I think this is an important point. How do I know donating money will end up actually going to the project. For some reason I believe donating to The Blender F

I think this is an important point. How do I know donating money will end up actually going to the project. For some reason I believe donating to The Blender Foundation actually pays for devs to work on blender (and I donate). I have a friend working on an open source project. I know he works full time on it. I donated because I knew he was working full time and because I like the project and want to see it succeed. I have no reason to believe sponsoring random npm package asking for funding does anything other then maybe make some person feel good that they decided to post some code on npm and/or github.