I successfully encouraged my boss to donate to GnuPG (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html) when it was covered in the media.

I successfully encouraged my boss to donate to GnuPG (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html) when it was covered in the media. But in general it seems that most business owners I worked for don't think about that also open source and free software projects need money to be kept alive an thriving.