Indiemaker is a marketplace for buying and selling side projects, micro-SaaS products, domains, and small online businesses.
Infatica
Infatica sells residential, mobile, and datacenter proxy access, with an opt-in peer network and affiliate revenue program.
License Zero
License Zero was a dual-licensing toolchain for selling paid commercial-use permissions for open source software.
MemberSpace
MemberSpace lets website owners put memberships, subscriptions, and other paid access controls around content and communities.
PrivJs
PrivJs is a marketplace for selling premium npm packages and other developer tooling through a managed registry.
XS Code
XS Code was a platform for selling paid subscriptions, commercial licenses, and premium support on top of open source projects.
Content
Revenue from books, courses, learning products, and expert content.
Apt-get Shirt
Apt-get Shirt sold project-themed merchandise and donated part of each sale to the represented open source project.
Coil
Coil was a web-monetization platform that streamed micropayments to creators as subscribers consumed content.
Egghead
egghead offers developer courses, workshops, and educational products for professional software engineers.
Fundabit
Fundabit was a crypto subscription platform for creators selling memberships and recurring access paid in tokens.
Ghost
Ghost is a and open source blogging platform designed to simplify the process of online publishing for creators and publishers.
Gumroad
Gumroad helps creators sell digital products, memberships, and other downloadable goods directly to their audience.
Kauri
Kauri was a decentralized technical knowledge base for Ethereum developers that rewarded contributors for tutorials and documentation.
Leanpub
Leanpub is a self-publishing platform for selling in-progress and finished ebooks and online courses.
Memberful
Memberful is fully hosted platform for selling memberships and associated access to digital content, email newsletters, and online communities.
Substack
Substack lets writers and creators sell paid newsletters, memberships, and other subscription publishing products.
Teachable
Teachable lets creators sell courses, coaching, digital downloads, and membership-style education products.
Udemy
A marketplace for teaching and learning, through online video courses.
Advertising
Revenue from sponsorships, ad inventory, or audience attention.
Carbon Ads
Carbon Ads is a curated advertising network that helps developer and creator sites monetize through native ads.
CodeFund
CodeFund was an ethical advertising network that shared revenue with open source projects and developer-focused websites.
EthicalAds
EthicalAds is a developer-focused ad network for documentation sites, technical blogs, and other publisher properties with technical audiences.
Project support
Infrastructure, hosting, AI tools, and other services that help maintainers and contributors keep projects running.
Infrastructure
Credits, hosting, and operational support that lower the cost of running OSS.
AWS Promotional Credit
AWS provides cloud credits to eligible open source projects to offset infrastructure costs such as CI, storage, and testing.
Claude for Open Source
Claude for Open Source offers approved maintainers and contributors free Claude Max access to reduce coding and review overhead.
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 gives selected maintainers free OpenAI coding access, API credits, and review tooling to reduce maintainer workload.
Dosu
Dosu helps maintainers generate documentation, answer repository questions, and reduce support overhead with GitHub-connected AI workflows.
Ellcrys
Ellcrys was a decentralized git-hosting and software-ownership protocol that aimed to combine collaboration, governance, and revenue sharing.
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.
Houdini
Houdini is a self-hosted open source fundraising stack for nonprofits and NGOs.
Open Source Coin
Oscoin was a proposal for a decentralized network and economic layer designed to support open source collaboration and value redistribution.
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.
Radicle
Radicle is a peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git for sovereign, local-first software collaboration.
Saasify
Saasify was a toolkit and hosted service for turning APIs or serverless functions into SaaS products with billing, docs, and a marketing site.
Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit fiscal sponsor and services organization for free and open source software projects.
SourceCred
SourceCred is an open source system for measuring contributions and distributing rewards inside communities.
Staroid
Staroid is a hosting platform that turns open source projects into running services to fund project contributors.
Storj Network
Storj is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted cloud storage platform that uses cryptography to secure your files.
Events
Programs and platforms that support OSS through events, participation, and community workflows.
