https://jacobian.org/2024/jan/10/philanthropy-update/ took 15 seconds to find on the website.

My (very small) tech nonprofit has started doing something similar [1], where everyone contributes to a list of OSS tools we use heavily, and then everyone gives a weight/score to each tool.

We then split the pot ($1,000 in 2022, probably ~$2,000 when I get around to doing 2023) among all the OSS projects, according to the relative scores.

[1] https://siliconally.org/policies/open-source/#yearly-donatio...

I’m really happy that github in particular has made it so easy to give some cash to the people responsible for tools that I enjoy.

This is a good thing to do, but not really the point of the article.