We fund the open source we depend on
Encrata is built on software maintained by people who were never paid for it, and used by researchers and journalists who rely on tools nobody bills them for.
Who we sponsor
Some are projects, some are the individual people behind them. All of it is money out with nothing expected back.
The Tor Project
The anonymity network and browser that underpin most of what people mean by the dark web.
Privacy
OnionShare
Sends and receives files anonymously over Tor, with no third-party service in the middle.
Privacy
SecureDrop
The whistleblower submission system used by newsrooms to take documents safely.
Privacy
Whonix
An operating system that forces all traffic through Tor and isolates it from the host.
Privacy
curl
The data transfer library behind an enormous share of the internet's HTTP traffic.
Data & tooling
urllib3
The HTTP client that nearly every Python package depends on, directly or not.
Data & tooling
OpenRefine
A workbench for cleaning messy data and reconciling it against other sources.
Data & tooling
Alicia Sykes
Maintains Dashy, Web-Check and Awesome-Privacy, among a long list of others.
Maintainers
Louis Lam
Maintains Uptime Kuma, the self-hosted monitoring tool.
Maintainers
@ThatsPranav
Independent developer building in the open.
Maintainers
@connorhpbrn
Independent developer building in the open.
Maintainers
@leodev
Independent developer building in the open.
Maintainers
Open Collective
The funding platform that lets open source projects take and spend money transparently.
EcosystemHow we choose
We put money where a missing maintainer would hurt the most, whether that is us or the people who depend on our work.
What we never ask for
Sponsorship buys us nothing, and that is the point. If any of these ever became a condition, it would stop being a sponsorship.
Features in exchange for money
The roadmap stays with the maintainers.
Logo placement
Give us a shout-out or not, entirely your call.
Priority support
We file issues like every other user.
Exclusivity
Our funding never limits who else they work with.
Get your project funded
Maintainers can apply directly, no introduction needed. If you rely on something that deserves support, point us at it instead.