Donation-accepting organizations and projects
Here is a list of organizations that accept bitcoin donations. Only notable donation-accepting sites should be added here.
| Organization | Purpose | Donation Page |
|---|---|---|
| 420chan | Imageboard community | [1] |
| Against Hunger | Against Hunger is a non profit organization using cryptocurrencies to raise money to help end world Hunger. | [2] |
| Ahmia.fi | AHMIA is working with Tor related projects including running Tor Nodes and the only public Tor Hidden Service search. | [3] |
| AncientBeast.com | [Free Open Source] Turn Based Strategy Game Played Online Against Other People. Master your beasts! | [4] |
| Animals in Distress Sanctuary | Animals in Distress Sanctuary | [5] |
| Antiwar.com | Devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and anti-imperialism. | [6] |
| As We Grow | Dedicated to building classrooms for quality education | [7] (Under one-off donation button.) |
| Basketball club KK Velike Lašče | Basketball club KK Velike Lašče from Slovenia playing in the lower national league | [8] |
| BBC iPlayer Notifier | Email and Google Talk notification of new content available on BBC iPlayer | [9] |
| BeatingDebt.org | Teaching debt prevention by placing educational ads, supporting debt prevention groups, and providing online resources | [10] |
| BitCharity | Hub for donating to charities using Bitcoin (currently inactive) | [11] |
| Bitcoin 100 | Bitcoin 100: A Kickstarter for Charities (1BTC1oo) | [12] |
| BitcoinFunding.com | [Raise money with bitcoins] Kickstarter style website to raise funds for projects. | [13] |
| Bitcoinspot | Dutch website and forum about Bitcoins, how to acquire and how to use them. | [14] |
| BitGiveFoundation | BitGive Foundation - Charitable Giving Organization of the Bitcoin Community. | [15] |
| Brmlab, hackerspace | The first hackerspace in the Czech Republic | [16] |
| BUND Berlin e.V. | environmental NGO, Berlin branch of BUND / Friends of the Earth, Germany | [17] |
| Blockr.io | Bitcoin block explorer | [18] |
| 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! | [19] |
| Center for a Stateless Society | Builds public awareness of, and support for, market anarchism | [20] |
| Cheat-Sheets.org | Cheat/round-up/reference cards/guides/sheets for programming languages and software | [21] |
| 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. | [22] |
| Chebucto Community Net | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-based registered charitable society providing non-profit access to the tools of communication. Operating since 1994. | [23] |
| Church of Saint John the Evangelist | A Church in Goshen, NY | [24] |
| Congregation Tiferes Yisroel | Orthodox Jewish Synagogue oriented toward people with little or no Jewish background and "Jews by choice" in Baltimore, MD, USA | [25] |
| Consumer - Merchant Trust Project | An initiative to increase trust between Consumer and Bitcoin Merchants. Proceedspay for hosting, ads, etc. | [26] |
| 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. | [27] |
| Convergence | Agile, distributed, and secure strategy for replacing certificate authorities. | [28] |
| Cop Block | Cop Block is a decentralized project supported by a diverse group of individuals united by their shared goal of police accountability. | [29] |
| 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. | [30] |
| Cryto Coding Collective | Host for IRC and web for free/libre software and cultural projects | [31] |
| Dallas Makerspace | The first Makerspace/Hackerspace in North Texas. | [32] |
| Decrypted Matrix | Blog on science, society, nature, politics etc. | [33] |
| Degenernet Radio | Online radio station dedicated independent music from all genres | [34] |
| Digital Precursor | Website and Forum dedicated to scientific learning (particularly energetics) | [35] |
| DownsizeDC.org | Downsize DC advocates constitutional limits, smaller government, civil liberties, federalism, and low taxes. | [36] |
| 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. | [37] |
| Encyclopedia Dramatica | 4chan's Wikipedia | [38] |
| Erowid | Portal on psychoactive plants and chemicals, meditation, lucid etc. | [39] |
| Eudemocracia NGO | Dedicated to the creation of a modern form of government that combines direct democracy and internet. | [40] |
| Expanton | Occupy Wall Street Support | [41] |
| Ezyorg.com | Organizing & Planning Tool | [42] |
| Fairewinds Energy Education | Educates the public about nuclear power and other energy issues. | [43] |
| Farm Forward | Promoting conscientious food choices, reducing farm animal suffering, and advancing sustainable agriculture. | [44] |
| Festival Brikcius | Support "Festival Brikcius" - the chamber music concert series at the Stone Bell House in Prague. | [45] |
| Forban | Filesharing protocol for local area networks | [46] |
| 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. | [47] |
| Freedomain Radio | Online philosophical conversation about freedom, religion, the state, and the family | [48] |
| FreedomsPhoenix | Reigniting the flames of freedom, Phoenix based daily radio show, news aggregator and Digital eZine. | [49] |
| Free State Project | Organized political migration of libertarian activists to New Hampshire in order to reduce the size and scope of government. | [50] |
| Free Talk Live | Help spread the message of liberty by donating to a liberty leaning nationally syndicated radio show! | [51] |
| FreezingMoon.org | Free Open Source Game Development Organization | [52] |
| Freifunk Rheinland e.V. | Organization fighting legislation against unrestricted WiFi access in Germany | [53] |
| GentleLAN | Since many years free private LANs in Bremen / Germany | [54] |
| GirlsGoneBitcoin | Girls gone wild with bitcoin accepting donations! | [55] |
| Group B Strep International | Promoting GBS Awareness Worldwide | [56] |
| GZZT.org | Popular Useful Links Reference Site | [57] |
| HackBloc on Reddit | Hacktivism, Crypto-anarchy, Darknets. | [58] |
| hacktolive | Development of Linux-based distro "Super OS" and other open-source software | [59] |
| Hamburger Väter | Support children and fathers to keep in contact after family separation | [60] |
| 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. | [61] |
| Help Linux | Russian language Linux support | [62] |
| 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. | [63] |
| JURN | Search over 4,000 'open access' academic ejournals in the arts & humanities. Find and access full-text academic articles, for free, from anywhere. | [64] |
| The Icarus Project | A mutual aid/peer support organization dedicated to radical mental health | [65] |
| International Modern Media Initiative | Strongest freedom of information laws in the world, being created in Iceland | [66] |
| I2P Anonymous Network | Anonymising network similar to tor | [67] |
| Intercom - Emergency Communications Division | We Build Censorship Resistant Phone and Communications Networks | [68] |
| Italian Pirate Party | Italian Pirate Party - Associazione Partito Pirata Italia | [69] |
| 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. | [70] |
| KoinoniaAxion (Κοινωνία Αξιών) | Political Party in Greece | [71] |
| 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. | [72] |
| Lew Rockwell.com | anti-state anti-war pro-market | [73] |
| Libertarian Party (US) | Third largest political party in the United States. | [74] |
| Lifeboat Foundation | Organization for scientific advancements and against harm from technological progress | [75] |
| Logical Language Group | The Logical Language Group, Inc. is a non-profit organization meant to serve the needs of the Lojban community. | [76] |
| Lorea | A distributed and federated organization working on pushing open source for social networking, social economy and autonomy of the people. | [77] |
| Los Angeles Biohackers | Grass-roots biotechnology lab in downtown Los Angeles | [78] |
| Los Angeles Indymedia | User-generated left-wing news. | [79] |
| LÖVE | An open source 2D game engine that uses the Lua programming language. | [80] |
| 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! | [81] |
| Nikki and the Robots | Cute cross-platform open source platformer game by Joyride Labs | [82] |
| Open Transactions | Easy-to-use, Financial Crypto and Digital Cash Library. | [83] |
| 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. | [84] |
| OrganicDesign | A group developing methods and tools to support open-source bottom-up peer-to-peer governance for the people | [85] |
| Osiris-sps.org | Software for decentralized portal, managed and shared via P2P between members. | [86] |
| paniq.cc | Music from the other side of the universe | [87] |
| Partido Liberal Libertario | Libertarian Party of Argentina | [88] |
| P2P Foundation | Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices | [89] |
| Patch-Tag.com | Darcs and gitit wiki hosting for open source projects | [90] |
| 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. | [91] |
| 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. | [92] |
| Pioneer One | TV series funded purely through donations | [93] |
| Piratenpartei Österreich | Pirate Party of Austria | [94] |
| PiraX | Hacker collective and web-tool pioneers. | [95] |
| Plankhead | Free/open source media and arts organization | [96] |
| Plaztika | Virtual art space. Non-profit/runs on donations. New artists are welcome to join. | [97] |
| PrivacyBox | System for anonymous and non-trackable contact forms | [98] |
| Project Hidden Treasure | Promotes Bitcoin to new users by 'hiding' them in Geocaches. Also explains Bitcoin use and security. | [99] |
| Prometheus Fusion Perfection | Open source nuclear fusion research | [100] |
| Protest Barrick | A global campaign against the world's largest gold miner | [101] |
| ThePythonGameBook | Free CC/GPL licensed wikibook to learn open source game programming in Python | [102] |
| Queeky | an online drawing community with special drawing tools and creative users from all around the world | [103] |
| Recycles.Org | Nonprofit Recycling and ReUse Network - Nationwide (USA) technology exchange clearinghouse for nonprofits | [104] |
| Ripple | Payment system based on trust networks | [105] |
| Riseup | Anti-capitalist collective | [106] |
| RusInfo | Russian info agency | [107] |
| The Seasteading Institute | To further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean communities, enabling innovation with new political and social systems. | [108] |
| showRSS | A service that provides feeds to automatically download TV show torrents for DVR/Tivo like applications | [109] |
| SomeFunnyPranks.com | Audio recordings of phone pranks under Creative Commons | [110] |
| ¡SOS Mazunte! | Support campaign after the Carlotta hurricane that hit the coast of Oaxaca (Mexico), particularly the community of Mazunte, on June 15th. | [111] |
| Stowarzyszenie Więcej Demokracji | Association for direct democracy in Poland | [112] |
| Students for Liberty | To provide a unified, student-driven forum of support for students and student organizations dedicated to liberty. | [113] |
| Sugar Labs | Free/open sourcee education/learning software | [114] |
| Sun City | Ukrainian centre for children in difficult circumstances | [115] |
| Symphony of Science | A musical project headed by John Boswell, to deliver scientific knowledge in musical form. | [116] |
| Tahoe-LAFS | A distributed filesystem with funky redundancy properties | [117] |
| Tangorin Japanese Dictionary | Free online Japanese dictionary in development since October 2007 by a former Japanology student. | [118] |
| Technitium | Freeware MAC Address Changer | [119] |
| TN3T LLC TOR Project | TN3T LLC operates 2 TOR exit nodes. | [120] |
| TryBTC | Simple way to get started with bitcoin, uses donations to give out coins to educate new users | [121] |
| United Nations of Film | Truth Investigation and Whistleblower Site fighting for the Right to Privacy, Freedom, Equality and Prosperity for all Humanity. | [122] |
| Vaizard institute | Backing people who want to make the world a better place by making their ideas real. | [123] |
| Videoneat | Watch free documentaries and lectures online | [124] |
| WL Central | News, analysis and actions related to Wikileaks | [125] |
| Waking Up Movie Project | Humanist collaborative film project | [126] |
| Whonix | Anonymous Operating System | [127] |
| Wikispooks | An encyclopedia of deep political structures and events | [128] |
| WordswithMeaning! | An "alternative" affairs online editorial focusing on non-conservative views and aiming criticism towards copyright and the modern media. | [129] |
| Yorba | Software group developing free desktop applications for GNOME | [130] |
| 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.) |
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
| Name | Topic |
|---|---|
| awesome WM | linux, X11, window manager |
| Backbox | linux, distro, hacking |
| Bluetile WM | linux, X11, window manager |
| Dia | linux, windows, drawing, sketch, CAD |
| Dosbox | emulator, DOS, x86 |
| Duplicati | backup, cloud |
| FarmBot | farming, automatisation |
| F-Droid | android, repository, open source |
| FreeHAL | A.I. |
| Freenet | anonymity, decentralisation |
| TOR | anonymity, P2P, routing |
| TOR servers | anonymity, TOR, hosting |
| TOR chat | anonymity, TOR, chat |
| Linux Mint | Linux, distro, Debian |
| OpenStreetMap | maps, open data |
| LibreOffice | office suite |
| Mediagobblin | video, hosting, distributed |
| opengameart.org | creative commons, art, gamedev |
| Piratelinux | linux, distro, hacking |
| Wikispead | car, vehicle |
| VideoLAN | multimedia, player |
| Yacy | search engine, distributed |
foundations
| Name | Topic |
|---|---|
| archive.org | |
| Bitcoin Foundation | |
| Blender Foundation | blender, 3D |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | |
| Freedombox Foundation | wifi |
| Freedombox Foundation | wifi, crypto |
| Free Software Foundation (FSF) | open source |
| ReactOS Foundation | windows, kernel, open source |
Net-politics
| Name | Topic |
|---|---|
| fragdenstaat | |
| netzpolitik.org | |
| citizenweb | |
| riseup.net | hosting, activism |
| Anonnews.org | hosting, activism |
| Anonyops.com | hosting, activism |
| Anonyous | activism, hacking |
| Wikileaks | activism, whistleblower |