Open Collective

Open Collective is a crowdfunding platform focused on grassroots groups. It gives organizations, communities, projects to get a legal status and raise funding through subscription or one time payment. It's particularly favoured by open source projects. It currently hosts funding for thousands of open-source communities.

History
Open Collective is a venture capital-funded tech startup—owned by founders, investors, and employees—with an obligation to make returns.

Projects with corporate support tend to rack up higher financing than donation projects led by individuals.

Open Collective Foundation (not the platform) was announced to be dissolved by the end of 2024.