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I can make something up, but would love to see a guide to how to donate broadly to open source. Apache, GNU, Ubuntu, libinput?

I've been doing this myself with a combo of one-off donations (Ubuntu, Pop OS, libinput) plus experimenting with Github Sponsors on one project.

Here's an example from TripleByte of their employee-directed donations: https://triplebyte.com/open-source-donations

https://my.fsf.org/donate

Would this just be one org to donate to? Or do they donate to lots of other orgs?

I like deps.

https://raw.githack.com/getsentry/deps/fy2022/fundable.html

I'm sure there will be several people and organizations willing to step in and be a clearinghouse / middleman to "make it easy".

I will just need to take a modest 25% to cover costs and we are good to go ...

When Gratipay existed, they didn't take a cut (financial transaction fees were covered by donor or recipient). They survived on dogfooding[1]. Liberapay operates the same way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food