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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/

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.

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

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.

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.

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

LibreOffice or other open source office suites. Rich word processors, spreadsheet, and slideshow software are seldom thought about but extremely important in the information age, and the duopoly of Microsoft and Google would like nothing more than to see the open source alternatives die so they can take full control of your documents.

Especially if you use Linux as a daily driver: KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Lxqt, other desktop environments. Unless you know how to do everything from the command line, they’re probably the things allowing you to use Linux at all. Think about how much funding Windows or Mac development gets, that’s because making a full graphical shell and suite of up to date system apps is difficult as fuck and they’re massive codebases that require constant maintenance. One could even argue that their development and maintenance is a bigger undertaking than the Linux kernel itself yet most Linux users never think about them, nor do they have the backing of large companies like the kernel does because pretty much all of them use Windows on their workstations even if their server infrastructure runs Linux. And high quality graphical environments are absolutely critical if we’re ever to have hope of Linux being adopted by the general public and not just developers and power users. If you use Linux as your main OS and have the cash to spare, considering tossing even a quarter of the cost of a Windows license you didn’t buy to your DE of choice and do your part in ensuring that DE stays usable in the future.

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

There’s an npm command that lists packages that need funding

npm fund

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

Not sure if it’s directly related, but I donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). They’re quite active in the technology space and I feel that they also carry the FOSS ethos.

https://eff.org/

GraphenOS Fdroid
Signal KDE Wikipedia Open street map

FreeCAD!

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!