A repository of FLOSS donation options, sorted A-Z.

Feel free to create pull requests (three projects or more). You can also send them via Jabber or eMail to me.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.

• Donate.
  • Supported methods include: check, credit card, debit card, Paypal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Litecoin and others.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/donate

Europe:

https://linuxfoundation.eu

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.

• Donate, Flattr

Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.

• Donate.
  • Supported methods include: check, Paypal, Flattr and wire transfer.

The Software Freedom Law Center provides pro-bono legal services to developers of Free, Libre, and Open Source Software.

• Donate.
  • Supported methods include: check, Network for Good (U.S. only), Paypal and Flattr.

• donate via PayPal / Credit Card
• Bitcoin
• Cheque
• Bank Transfer

Creators of tor, Tor-Browser, OnionShare, Orbot and more

Donation Website

SPI is a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. [...]

SPI acts as a fiscal sponsor to many free and open source projects.

• Donate via click & pledge to SPI projects

• OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD – Like the other OpenBSD sub-projects, funding is generally done via the same donation framework.
• OpenSSL – Yearly donations starting at $5000.
• GnuPG (Encryption) – credit card, Paypal, and SEPA transactions

• Arch Linux – click & pledge
• Debian – USA ePay
• Gentoo
• KDE Neon (KDE directly)
• Kubuntu
• Linux Mint
• TAILS (privacy-centered live system) – Wire Transfer, PayPal, Bitcoin, Freedom of the Press foundation bundle (Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin)
• QubesOS
• Whonix
• Xubuntu - Bountysource, Unixstickers, Canonical (Paypal), time

• CalyxOS
• DivestOS
• GrapheneOS (they also maintain the hardened kernel and malloc)
• IodeOS
• LineageOS ([Paypal}(https://paypal.me/LineageOS)) (Patreon)

• Redox-OS

• Fedora Project
• OpenSuse ([Send them a mail](mailto:donations@opensuse.org?subject=Hardware Donations)

• Budgie
• GNOME
• KDE
• XFCE

• Ardour DAW
• Arkenfox user.js (Firefox hardening) (no donations yet)
• Audacity No money donations anymore
• BlissOS / Waydroid
• Bottles (Easy Wine Configuration)
• Calibre E-Book Manager (Javascript button on the top right)
• Clementine (audio player) – no money accepted
• Cryptomator
• Cryptsetup / LUKS (no Donation possible currently)
• DeaDBeef (audio player) – PayPal, Flattr
• EasyEffects Liberapay Patreon PayPal
• Mozilla Firefox Donation to Mozilla Foundation (indirectly to Firefox, as the Corporation is managing it)
• FreeTube Liberapay BTC Monero XMR
• Freeplane Mindmap Tool (No money donations but help in Forums wanted)
• Geany (text editor) – Paypal
• GIMP (image manipulation) – PayPal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Wire Transfer, Cheque
• InkScape (vector graphics) – Paypal, cash, cheque or international money order in US funds
• JamesDSP for Linux KoFi PayPal
• KeePassX (password management) – Flattr, PayPal
• KeePassXC (password management, spiritual successor to KeePassX) – Paypal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Dash, Patreon
• Krita
• LibreOffice (powerful office suite) – Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin, Flattr, Wire Transfer
• Librewolf (no donations???)
• Lynis Security Audit Tool (FOSS, enterprise solutions available)
• LyX (WYSIWYG LaTeX editor) – PayPal
• Mumble (VoIP conference software) – Paypal, Bitcoin
• Monero
• OBS
• GNU Octave
• OpenAndroidInstaller Liberapay
• OpenShot (video editing) – PayPal
• OpenSnitch
• Pidgin (instant messaging) – ???
• Piper TTS (no Donations available)
• Pinta (no donations)
• qBittorrent
• QEMU (Paypal)
• QGis
• Remmina Remote Desktop
• RustDesk Github Sponsors KoFi
• Signal
• SimpleX Chat
• StirlingPDF (PDF-Editor with Web-Frontend) Github Sponsors Paypal
• Syncthing
• Tenacity (Audacity Fork) (no money donations yet)
• [The Document Foundation (Libreoffice)[https://libreoffice.org/donate]
• Thunderbird
• Typst Markup Language in Rust

• QEMU
• XMPP
• OpenWifi Apply for Membership

Repositories

• F-Droidhttps://www.qbittorrent.org/donate

• Izzysoft (no Donation possibl

• Mobilsicher (they host a repo with "ethical" critical proprietary software and are active)

• Aegis Authenticator

• Anki (Company, no Donations but paying the iOS App or help in the Forum helps)

• AuroraStore

• Fedilab and lots of others

• FlorisBoard Patrick Gold

• Jerboah for Lemmy

• Magisk (WARNING many fake websites! No Donations available)

• OSMAnd Android navigation (no donations but purchases)

• SimpleMobileTools Tibor Kaputa

• CryptPad (Service and Software)
• Nextcloud (Help wanted, no donations)
• i2p Invisible Internet Protocol (They have a hall of fame but no donation way to be found?)
• Lemmy
• Leon Tiekötter
• Liberenet Liberapay
• RiseUp
• Tiekötter (He hosts several awesome projects like SearX)

• 3mdeb (Company, no donations but buying their Coreboot hardware helps)
• Coreboot
• Dasharo (no donations but purchases of Hardware)
• Libreboot Patreon
• MrChromeBox (Coreboot for Chromebooks)
• NovaCustom (Company)
• Starlabs Systems
• Skulls (preconfigured Coreboot) Github Sponsors
• Heads OpenCollective Github Sponsors

• Flattr
• Liberapay
• Patreon
• KoFi

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• Ubuntu/Canonical
  • Ubuntu-based distributions (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, ...)
• Slackware