- Donation-based - large donors and/or recurring small donations
- Bounties - for fixing bugs / implementing feature requests
- Grant Funding
- Government Funding
- Paid Services
- Commercial / proprietary use pays
- SSB – Microgranting -- story to tell along the way
- Guifi/Benefitoria & Patreon – sustainable crowdfunding
- Code for X (e.g. codefor.ca)
- SourceCred is a system for creating reputation networks for open-source projects, and give a sense of recognition for and ownership of contributions
- Open Collective
- Bcoin is a family of full node implementations. The project started as the back-end bitcoin implementation for Purse. Today it's one of 3 fullnode implementations running in production for Bitcoin. Bcoin forks include bcash (BCH), lcoin (LTC), and hsd (HNS).
- Ford Foundation
- Shuttleworth Foundation
- Knight Foundation
- Linux Foundation
- Open Culture Foundation (ocf.tw who distribute small grants for civic tech community in Taiwan g0v)
- Nadia Eghbal's lemonade stand of funding models for open source and also her report - Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure