Ask HN: Donating as a Small Company/Freelancer?

2 elric 1 6/3/2025, 9:23:25 PM
There as a good Ask HN post about which projects are worth donating to [1] a few days ago. Lots of great suggestions in there.

But what are some good ways of "donating" to worthwhile causes as a small company or a freelancer? My accountant won't be happy if I just donate money directly without getting an invoice.

In the past I made a few "donations" by purchasing a "sponsored link" on project websites. Larger orgs, like the Apache Software Foundation, still accept corporate donations in this way, but the starting price is typically outside of my budget.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44071321

Comments (1)

stop50 · 12h ago
There are two dedicated pages for this on the apache website(https://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship) that explains this in depth, including an email address that you can use to ask.