Donation-accepting organizations and projects

Here is a list of organizations that accept bitcoin donations. Only notable donation-accepting sites should be added here.

Art

Name	Topic
50cent	rap, music
Blendernation	3D, blender
Project gooseberry	3D, animation, blender
XKCD	comic, nerdism

Open source

BTC is getting more and more popular at open projects due to it's own open nature.

Hint: You can donate to most of FLOSS projects, by sending out a BTC bounty on a issue using

• http://www.freedomsponsors.org
• http://www.bountysource.com

Name	Topic
arkOS	raspberry, linux, decentralize
awesome WM	linux, X11, window manager
Backbox	linux, distro, hacking
Bluetile WM	linux, X11, window manager
Cryptocat	mail, crypto
Dia	linux, windows, drawing, sketch, CAD
Dokuwiki	wiki
Dosbox	emulator, DOS, x86
Duplicati	backup, cloud
Etherpad	collaboration, selfhosting
F-Droid	android, repository, open source
GIMP	drawing, photos
Gource	VCS, animation, git, svn, art
FarmBot	farming, automatisation
FreeBSD	unix, OS
FreeHAL	A.I.
Freenet	anonymity, decentralisation
Haiku OS	OS, BeOS
Libre.fm	music, creativecommons, radio
LibreOffice	office suite
Linux Mint	Linux, distro, Debian
Loomio	discussion, decission, crowdsourcing, community
Mediagobblin	video, hosting, distributed
Megaglest	gaming
OpenELEC	OS, HTPC, multimedia, raspberry
opengameart.org	creative commons, art, gamedev
OpenStreetMap	maps, open data
Piwik	tracking, hosting
TOR	anonymity, P2P, routing
TOR chat	anonymity, TOR, chat
TOR servers	anonymity, TOR, hosting
Piratelinux	linux, distro, hacking
RaspBMC	linux, distro, htpc, multimedia, raspberry
Replicant	Android,linux, distro
VideoLAN	multimedia, player
Wikispead	car, vehicle
Yacy	search engine, distributed

Foundations

Name	Topic
archive.org
Bitcoin Foundation
BitGive Foundation
Blender Foundation	blender, 3D
citizenweb	redistribute, dezentralize
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Freedombox Foundation	wifi
Freedom of the press Foundation	press, journalism, whistleblowing,
Free Network Foundation (FNF)	wifi, crypto
Free Software Foundation (FSF)	open source
Gnome Foundation	open source, Desktop, Linux
ReactOS Foundation	windows, kernel, open source

Activism

Name	Topic
FreeSnowden	activism, whistleblowing
Sea Shepherd	environment, whaling
Sigil Social Foundation	domestic violence, behavioral health counseling for lower income families
The pirate bay	copyright, warez

Net-politics

Name	Topic
Anonyops.com	hosting, activism
Anonyous	activism, hacking
Anonnews.org	hosting, activism
fragdenstaat
netzpolitik.org
riseup.net	hosting, activism
Wikileaks	activism, whistleblower

Miscellaneous

Name	Topic
Be welcome	travel, couchsurfing

Name	Topic
Flattr	micropayment
Expedia	travel, booking

Organization	Purpose	Donation Page
Bitcoin Charity Organization	(BCO) is a worldwide non-profit organisation which promote access to medical services and ensure that life-saving therapies for children continue to be developed. BCO aim to ease the difficulties of accessing medical care for children and their families.	[1]
420chan	Imageboard community	[2]
Against Hunger	Against Hunger is a non profit organization using cryptocurrencies to raise money to help end world Hunger.	[3]
Ahmia.fi	AHMIA is working with Tor related projects including running Tor Nodes and the only public Tor Hidden Service search.	[4]
AncientBeast.com	[Free Open Source] Turn Based Strategy Game Played Online Against Other People. Master your beasts!	[5]
Androidesimple	Android educational apps. Tracking the ISS. Tracking Tiangong1. OSCAR: Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio.	[6]
Animals in Distress Sanctuary	Animals in Distress Sanctuary	[7]
Animals Aid Association	Helping homeless dogs and cats, Rescue center.	[8]
Antiwar.com	Devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and anti-imperialism.	[9]
As We Grow	Dedicated to building classrooms for quality education	[10] (Under one-off donation button.)
Basketball club KK Velike Lašče	Basketball club KK Velike Lašče from Slovenia playing in the lower national league	[11]
BBC iPlayer Notifier	Email and Google Talk notification of new content available on BBC iPlayer	[12]
BeatingDebt.org	Teaching debt prevention by placing educational ads, supporting debt prevention groups, and providing online resources	[13]
BitCharity	Hub for donating to charities using Bitcoin (currently inactive)	[14]
Bitcoin 100	Bitcoin 100: A Kickstarter for Charities (1BTC1oo)	[15]
BitcoinFunding.com	[Raise money with bitcoins] Kickstarter style website to raise funds for projects.	[16]
Bitcoinspot	Dutch website and forum about Bitcoins, how to acquire and how to use them.	[17]
BitGiveFoundation	BitGive Foundation - Charitable Giving Organization of the Bitcoin Community.	[18]
Brmlab, hackerspace	The first hackerspace in the Czech Republic	[19]
BUND Berlin e.V.	environmental NGO, Berlin branch of BUND / Friends of the Earth, Germany	[20]
Blockr.io	Bitcoin block explorer	[21]
Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR)	A 501(c)3 with a mission to develop, test, and teach the art of effective decision-making, for individuals and for the world. CFAR provides tax-receipts for (non-anonymous) donations made in BTC!	[22]
Center for a Stateless Society	Builds public awareness of, and support for, market anarchism	[23]
Cheat-Sheets.org	Cheat/round-up/reference cards/guides/sheets for programming languages and software	[24]
Chamba Project	An effort to create a Swathanthra (Free/Libre/Open/Mukt) Animation Movie by pooling in contributions from people around the world and funding artists directly.	[25]
Chebucto Community Net	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-based registered charitable society providing non-profit access to the tools of communication. Operating since 1994.	[26]
Children's Well-wishers Network (CWN)	Registered educational charity focused on advancing children's education and providing educational facilities to deprived schools in North and East Sri Lanka.	[27]
Church of Saint John the Evangelist	A Church in Goshen, NY	[28]
Congregation Tiferes Yisroel	Orthodox Jewish Synagogue oriented toward people with little or no Jewish background and "Jews by choice" in Baltimore, MD, USA	[29]
Consumer - Merchant Trust Project	An initiative to increase trust between Consumer and Bitcoin Merchants. Proceedspay for hosting, ads, etc.	[30]
Carnicom Institute	Research for the Benefit of Humanity. The Carnicom Institute is a non-profit health and environmental educational and research organization serving the public welfare.	[31]
Convergence	Agile, distributed, and secure strategy for replacing certificate authorities.	[32]
Cop Block	Cop Block is a decentralized project supported by a diverse group of individuals united by their shared goal of police accountability.	[33]
Creative Commons Bibliothek	Creative Commons and Public Domain library. Includes book source code for easy reprinting with custom layout. Local groups produce paper versions for lending.	[34]
Cryto Coding Collective	Host for IRC and web for free/libre software and cultural projects	[35]
Dallas Makerspace	The first Makerspace/Hackerspace in North Texas.	[36]
Decrypted Matrix	Blog on science, society, nature, politics etc.	[37]
Degenernet Radio	Online radio station dedicated independent music from all genres	[38]
Dieppa Law Firm, P.A.	We are the first law firm in the Miami area to accept Bitcoin for its legal services in line with our commitment to confidentiality to our clients even with regards to payment for our services. Dieppa Law Firm, P.A. specializes in bankruptcy, personal injury and traffic law among other services such as commercial, tax and real estate law and our firm provides an initial consultation for free to make sure you can make an informed decision about legal representation.	[39]
Digital Precursor	Website and Forum dedicated to scientific learning (particularly energetics)	[40]
DownsizeDC.org	Downsize DC advocates constitutional limits, smaller government, civil liberties, federalism, and low taxes.	[41]
Early Intervention Program at SPICES	SPICES has been providing early intervention services to children with developmental delays or learning difficulties since 1997. SPICES was set up to meet the needs of children who lack access to such professional services in our public education system.	[42]
Encyclopedia Dramatica	4chan's Wikipedia	[43]
Erowid	Portal on psychoactive plants and chemicals, meditation, lucid etc.	[44]
Eudemocracia NGO	Dedicated to the creation of a modern form of government that combines direct democracy and internet.	[45]
Expanton	Occupy Wall Street Support	[46]
Ezyorg.com	Organizing & Planning Tool	[47]
Fairewinds Energy Education	Educates the public about nuclear power and other energy issues.	[48]
Farm Forward	Promoting conscientious food choices, reducing farm animal suffering, and advancing sustainable agriculture.	[49]
Festival Brikcius	Support "Festival Brikcius" - the chamber music concert series at the Stone Bell House in Prague.	[50]
Florida Gulf Coast University	FGCU began accepting bitcoins with the creation of the Atilus Bitcoin Scholarship Endowment on April 11, 2014 - marking it as the first Public University in the United States to accept bitcoin.	[51]
Forban	Filesharing protocol for local area networks	[52]
Foundation for Economic Education	FEE’s mission is to inspire, educate and connect future leaders with the economic, ethical and legal principles of a free society.	[53]
Freedomain Radio	Online philosophical conversation about freedom, religion, the state, and the family	[54]
FreedomsPhoenix	Reigniting the flames of freedom, Phoenix based daily radio show, news aggregator and Digital eZine.	[55]
Free State Project	Organized political migration of libertarian activists to New Hampshire in order to reduce the size and scope of government.	[56]
Free Talk Live	Help spread the message of liberty by donating to a liberty leaning nationally syndicated radio show!	[57]
FreezingMoon.org	Free Open Source Game Development Organization	[58]
Freifunk Rheinland e.V.	Organization fighting legislation against unrestricted WiFi access in Germany	[59]
GentleLAN	Since many years free private LANs in Bremen / Germany	[60]
GirlsGoneBitcoin	Girls gone wild with bitcoin accepting donations!	[61]
Group B Strep International	Promoting GBS Awareness Worldwide	[62]
GZZT.org	Popular Useful Links Reference Site	[63]
HackBloc on Reddit	Hacktivism, Crypto-anarchy, Darknets.	[64]
hacktolive	Development of Linux-based distro "Super OS" and other open-source software	[65]
Hamburger Väter	Support children and fathers to keep in contact after family separation	[66]
Help The Dogs	HelpThedogs.net is a local foundation which helps the rehabilitation of abused and abandoned dogs.	[67]
Heaven Sent Gaming	Heaven Sent Gaming is a new media entertainment group founded by Mario Lucero and Isabel Ruiz, in 2006, as a game development team.	[68]
Help Linux	Russian language Linux support	[69]
Juice Rap News	Juice Rap News - the news show for the Internet nation, delivering a bulletin to restore your faith in the fourth estate, make you nod your head to the beat even as you shake it in disbelief.	[70]
JURN	Search over 4,000 'open access' academic ejournals in the arts & humanities. Find and access full-text academic articles, for free, from anywhere.	[71]
The Icarus Project	A mutual aid/peer support organization dedicated to radical mental health	[72]
International Modern Media Initiative	Strongest freedom of information laws in the world, being created in Iceland	[73]
I2P Anonymous Network	Anonymising network similar to tor	[74]
Intercom - Emergency Communications Division	We Build Censorship Resistant Phone and Communications Networks	[75]
IPInfoDB A free geolocation web service to detect the location by IP address. Donations required to grow the network infrastructure.	[76]
Italian Pirate Party	Italian Pirate Party - Associazione Partito Pirata Italia	[77]
Khan Academy	A non-profit aimed at providing a free, world-class education for people everywhere. Offers free online educational materials (e.g. videos, exercises, analytics, teacher tools) that support personalized education. Lessons include math, science, finance, history, and even bitcoin.	[78]
KoinoniaAxion (Κοινωνία Αξιών)	Political Party in Greece	[79]
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition	LEAP is made up of current and former members of the law enforcement and criminal justice communities who are speaking out about the failures of our existing drug policies.	[80]
Lew Rockwell.com	anti-state anti-war pro-market	[81]
Libertarian Party (US)	Third largest political party in the United States.	[82]
Lifeboat Foundation	Organization for scientific advancements and against harm from technological progress	[83]
Logical Language Group	The Logical Language Group, Inc. is a non-profit organization meant to serve the needs of the Lojban community.	[84]
Lorea	A distributed and federated organization working on pushing open source for social networking, social economy and autonomy of the people.	[85]
Los Angeles Biohackers	Grass-roots biotechnology lab in downtown Los Angeles	[86]
Los Angeles Indymedia	User-generated left-wing news.	[87]
LÖVE	An open source 2D game engine that uses the Lua programming language.	[88]
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)	A 501(c)(3) non-profit working to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive impact. MIRI provides tax-receipts for (non-anonymous) donations made in BTC!	[89]
Minecraft School in India	Enspired by MinecraftEdu project the goal is to educate children thought simulation. Project will include building a real school and other help to local communities.	[90]
New Approach Oregon	Campaign to legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana in Oregon	[91]
Nikki and the Robots	Cute cross-platform open source platformer game by Joyride Labs	[92]
Open Transactions	Easy-to-use, Financial Crypto and Digital Cash Library.	[93]
OpenNIC	parallel decentralized DNS
Openwall Project	Development of information security related free software, information security research, publications, and community activities aimed at making existing free software safer to use.	[94]
Omni Nano	A 501(c)(3) non-profit public benefit organization devoted to developing and introducing nanotechnology & STEM education to high schools and undergraduate colleges, in order to better prepare today's students for their professional science, engineering, and administrative careers in our globalized, high-tech 21st century economy. Omni Nano is happy to provide tax receipts for (non-anonymous) donations made in BTC.	[95]
OrganicDesign	A group developing methods and tools to support open-source bottom-up peer-to-peer governance for the people	[96]
Osiris-sps.org	Software for decentralized portal, managed and shared via P2P between members.	[97]
paniq.cc	Music from the other side of the universe	[98]
Pathways To Education Canada	Pathways to Education is helping youth in low-income communities in Canada graduate from high school and successfully transition into post-secondary education. Pathways addresses systemic barriers to education by providing leadership, expertise and a community-based program proven to lower dropout rates. Pathways is the first national charity in Canada to issue tax receipts for Bitcoin donations.	[99]
Partido Liberal Libertario	Libertarian Party of Argentina	[100]
P2P Foundation	Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices	[101]
Patch-Tag.com	Darcs and gitit wiki hosting for open source projects	[102]
PeaceGeeks	Global non-profit, volunteer organization that builds the technological, communications and management capacities of grassroots organizations working on the promotion of peace, accountability and human rights.	[103]
Pioneer One	TV series funded purely through donations	[104]
Piratenpartei Österreich	Pirate Party of Austria	[105]
PiraX	Hacker collective and web-tool pioneers.	[106]
Plankhead	Free/open source media and arts organization	[107]
Plaztika	Virtual art space. Non-profit/runs on donations. New artists are welcome to join.	[108]
PrivacyBox	System for anonymous and non-trackable contact forms	[109]
Project Hidden Treasure	Promotes Bitcoin to new users by 'hiding' them in Geocaches. Also explains Bitcoin use and security.	[110]
Prometheus Fusion Perfection	Open source nuclear fusion research	[111]
Protest Barrick	A global campaign against the world's largest gold miner	[112]
Protomail	Secure mail platform and provider (were banned by Paypal)
ThePythonGameBook	Free CC/GPL licensed wikibook to learn open source game programming in Python	[113]
Queeky	an online drawing community with special drawing tools and creative users from all around the world	[114]
Recycles.Org	Nonprofit Recycling and ReUse Network - Nationwide (USA) technology exchange clearinghouse for nonprofits	[115]
Africa Community Groups	Resources is a Charity Program run by South Africa's iceCUBED, to raise money and awareness of local community groups in Africa.	[116]
Ripple	Payment system based on trust networks	[117]
RusInfo	Russian info agency	[118]
The Seasteading Institute	To further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean communities, enabling innovation with new political and social systems.	[119]
showRSS	A service that provides feeds to automatically download TV show torrents for DVR/Tivo like applications	[120]
SomeFunnyPranks.com	Audio recordings of phone pranks under Creative Commons	[121]
¡SOS Mazunte!	Support campaign after the Carlotta hurricane that hit the coast of Oaxaca (Mexico), particularly the community of Mazunte, on June 15th.	[122]
Sugar Labs	Free/open sourcee education/learning software	[123]
Stowarzyszenie Więcej Demokracji	Association for direct democracy in Poland	[124]
Students for Liberty	To provide a unified, student-driven forum of support for students and student organizations dedicated to liberty.	[125]
Sun City	Ukrainian centre for children in difficult circumstances	[126]
Symphony of Science	A musical project headed by John Boswell, to deliver scientific knowledge in musical form.	[127]
Tahoe-LAFS	A distributed filesystem with funky redundancy properties	[128]
Tangorin Japanese Dictionary	Free online Japanese dictionary in development since October 2007 by a former Japanology student.	[129]
Technitium	Freeware MAC Address Changer	[130]
TN3T LLC TOR Project	TN3T LLC operates 2 TOR exit nodes.	[131]
TryBTC	Simple way to get started with bitcoin, uses donations to give out coins to educate new users	[132]
Tunapanda Institute	Spreading technology skills and digital self-expression to low-income communities of East Africa	[133]
United Nations of Film	Truth Investigation and Whistleblower Site fighting for the Right to Privacy, Freedom, Equality and Prosperity for all Humanity.	[134]
Vaizard institute	Backing people who want to make the world a better place by making their ideas real.	[135]
Videoneat	Watch free documentaries and lectures online	[136]
WL Central	News, analysis and actions related to Wikileaks	[137]
Waking Up Movie Project	Humanist collaborative film project	[138]
Whonix	Anonymous Operating System	[139]
Wikispooks	An encyclopedia of deep political structures and events	[140]
WordswithMeaning!	An "alternative" affairs online editorial focusing on non-conservative views and aiming criticism towards copyright and the modern media.	[141]
Yorba	Software group developing free desktop applications for GNOME	[142]
Zero State	Grassroots technoprogressive community implementing practical solutions to advance the human condition.	Category 2 membership (Category 1 is free, category 3 is achievement based.)