The article implies Bellingcat are crowd funded (they only mention one kickstarter campaign from 2014) but their funding is concerning, and their investigations deeply biased. They are not at all to be trusted:

"funded by The Atlantic Council (a think-tank with deep ties to the U.S. government, NATO, war manufacturers, and their allies), and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (another infamous U.S. front organization heavily involved in so-called color revolution regime change operations all around the world)"

"an alleged group of amateur on-line researchers who have spent years shilling for the U.S. instigated war against the Syrian government, blaming the Douma chemical attack and others on the Assad government, and for the anti-Russian propaganda connected to, among other things, the Skripal poisoning case in England, and the downing of flight MH17 plane in Ukraine. It has been lauded by the corporate mainstream media in the west. "

https://off-guardian.org/2019/12/15/the-art-of-doublespeak-b...