Doing ad hoc donations as I do now doesn't feel very constructive to me so I'm considering to do (automatically) reoccurring donations to my favorite organisations and tools, which doesn't seem fair to the stuff I do depend on but don't have warm feelings for, but I gotta start some where, right? What projects and organisations are you and/or the company you work for supporting? Any tips?
When Ubuntu added paid-for software to their package UI, there were discussions about making it easier to pay FOSS developers too, but I don't think it got anywhere:
The question is are you investing in yourself (no matter how round about) or alleviating true misery?
Good luck.