They absolutely do say "To motivate Bram and others to continue working on Vim please send a donation." It's the second sentence on https://www.vim.org/sponsor/

They absolutely do say "To motivate Bram and others to continue working on Vim please send a donation." It's the second sentence on https://www.vim.org/sponsor/ https://www.vim.org/sponsor/ They GO ON to say that they'll use the money to help kids in Uganda, which is great (both for transparency and the thing itself).