Post #1140224
2026-04-13 19:57 UTC
Does anyone know of any non-profits (and preferably co-ops) acting as fiscal hosts for small open source projects? Most of them will only take large, established projects with lots of contributors, but I've got a small project with just a couple of regular contributors that recently lost its only way of taking donations via Open Collective. I can set something up with my personal account, but that feels bad given that others are working on it too. I know small projects with a few donations a year are a huge overhead and burden for fiscal hosts though. We're not on #GitHub (we use #Codeberg) which also seems to be a problem for some of the hosts.
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@sam@social.coop 2026-04-13 19:58
Alternatively, is anyone else in this position? Maybe if we pooled our resources and did this as a co-op with a handful of other small #FLOSS projects we could amortize the cost of doing taxes and maintaining a bank account and business entity and all that across all our projects and make it worth it?
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@kirk@social.coop 2026-04-13 21:16
@sam I have had a good experience with OCE as fiscal host for a project I'm working on https://opencollective.com/fbrc Edit: also we use codeberg over GitHub. Still keen to hear/brainstorm co-op FLOSS funding models!