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Projects with goodwill, active users, and recurring public value. Easy to start, but less predictable than commercial or institutional models.
Live listings
17 live listings
Live listings are platforms currently available to open source projects.
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.
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.
Emerging platforms
1 emerging listing
Emerging platforms are in development or not broadly available yet.
Historical records: 5 discontinued listings
Historical records are kept for research and comparison, not as active recommendations.
Amazon Smile
Amazon donates 0.5% of the eligible net purchase price to the charitable organisation of choice, such as OSS foundations.
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.
GitFund
GitFund was an issue-prioritization and sponsorship experiment that let supporters donate against specific GitHub feature requests.