I have this fun strategy, I’ll save my charity money until there is a public call for action, then I dump a larger sum all at once.

For instance my work during covid set up a (money only) drive for a food bank that corporate would match. My bosses donated 200 a piece, until they noticed that I donated 1000, then they all found it in their hearts to donate 1000 too. Turned that 1000 bucks into about 8000.

used to donate to the Blender foundation to support development, but I’m holding off till I am in a better place financially to resume my donation. Same goes for amnesty, mediapart and acf

I donate to my local food bank. I worked in their hydroponics garden a few years ago and saw how much work goes into providing food for the needy. They need all the help they can get.

I also donate time and energy and a bit of money on a specific horse at the stables I volunteer at. She’s an old mare with an owner who doesn’t give a shit about her. Nobody really does anything with her other than me and another person, and that other person only lets her out to graze. I exercise the horse, groom her, give her lots of attention, and I got her a winter blanket recently.

• Samaritans
• Liberty

Neither are perfect organisations but both are trying to help people in desperate situations.

tor project

Money

• My local NPR station
• InRangeTV

Time

• Wikipedia

I don’t have a lot to give. If I did, I would also include:

• Linux Mint
• GIMP
• Darktable
• Inkscape
• Open Medicine Foundation
• Election Science
• LibreOffice
• zirk.us
• midwest.social
• Strong Towns

GiveDirectly, Mossy Earth

From what I’ve heard about Wikipedia’s finances they’re set for the foreseeäble and my money would be better used elsewhere.

Got a recurring donation to our local Cat Rescue. It’s not much but it’s a start.

I log all my donations so I have a list to copy-paste. Some of them I cannot donate to anymore (e.g.: Linux Mint) because they use PayPal which shadow-banned me. Perhaps because I kept using virtual single-use cards, and using like 50 different cards may look suspicious. But anyway, fuck PayPal.

So, the list with amounts removed (they’re too low):
Linux Mint
TeamSeas
Manjaro
OpenCollective tips
Tor Project
Internet Archive (archive.org)
The Document Foundation (LibreOffice)
Arch Linux
KDE
Mozilla
F-Droid
Termux
db0 Lemmy instance (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Arne Schwabe (dev of Android OVPN client)
Deluan Quintao (dev of Navidrome server)
Arty Bishop (dev of Look4Sat)
sc07 (Fediverse Canvas creator)
IPcko
Markus Fisch (dev of Binary Eye)
VideoLAN
ochranma.sk
Meshtastic
Kiwix
Municia pre Ukrajinu
FFmpeg
IzzyOnDroid
Lemmy

That is just a full list of every place I ever donated to. I couldn’t afford for them to be recurring.

Some of them you probably won’t know as they’re only relevant in my country (Slovakia). I’ll try to quickly describe them, I have a long day tomorrow and only 5 hours left to sleep (and it’s shortening).
IPcko - Mostly a suicide helpline, but they do a lot more too. Constantly underfunded and this year the government cut their budget even more. They provide help over phone, chat and e-mail, but also have teams that can go meet the person, physical offices (“Káčko”) across the country where you can speak to a therapist if you’re doing too bad (for free) and some more stuff like clubs where people can meet and (try to) have fun… I am too tired to name all, sorry.
ochranma.sk - Part of INHOPE network. Up until recently we had no way to report CSAM (this was started in 2022), and in 2018 and 2019 we had the second (to Netherlands) highest count of known occurrences of CSAM sharing, even surpassing USA and Russia. Mind you, we have a population of 5.5 million…
Municia pre Ukrajinu - “If not the government, then us” - Money to fund purchase of ammunition for Ukraine in cooperation with Czech Republic (our government refused to help Ukraine, thus the slogan)

Edit: That info is from mind mind, I need sleep. May not be accurate.

I donate a bunch of things on Marketplace (mostly baby/kids’ clothes and toys the kids outgrew). I also give to the local food banks and food drives whenever I can and think about it. If you’re specifically asking about money, I give to, and last summer fundraised for, Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

I have a monthly recurring donation to the GiveWell Top Charities fund. GiveWell ranks charities by efficiency (i.e. impact per dollar) and distributes the funds donations to the most effective ones. Those include fighting malaria, world hunger, child blindness,…

I cannot afford much, but I gladly give monthly to Doctors Without Borders.

I can’t afford to help anyone besides the people closest to me. And even then it’s generally with my time and effort, not fiat currency.

Food banks to. Infrequent food donations no money. Especially after covid as I had made a “pandemic stash” in case I got sick so I didn’t get others sick going to the grocery store.

• Wikimedia Foundation
• Nature Conservancy
• Democracy Now
• Democratic Socialists of America local chapter