Fuller quote: The staff is 1.5 full-time employees — whose salaries are paid for by donations from individuals and philanthropies — and a cadre of volunteers.

Fuller quote: The staff is 1.5 full-time employees — whose salaries are paid for by donations from individuals and philanthropies — and a cadre of volunteers. This totally provides some idea of how to do this well. With things like Patreon, it is absolutely not necessary to first find a rich donor. In fact, I would be leery of depending too much on a single rich donor as that is another potential source of bias if, at some point, the rich donor decides they don't like something.