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lrvickyesterday at 10:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Opencollective collects funds to distribute to open source project maintainers. Not that it matters. We have never collected a single donation, but figured it was worth a shot. lol.


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reverius42yesterday at 10:42 PM

I don't really get how that works in terms of being tax-deductible. So I looked it up, and lo and behold:

> Contributions to Collectives hosted by OSC are not deductible as charitable contributions for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

So, uh, no longer sketchy but not tax deductible in the US. See https://opencollective.com/opensource#category-ABOUT