23
Donations
16
Crowdfunding
10
Grants
15
Bounties
Funding subtype
Donations
Recurring or one-off support from individuals, companies, and communities.
When to use it: Start here when your project already has users who want to support ongoing maintenance.
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.
Funding subtype
Crowdfunding
Campaign-style funding for a roadmap, release, or community-backed milestone.
When to use it: Use this when you have a clear goal, a launch narrative, and a time-bound funding target.
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.
Funding subtype
Grants
Non-dilutive funding from foundations, programs, and ecosystem sponsors.
When to use it: Best for infrastructure, public goods, research, or ecosystem work with strategic value.
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.
Funding subtype
Bounties
Outcome-based payments tied to specific issues, features, and security fixes.
When to use it: Use this when you need targeted contributions rather than general recurring support.
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.