Blender is looking for funding to integrate better into professional industry and provide and open source Autodesk replacement

Linux mint or something like it. We need to make them better than Windows and macOS

Bash is mantained by only one guy named Chet and almost all linux devices in the world use it. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

The Perl and Raku Foundation has seen a big drop in funding over the last decade

Understanding the Financials of The Perl and Raku Foundation

Try Olive Editor

1. Are they useful and/or essential for you/your causes?
2. Is their funding model transparent?
3. Do they need more funds to hit their financial goal for sustaining themselves?

If all answers are “yes”, donate to them.

Libreboot.

I provided testing and funding (not as a developer) for computers like the 9020, 9010, 7010, and 780 OptiPlex, as well as the E4300 Latitude and T1700 Precision. All it takes is some collaboration with others in the community to make it possible!

Wikipedia, Tor, Archive.org

One thing I found the hard way is that majority of backends for imagick, the suite that powers almost every file conversion and manipulation you see on the internet, are maintained by, at most, one person, if not abandoned completely. I’d say that’d be a good one to donate to, and from which most people would benefit from.

Guitarix! Open source project for guitar/musical instruments that acts as a modeling interface. Recently updated to include NAMs.

The ones you use. If you use KDE, Thunderbird, Gimp or whatnot you should consider donating to those specifically.

Still, don’t forget Wikipedia, it’s one of the greatest Open Source projects of all time.

GraphenOS Fdroid
Signal KDE Wikipedia Open street map

true fact: Nebraska is the Heartland of the Internet.

archive.org

It was just attacked by hackers a few months ago, no to mention all the lawsuits they’ve been getting, and cost of maintenance of TERABYTES of data. They really need the funding to survive.

Edit: Missed the FOSS part, but still, its worth mentioning. archive.org is not an open source software, but they are a non-profit doing something that benefits all of us. And they are transparent about how they operate. More like a “Free and Transparent Community Service”, rather than “FOSS”. And not to mention, the many FOSS software they could preserve in case they stop getting maintained, so they could get picked up later, and not be forever lost. It goes hand-in-hand with the philosophy of FOSS: benefiting society.

SFC (“Software Freedom Conservancy”) is doing good work on a legal front that may well result in a lot more consumer electronic devices (like smart TVs) having fully FOSS OSs available.

More info at https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html