Tag
OSS-Specific
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.
Open Source Design
A community of designers and developers pushing open design processes and improving design of open source software.
Opire
Opire is a bounty platform where anyone can put bounties on any GitHub issue, which are only paid out once resolved.
BountyHub
BountyHub is a platform where developers can put bounties on their Github issues or earn money by solving them.
BEPRO Network
Bepro is an on-chain task marketplace where organizations launch paid work and contributors earn crypto for completing it.
Algora
Algora helps maintainers and contributors earn through bounties, contract work, and open source recruiting.
Sovereign Tech Fund
The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure.
StackAid
Distributes your subscription fee among your projects’ direct and indirect dependencies based on your project configuration.
Codeheat
Codeheat is a FOSS contributor contest where participants earn prizes, certificates, and recognition for open source contributions.
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code funds new contributors to work with open source organizations on mentored software projects.
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
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.
PrivJs
PrivJs is a marketplace for selling premium npm packages and other developer tooling through a managed registry.
Fountain
A predictable fundraising, income streams, surplus redistribution, and sustainable growth to open source and public goods.
Radicle
Radicle is a peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git for sovereign, local-first software collaboration.
OpenTeams
OpenTeams provides custom AI and open-source-based software solutions for enterprise and public-sector customers.
NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS provides funding and resources for open source scientific computing projects.
Permissionless Software Foundation
The Permissionless Software Foundation is a BCH-focused open source organization that funds software through tokens, services, and community governance.
Commons Stack
Commons-based microeconomies to sustain public goods through a library of open-source decentralized components.
NouGit
NouGit was a decentralized platform that combined open source collaboration with tokenized rewards and bounties.
Otechie
Otechie is a browser-based support and collaboration tool for developers who provide live technical help to clients.
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.
FairOSS
FairOSS is a public benefit corporation with a mission to sustain the production and maintenance of freely shareable intellectual property.
LibreSelery
Continuous and automated donation distribution to your project contributors and dependencies. Integrated into Github Actions
Bounty Source
Bountysource was an open source funding platform for issue bounties and project fundraisers.
Snowdrift
A nonprofit cooperative for funding public goods – things like software, music, journalism, and research.
Flossbank
Funds entire dependency tree’s as they’re used with a combination of donation and ad revenue.
Apt-get Shirt
Apt-get Shirt sold project-themed merchandise and donated part of each sale to the represented open source project.
AWS Promotional Credit
AWS provides cloud credits to eligible open source projects to offset infrastructure costs such as CI, storage, and testing.
BackYourStack
BackYourStack scans your dependencies and surfaces the open source projects in your stack that are already set up to receive funding.
Beerpay
Beerpay was a GitHub-linked service for tipping maintainers and attaching cash bounties to open source features or issues.
Bugmark
Bugmark was an experimental platform for applying prediction-market mechanics to open source issue funding.
CodeFund
CodeFund was an ethical advertising network that shared revenue with open source projects and developer-focused websites.
Community Bridge
Community Bridge, now part of LFX Crowdfunding, lets open source projects raise donations and reimburse contributors through a Linux Foundation-managed platform.
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.
Fund Request
FundRequest is a decentralized request marketplace where projects can attach token funding to issues, fixes, and other developer tasks.
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.
Gitpay
Gitpay is an open source issue-bounty platform for Git-based projects with built-in payment and assignment workflows.
Gitstore
Gitstore was a storefront for selling access to repositories, packages, and other developer assets through subscription or one-time purchase plans.
Hit Chain
HitChain, later rebranded to HitHub, was a decentralized developer community that mixed code collaboration, token incentives, and crypto funding ideas.
Issue Hunt
IssueHunt lets maintainers fund GitHub issues and lets contributors earn rewards by resolving them.
Liberapay
Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform designed for funding creators, projects, and other commons-oriented work.
License Zero
License Zero was a dual-licensing toolchain for selling paid commercial-use permissions for open source software.
Lyfevest
Lyfevest was pitched as a subscription service for connecting enterprise users of open source with the contributors building those projects.
NLnet
NLnet funds people and organizations building open source, open standards, open hardware, and other digital commons technologies.
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.
Open Source Coin
Oscoin was a proposal for a decentralized network and economic layer designed to support open source collaboration and value redistribution.
Scarf
Scarf helps open source maintainers and companies measure package usage and identify commercial leads from OSS adoption.
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
A non-profit organization to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.
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.
Status
Status supports open source contributors through ecosystem funding, grants, and public-good crypto initiatives.