A lot of the time it's not that simple to donate to the smaller projects, even if you wanted to. And when you can, donating "one dollar" often isn't an option -

A lot of the time it's not that simple to donate to the smaller projects, even if you wanted to. And when you can, donating "one dollar" often isn't an option - many platform have minimum donation amounts (often $5), and because small transactions have (proportionally) much higher processing fees, donating $1 would often result in a large chunk of that money just going to the platform instead And if you're using the code in a commercial setting then it's even harder, because very few finance departments will be willing to allow and process small donations to various projects.