I don't, though I've never given it a ton of thought until now Thinking about it: individual donations to OSS are an odd thing. I can see two reasons an entity

I don't, though I've never given it a ton of thought until now Thinking about it: individual donations to OSS are an odd thing. I can see two reasons an entity might donate: 1) They believe ideologically in the impact the project has on the world 2) They directly benefit from it (and feel a social obligation and/or just want to make sure it remains sustainable) But the thing is: 1) There aren't many software projects I could see being invested in at an ideological level. Maybe a BSD or a Firefox, but not like, a web framework. 2) Similarly there aren't many software projects that an individual would directly benefit from in their personal life. Again maybe a BSD or a Firefox, but not really a web framework. A business benefits greatly from those libraries and frameworks, and should absolutely donate (though they rarely do), and if I had my own business as an individual then it would donate to the OSS that it used. But as an employed individual I don't feel like I should be subsidizing the projects that my employer - and not myself - is benefitting from. None of this is to discourage anyone who feels moved to donate to a project for their own reasons, but I think (and I think we all know) OSS funding is broken, and won't be fixed through sheer principle.