Wikipedia! Though…I only have a couple bucks to spare right now, I’m still proud to be able to contribute a tiny droplet to them.

ACLU

Given the large amount of civil liberties at risk, fighting via the court seems to be our best way to prevent the worst from sticking.

archive.org and my co matches up to $1k.

Sad to see little mentions of the Internet Archive here :,(

If I had spare cash I’d definitely be donating to Archive.org (The Internet Archive), so instead, I try to mention them when topics like this come up.

I’d probably also donate to Linux Mint, who I assume are also non-profit, because I’ve been using their offerings for a long while at this point.

My local animal shelter. They brought me my best friend.

I try to support all the open source projects I regularly use with small but recurring (ie predictable) amounts. Liberapay is great for this, but not everybody is on it yet unfortunately.
Some of the projects:

• Arch - no easy way for recurring donations but every time the aur has gone down when I needed it during the recent attacks on archlinux.org I just go throw a financially unwise amount of money at them again to spite the attackers
• KDE - I don’t even use plasma anymore (switched to hyprland but I’ve heard enough of the controversies that I’m not donating to them lol) but I still love KDE
• codeberg - they host a lot of my projects so at the least I wanna cover what I cost them plus a bit
• matrix.org and my matrix server specifically - both put out great services for free and my homeserver specifically hosts the absolute fuckton of pictures and videos I regularly send/receive so I owe them a lot
• piefed - piefed is sick as fuck and @rimu does a good job
• lemmy.zip/piefed.zip - great homeserver and extremely transparent
• voyager - my fav piefed app so far, and hopefully with more donations it’ll get even better
• probably more I’m forgetting rn

I’m not sure this last one counts as an NPO but it’s relevant here so I’m including it anyway: @dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world puts out the best OC I’ve come across on lemmy so sometimes I throw money his way to help pay for knives lmao.

For anyone else who wants to support the projects they use and keep the internet free, definitely check out liberapay. It’s still a bit clunky, but it lets me budget a monthly amount I can afford and then split it however I want among all the projects I use no matter what that overall amount is. Smaller donations can be paid in lump sums for many months to cut down on processing fees, and liberapay tracks it for you and more importantly lets the recipient know what the giving schedule is so the project/person you support can have a clear budget rather than unpredictable bursts of money with no guarantee there’ll ever be more coming.

If it’s not clear yet I’m super passionate about liberapay and also donate to them 😂

If I had money to spend on that, I would strongly consider donating to the Free Software Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation. Our digital rights are vanishing rapidly and these two are specifically attempting to fight back.

Wikipedia

I give a little money to the Piefed project every month, it’s the least I can do since I’m not a programmer, otherwise I’d contribute that way too.

• Godot - They make an excellent game engine that is only improving, and at a much faster rate than Unity ever has. Being open source also prevents it from enshittifying, like unity has been for years.
• Wikipedia - One of humanity’s most impressive achievements. As close to a neutral source of information on nearly anything as possible. My first port of call when I want to know something.
• OpenStreetMap / CoMaps - OSM is like wikipedia but for maps and CoMaps is my mobile client of choice.

Country-wide organisation that works on measuring government and industrial impact, and lobbying for changes, on environmental issues.

Local cat shelter with TNR-program.

Grant program for scientists developing safe and reliable alternatives to animal testing.

Lobby organisation for animal welfare on EU-level.

Wikipedia.

Grant program for researching and/or developing treatments for brain issues, from Alzheimer’s to anxiety.

More infrequently to others (anti-cancer, local youth sports, scouts, anti-bullying etc), as they show up with campaigns, sales drives, events etc.

I never give through round-up-campaigns in stores, markup on charity-versions of regular products etc, because that’s just a tax write-off for the company. I’d rather use that write-off myself and thus be able to give like 25% more to approved organisations. Not all of the above organisations are approved for tax write-off though.

Ukraine24 because every penny helps, Tafel they feed homeless and poor and the society of rememberence of the jewish legacy because the tiny museum needs to stay open and eventhough the nazis killed them all jews litterly founded the place i life and were a big part of the culture and history

Central Texas Pig Rescue - One year they put on a pig pageant, and it was the cutest thing ever.

In the past: Wikipedia, The Red Cross, The Document Foundation.

Should all be pretty self-explanatory.